THE ROAD TO HOPENHAGEN
Road To Hopenhagen
Climate Change: Major U.S. corporations have set up a Web site calling for a global climate treaty to be signed in Copenhagen. Considering recent evidence of massive climate fraud, perhaps they should reconsider.
Many will remember the classic soft drink ad campaign where young people from many nations gather on a mountaintop and sing that they’d like to buy the world a Coke, the theory being that sharing a soda was the key to world peace.
That sort of naivete has led peoples and governments around the world to accept at face value the outright fraud perpetrated by the Milli Vanillis of climate change at Britain’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia and elsewhere and, as a result, propose trillions of dollars of economically disastrous policies.
Their hacked e-mails, what some have called the “Pentagon Papers” of global warming, have revealed the activities of those whom Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, calls “criminals,” as well as “huckstering snake-oil salesmen and ‘global warming’ profiteers.”
The CRU is where one of the world’s four global-temperature data sets is compiled. Scientists there have deliberately falsified and manipulated temperature data, denied outsiders access to raw data and conspired to suppress scientific papers by dissenting scientists.
Amid all this junk science, Coca-Cola has another campaign under way and, with other corporate biggies like Siemens and SAP, the software giant, has created an Internet campaign and Web site, Hopenhagen.com, designed to enlist support for a climate deal to be reached in the very cold city of Copenhagen in December.
A petition on the site urges support for “developing countries’ adaptation efforts and secure climate justice for all.” It’s based on the theory that Western nations, particularly the U.S., owe the world a “climate debt” for starting the Industrial Revolution and plundering the world’s fossil fuels in the name of unbridled capitalism.
“The world needs a Green New Deal,” declares a pocket guide to Hopenhagen’s goals put out by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the group with the cuddly panda as its icon. That deal involves a global climate change fund into which rich countries pour money for “green” improvements in poorer nations.
The WWF guide says the Green New Deal “will be based on the polluter-pays principle, on the historically high emissions of developed nations and on the capacity of the rich nations to help the poor. And we will all benefit from this North/South ‘burden sharing.'” To us, this sounds like the old Marxist principle of to each according to his need, from each according to his ability, with a guilty conscience thrown in for good measure.
The plan is for a “simple charge on rich countries” that could be as high as 1% of a country’s GDP. “Notwithstanding the cost of necessary lifestyle changes and some more expensive technologies,” the guide estimates, “the total worldwide cost for most of the technologies and actions investigated would be in the region of 200-350 billion Euros annually for the next two decades.”
At current exchange rates, the Hopenhagen folks are planning for a global redistribution of wealth over the next 20 years of between $6 trillion and $10.5 trillion. That doesn’t include the costs of the damage to the world’s developed economies, particularly ours.
As we noted, Lord Monckton has warned of one of the consequences of Copenhagen: the loss of American sovereignty to global governance run by leftist bureaucrats.
“The second purpose,” Monckton says, “is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, (to satisfy) what is called, coyly, ‘climate debt’ — because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t.”
An agreement at Copenhagen may be unachievable for now, but American businesses are working hard through the Hopenhagen movement to keep the nightmare alive. Frankly, we think it would be cheaper to just buy the world a Coke — and more honest.
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