Dear Comrades

This is truly an emergency, and immediate action on all fronts is required. The upcoming Copenhagen meeting is the last and only chance we have to save the world from Mann Made Climate Change.

Please lobby your local politicians and representatives. Send them Party Approved hockey sticks in the post. Please take to the streets in Party Approved mass marches. Please write to the media and spread the word that the leaders of the world have to sign the new treaty.

This is our last change to save the world from Mann Made Global Warming before it starts cooling off naturally!

Amandla!

Obamugabe

Unfortunately, we will not have the chance to shake hands with the great Al Gore for the mere sum of $1209 as his warmness has cancelled his event at the conference. Alas, it is a double disappointment to me as I accidentally flushed the $1209 I had earmarked for this glorious event down the toilet where it has joined the rest of the 2009 Stimulus money.


Gore oughta be shaking more than hands to earn $1209 a pop.

Nonsense, there is always Time(TM) for any progressive cause. There is *always* a pressing need to ACT NOW!™. Because if we don't ACT NOW!™ today, we will have to do so tomorrow. And if we do, well there will be another cause to ACT NOW!™ on.

Obamugabe wrote:This is our last change to save the world from Mann Made Global Warming before it starts cooling off naturally!

Obamugabe -

Let's not forget that one Mann's junk science is another Mann's treasure chest. But these two Manns can serve one and the same master.

We used to say, Mann is the measure of all things! Mann's accomplishments are second to his motives! Light this Mann on fire and he shall be a warmer for the rest of his life. We thought that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed Mann is king. But it turned out that a good Mann in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all. In the end, Mann became known by the company he kept.

One could argue that if Gore had wanted Mann to lie, he would have given him rings.

Now we can only take comfort in the knowledge that Mann's work is never done, and that the Mann who wins is the one who thinks he can. Hence the mantra "Yes we can."

Colonel 7.62 wrote:Because if we don't ACT NOW!™ today, we will have to do so tomorrow. And if we do, well there will be another cause to ACT NOW!™ on.

Yes, Colonel! As the old prog saying goes, "an ACT NOW!™ in time saves the Mime." Or doubles the slime which sustains the Mime.

Similarly, one Copenhagen in time saves nine. Meaning, if we don't take over now, the disbelief and apostasy will increase exponentially. This will be the end of our Progressive Utopian Theocracy, the Worldwide Global Warming Califate.

STOMP OUT MANN MADE GLOBAL WARMING!!!


END CLIMATE CHANGE N.O.W.!!!

Comrades, this symbolism truly tugs at the heartstrings. A child and a polar bear. When Dear Leader arrives to wrap up the conference that shall save us all, it is certain that many tears will be shed. After all, it is all For The Children ™.




The fate of this poor ice scupluture polar bear is already sealed, but it is not too late for Dear Leader to save the world!


These gracious polar bears, even though victims of human carbon abuse, still extend their paws in friendship, hope and change towards humanity.




This is the sort of symbolism we expect to see repeated when comrade Gore's houseboat begins towing Nowhere Island around the world to raise awareness of global warming.

And comrades, we have been bombarded lately with all the talk of green jobs rebuilding our economy, smart power grids and meters, etc. Smart grids sounds like a cool techie idea, making us so much "greener" in the process, but what useful purpose do they really serve?

Ahh... the Supreme Council leaders do in fact have an advanced plan. Smart meters will allow the council and Dear Leader to monitor energy usage (and thus "carbon emissions") of individual users, and thus be able to regulate (and penalize) their carbon footprint, relative to the kollektive. Brilliant strategy! The proles don't even know what's about to hit them (yet).

In fact here it is in print basically, from Seimens Smart Grid website. All hail Dear Leader!

https://w3.energy.siemens.com/cms/us/US ... sccc010052

...
Siemens' Smart Grid vision blazes a trail to transform today's grids into intelligent networks. State of the art technologies, components and systems are used to create integrated solutions and services that match the specific needs of our customers.

Smart Grid is one of the major trends in transmission and distribution, primarily distribution.

Many in the political and regulatory landscape are advocating Smart Grid due to its contribution to achieving energy policy goals.

Many utilities are embracing Smart Grid as a way to meet the challenges of our future, including demand for increased reliability, limited resources, aging workforce and assets, and the drive for consumer choice and information.
...

Dear Leader has summoned the Holy Goracle to the palace for a huddle up prior to Copenhagen.

How interesting and instructive it would be to be a prog-on-the-wall at this great meeting of minds!

Obama and Gore to meet at White House

A late addition to the schedule: President Obama will meet with noted climate change activist and former vice president Al Gore Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, the White House announced.

Obama also plans to meet with business and environmental leaders at the White House Wednesday in advance of his trip to the Copenhagen climate change conference, whichopens today.
<br>For more on the lead-up to the conference and, starting tomorrow, dispatches from Copenhagen, read The Post's new energy and environment blog, Post Carbon.

Comrades, this situation is even more dire than we had imagined. The family dog has a carbon footprint some 200% larger than even an evil kapitalist SUV! Yes, this proves that animals, just as proles, are bad, bad, bad for the environment. The Party will need to increase the tax rates on these items. For the children of course. Or perhaps outlaw and confiscate.

<Off> Do the words "they've become completely unhinged" come to mind for anyone else too?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091220/lf ... nimalsfood

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
<br>AFP/Getty Images/File – A man walks his dog in the snow in the East Village on December 19 in New York City. Man's best friend …

by Isabelle Toussaint and Jurgen Hecker
Isabelle Toussaint And Jurgen Hecker
– Sun Dec 20, 3:23 pm ET



PARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle
.

But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to
Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.

The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington
, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year.

Combine the land required to generate its food and a "medium" sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) -- around twice the 0.41 hectares required by a 4x4 driving 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) a year, including energy to build the car.

To confirm the results, the New Scientist magazine asked John Barrett at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, Britain, to calculate eco-pawprints based on his own data. The results were essentially the same.

"Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat," Barrett said.

Other animals aren't much better for the environment, the Vales say.

Cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares, slightly less than driving a
Volkswagen Golf for a year, while two hamsters equates to a plasma television and even the humble goldfish burns energy equivalent to two mobile telephones.

But Reha Huttin, president of France's 30 Million Friends animal rights foundation says the human impact of eliminating pets would be equally devastating.

"Pets are anti-depressants, they help us cope with stress, they are good for the elderly," Huttin told AFP.

"Everyone should work out their own environmental impact. I should be allowed to say that I walk instead of using my car and that I don't eat meat, so why shouldn't I be allowed to have a little cat to alleviate my loneliness?"

Sylvie Comont, proud owner of seven cats and two dogs -- the environmental equivalent of a small fleet of cars -- says defiantly, "Our animals give us so much that I don't feel like a polluter at all.

"I think the love we have for our animals and what they contribute to our lives outweighs the environmental considerations.

"I don't want a life without animals," she told AFP.

And pets' environmental impact is not limited to their carbon footprint, as cats and dogs devastate wildlife, spread disease and pollute waterways, the Vales say.

With a total 7.7 million cats in Britain, more than 188 million wild animals are hunted, killed and eaten by feline predators per year, or an average 25 birds, mammals and frogs per cat, according to figures in the New Scientist.

Likewise, dogs decrease biodiversity in areas they are walked, while their faeces cause high bacterial levels in rivers and streams, making the water unsafe to drink, starving waterways of oxygen and killing aquatic life.

And cat poo can be even more toxic than doggy doo -- owners who flush their litter down the toilet ultimately infect sea otters and other animals with toxoplasma gondii, which causes a killer brain disease.

But despite the apocalyptic visions of domesticated animals' environmental impact, solutions exist, including reducing pets' protein-rich meat intake.

"If pussy is scoffing 'Fancy Feast' -- or some other food made from choice cuts of meat -- then the relative impact is likely to be high," said Robert Vale.

"If, on the other hand, the cat is fed on fish heads and other leftovers from the fishmonger, the impact will be lower."

Other potential positive steps include avoiding walking your dog in wildlife-rich areas and keeping your cat indoors at night when it has a particular thirst for other, smaller animals' blood.

As with buying a car, humans are also encouraged to take the environmental impact of their future possession/companion into account.

But the best way of compensating for that paw or clawprint is to make sure your animal is dual purpose, the Vales urge. Get a hen, which offsets its impact by laying edible eggs, or a rabbit, prepared to make the ultimate environmental sacrifice by ending up on the dinner table.

"Rabbits are good, provided you eat them," said Robert Vale.