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December 14, 2009

The Monsters of Copenhagen

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I don't remember when I first heard the term “climate-change denier” but I do remember that I experienced the chill of fear.

As we know, the left is adept at coining catchy phrases, bumper stickers that are easy to remember, and though dumb in the extreme, give off an air of political wisdom.

For example:

War is Not the Answer.

Oh really?

The Jews who survived the Holocaust beg to differ.

Quite often war is the only answer.

In any case, we recognize Holocaust denial as a political act that seeks to legitimize modern Jew-hatred by rewriting Jewish history. It's a particularly malignant ideology whose real purpose is to lay the groundwork for a future Holocaust. And, no surprise, Holocaust denial is widespread in the Arab Muslim world.

Therefore labeling someone a climate-change denier places that person in the same category as a Holocaust denier—beyond the pale, deserving only hatred and contempt.

It's a vicious rhetorical trick.

Speaking of rhetorical tricks. Remember the phrase global warming? Well, they dropped that because it was too restrictive. Climate-change accounts for, well, everything. They can't go wrong because basically they are describing the weather.

If it snows, it's climate change.

If it rains, it's climate change.

If the sun is shining...

You get the point.

Anyhoo.

Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is one of the world's most prominent Holocaust deniers. But, you'll be glad to know, he is not a climate-change denier.

Ahmadinejad has, on numerous occasions, threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. But hey, everyone's entitled to their little eccentricities, right?

The Mullahs are now racing towards the nuclear threshold. This is an existential threat to the Jewish State and will place the entire Gulf region under Persian hegemony. In short, a terrorist, proudly Jew-hating state state will call the shots.

Ahmadinejad is also racing to Copenhagen.

Cynically, he has jumped on the climate-change band wagon because he understands that it has nothing to do with saving the planet, but is in reality, a radical leftist movement whose agenda is to centralize power in the hands of a select group of technocrats in order to redistribute wealth, a polite term for theft.

Nuclear emboldened Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorist financier Hugo Chavez and genocider Robert Mugabe, monstrous tyrants one and all, also understand that the international left are pliable ideologues who enthusiastically make common cause with mass murderers and Jew-haters, all in the name of, ahem, environmentalism.

If you are a liberal and believe in climate-change—let's be honest, it's a religion, the science is, at best, modern alchemy—you must now climb into bed with some of the world's most brutal regimes.

Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plan to address negotiators at international climate talks in Copenhagen next week.
The three leaders are listed in a line-up of more than 180 government officials published in a United Nations schedule of speakers. Each head of state will have up to three minutes to address roughly 700 delegates, reporter, observers and civil society groups.
The assistant president of Sudan, Nafie Ali Nafie kicks off the speeches at noon on Wednesday.

Guess who's also racing to Copenhagen?

President Barack Obama is expected at the meeting on Friday.

Fab-u-lous. Another Obama speech.

Full story here.

For the best analysis of the Climategate fraud, please head on over to my friend Wolf Howling. He has published a series of posts that slice and dice the climate change industrial complex.

Posted by Robert J. Avrech at December 14, 2009 08:05 AM

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It makes complete sense that these three evil dictators will be at Copenhagen.

I predict they will be cheered by the crowd.

And if they're not openly cheered, they will be quietly applauded.

Why?

It is becoming ever more clear that the real goal of the environmental movement is the removal of most of the human population from this planet.

August environmentalists like Prince Charles and several elected leaders have basically said that the human population is destructive, etc.

Thus, why not applaud the appearance of three men who have helped reduce the populations of their own countries quite greatly over the past decade? Murderers and greenies are finding much in common these days.

Posted by: Jake at December 14, 2009 09:31 AM

The easiest rebuttal to "Climate Change" (spoken as the mantra for the global warming crowd and not its more obvious connotation) is to mention "Greenland".

Once upon a time (circa 973 to be ecxact) it was GREEN. The vikings settled there and farmed for about 200 years.

Then it got cold.

Posted by: Bill Brandt at December 14, 2009 11:05 AM

Whenever I see that ridiculous bumper sticker, "War is Not the Answer", I mumble to myself "But Terrorism is??!?!" Really, if I were to have a conversation with one of these car owners, what would their genius solution be then? If singing Kumbaya and giving out flowers really did work, then the 60's would have been the last decade that would have presented any violence or strife.

Would this mentality solve problems in the workplace? Uh, I don't think so!

Argh!

Posted by: Rachel at December 14, 2009 11:07 AM

I agree with all that you have said, though I think you stop to soon with Ahmedinejad as to whom he threatens. He poses a mortal threat to Israel, but he poses a similar threat to the world, really. Iran is at war at the moment - in Yemen, and carrying out terrorist acts in Saudi Arabia in support of that war. They pose a mortal threat to Iraq, where they have once again begun their efforts to Lebanize that country. I could go on with examples of literally every mid-east nation that Iran threatens. And any Western nation that can look at this and not feel that there is a direct threat to their nation is naive beyond imagining. This threat grows exponentially as one realizes that, our allowing of Iran to continue on its nuclear trajectory is resulting in nuclear proliferation throughout the Middle East. This is not simply a direct threat to the world, it is one on par with Nazi Germany circa 1937.

The regime will be stopped in one of two ways - it will be destroyed internally by a revolution - the preferred solution - or it will be destroyed in war. Yet Obama sits on the sidelines, doing nothing to move forward either solution. Is there a person alive with any knowledge of the regime who could not have forecast with certainty that Obama's "aggressive diplomacy" would be worse than useless, as in addition to not dissuading the mad mullahs, it buys them ever more time. At a critical moment in history, when we need Churchill, we are saddled with Chamberlain.

At any rate, thank you so much for the link and kind words. It is, as always, very much appreciated.

Posted by: GW at December 14, 2009 11:50 AM

I know this is very un-PC, but my pet liberalism is "homophobe." People with old-fashioned values don't have an irrational fear of homosexuals. They believe them to be immoral. And people who hate gays and lesbians out of bigotry are, well, bigots.

But back to Climategate. The BBC World Service (!) broadcast an interesting opinion piece a few days ago, by Clive James: They then followed up on these 11 minutes of sanity with their weekly half-hour environmentalist program. (Excuse me - "programme.")

One thing that still gives me a kick is how only bad things are predicted to come out of climate change. I guess it's like what Dr. Paul (of MIT!) says: All change is for the worse.

Posted by: alterbentzion at December 14, 2009 12:02 PM

I just found an "old" article that states the reason the earth is getting hotter is because of the sun. I suppose the staunch "climate change" folks that believe otherwise know it's impossible to change what the sun is doing.....unless that's an untapped issue to rant/conspire about?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3325679/The-truth-about-global-warming---its-the-Sun-thats-to-blame.html

Posted by: Rachel at December 14, 2009 12:08 PM

Jake:

You are quite right, the Greenies actually see humanity as just another pollutant.

You just wait, next stop will be to globalize China's policy of one child per family.

Which, by the way, results in the death of untold number of girl infants. Murdered by parents who prefer to have a male offspring.

Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 14, 2009 08:08 PM

Bill:

Greenland, yeah. Big problem. But I think the Vikings caused all that melting by, er, unbridled flatulence.

Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 14, 2009 08:10 PM

Rachel:

Whenever I park in one of the studios here in Hollywood I spend time reading all the dopey socialist style bumper stickers on the Jags, Mercede's, Bentley's and BMW's.

It is surreal.

Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 14, 2009 08:13 PM

GW:

You are absolutely correct in correcting my somewhat pale analysis of the Persian threat. The Mullah's are a threat to the globe.

I'm not sure if regime change in Iran would put a stop to their nuclear ambitions. Every poll that I've seen shows that the Iranian people believe it is their right to possess nuclear power.

Anyway, Israel is not going to wait to find out. There will be a strike in 2010.

Very good to have you back. We sorely missed you during your long hiatus.

Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at December 14, 2009 08:18 PM

Remember those computer-generated specials on Nat Geo and Discovery Channel in 2007 that depicted the Earth with no humans? Believe me, this was like porn for the greenies. Those specials and the buzz they got from the Left were a revelation to me.

The point is, a growing number of "environmentalists" have taken on the ethos of the animal rights activists. They don't believe that humans WILL destroy the world, they believe humans HAVE destroyed the world already and the only hope is for us to go away and let the elk an lions and tigers roam free again.

Posted by: Jake at December 15, 2009 07:14 AM

"At a critical moment in history, when we need Churchill, we are saddled with Chamberlain"

As I may have noted here before, comparison of Obama with Chamberlain is unfair to Chamberlain. While Chamberlain pursued a very unwise policy of appeasement, he also built up Britain's defenses--including production of the Hurricane and Spitfire fighters and the deployment of the world's first integrated air defense network. I haven't seen anything of the kind from Obama.


Posted by: david foster at December 15, 2009 08:04 AM

And I also believe Chamberlain admitted he made a mistake and threw himself into the war effort until he died early into the war. Can anyone believe Obama, Pelosi et al will admit their mistakes one day?

Barney Frank won't even take responsibility for pushing crappy mortgages onto the banks ten years ago.

Posted by: Jake at December 15, 2009 09:17 AM

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