The #cop21 con

Posted on 7 December 2015 by Scottish-Sceptic

In most normal events bringing in world leaders, one expects newspaper coverage to increase. In contrast during cop21, I would swear the coverage has gone down. Indeed, it’s hardly worth looking at what the media are printing daily – because after 5minutes skimming to find anything with any meet in it, I realised I reading yesterday’s news. So, it doesn’t even take the time for coffee to cool, let alone drink it.
But I thought a lot was going on with the “#cop21” hashtag – indeed, there were 10s of thousands of tweets every day most with glossy PR pictures. So, I then filtered the hashtag for “only those that have had replies” – it was then dead!! Again I was getting less than a dozen a day. In other words, all those 10s of thousands of tweets are generating no real interest – they are just junk spewing onto the internet, almost certainly paid for by the public purse, which no one reads. And the reality is that more sceptics are talking to each other than the total sum of those spewing out the #cop21 tag.
In short, it’s not a popular movement – it’s purely and simply mass delusion PR.

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3 Responses to The #cop21 con

  1. catweazle666 says:
    8 December 2015 at 01:19

    Out in the real world, the CAGW hoax is losing credibility fast.
    Public support for a strong global deal on climate change has declined, according to a poll carried out in 20 countries.
    Only four now have majorities in favour of their governments setting ambitious targets at a global conference in Paris.
    In a similar poll before the Copenhagen meeting in 2009, eight countries had majorities favouring tough action.
    The poll has been provided to the BBC by research group GlobeScan.
    Just under half of all those surveyed viewed climate change as a “very serious” problem this year, compared with 63% in 2009.
    The findings will make sober reading for global political leaders, who will gather in Paris next week for the start of the United Nations climate conference, known as COP21.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34900474
    The 2015 United Nations ‘My World’ global survey of causes for concern currently covering 9,715,178 respondents shows ‘action on climate change’ flat last, 16th of 16 categories.
    http://data.myworld2015.org/
    Crying “WOLF!” can only work for so long, and as not a single one of the catastrophic predictions of the Warmist religion over the last 3 decades has actually happened – in fact in the majority of cases such as hurricane landfall frequency and polar ice disappearance they have been diametrically wrong – their credibility is rapidly approaching zero.
    The real problem is that these scammers and the credulous bedwetters that unquestioningly support them are destroying the credibility of real science – and not just in the field of climate either, and just as in the fable, when a real wolf does come – and it will, sooner or later, nobody will believe them.

  2. Doug Proctor says:
    8 December 2015 at 01:29

    I noticed the lack of public presence of COP21, also. It was similar to the San Bernadino shootings – I had to go to the Australian ABC to find out details of names and ethnicity. American, Canadian and the BBC all avoided the “M” word. Still do.
    Which doesn’t, unfortunately, mean nothing momentous isn’t going on. It just means that we aren’t hearing about it ….
    What you/I have picked up on may be the evolution of CAGW – now that the “science is settled” and skeptics are “criminals”, climate/CO2 politics may be moving into pure bureaucracy.
    That would be very, very scary. No more mention, let alone discussion. Just regulatory activity to be discussed during budget periods.
    Tactically, it would be brilliant for the alarmists to do this ….

  3. Scottish-Sceptic says:
    8 December 2015 at 01:35

    Thanks – it’s always dangerous saying “there’s nothing there” – because it could be that I’m just not looking in the right place.
    But I disagree, the old tactic of calling us sceptics “criminals” no longer works for the very reasons catweazle666 says which is that the public just are not buying the scam any longer and we sceptics don’t have a problem with credibility amongst the general public.

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