Is it true that Chavez made outlandish speech at Copenhagen climate fest descrying the twin horrors of capitalism and America and that a ruined planet is the bitter harvest the long suffering masses will reap from those blighted seeds sown? And that this speech was followed by mass murderer Mugabe unwinding with similar invocations of evil? And that the audience cheered loudly for them both?
Of course, possible only crackpots would attend lectures given by crackpots - still, who knows? It certainly raises a very troubling point: I don't know much about the science of global warming - I'd probably classify myself a mild [!] skeptic regarding it - but the politics of it definitely concerns me, and Copenhagen doesn't appear to be doing much to alleviate those fears - and when China refuses to support an American proposal because of Clinton insisting on guarantees of 'transparency' vis a vis reports of actual emissions being cut? That tells me my fears are justified - for some if not many countries this is more about geostrategic politicking [ie let's fuck America] and less about climate control. Just as the UN is farcically inefficient when it comes to 'big' issues because of the free rein given to entirely inappropriate and often delusional agendas and the fantasy of thinking you can drag some workable consensus out of that mire, so to with climate change one fears - how do you unmuddy those waters?
I admit to knowing little or nothing about the science - but I don't think you need to be an expert to see that no matter how sound the science may or may not be the politics underwriting it is decidedly worrisome.
