Copenhagen... I Used to Dip that Stuff!

A Global Shakedown
Any climate agreement that changes one law in the US or transfers one dime of taxpayer funds to another country is a willful selling of our national sovereignty.  This is a taxpayer shakedown meant to transfer trillions from productive, working people to the useless international bureaucrats, who skim their percentage then pass pennies on to favored kleptocratic rulers.

American aren't buying it, thank God in heaven:

Just how bad is the threat from global warming? About one in six Americans (17 percent) think the global warming situation is a crisis, which is essentially the same number who believe in flying saucers and the little green men with bulbous heads who supposedly fly them.

Draft of Final Copenhagen Statement (Translated by Me)

We, the collected cluster of presidents, ministers, high poobahs, tyrants, dictators, international shakedown artists, miscellaneous rabble and ignorami, do hereby decree:

The earth is heating up.  If current trends continue, it will eventually catch fire and we will all die in a hellish conflagration.  The only way to avoid this inevitable fate is for all rich, capitalist pig nations to immediately hang their heads in shame for the unforgivable sin of bringing prosperity to the world.

The next step is for these same gluttonous polluters to open their wallets (with heads still hung in shame!) and give trillions to the International League of Syndicated Wealth Reapportionment Organization, where the funds will be administrated by the UN Grand High Poobah Rapporteur of Public Wealth Redistribution.

Legions of useless, self-important bureaucrats, when not busy raping the women and children of the third world, will spread this wealth around.  Some pennies and farthings will actually make it to petty potentates and power-crazed kleprocrats, who will pretend to better the lives of the proletariat while greatly enriching themselves.

This will alleviate the guilt of rich liberals (who still must hang their heads in shame!), as BBQ grills and internal combustion engines fall silent and cold all across the greedy, self-indulgent first world.

The collective blameworthiness of the developed nations cannot be assuaged until we are all mired in a poverty that makes mankind look with nostalgia upon the pestilence-ridden Middle Ages.  

May Mother Earth smile upon our suicidal obeisance and preserve the polar bears.

It Ain't Up To Snuff...
Hearing "Copenhagen" mentioned every five minuted was giving me flashbacks, even if they were pronouncing it the snooty European way.  It reminded me of this song from my high school days  when all us redneck farm boys chewed.  Just like in the song, I gave it up when my wife threatened me.  She tastes better...

Global Community Organizing in Snarkenhagen

Obama takes community organizer shakedown skills global!

COPENHAGEN — A visibly angry Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet at China and other developing nations Friday, declaring that the time has come "not to talk but to act" on climate change. (Politico)

Saudi Arabia funds terrorists; A bloodthirsty, illegitimate Iranian regime murders its own people (and our troops in Iraq) and spreads terror in Lebanon, Palestine and points beyond; the Darfur slaughter and rape continues; Somali pirates disrupt international commerce...

But dammit!  President Obama is really mad that nations are balking at economically castrating themselves upon the altar of Gaia! 

And now for something completely different...
Gerald Warner turns his British wit on this Copenhagen farce, as only a British sarc-snark can:

When your attempt at recreating the Congress of Vienna with a third-rate cast of extras turns into a shambles, when the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney, when the blatant greed and self-interest of the participants has become obvious to all beholders, when those pesky polar bears just keep increasing and multiplying – what do you do? [...]

Unfortunately, the response of all intelligent people will be to fall about laughing; but it was worth a try – everybody loves a tryer – and the climate alarmists are no longer in a position to pick and choose their tactics.

The danger of this ploy, of course, is that people might say “If we are going to be chargrilled anyway, what is the point of handing over billions – better to get some serious conspicuous consumption in before the ski slopes turn into saunas.”

If you're as tired as I am of the flatulent cloud of hypocrital sanctimony emanating from Copenhagen, go read Gerald Warner's entire column.  It'll  hit the spot.

Canadians Not Blinded by Science

I love sarcasm, especially when it's aimed a self-righteous busybodies whose schemes rely on fleecing the gullible...

Canada's National Post skewers the International Socialist Plenary Conclave going on in Copenhagen:

... stop worrying. These extravagant UN get-togethers always produce some sort of a final accord. Witness Kyoto in 1997, where an all-night session produced a compromise deal -- even if all the signatories have spent the last 12 years ignoring it.

As for those who are stressed by the possibility that negotiators will reach a last-minute agreement containing bona fide emission caps that will beggar industrialized nations for the benefit of developing ones, we also say stop worrying.

While delegates might sign away the moon amid the giddy glitter of Copenhagen, the realities of domestic politics they face when they return home-- recession, unemployment, budget deficits --mean their pledges will quickly fade to nothingness.

The editors unmask this charade as the scam that it is:  A transfer of wealth from rich, productive countries to poor, kleptocratic ones (and to upcoming countries like Brazil, China and India who should be ashamed of themselves participating in this cash grab.)

I didn't do anything to any of these beggar countries, so I owe them nothing.  In fact, Papa Silverfiddle spent a lot of time in Mexico and Brazil helping them improve their manufacturing processes. 

These countries should stop begging and start producing things other people want to buy.

They've blinded us with science!

Global Grab and Rape

Global climate schemes destroy wealth and displace productive economic activity, enriching international shysters who produce nothing

The biggest lie about Europeans is that they are unconcerned about wealth.  Remember the UN "Oil for Food" scheme they had going with Saddam?  It allowed the dictator to starve his people while providing cheap oil to Europe and under-the-table bribes to the continent's crooked politico-business class.

Massive Fraud in European Carbon Credit Market

Well, another decade, another scandal, this one involving massive fraud in Europe's carbon credit markets (The ridiculous practice of buying and selling of pollution)

This resulted in losses of approximately 5 billion euros for several national tax revenues. It is estimated that in some countries, up to 90% of the whole market volume was caused by fraudulent activities.

Crafty people who produce nothing of value find ways to insert themselves into the revenue stream and exact their parasitic toll.  It's called Rent Seeking.  Think DC politicians. 

The NY Post editors get to the crux of it:

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.

Global climate treaties are stick-ups perpetrated by international shysters to enrich themselves while assuaging liberal guilt.

Cap and Trade market schemes waste money in the form of transaction fees gobbled up by people trading smoke. 

Smoke and mirrors is more like it. 

Volokh

Cap and Trade: A Hopium Smoker's Pipe Dream

Democrats want to take us back to 1875
George Will, commenting on President Obama's flailing attempts to regain his mojo, incidentally mentions why Waxman-Markey (Cap and Trade) is an economically unfeasible pipe dream. 

I broke it up into smaller bites to make it easier to follow.  Follow it through to the end and you will see how this crazy scheme requires the nation to reduce its per capita carbon dioxide level to what it was back in 1875.  We cannot do this and survive economically.  

That legislation is a particularly lurid illustration of why no serious person nowadays takes seriously Washington's increasingly infantile bandying of numbers.

The point of cap-and-trade is to impose a ceiling on the nation's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions—primarily carbon dioxide. The legislation endorses the goal of holding the global carbon--dioxide level to a maximum of 450 parts per million by 2050. That. Will. Not. Happen.

Steven Hayward and Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute do the math.

Waxman--Markey endorses the goal of reducing all of this nation's GHG emissions 83 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.

In 2005, the United States' carbon-dioxide emissions were 6 billion tons, so an 83 percent -reduction would permit about 1 billion tons—what America's emissions were in 1910, when the population was 92 million and the economy was one twenty-fifth of today's.

But by 2050, the population probably will be about 420 million, so per capita carbon-dioxide emissions would have to be 2.4 tons—one quarter of 1910's per capita emissions.

Today France, which generates approximately 80 percent of its electricity by nuclear power, and Switzerland, which generates most of its electricity by nuclear or hydropower, have per capita emissions of 6.59 and 6.13 tons, respectively.

To see the original AEI article Will cites, go here.  Is is long but full of hard facts and detailed explanations. 

The Democrats want to cut our per capita emissions to one-third of nuclear-powered France, and not one stooge in the press has asked them how we get there from here without destroying our economy.
  
Further Reading:
Pethokoukis
WaPo - CBO Estimate

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.

Obama's Peace Prize, Global Warming, and Other Fantasies

Obama's Peace Prize is really about getting the US to pass cap and trade and then sign on to a disastrous climate change treaty this December

Here come the scolding mommies from Europe, demanding we "Do Something!" in response to their incomprehensible fairy tales about global warming making Mother Earth hot and mad ...

Delegates wrap up two weeks of talks in Thailand tomorrow in an effort to replace or extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, whose emission limits for industrialized nations expire in 2012.

Failure (of the US) to have a new law in time for Copenhagen’s final round of negotiations would raise question marks over what commitments the U.S. can make, Falkenberg said.

Note the arch, scolding, passive/aggressive tone these internationales use:

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Barack Obama faces “more than an embarrassment” should his nation fail to lead international negotiations to complete a new climate-protection treaty by December, a senior European climate negotiator said.

“Obama and his administration are very committed, and it will be more than an embarrassment for them if at Copenhagen they would have to admit they are not ready,” Falkenberg said late last night in Bangkok, where more than 180 nations are meeting for talks.

“We can just help, but helping them also means directly telling them that the world has an expectation.”

I don't like the pompous tone from these little pissant busybodies!  Nobody talks to the US President like that, and we sure as hell don't care about "the world's" expectations.

I was getting really angry reading this piece, until I came across this laugher:

The UN is pushing for a deal that would limit the rise in world temperatures since industrialization began to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

A deal on limiting the earth's temperature?  Who do they propose to negotiate this with?  Old Man Winter?  Mother Nature? The sun?  

The International House of Scandal and Corruption and the polyglot dingleberries who cling to it can't even agree on a what constitutes terrorism or a human rights abuse.  Yet they propose to turn down the earth's thermostat?  

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Finally, the article hints there is hope:

Obama’s scope is limited because the U.S. Congress may not approve a domestic law to control emissions before the December deadline for signing an international climate accord...

Bloomberg - Climate Change Nonsense