Commies and Nazis

New Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott has likened the Copenhagen Conference to the Munich Agreement negotiated in the prelude to World War Two. Just in case you don’t remember that Agreement was marked, of course, by “weak leaders caving in to Adolf Hitler.” (Abbott’s words and interpretation)

According to this analogy (and clearly in Liberals’ minds) climate change activists are clandestine Nazis. I’m glad he’s cleared that up for me: when Copenhagen was but a twinkle in Ban Ki Moon’s eye I was already riven with angst; nervous that Hu, Obama and Merkel might cede their industrial Sudetenlands for rape and pillage by eco-Nazis, while polluting capitalists were herded together for ‘re-education’ in special camps. It’s good to see someone keeping on eye on things.

But wait a minute…

Two weeks ago, didn’t Abbott’s trusty lieutenant (puppeteer?) Senator Nick Minchin explicate that the global warming ‘myth’ was the invention of left wing radicals opining for the good ol’ days of the Soviet Union? Copenhagen, Kyoto, et. al. were patently, he told us, nought more than vehicles through which pinkos could and would further their insidious, internationalist goal of “de-industrialising the western world.”

I believed Senator Minchin, Tony, and now I want to believe you. But I’m obviously a bit confused, and I need some help to answer a few questions about global warming’s foes:

Is Obama actually a fascist? Where one might expect Hu Jintao to keep a copy of Mao’s Little Red Book is there actually a copy of Mein Kampf?

Or are the free-market champions like Merkel and Sarkozy actually minions of a resurgent, red preponderance to the east, led by a Medvedev who hums bars from Trotsky’s Lament sub rosa? Is Queen Elizabeth II going to head their New World Order?

And since you are a staunch Catholic Mr Abbott, I thought you might be able to ask Cardinal Pell for me: Benedict XVI, Commy or Nazi?