Copenhagen Climate Con

Save the planet!  End international climate conferences!

International hucksters are out in full force for the global climatological conclave in Copenhagen, and the gargantuan carbon footprint they produce will not strike any of them as even the least bit ironic.

Don't worry, sensible people will be there too. Film makers Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer (two more people Al Gore is afraid to debate) will be twittering away, and Senator James Inhofe will be there to harass and disabuse the gullible warmists.

The elephant in the room will be the climate-gate scandal.  Senator Inhofe says that is the final nail in the coffin.  It's not just an embarrassment, now it's a legal matter, since US Taxpayer money funded these flim flam artists.

The more than 3,000 emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) that have found their way to the Internet have blown the lid off the "science" of manmade global warming.

Their correspondence show a claque of scientists massaging data to make it fit their theories, squelching scientists who disagreed, punishing academic journals that didn't toe the apocalyptic line, and hiding their work from public view. 

"It's no use pretending that this isn't a major blow," glumly wrote George Monbiot, a U.K. writer who has been among the fiercest warming alarmists. The documents "could scarcely be more damaging." And that's from a believer.  (WSJ - Kimberley Strassel)

Beware International Pickpockets 

The New York Post editors have the best take:

here's hoping he doesn't allow America's pockets to be picked totally clean by the shamsters, scam artists and assorted "global-warming" opportunists who also will be in town for the occasion. 

For, make no mistake: The whole point of the exercise is to transfer a trillion bucks from the economies of the world's developed nations to Third World kleptocrats -- with God-only-knows how much cash sticking to the fingers of well-connected UN bureaucrats.