June 28th 2008
Global Warming Irony
Q
uick, who won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Al Gore?
That would be Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and termed in today’s LAT a “global warming celebrity.” Pachauri would no doubt rather be referred to as a “climate change celebrity,” but the main rag of Hollywood knows its celebrities when it sees them.
And Pachauri – “green feather in his lapel” – plays the part, touring the world, meeting with legislators and bigwigs, holding multiple press conferences, demandning – trusty PowerPoint in hand – that everyone sacrifice more on the climate change altar.
Pachauri’s visit came as the California Air Resources Board (CARB, California’s carbon Nazis) issued new, tougher guidelines in order to save the world from the global warming demons:
The air board Thursday released the first comprehensive carbon-reduction blueprint of any U.S. state, a detailed plan to slash California’s global warming pollution down to 1990 levels in the next 12 years, a 30% cut from projected levels.
But at a breakfast in the Capitol, Pachauri told state senators and environmental activists that California’s plan, though “forward looking,” should go further.
“It would be nice if California, one of the largest economies in the world, cut greenhouse gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels,” he said. “It would send a strong message to the rest of the U.S.”
What would such a cut mean to the economic well-being of the state, given that to accomplish it, transportation, water, industry, agriculture and every other aspect of life in the state would be touched? Don’t know. They didn’t say. And CARB’s Web site has crashed. So let’s just move on to the irony.
As Pachauri spoke, wildfires were burning across the state, burning up carbon like crazy and filling the atmosphere with more greenhouse gases than all the Hummers of the world combined.
(Now, some would attribute these to global warming, but in fact, California always has wildfires and there’s been no increase in incidents.)
Wildfires, volcanoes, solar flares, changes in cloud cover, alterations in ocean currents – all these have contributed GHGs to our atmosphere since the dawn of Earth Time, but are ignored completely by Al and Rajendra and the other high priests of Gaean earth worship and their followers.
But yesterday, the smoke wafted all around Pachauri wherever he went, as a constant reminder that his Warmie religion is based on mere computer models, not the word of God. And, amazingly, the LAT reminded us of a bit more Warmie irony in Pachauri’s trip:
It was a high-carbon trip for Pachauri. He had flown from New York, where he spoke at a luncheon held by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Then it was on to San Francisco, where he addressed a Commonwealth Club panel and attended a reception with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He was slated to return to New York, then travel to Europe and Abu Dhabi on his mission to spread alarm [and, we note, to spread GHGs by the bucketful. Ed.].
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