Copenhagen - the winners and losers

Been rough as a badgers arse this last week with Swine Flu. Semi-functional now and back "on form". I apologize for not posting the almost daily farcical stories originating from the world of AGW theory/farce and the farcical proceedings in Copenhagen. If you want to catch up, look at EuReferendum or Watts Up With That for the latest.

So, what it boils down to is that there were 4 interests in Copenhagen, only 1 of which has been satisfied.

First up you have the deep Greens who are mortified that the expected deal on the developed world voluntarily returning to the 15th century has not materialized. My heart bleeds for them.

Second, you have the rogue nations of the world taking every oppurtunity to lambast the West/North (depends on the specific rhetoric) and Capitalism for all their ills. Yawn. Get another tune to play already.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/17/2774069.htm?section=world

Of course, these reprehensible swine were supported by the guilt ridden left wing middle class leadership of much of the developed world, now including the US. The tendency to masochism and self destruction is endemic and mind boggling in Western society. But even the latter did not manage (in most cases - the UK being a sad exception) to provide quite as big a slush fund for siphoning off to Swiss accounts as the developing nations were demanding.

Thirdly, the skeptics, who while winning some ground, were also left unsatisfied since a lot of their supositions were proved true by the 4th interest. Incidently, this shameful occurence http://sppiblog.org/news/is-the-european-police-state-going-global serves very well in highlighting the massive hipocracy in this country -a few isolated and minor incidents during the G20 protests in London last summer by our police are held up for investigation and comdemnation, while the far more rigorous and violent response to demonstrations in Philadelphia (G20 a few months later) and Copenhagen get ignored. The UK police are wimps.

The real winners of course were big business. What draft deal was signed was enough to make a lot of people billions, with just enough greenie content to satisfy the moderates and just enough socialist nonsense to satisfy the not-too-greedy few of the developing sphere. Pachauri (railway engineer bossman of the IPCC) himself is a big winner of course since one the the myriad of companies he is intimately involved in looks like it is going to benefit from the slush fund by building coal-powered power stations in India.

Which should finally go to show that so much hype about AGW has been pushed through by agendas other than honest science, and even those agendas seem to have been somewhat let down. The screams of angst from the deep greens as they realise how deeply shafted they have been is somewhat musical to my ears.