8:00 am — TCM — Queen Christina Quite possibly the
supreme example of Greta Garbo's extraordinary power over the camera, portraying the 17th - century monarch
of Sweden whose unanticipated
love affair with a Spanish emissary complicates her life and her reign.
In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a
supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer
of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who
love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control
of a natural product
of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue
of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear
of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries
of their actions.