The Noble Lie

I was with a whore in Copenhagen
Drinking eight hundred dollars worth of
Champagne in kroner
She came from Rio
We were trying to save the world
We did not get what we wanted
She wanted money
She did not get what she wanted
I missed my wife
I did not get what I wanted
Death sat on my lap
Death sits on all our laps

- Violent Femmes, "Jesus of Rio"

A word about the United Nations global summit in Copenhagen. Global warming is a very controversial topic, and I don't really know how much of a real problem it is vs. a political control mechanism, but I know it is primed to be a very big political control mechanism. This climate summit is being held in the shadow of ClimateGate, the leaked emails from the UK Climate Research Unit indicating that they are doctoring their numbers to make the case for man-made climate change.

Toxic waste and pollution are issues that go hand in hand with carbon dioxide, and seem far more important to rein in and control than the carbon dioxide itself. But hey, what do I know.

I can tell you this much: sitting 14,000 diplomats in a big room for two weeks accomplishes nothing. Whatever is announced as a result of this summit, bang or whimper, was hashed out by diplomats and reviewed by innumerable lawyers long before this summit took place. This is just a little pomp and spectacle for the occasion.

Here are some stories related to the Copenhagen summit.

• Hindustan Times - 'Climate talks a dead end if Danish proposal put forward'
• BBC - Leaked draft text divides climate summit
• Copenhagen summit carbon footprint weighs in at 40,000 tons (Should have set an example and WebEx'd this one)
• Copenhagen whores benefit from global warming tax dollars (The 'whores' in question are not the politicians this time)
• Oil still fuels the green state of Denmark
• ClimateGate? What ClimateGate?
• Gordon Brown attacks 'flat-earth' climate change skeptics
• From the vaults: Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it (Al Gore, Maurice Strong)
• From the vaults: Al Gore - The Other Oil Candidate (Gore's relationship to Occidental Petroleum and Vladimir Lenin's right-hand man, Armand Hammer)
• From the vaults: George Hunt - UNCED Earth Summit 1992 (Elites such as Edmond de Rothschild and Maurice Strong describe public as 'cannon fodder' on camera while discussing using environmental issues for political control)