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More than week after the big U.N. Climate Change Conference wrapped up in Bali last month,
Ms. Henny-Penny, founder and now Recording Secretary of The Holy Order
of The Sky is Falling, is finally back from that fabled isle herself.
"I was so exhausted from that wonderful conference, I just had to rest
for several days," she told us when we caught up with her this morning.
For
two weeks delegates from 180 countries talked endlessly, congratulating
one another on their perspicacity for discovering that if they cranked
down industrial society to a crawl they might reduce carbon emissions
enough for the sky to begin ascending again.
"The speeches were thrilling," said Ms. H-P. "Toward the
end, our Pontiff, Al Gore, brought the audience to a standing ovation
when he denounced the United States for dragging its feet on global
warming."
What did the conference
accomplish? we asked. She replied, "This was the 13th conference of the
countries that signed the U.N. Convention on Climate Change. The
conferees agreed on the Bali Roadmap. The official report says this
will 'chart a course for a new negotiation process to be concluded by
2009 that will ultimately lead to a post-2012 international agreement
on climate change.'"
"You mean they have met 13 times and this
time, after two weeks of talk, their great accomplishment was to agree
to talk for two more years so that -- perhaps -- they can come up with
something to replace the flawed Kyoto Accord," we replied. No wonder
the U.S. Senate opposed "Kyoto" by 95-0 when it was first brought up.
"Well,"
she sniffed, "As the Pontiff says, the polar ice will melt, coastal
plains and cities will be flooded and the temperatures will zoom if we
don't do something." When we said the Bali Roadmap sounded like a good
excuse for more two-week paid vacations in tropical resorts, she
mumbled something about "skeptics." Read the rest...
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