Would you buy a used car from the IPCC?

You know how goes.

You are in the market for a car. You are at the  car lot and there is some  car with shiny paintwork,  blackened tyres and  sparkling glasswork that catches your eye.  It draws you toward it and the car lot man toward you.   This particular car costs   more than you can really afford and perhaps it is not quite what you really need in practical terms - but  your pulse is quickening anyway.

And the  car lot man knows  all of this. He has years of experience reading the body language and facial expressions of car buyers. This is how he feeds his family.

So he gets you to sit in it.  He gets you to start it, can you hear the engine purr?  Next thing you know you are driving it down the road.

And it feels really good to be driving it. Your heart is pumping adrenaline  throughout your body, every cell of your being is tingling in excitement.

The man wants to sell you the car, maybe his kids need orthodontics  or perhaps his wife wants a holiday in Fiji, whatever.

So when you get back he offers up a deal, a very special deal. The real kicker is you have to sign up today. Right now - this deal will not be available tomorrow, tomorrow will be too late and you will miss out.

Having been around the block a few times myself, I know this is BS. I know that the man knows that if you go away and think about it rationally, when your beating heart has slowed and the adrenaline has ceased flowing, you will conclude that this buying this particular car is probably not  such a good idea.

Strangely , all of this springs to mind when I see a headline such as this:  Act now on climate change, says UN official.

And of course we have to ACT NOW! or it will be too late.

Well I for one think that we need to think a little bit harder before we act.

Or we all could well end up with buyers remorse.

   

Comments

[peter]

Oh I see Andrei.

You prefer NON renewable energy sources do you.

Bring the world ultimately to a crunching halt.

But oh the bliss when all Christians bask in the "Rapture". Start swotting your Revelation everyone. Try to do so when you are high, it seems even rosier and more real then.

[baxta]

Listening to Open Country this morning a meeting of Grape Growers were discussing the impact Global Warming would have on the type of grapes they would have to grow. A scientist also a vineyard owner re-assured them he had been taking the temperature daily for the last 20 years and there were no marked differences except that the cold temperatures this spring would delay the harvest.....Where do you live Peter (Brisbane) if you have got global warming up there I just might want to shift there.

[KevOB]

Would you buy carbon credits from Al Goreś company?

[AcidComments]

Yeah and what they're not telling you.

This is also skewing the data.

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Many US temperature gauges are near air-conditioning exhausts, hot asphalt and other heat sources. Their readings are thus too high and must be revised downward - along with claims about rising temperatures.
http://www.isil.org/global-warming-file/paul-driessen.html

http://newsbusters.org/node/13579

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1603

[AcidComments]

"Would you buy carbon credits from Al Goreś company?"

Yeah and if Al Gore practiced what he preached as mentioned on this site.

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Cowardly Al Gore won't debate Global warming.

If Al Gore cares so much about global warming, why does he fly all over the world giving 75-minute presentations at $100k a pop?

http://bobmccarty.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/cowardly-al-gore-wont-debate-global-warming/

[robk]

meanwhile in NZ, the forest owners have to battle against the thieving government who want to steal 'carbon credits' from them, then pay 'carbon debits' (to the government) when the forests are harvested.

[Exocet]

Peter, your Christian phobia is Hilarious

Keep it up!