The surprise release of documents that provide the long sought after "smoking gun" in the debate on climate change appear to have changed President Obama's travel plans and perhaps even his overall strategy.  With his healthcare agenda bogged down, but the outcome never in doubt with a very safe, well over 50 vote majority in the U.S. Senate, he is now scrambling to support the rapidly sinking cap and trade.  

The damage from the Climategate emails has been well documented here and the original data was claimed to have been lost, but the biggest damage is yet to come as the world tears apart the actual mathematical model used to project the Climatic Armageddon of Global Warming.  Because these are complicated, mathematical computer models, the forensic work on those will likely take weeks and possibly months to deconstruct and fully understand how they were constructed and worked.  This is where the real fraud took place, as have pointed out here.  Because most people do not have a scientific or engineering background, these concepts can be difficult to understand and to date the press has virtually ignored the models.  The more time that passes, the more information that will emerge from these models, and it can't be good news for Obama and his Cap and Trade agenda.

Obama was not originally scheduled to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, due to a conflict with the Nobel awards ceremony in Oslo, where he is due to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize.  However, momentum for cap and trade and any serious international agreement in Copenhagen are flagging, so now Obama is "doubling down" to act now, before too much analysis of the models is completed.

Here is a video from Fox Business Network, where Charles Payne interviews Christopher Horner, the author of "Red Hot Lies":

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Here's the transcript of the interview:

CHARLES PAYNE, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK: Well, my next guest says the president's going to Copenhagen not in spite of these e-mails but because of these e-mails. He's in full panic mode. He's the author of the book "Red Hot Lies, How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep you Misinformed." So I guess based on the title, Chris Horner might feel a little vindicated by these hacked e-mails. How are you feeling about this thing?

CHRISTOPHER HORNER, "RED HOT LIES" AUTHOR: Yes, the words I told you so have come to mind a lot in the last week, and I just want to be clear, I'm not saying you were intentionally misled by your previous guest. I agree he doesn't have enough understanding or knowledge of the issues to comment because, for example, beyond the e-mails in the actual computer code itself annotated in the double digit number of times we have statements like apply a very artificial correction decline, two exclamation marks, all caps, very artificial.

And it's in the double digit number of times whereby they say they're applying an artificial decline to, as the gentleman said, use a trick to hide the decline. And I might be tempted to entertain such fantasy if not for an independent investigation. Thanks to Congress, already proving that these very specific actions and questions were a trick to hide the decline in temperatures.

So they're trying to brazen this out, Charles, and the president, as you indicated, I believe, is doubling down. They're panicked. They're going to politically commit the U.S. in three weeks to a treaty now in violation of their own express policy of waiting for Congress to tell them what they're able to do because they really do believe they must act now.

PAYNE: But the interesting thing though is even if they go over there, they make these proposals, you've got major countries out there, China and India, who seemed very reluctant to go along at all. Does that mean at the end of the day it's going to cost Americans even more money to comply with the president's agenda?

HORNER: It's going to cost an awful lot of money. According to the Congressional Budget Office, EPA, Energy Information Administration, Charles River Associates International, American Council for Capital Formation, that's government, that's private, cap and trade kills jobs.

It killed jobs in Europe. It sent them here. Carroll county, Kentucky. Steel jobs from Acerinox in Spain called North American Stainless Steel. Their CEO now says those jobs are going to Malaysia. I don't know what about that we don't understand, what about this newest export from Europe, we don't like. But cap and trade is energy rationing. It will kill jobs, it's the point. I have no reason to believe Barack Obama was lying when he said his goal was to cause energy prices to necessarily skyrocket to raise billions. This is an ideology in search of an excuse.

The scientists in their own words have now affirmed, not revealed, affirmed. These are the same people I named in my book, admitting to precisely the actions I described in my book. Yes, I told you so has come to mind recently.

PAYNE: So, Chris, now having said that, you know, listen, a lot of Americans still believe in global warming and are ready to take the dive, if you will. Is there any chance that these e-mails, this smoking gun can turn the tide?

HORNER: Well, first of all, that's two different statements. A lot of people so long as it's at the cocktail, feel-good, don't you want to save the planet level? Yes, 80 percent of the people do. And then you say, what would you want to pay for it? And they say something below $1 per gallon and the "Washington Post" wouldn't ask below that.

And I suggested less than a quarter a gallon because people understand - this, look, these people have been exposed in their own words as falsifying results. Not marginal results, the premise for Kyoto and cap and trade. It's an organized, in their own words, effort to destroy data, subvert and violate transparency laws, and it appears on its face to be an organized effort with an intent to defraud.

Yes, we need an investigation because, Charles, these scientists say their names have been wrongly sullied. And there's no - they're great. And surely they join my call, Senator Inhofe's call and others for an investigation to clear their name before we go any further on these international commitments that really only target us and cap and trade, which is the biggest tax increase in American history. No, the American people don't support that, just ask them.

PAYNE: All right. The biggest tax increase in American history. Chris, I know your phone's ringing off the hook, congratulations. Thanks for coming on the show.

WARNER: Thank you, Charles.

Three weeks ago, Obama was officially NOT going to go to Copenhagen.  Yet less than a week later, the Financial Times reported that Obama WILL be traveling to Copenhagen during the early stages of the two-week conference.

And now the Los Angeles Times has reported that Canada's prime minister will now change his travel plans and also attend the Copenhagen talks.

Canada's prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper's spokesman said Thursday.

Dimitri Soudas announced Harper decided to attend one day after U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced their attendance at the U.N. talks. Soudas said Harper's decision was based on the fact that now "a critical mass of world leaders will be attending."

At the same time, Bloomberg has reported that the Chinese have also pledged to set numerical targets for greenhouse gas emissions through 2020.

China’s cabinet yesterday said it will cut output of carbon dioxide per unit of gross domestic product by between 40 percent and 45 percent from 2005. A day earlier, the U.S. said it will propose a direct CO2 reduction in the same period of about 17 percent, provided that lines up with a new domestic climate law.

Cutting output of CO₂ per unit of GDP for the Chinese means they will not be required to cut any outputs, as long as their economy grows near the current rate of 8% for the next ten years, their output could actually increase.  This is a very nice way to say "no thanks", while still agreeing with your host.  The only way to make the numbers work will be to ship even more jobs over to China, who will still be able to increase their CO₂ output and their economy, while countries like the U.S. will have to shut down entire swaths of its economy to comply. 

There is no question now that Obama knows this is the moment he had better pass some kind of Cap and Trade legislation and the first step to accomplish that is with an agreement from the Copenhagen conference.  The timing of his change in travel plans around the CRU leaked emails and models only means one thing -- he was needed in Copenhagen to shore up the flagging "Global Warming" cause with an American commitment to the treaty.  Once Obama has the treaty completed, he will be able to get the Congress to pass something quickly, because "we already agreed with the world on Climate Change".  Any delay in this could only mean more scrutiny of faulty and fraudulent data models that could cause even greater harm to the "Global Warming" cause as reasonable people think long and hard about destroying their economies for dubious reasons.