George Rebane

[This is the linked and addended transcript to my regular KVMR commentary which will be broadcast after the evening news on Monday 23 November 2015.  Appended is a graphic detailing the chain (thick red arrows) of valid propositions forming a sane preamble for making preventable global warming public policies.  There is little hope that sanity will be a prerequisite to the UN’s Agenda21 deliberations in Paris.]

The echoes of the most recent Islamist massacre of innocents in Paris will not have died down by the time that the latest preventable manmade global warming show opens its doors.  The UN’s conference on climate change, formally called the 21st Conference of the Parties or COP21, is slated to run from 30 November to 11 December in Le Bourget.  However, preconference activities will start on 20 November during which heads of state will meet to lay down the broad outlines of what policies will be agreed to during COP21.

For the proponents of preventable global warming, this conference culminates years of planning that is intended to finally launch a unified international thrust that is supposed to save the world from the loudly and widely predicted catastrophe that will befall us all sometime in the next 30 to 70 years.  In recent years the importance of the misnamed ‘climate change’ issue has declined in the public mind for a number of reasons, among them being that the ‘science’ cited to substantiate the dire predictions has suffered a number of material setbacks.

The actual proposition of climate change is beyond the ken of most people, either because they don’t care to pay attention or that paying attention can’t help them understand.  For who would go to the trouble to consider the logical thread from undeniable climate change to preventable global warming.  First, we must accept that not only global warming but catastrophic global warming is now in process.  Then we embrace that it is caused by human activity.  Then that this warming is of a kind that can be reversed.  Now add to this that we already have the technology and know-how to reverse it.  And finally, that we have the economic wherewithal to implement these theorized global remedies before the wealthy nations run out of money as they adopt an autocratic world where all environmental concerns are trumped by peoples’ more immediate quality of life demands.  Ask yourself, how many can or will reason through this connected list and relate them to policies that promise preventable global warming.  (see figure below)

Bjorn Lomborg is an internationally recognized academic and also lightning rod in the field of preventable global warming.  He currently heads the non-profit Copenhagen Consensus Center, and has studied, written, and presented extensively on the science and public policies that surround this now hyper-ventilated issue.  In the last few days the WSJ published ‘Gambling the World Economy on Climate’ in which Lomborg presents peer-reviewed results demonstrating that the anticipated COP21 pledges will cost $1T every year from here on, and “avert warming of less than one degree by 2100.”  Now why would we pay so much for so little?

Well, it turns out that there is much more to the UN conference than securing promises to implement draconian and ineffective environmental policies from the rich country attendees.  Consider that the U.N.’s climate chief, Christiana Figueres, openly declares that the aim of the talks is “to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.”  Lest her real message and the true agenda of COP21 be misunderstood, she goes on to explain that capitalism is a “system of death”, and for a sustainable solution to the world’s problems “We must destroy capitalism.”  For this end the climate change hysteria provides the needed geo-political dynamic or perfect storm during which all of these imperatives can be launched, and perhaps even completed.

So there we again have the globalists’ real agenda both in the large and for the Paris conference, and for more conferences thereafter as long as central planners seek to rule the world’s developed countries.  To assure this future, the manufactured catastrophe and its promised prevention through mandated collective effort must be kept indefinitely on the front burner of public concerns.

My name is Rebane, and I also expand on this and related themes on Rebane’s Ruminations where the transcript of this commentary is posted with relevant links, and where such issues are debated extensively.  However my views are not necessarily shared by KVMR.  Thank you for listening.

[Addendum]  The UN has been conducting a survey of what issues and concerns are most important to the peoples of the world.  The UN My World survey is ongoing and today exceeds over 8M repondents – you can enter your own responses by following the links from the UN website.  The big news for progressives should be that ‘action taken on climate change’ again falls dead last in what the world’s people want (see figure below).  As the breakdown of results show, this sentiment is common across broad classes.  Yet the globalist elites continue to feel that of the list of more highly rated concerns, PGW still wins out as the preferred hysteria that can be used to mollify the public when draconian laws and regulations come down the line to contract their liberties, make them materially poorer, and reduce/eliminate opportunities for a better life.

It is clear that save the Agenda21 globalist ideologues, the desire for action on ‘climate change’ by the world’s real people can be summed up with, ‘Pardon me, but you have me confused with someone who cares.’  It would be embarrassing to draw the connection between this result and the site’s promotion of the UN’s COP21 – so they just ignore it.  (H/T to reader and correspondent Russ Steele for suggesting the inclusion of these results to this post.)