Apocalypse Now in 50 Days

Apocalypse Now in 50 Days

On October 20th 2009 Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the free world had 50 days in which to prevent climate change.

The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned.

He certainly has hedged his bets – floods and droughts. Then killer heatwaves. Now that is something. It is true that heatwaves do kill off quite a lot of old people, but then so does the extreme cold of even our English winters. Perhaps in the confines of the Houses of Parliament he has not noticed that the weather changes daily.

After the 50 days, which by my calculation ends on Wednesday, December 9th this year 2009, can we make a forecast? Can we say that these powerful world leaders, if they agree, will be successful in preventing climate change? Will Climate by edict from Copenhagen be normal forever after?

That begs the question, ‘what is normal weather? What is normal climate? What is the norm for say Jakarta? What is the norm for Copenhagen? What is the norm for Paris? Or for Buenos Aires?’

Since these World leaders meeting on a world stage, since they are determined to stop Global Warming in order to stop Climate Change, would they please define normal unchanging climate first of all?

One thing is for certain, whatever edicts and agreements are made it will still be hot and humid in Indonesia, hot and dry in Morocco, mild and moist in the UK, and desperately cold in Greenland with daily regional variations. Warm currents may melt some Arctic ice, while precipitation will increase Antarctic ice thickness, owing to the Milankovic effect. Great Nature will continue on her wayward way, springing an occasional surprise, a forest fire, a dust storm, a hurricane, a blizzard, a tsunami or a drought.

How many delegates will fly into Copenhagen? 6,000 as in Bali? Now, since these delegates in the main, believe that Carbon Dioxide is now controlling World Climate (is there such a thing?) let us hope that they will all do their best to mitigate their Carbon Footprints. May I make a humble suggestion? Perhaps in the great Conference Hall, as a penance, the power could be shut off for half an hour. It would be interesting to see how these world leaders and the numerous acolytes would cope for just half an hour in Copenhagen without light and heating.

And if perchance, by some foul Skeptic plot, the power failed there altogether for a day, then would those delegates experience for themselves the condition of one third of the world’s populations, who are deprived of the benefit of cheap electricity.

We kid ourselves of course. The meeting is not about Climate Change, it never was. Seek the hidden agenda, seek the real objection, is the advice given to every good salesman. The real objective is disruption and chaos. The only thing that is certain to come out of Copenhagen is that the economies of the world will be put in a strait jacket, and the ordinary citizens everywhere will have to suffer from the delusions of megalomaniac world leaders, aided and abetted by the elite corps of professional protesters. Sure, there will be some sincere people among them, some people who really have been taken in by all the Al Gore hogwash, which it is certain he no longer believes himself, as he burns his carbon footprint merrily round the Globe in his executive jet.

The justification for this coming jamboree will be made by increasing hype and scare stories. ‘Killer heatwaves’ by Gordon Brown is but the first salvo.


Anthony Bright-Paul
21st October 2009