“Never have the stakes been so high,” they warn us. There is a consensus among the political elites of the world that we must act immediately to expand trans-national government power, diminish economic liberty through taxes and regulation, shut down the fossil fuel industry, and redistribute wealth globally; all things the left wanted to do anyway. What a happy accident that these are precisely the things that must be done in order to save the Earth from Global Warming.
How fortunate that nature has presented the left with a crisis of this magnitude. If it hadn’t, they would have had to invent one.
By the way, Obama wants to use the Global Warming Crisis as a pretext for funneling taxpayer money to billionaire cronies.
Why, VtK, do I detect sarcasm here?
The majority of the cronies mentioned in the Breitbart link are Malthusian. Liberty and growth might go the wrong people. What a better way of controlling the people than by controlling their access to cheap energy. By controlling energy you control their lives.
Hey, stop making fun of this, you guys! I’m totally serial!
History has shown us that the most powerful people in the world are the ones who manage to take some crisis, whether real or imagined, and turn it into something so terrifying that people are willing to give up their liberty in order to be protected from it.
I guess the elites of this world, while absolutely disconnected from reality as they are, are still able to recognize a winning strategy.
People are being killed in cities in the heart of Western civilization, and AGW is our most pressing problem? Such willful ignorance of reality is symptomatic of psychosis, and further evidence that Progressives are not rational. Bad enough in the individual; life threateningly dangerous in ‘leaders’.
I have no doubts that Pres. Obama is making binding-promises without Senate oversight that will cost us and our children unacceptable-cuts in real-GDP and standard-of-living. Soon we’ll have carbon-footprint ration-cards, fuel and electricity restrictions, and crushing financial penalties so some Chinese or Gabonese peasant can burn filthy coal and sulfurous petroleum while we’re forced to share a cold, communal darkness.
Meanwhile, solar farms and wind-turbine fields will be outlawed for the sake-of-the-sparrows. And clean, cheap fusion power research abandoned due to the waste-heat it might generate.
Our Leaders are Idiots….
@TedB, this is why all treaties that are binding on the American People must be approved by the Senate.
Let’s hope they get the guts to do it, rather that claim they did by having a resolution to DISapprove, like they did last time. Mitch McConnel should have been drawn and quartered for that one.
I’ll take it further. I would bet that not a few of these power-hungry alarmists and their sycophants are quietly thankful for the Paris terrorist attack, thankful that the terrorists have such perfect timing, and that Bernie Sanders and others who make the link between climate change and terrorism are smiling — Exhibit A, Marx’s eggs for an omelet, et al.
Obama told the graduating class at the Coast Guard Academy, their battles will be caused by climate change. Since he is opposed to guns, the next battle will be fought with solar panels.
What a bunch of hypocrits. How much CO2 did the conferees emit in traveling to France? How much jet fuel did they consume? A lot. All of those people having to use the crapper are polluting the atmosphere with carbon emissions. Oh for the good old days when it was only horse and cow farts that was warming the earth.
I’m just glad they’re finally admitting that the ultimate goal is world government. Usually, they’re pretty silent about that.
The true goal is not a world government, that would have to be is some form answerable to the peoples. The Elites want “world governance“. Secret, invisible, insidious management by the bureaucracies and the civil-servants in-league with the special interests; a civil-service fascism.
The people think they elected and are are governed-for by the Prime Minister Jim Hacker, when in reality the whole system is self-righteously ruled by Chief Cabinet Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby, his civil-service associates and the members of their clubs without accountability-to, or visibility of, the public.
Just be glad the guy that shot 17 kids at a New Orleans playground this Saturday Nov 28 was not white or the news would be covering it.
Sir Humphrey at his best, think White House Press Secretary….