Pathetic Propaganda

Anyone who doubted the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen was more about politics than science need only view this video of the opening ceremony film. It's called "Please Help the World," and it uses a child the same way LBJ used a child sitting under a mushroom cloud to dissuade people who knew better from voting for Barry Goldwater in 1964. The film was produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. One wonders how many real Danes believe this stuff. I'm betting about as many as the number of real Norwegians who believe the latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is deserving.

The use of children in this way, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, is the last refuge of those whose "scientific" case simply cannot be made scientifically.