December 3, 2009

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Open letter to Harper on UN Climate Summit Copenhagen

by Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman addressing Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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1. PowerUP Canada’s Copenhagen VBlogs and SummaryTalking Rayne says:

   December 30, 2009 at 2:04 am

   [...] *************************************************** Open letter to Harper on UN Climate Summit Copenhagen [...]
2. crannogman says:

   December 7, 2009 at 9:40 pm

   So the rant  I include below is from some US Talk Show loons website  … BUT… you have to admit he’s got a point or two!:

   Paul Joseph Watson
   Prison Planet.com
   Monday, December 7, 2009

   Record numbers of stretch limos and private jets are descending on Copenhagen as thousands of CO2 belching, caviar scoffing, prostitute molesting, hypocritical climate crooks prepare to orchestrate the next round of mass raping in pursuit of their much cherished world government and its handmaiden, a global tax on carbon emissions.
   In another stark reminder that these globalists couldn’t give a damn about CO2 emissions, only eviscerating economies and the middle class, their own behavior is completely at odds with how they are indignantly demanding other people live their lives.
   A London Telegraph report reveals how the combined CO2 footprint of the conference will amount to no less than 41,000 tons, equal to that produced by an African country over the same period.
   Despite the fact that the climate crooks constantly berate and browbeat Joe Public about not driving hybrid vehicles and taking two holidays a year via commercial airliners, the Copenhagen criminals are arriving in luxurious private jets before whizzing around town in gas-guzzling stretch limos.
   “We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company told the Telegraph. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”

   “Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
   “And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen.”

   While readying speeches about how the middle class will be forced to lower their living standards, pay higher taxes on all forms of travel, and make personal sacrifices in order to save the planet from the alleged menace of CO2, Copenhagen globalists will be relaxing on the 140 extra private jets that are being forced to drop off attendees in Copenhagen and then fly back to other airports and even other countries just to park due to the lack of spaces.
   Elitists will scoff scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges, while lecturing the general public about how eating meat is harming the earth.
   And while the climate crooks wag their finger at you for having the audacity to own an SUV, they will be running up a bill of over $200 million dollars, and guess who is going to be picking up the tab?

   “According to an analysis by the Taxpayer’s Alliance, a conservative cost of Copenhagen is £130million.
   It includes £6.3million on flights, £20million on hotels and £3.3million on food,” reports the Daily Mail.
   “The figure also includes the salaries for delegates and the contribution from the Danish government of £37 million. Most of the money will come from taxpayers.”

   Meanwhile, eco-fascism has proven it’s still very much alive and well with the news that “56 major newspapers in 45 countries are today publishing a shared editorial calling on politicians and negotiators gathering in Copenhagen to strike an ambitious deal on combating climate change.”
   Of course, behind the contrived grandstanding on behalf of such publications that they are somehow speaking with one united voice in the interests of humankind, all this really shows is that the same establishment attempting to bang the last few nails in the coffin of freedom, by taxing carbon dioxide, the life-giving gas that humans exhale and trees absorb, also happen to own and control the vast majority of the global media.
   Far from being an upstanding act of benign advocacy, as it is being framed, the fact that 56 major world newspapers are all spewing the same propaganda, especially in light of the Climategate scandal that most of them have failed to even acknowledge in any depth whatsoever, smacks of the kind of editorial control the Nazis exercised in 1930’s Germany or Joseph Stalin enjoyed in Communist Russia.
   Meanwhile, according to an article in Spiegel Online, prostitutes are preparing for globalists to descend on Copenhagen by offering free sex. The Mayor of Copenhagen attempted to limit the expected deluge of summit attendees enjoying the use of prostitutes by sending a letter to hotels across the city urging delegates and guests at the conference, “Be sustainable, don’t buy sex.” Prostitutes responded by offering free sex to any Copenhagen attendee who produces the Mayor’s letter.
   Summits of this size are routinely accompanied by a huge spike in the sex trade in whatever city they happen to be taking place. While servants of the global elite and their masters lecture us about our moral imperatives, half of them are out committing adultery on a nightly basis during the same global conferences at which they habitually pose with righteous indignation.
   Make sure you have plenty of vomit bags on standby over the next couple of weeks, because you are going to be endlessly lectured by a gaggle of amoral, money-grubbing, control freak thugs who couldn’t care less about the environment unless they can invoke it as a pretext for taxing you out of existence while declaring the very particles that you breathe to be a deadly poison.
3. Tzeporah Berman says:

   December 7, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   Thanks for taking the time to lay out your thoughts so honestly. I think “left” and “right” obscure more that they illuminate on clean energy and climate (and many sustainability issues). Especially in North America the issue is often pigeonholed as “left” to its detriment. But as you may know it was (The Rt. Hon.) Margaret Thatcher who first made it a head of state issue. The major champions now are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Sarkozy. North America’s logjam was broken by Republican Governor Schwarzenegger. And our efforts to stimulate federal action have been supported by former Canadian Prime Ministers Clark, Mulroney and Campbell.

   After all, at the end of the day it’s about empirical facts not ideology — atmospheric parts per million CO2, climate sensitivity to those concentrations and the impacts and implications.
4. TineRossing says:

   December 7, 2009 at 7:04 pm

   Way to go, Tzeporah! You might remember me, but we did meet at the Be the Change (un)conference this year. I LOVED your speech then and my husband, John, and I applaud your efforts.

   Like you, we have grown tired of waiting for the Canadian Federal winds to change and have gone ahead and formed some neat partnerships to do community-based climate change adaptation projects in B.C. with several First Nations. Something has to change and we are trying to do our part.

   Keep up the great work!
   John and Tine
   ECOlibrio
   http://www.ecolibrio.ca
5. Tzeporah Berman says:

   December 7, 2009 at 4:42 pm

   Thanks. And I’ll crank up the frequency as we head into the serious negotiations in week 2.
6. magician says:

   December 7, 2009 at 3:34 pm

   Sorry  that was directed to Crannogman not kootneylakebc
7. magician says:

   December 7, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   Way to Go Tzeporah. The conference is underway I am waiting eagerly for your post. Maybe every 12 hours or so would be good.  I want to know everything and with you as the filter that should be a manageable amount.

   Note to kootenylakebc above:  friendsofscience are actually not.  Same old gang of guns for hire as the tobacco industry used.  Try realclimate.com for actual science rather than rants. or for the debate http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8376286.stm
8. crannogman says:

   December 7, 2009 at 1:25 pm

   This is a response to kootenaylakebc:

   To begin with, when addressing Canada’s Prime Minister, like him or not, you would think that one might afford a modicum of respect for the office. Therefore you might begin by referring to our Prime Minister as Mr. Harper.

   Now, I know this blog only exists as a result of many people’s – legitimate -concern over climate change, and perhaps someone like myself may very well not be particularly welcome here, as I have slightly different views as follows:

   While there is no doubt in my mind that climate change is real, there is plenty of doubt that it is being caused – in any meaningful way – by human pollution. I would refer you to http://www.friendsofscience.org should you wish an alternate view on the subject.

   This is not to minimize the impact that pollution is – unquestionably – having on our planet. It’s just the ‘doomsday’ scenarios coming from some rather predictable sources, seem to me rather over done. And, just so you do not get the incorrect impression that I care little about our natural world, I do believe in leaving as little impact as possible – it’s matter of common sense.

   I’d also like to comment on the following point noted above:

   …”It is much more to the right and its agenda has a lot to do with minimizing government involvement in the lives of Canadians  except when it comes to building more prisons, spending more on defence (SIC), allowing more use of guns and the like…”

   PLEASE … give me a break!

   While I suppose you may believe this to be an exhaustive analysis of the current (minority) government’s policy platform, I can assure you it is not. While there is no doubt that trying to reduce the impact of government on individuals is certainly one small portion of the present policy of the Conservative Party, it is by no means the whole story. Not to mention the 2+ billion dollar boondoggle the Canadian Gun Registry has been. You may wish to take the time to read the Party’s ‘Policy Declaration’ found at: http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4684/.

   It would also seem that contrary to your assertion, in fact more Canadians are in favor of less governance than there are for more. All one needs to do is look at any number of current public opinion polls to see that the Conservatives hold a =/- 10 point lead over the official opposition.

   In conclusion I will nonetheless take your advice as follows:

   I will vote: for the Conservative Party of Canada until such time as I believe their policies do not warrant my vote any longer.

   I have – just – joined the Conservative Party of Canada. I just cannot think who within the ranks of the possible alternatives we could trust to do a better job than has Mr. Harper. Note that Canada was arguably the least effected country in the ‘western’ world as regards the global economic meltdown.

   I may or may not contribute additional money… we’ll see.

   I am a member of my local riding association and I suspect that I will volunteer when the time comes.

   And… at the tender age of 56, I think my time for seeking political office has passed.

   Finally, lest you think I am some ‘red neck’ from Alberta, you should know that I have lived and/or worked in New York, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa over the past 30 years or so, and I believe that my value set is well served by our present government, thank you very much. And as to  ‘Left’ vs ‘Righ’ politics … try living a while in the US … Canadians, in my view, generally have absolutely no idea what a ‘Right’ wing government even looks like.

   WM
   Ottawa, ON
9. kootenaylakebc says:

   December 6, 2009 at 7:44 pm

   I would like to make a couple of points First is that Harper stated in an earlier year of this decade that climate change  was a “socialist plot” Does that sound like the kind of person that would respond with earnestness to the statements of scientists that we need to take it seriously.  Putting aside many other issues i have with Harper,  I think we need to realize that the Conservative Party is not the same as the more moderate Progressive Conservative Party of Joe Clark, Bob Stanfield and even Brian Mulroney. It is much more to the right and its agenda has a lot to do with minimizing government involvement in the lives of Canadians  except when it comes to building more prisons, spending more on defence, allowing more use of guns and the like.  None of these are what I think Canadians think of first when they think of their country.
   I think we tend to think our Prime Minister is suppose to be a leader in the quest for a better future.  Where is the leadership. Harper seems to want to just sit back and wait for Obama to make the first move then to follow.  He has abandoned the commitment to Kyoto which our country had signed.
   One thing I think we need to realize is that Canadians need to become more political. We need to identify the multiple ways we can participate in shaping the country so that we get the kind of country we want not the kind Harper and the Conservatives want.  How do we do this.  Let me list the ways we can participate in democracy.
   1 We can vote. Participation in elections has been falling, perhaps because we feel powerless. But there is no better way to feel powerless than to sit back, not vote then see people who don’t represent our values get elected by people who do get involved.
   2. Join a political party that represents our values and hopefully that will be a party that takes environmental values seriously. The cost to join is very low, around $5 to $10. It supports the party, gets you involved and gives you a stake in the process and outcomes.
   3. Give a donation to a political party. Political parties need money to operate.  The nice thing is that there are attractive tax deductions for donations (something like 75% for the first $400 for a federal contribution and 75% for the first $200 for a provincial election.
   4. Join an electoral riding association that represents a party in an electoral riding.  They provide a presence for the party between elections and supports the candidate. There are all kinds of jobs of varying commitment levels.
   5. Volunteer to help during an election and again there are all sorts of opportunities available.
   6. Become a candidate.
   It takes work to run a good democracy.  It is not a spectator sport.  The rewards are worth it.
10. HHHHHHHHHHHHHH says:

    December 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    I think this amazing Aunty Tzep!! Its so moving!!!! Stephen Harper HAS to listen now!!! I love you!
    Hay Z
11. greenjenniferwalker says:

    December 4, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    Excellent!!!!  I wish you a silver magical cape on your journey to the political land of Copenhagen.  You’ll need it!

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