For Climate Change Activists, It's Paris or Bust
By Judi McLeod
CanadaFreePress.com
Even with Pope Francis happily aboard the ‘Good Ship Global Warming’, proving that climate change is the world’s biggest threat could be as elusive as proving Bruce Jenner is a woman.
All the artful make-up in the world; all the get-ups she can wriggle into; being the star of her very own reality TV show; the Kardashian kick into instant fame cannot possibly make Bruce La Femme all because of one little leftover in his transitioning anatomy.
Feminist Germaine Greer in her dotage needn’t worry that Jenner will be crowned ‘Woman of the Year’ because even Glamour magazine cannot afford to run the risk of crowning a man as a woman.
Worry a lot is what global warming/climate change alarmists should be doing as they approach next month’s UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.
So desperate are they to get their ‘climate change is killing off the world’ message etched in stone at the U.N., they’ve managed to have global warming replace the Gospel from the Sunday church pulpit.
But people who go to church to hear the Gospel, are saying “hooey” to climate change warnings from the pulpit, and so far Pope Francis being in on the act hasn’t converted many so-called ‘deniers’.
In a Miami conference center, Politico described as “the size of a football field”, 1,200 climate activists were being trained how to show Al Gore’s slide show, a “nature hike through Revelations”, “a tour he still completes with the blue marble portrait of the earth from space”. (Politico Oct. 27, 2015)
“Yes, it’s that slide show, the one that thrust climate change into popular culture, generating the 2007 Academy Award and Nobel Prize in the process. Gore is still doing it, and training a global cadre of mini-Gores to do it as well; there have been 30 Climate Reality trainings, from South Africa to Australia to India. Fifteen years after he missed out on the White House by the narrowest of conceivable margins, Gore is still schlepping around the world to try to save it, spreading his unique brand of alarmism backed by data leavened with hope.
“The former vice president still begins and ends his presentation with photos of the earth from space, iconic reminders of what’s at stake. He still lectures in that much-mocked wooden style, with sporadic flashes of passion detectable more by changes in volume than delivery. The big difference in the updated version of the slide show is that a decade ago, Gore mostly warned about what could happen. Now he shows what’s already happening.
“It’s scary stuff, and it’s supposed to be. Some of it is visually scary, like a downpour that looks like an airborne tidal wave descending on Tucson, Arizona, or a helicopter rescuing residents of an apartment complex floating down a Japanese street. Some of it is intellectually scary, like charts illustrating how 14 of the 15 hottest years ever recorded have been recorded since 2000, how extremely hot days have become 100 times more common in just three decades, how climate change is driving unprecedented droughts, floods, wildfires and mudslides. Gore constantly updates his presentation: At least a dozen of his slides in Miami were from the previous few months, including news footage of Biscayne Bay flooding local streets the previous night.
“I’ve got thousands of these slides, from all over the world,” he said. “It’s like a nature hike through the Book of Revelations.”
“Most of the show is itself a deluge of apocalyptic extreme-weather images: body bags stacked like firewood after a recent heat wave in Pakistan, a “This Is Where I Belong” sign in front of a house burned down by a California wildfire, the rope-assisted rescue of a Brazilian woman (but not, alas, her dog) from a raging flood, the roof of the Metrodome collapsing after a record snowfall and a clump of 35,000 walruses forced onto an Alaska beach after their sea ice melted. Gore explains how a climate-driven drought that ravaged 60 percent of Syria’s farmland and 80 percent of its livestock drove rural Syrians into cities, laying the groundwork for the current refugee crisis. He even suggests that climate-driven food shortages helped trigger the Arab Spring.”
There’s almost an air of desperation in how Gore includes Pope Francis in his run-down of hopeful signs how the alarmists are winning the battle when he cites ”the vocal support of Pope Francis”.
There are no polls to prove how many conversions to climate change have come about all because the pontiff claims it is the world’s top threat.
But if Barack Obama’s roping in the pope doesn’t do it for the 1,200 activists, Gore reminds them that “Christiana Figueres, a Costa Rican who is a top United Nations official, was a graduate of his slide-show training.” (Politico)
For those heading to December’s UN Conference on Climate Change, it seems to be a matter of Paris or bust.
“Gore’s avalanche of statistics and images is designed to overwhelm, to make the reality of climate change undeniable. The heat trapped in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases, he explains, is the equivalent of exploding 400,000 atomic bombs every day. “The denialists challenge everything I say, but they’ve never challenged that one—and believe me, they would if they could,” he added. July was the hottest month on record, featuring a 165-degree heat index in Iran. A 2013 typhoon in the Philippines was the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall. California’s snowpack is at 0 percent of its normal levels. Antarctica lost 160 billion metric tons of sea ice last year. “Some of it,” Gore noted, “is now on the streets of Miami.” (Politico)
“Gore truly believes the world has reached a tipping point in its transition away from fossil fuels, a transition he describes as the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. He says that carbon-polluting industries can delay that transition, but they can’t stop it any more than King Canute could stop the tides.” (Politico)
Not only is the sky falling, there’s nowhere for earthlings to run:
“There we are. That’s our home,” he says. “Don’t let anyone tell you we can escape to Mars; we couldn’t even evacuate New Orleans. The earth is the only planet habitable for human beings. We’re going to have to make our stand right here.” (Politico)
Meanwhile, we’re not sure how habitable earth is now that Western leaders are allowing millions of illegal aliens to flood their borders. So if Climate Change doesn’t get you, ISIS type terrorists likely will.