Copenhagen’s Cannibals, the Death of Kyoto & the Inconvenience of Truth

Monday, December 14th at 1:18PM EST

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Many have known for years that there is something fishy about the Al Gore-inspired industry known as “Global Warming, Inc.” In fact, as the planet’s temperatures have decreased in recent years, the global warming hysterians have had to change their whole brand identification from that of global warming to “climate change,” while not changing their tactics at attempting to extort “developed nations” on behalf of developing nations.

Thanks to Al Gore, who can’t let a little thing like truth get in his way of becoming the world’s first environmental billionaire, the world is watching countries like the U.S. and those that make up the European Union scramble to find a way to squander their wealth, end their sovereignty and enslave their peoples to those “developing” countries deemed to be too poor in sound government, civility or the rule of law to manage themselves.

In sum, as ‘Climate Gate’ is only beginning to shed light on Al Gore and his pseudo-scientific, climate-controlling cronies want America to accept fraud as fact and to willingly pay for its own economic and national destruction.

Thankfully, as the Copenhagen con unfolds, bureaucrats the world over cannot seem to agree on how to destroy America…and at what price said destruction should come.

According to news reports:

China, India and other developing nations boycotted U.N. climate talks on Monday, bringing negotiations to a halt with their demand that rich countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions.

Representatives from developing countries – a bloc of 135 nations – said they refused to participate in any formal working groups at the 192-nation summit until the issue was resolved.

Moreover…

“I don’t think the talks are falling apart, but we’re losing time,” said Kim Carstensen, of the World Wildlife Fund. The developing countries “are making a point.”

The dispute came as the conference entered its second week, and only days before over 100 world leaders including President Barack Obama were scheduled to arrive in Copenhagen.

“Nothing is happening at this moment,” Zia Hoque Mukta, a delegate from Bangladesh, told The Associated Press. He said developing countries have demanded that conference president Connie Hedegaard of Denmark bring the industrial nations’ emissions targets to the top of the agenda before talks can resume.

Poor countries, supported by China, say Hedegaard had raised suspicion that the conference was likely to kill the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which limited carbon emissions by wealthy countries and imposed penalties for failing to meet those targets.

Poor countries want to extend that treaty because it commits rich nations to emissions cuts and imposes penalties if they fall short. The United States withdrew from Kyoto over concerns that it would harm the U.S. economy and that China, India and other major greenhouse gas emitters were not required to take action.

“We are seeing the death of the Kyoto Protocol,” said Djemouai Kamel of Algeria, the head of the 50-nation Africa group.

It was the second time the Africans have disrupted the climate talks. At the last round of negotiations in November, the African bloc forced a one-day suspension until wealthy countries agreed to spell out what steps they will take to reduce emissions.

An African delegate said developing countries decided to block the negotiations at a meeting hours before the conference was to resume. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was held behind closed doors. He said applause broke out every time China, India or another country supported the proposal to stall the talks.

Hope may be beginning to emerge that no agreement will be reached in Copenhagen and the enviro-phonies will leave Denmark with nothing but their proverbial diatribes in their hands. For there is something truly unholy when other nations, as well as the present and former leaders of this nation, try to bring the best nation on earth to its knees to appease the equivalent of cannibals.

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The African countries just care how much "help" they will get from the "rich" countries

bk (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 1:27PM EST (link)

They couldn’t care less how much pollution the US and others may create, just how much cash they are willing to dump.

And don't we dump enough cash in poor countries already?

izoneguy (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 2:25PM EST (link)

America keeps giving and giving. yet poor countries still turn to leaders who loot & rob them. Until most of these countries get their own acts together I say: “Let them breathe CO2″

Obama’s appearance at Dopenhagen should seal the fate of this sham. And once ObamaCare goes down it will be a very Merry Christmas.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

Some details were in a recent diary

bk (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 2:55PM EST (link)

http://www.redstate.com/deidremh/2009/12/01/the-great-swindle-of-climate-change/

Some quotes from the AP article linked in that diary:

“Rich countries must put at least $10 billion a year on the table to kick-start immediate action up to 2012,” the U.N. climate chief, Yvo de Boer, told reporters last week in a preview of the two-week conference opening next Monday in Copenhagen.

Although talks will now be extended, Copenhagen was originally meant to culminate years of negotiation centered on two pillars: emissions reductions and financial aid for developing countries to adapt to climate change.

The proposed emissions targets by industrialized nations for 2020 — and China’s plan to slow emissions growth — fall short of what scientists say is needed to head off damaging climate change. But if developing nations accept the quick-start financing, a deal might be reached at Copenhagen on a framework for putting all elements in a binding agreement next year, with an eye toward deeper emissions cuts and heftier financing beyond that.

“Short-term finance would be used as an opportunity to get a political buy-in for the other elements of an agreement,” said Athena Ballesteros, a climate-finance expert at the Washington think tank World Resources Institute.

The World Bank estimates adaptation costs alone will total $75 billion to $100 billion a year over the next 40 years. The cost of mitigation — reducing carbon emissions in poorer nations — will add tens of billions to that. China and other developing countries say the target should be even higher, in the range of $350 billion.

De Boer’s $10 billion a year to 2012 is barely a start. But “kick-start finance is so important because such finance will allow developing countries to plan,” he told The Associated Press.

In fact, much of the funding would go to “capacity building” — training, planning, getting a fix on needs, local emissions and related concerns.

Upfront money would also help rebuild trust between the rich north and poor south, eroded by years of relative inaction on climate, particularly by the United States.

Finance expert Ballesteros expects Copenhagen to narrow the focus of talks next year on sources for longer-term, richer adaptation funding, such as a levy on international air transport, sharing in proceeds from the growing trade in carbon emission allowances, or even a global levy on carbon emissions.

Most important is that such revenue be “stable and predictable,” not dependent on vagaries of budget-writing in national capitals, she said.

It’s beyond ridiculous. Rich countries need to ante up “at least $10B a year” as “barely a start” to “rebuild trust” from the poor nations and get their “political buy-in”. But to really get things going will require lots more “longer-term richer funding” as well as global taxes to create a “stable and predictable” revenue flow for the rest of time.

Dopenhagen is imploding

redpens (Diary) Monday, December 14th at 6:03PM EST (link)

and I love it!