The COP17 climate talks opened in Durban today, to the Gore Effect and bad weather, smelly Occupy Durban hippies and the news that Canada, the bad-boy of western Climate nations is about to quit Kyoto.Take that, Gaia.
As if this inauspicious start wasn’t bad enough, early reports from Hades were that is was getting chilly down there as a UN prediction came too close to being right about something.
World leaders would be forgiven for wondering what happened to the glitz and glamor from Hopenchangen in Copenhagen just two short years ago. Or they would, if any had bothered to show up.
Some comforting and familiar sights are in Durban for delegates to view with nostalgia. Various small islands are still looking for a handout and warn that they may not have much longer to exist unless endless amounts of other people’s money is handed over. This is a tough sell in a year when the residents of a once prosperous but currently impoverished island are furious about handing £1 billion over to combat the as yet unseen, but assuredly devastating effects of a harmless trace gas essential to life on Earth.
But, it’s not all bad news. Weepy Bill McKibben isn’t in Durban, but there are a couple of primo Google juice hotties on hand. Or, as you may know her, Angelina Jolie. Which gives us the opportunity for a little Rule 5** fun early in the week.
*With apologies to Thomas Hardy
**It took far longer than 12 months for The Daily Bayonet to reach 1 million hits, but hotties make the wait more fun.
Since you’re bringing Tess of the D’Urbervilles into it, shouldn’t you be posting a pic of Nastassja Kinsky?
“in Copenhagen just two short years ago” - I must have missed the news that “global warming” is shrinking time as well as fish, birds, trees and animals.
They should really stop having those meetings… they are really making the global temperature plummet.