http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1237235/ANALYSIS-Saved–trillion-pound-trade-carbon.html#ixzz0aQ9ptTQ7

The city of Copenhagen ‘is a crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport’. So said John Sauven of Greenpeace UK after the climate summit broke up. And he is right.

This is the biggest heist in history. As they poured carbon over snow-covered Denmark from their gas-guzzling jets, world leaders were congratulating themselves on securing a deal which will make their backers and financiers a trillion pounds a year. These riches will come from buying and selling permits, the so-called ‘carbon credits’ which allow industry and electricity generators in developed countries to emit carbon dioxide.

The frenzied negotiations we have just seen were never about ’saving the planet’. They were always about money. At stake was this new ‘climate change industry’ which last year ripped off £129billion from the global economy and is heading for that trillion-pound bonanza by 2020 – but only if the key parts of the Kyoto treaty could be renewed.

The actual emissions don’t change, it’s merely a matter of how much you have to pay for them. For example, in 2006, the NHS spent £6million on carbon permits to keep patients warm.

Climate problem, what problem? Jokers!

Millions of hysterical people, expensive ads paid for with taxpayer money which make children cry and billions on the line to fix a non problem, which even if it was a problem we could do nothing about. Warmer times in the past have always benefited mankind, nothing to worry about. Slightly more trouble ahead if the world continues cooling like it has for the last 8 years, but thats another issue. So what is it all about then? Peak oil mitigation plan? Blatant scam? Consolidation of power? Mass stupidity/hysteria? Short sightedness? Mix of all of the above? Something else? Really I dont know, but I do know the whole thing is completely ridiculous. The EPA just classified CO₂ as a danger to public health for goodness sake! CO₂, One of the building blocks of life, needed by plants to make oxygen, exhaled from YOUR body, every time you breath out, is now deemed a toxic chemical. Sounds to me like those making these kinds of laws are the problem. Do they realise, they also breathe out CO₂?

Few more graphs I have come across to show you the bigger picture:

If you care about knowing the truth behind the great anthropogenic global warming lie being perpetrated, explained through empirical facts and data (after all, how else can you know the truth?), you need to watch this. He also has a brilliant sense of humor, so it’s not as dry as it might sound.

As a point of note, In March 2007, Lord Monckton ran a series of advertisements in The New York Times and Washington Post challenging Al Gore to an internationally televised debate on climate change. The former U.S. Vice President did not respond.

After watching this, any sentient being will know he speaks the truth.

Hahaha, Ireland Vs France. (Follow the link and click the image to see it bigger)

Real? Fake? The guy claims it is all real (check the link at the bottom for more info)

I dunno but I’ve watched it 5 times and I’m still finding it ridiculous…

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I think it is very important to understand social inertia for the awesome force that it is. I have found that many people are almost genetically predisposed to not want to understand what I have been saying, and many others understand it on some level but refuse to act on it.

Back to what is actually happening right now. There seems to be a wide range of opinion on how to characterise it, from recession to depression to collapse. The press has recently been filled with stories about “green shoots” and the economists are discussing the exact timing of economic recovery. Mainstream opinion ranges from “later this year” to “sometime next year.” None of them dares to say that global economic growth might be finished for good, or that it will be over in “the not-too-distant future” — a vague term they seem to like a whole lot.

There does seem to be a consensus forming that last year’s financial crash was precipitated by the spike in oil prices last summer, when oil briefly touched $147/bbl. Why this should have happened seems rather obvious. Since most things in a fully developed, industrialised economy run on oil, it is not an optional purchase: for a given level of economic activity, a certain level of oil consumption is required, and so one simply pays the price for as long as access to credit is maintained, and after that suddenly it’s game over.

We continue to listen to economists because we love their lies. Yes, of course, the economy will recover later this year, maybe the next. Yes, as soon as the economy recovers, all these toxic assets will be valuable again. Yes, this is just a financial problem; we just need to shore up the financial system by injecting taxpayer funds. These are all lies, but they make us feel all right. They are lying, and we are buying every word of it.

Another brilliant talk from Dmitri Orlov that everyone needs to read..

The gallery was a little big so I have stuck it below the fold…

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Just got back from 4 brilliant days in Mallorca at a friends wedding.. Lot of photos coming soon..

Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. He was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late eighties and mid-nineties. He is an engineer with a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. Below is an excerpt from a talk he gave on February 13, 2009:

I can take any pick-up truck and increase its fuel efficiency one or two thousand percent just by breaking a few laws. First, you pack about a dozen people into the bed, standing shoulder to shoulder like sardines. Second, you drive about 25 mph, down the highway, because going any faster would waste fuel and wouldn’t be safe with so many people in the back. And there you are, per passenger fuel efficiency increased by a factor of 20 or so. I believe the Mexicans have done extensive research in this area, with excellent results.

Of course, cars and trucks will not disappear entirely. Here, again, some reasonable adaptations can be brought to bear. In my book, I advocated banning the sale of new cars, as was done in the US during World War II. The benefits are numerous. First, older cars are overall more energy-efficient than new cars, because the massive amount of energy that went into manufacturing them is more highly amortized. Second, large energy savings accrue from the shutdown of an entire industry devoted to designing, building, marketing, and financing new cars. Third, older cars require more maintenance, reinvigorating the local economy at the expense of mainly foreign car manufacturers, and helping reduce the trade deficit. Fourth, this will create a shortage of cars, translating automatically into fewer, shorter car trips, higher passenger occupancy per trip, and more bicycling and use of public transportation, saving even more energy. Lastly, this would allow the car to be made obsolete on about the same time scale as the oil industry that made it possible. We will run out of cars just as we run out of gas.

Here we are, only a year or so later, and I am most heartened to see that the US auto industry has taken my advice and is in the process of shutting down….

One final transportation idea: start breeding donkeys. Horses are finicky and expensive, but donkeys can be very cost-effective and make good pack animals. My grandfather had a donkey while he was living in Tashkent in Central Asia during World War II. There was nothing much for the donkey to eat, but, as a member of the Communist Party, my grandfather had a subscription to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and so that’s what the donkey ate. Apparently, donkeys can digest any kind of cellulose, even when it’s loaded with communist propaganda. If I had a donkey, I would feed it the Wall Street Journal.

Read the brilliant, serious and at times hilarious talk from Dmitry Orlov here

Yeah, it’s more fun being shitfaced at home than in the metro…  m.

Man left dangling upside down, pantsless after Vail lift mishap

JANUARY 6–In a bizarre incident a skier at Colorado’s ritzy Vail resort was left dangling upside down and pantsless from a chairlift last Thursday morning.

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And what better way to bring on the weekend than to laugh at this idiot! (although to be honest for all the crimes he has commited he should be locked up rather than laughed at!)
Peace.