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Watch the COP16 United Nations Climate talks in Cancun LIVE
Image capture from OneClimate.net website
Last year, with all the fuss surrounding COP15 and the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, I decided to follow as much of the talks and the things going on there live through oneclimate.net, a website dedicated to social action and discussion about climate change. And I have to say I really liked it. The reporters did a fantastic job bringing as much news as possible as fast as possible. Most of the actual U.N. talks where broadcasted live too, this allowed me to understand how such talks take place and what they are really all about.
Starting next week, December 1st, OneClimate and tcktcktck will bring the same coverage of COP16, the next round of U.N. Climate talks, this time taking place in Cancun, Mexico. If you are in a position to follow some of the talks, I’d advice you to do so. The live broadcast is not only interesting to follow it’s also interactive. Through an easy chat interface you are able to communicate and interact with the reporters, to ask questions and get some answers.
I’m embedding the live channel here but you can also follow everything from the OneClimate website using this link.
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Of course, we can all understand that buying and selling carbon allowances on the new exchanges being created globally to facilitate such a charade is much the same as buying an indulgence from the green Pope to marry one’s sister–you pay the price, and get a free pass to sin. Buy the carbon credits generated by an eco-friendly nuclear power plant, and you can burn coal in your power station. Plant trees on your Australian rancho that another may dump toxins in a river or estuary. Tragically, Don Quixote’s offshore and hilltop, wind powered, electricity generation turbines will return a greater profit in carbon allowances than from electricity finally entering the grid. Sustainable development sounds good in the symposium, as far as word-craft goes, but it truly ought be simplified; expressed as, demand. Propping, or shoring up the environmental and developmental concerns that profit from the manufacture and marketing of the too transparently green, 4 Star, eco-friendly products and services depends wholly upon the creation and continuance of demand for same. For better or worse the plethora of academic, non-governmental, actors, stakeholders, Internationale, transnational, globalist, inter alia, change-agents are channeling the collective forces of their co-creational, trans-humanist, futurist, think tank savants facilitating this eco-evolution, which begs the question, why?
It remains my greatest hope that the anthropogenic, man-made, climate change (disruption) mythos will end with a “Can the Con in Cancun!” Were the international community to cease their frenetic rush from the brass roots to the grass roots, from classroom to boardroom, and from protest to symposium–stop hyperventilating–perhaps they too could discover that their “King’s Clothes” are the only transparency in this argument, your king is butt naked, Agenda 21 has been exposed. Perhaps it is time for all the little “g” god men to rethink their think. Sustainable development is as flawed a model as Fabian socialism, Marxian communism, British capitalism based upon force and usury, and need we say it, Keynesian economics–spending one’s way to prosperity–hooked on OPM (other people’s money).
Enjoy the sun, the sand, and the surf, but Can the Con in Cancun! As Aristotle said, “They are originally based on a mistake, and , as they began badly, cannot fail to end badly.” Chalk it up to lessons learned. Though no individual globalist may turn from this flawed model, together you can. Failing that too, and truly believing that the world’s population must be quickly and substantially reduced, demonstrate your commitment, follow the Jim Jones best practice, and simply hold hands, walk east, together, into the Caribbean Sea. Just Say NO! Become Vocal Local!
Taking into account the Bush family and their criminal wars, is it so unreasonable (considering voter support is gone now), to suggest that the likes of Al Gore, the criminal lab coat consultants, pandering politicians, lazy teachers, criminal PR firms and most of all, the irresponsible NEWS EDITORS, should all be rounded up and arrested and charged with treason for leading us to a false war of climate change? They condemned billions of people to death by CO2 for 24 years and we are supposed to just let them walk away now? Twenty-four years was wasted by these criminals on climate control instead of population control. Email your authorities in your particular part of the world and maybe, just maybe, history will not mock us all for this modern day witch burning of climate change. Meanwhile, the UN had allowed carbon trading to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education. NOW tell us climate change wasn’t a crime!