Eat cake, peasants!

Hotel guests should have their electricity monitored; hefty aviation taxes should be introduced to deter people from flying; and iced water in restaurants should be curtailed, the world’s leading climate scientist has told the Observer.

Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that western society must undergo a radical value shift if the worst effects of climate change were to be avoided. A new value system of “sustainable consumption” was now urgently required, he said.

For you, that is. He’s gonna be sticking with flying everywhere, himself — first class, as and when the whim strikes. But then, he’s waaay more important than you lowly pee-ons ever could be. After all, he’s responsible for so much of the crucial work of reining in you hapless schlubs — benighted, pig-ignorant subjects of the coming World Government — and seeing to it that none of you are aspiring to a comfort level that, frankly, is above your station. Know your role and shut your hole, proles.

Doubt me? Think I’m exaggerating the so-typical Left sanctimony and arrogance at work here just to make a point? Well, think again, chump. As night follows day:

Dr Rajendra Pachauri flew at least 443,243 miles on IPCC business in this 19 month period. This business included honorary degree ceremonies, a book launch and a Brookings Institute dinner, the latter involving a flight of 3500 miles.

So strong is his love for cricket that his colleagues recall the time the Nobel winner took a break during a seminar in New York and flew in to Delhi over the weekend to attend a practice session for a match before flying back. Again, he flew in for a day, just to play that match.

Y’know, next time I see this asshole at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him. Very tempted.

Excellent, thorough takedown of the whole sordid mess here:

Let’s start at the top, and bear with me.

• If the climate and recent changes are not unprecedented, then there’s nothing to do. Let’s go to the pub.
• If it is unprecedented, then we need to know why. If we don’t know if it is unprecedented or if we don’t know why, we need to stop here until we can find out.
• If it is unprecedented but it’s not us, then we need to question seriously if there is anything that we can do about it and the answer to that is very very likely to be “no”.
• If it is us, we then to move into economics. Will the damage outweigh the benefit?
• And even if the damage does outweigh the benefit, we still need to consider if the cost of stopping the climate change at source is less than the cost of adapting to the problem to minimise the damage.
• And even if the mitigation does cost less than adaptation, we need to ask if our only option for mitigation is to subborn all our freedom to a putative benevolent world government.

Only if you can answer “yes” all the way down that chain can you get to Copenhagen.

He’s put together some very perceptive and on-the-funny-money charts, which are every bit as scientific as anything proffered in support of this now-transparent scam, and have a much stronger relationship with the truth these reality-deniers are so intent on keeping concealed.

Update! Via genes: Australia wakes up, kicks reality-denialist to the curb. Not a moment too soon — we can only hope it isn’t too late.

Updated update! Reality proves too much for another denialist, so another frothing-nutjob hateblogger takes a hard left on the Sully Train. The asylum is getting as crowded as the underside of the Hopenchange Express nowadays. A look back at the genesis of a pretty spectacular schizophrenic break from CRAZY HATERRRR!!! Stacy, here. I haven’t paid a lot of attention to all of this because, frankly, I don’t really care. But hey, I’m happy to point and laugh with the best of ‘em.