Using the "climate change" SCAM to extort the United States
Devil's Advocate
COPENHAGEN: AFRICAN DICTATORS DEMAND "DEMOCRACY"
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on December 15, 2009
The Copenhagen conference on climate change, held amid record low
freezing temperatures that are blanketing Europe, was shattered by a
walkout by the G-77 nations, the bloc of "developing" countries that
spans from China to Chad. Their demand? More "democracy and
transparency" in the negotiations! They also want massive American and
European aid under the guise of helping them adjust to climate change.
Dictators from Bejing to Africa are united in their demand for more
"democracy" at the conference and are all deeply disturbed that
Copenhagen may not turn out to be payday for which they had all hoped.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has called the climate change issue,
a "pretext for a massive redistribution of wealth from the developed
nations to the less developed ones." That's what the African and
Asian dictators are hoping for.
Like anti-poverty storefronts in Harlem that change to drug rehab
projects and then morph into stimulus programs, the less developed
nations are now hanging out the climate change sign in the hopes of
getting aid.
The fact is that almost all the increase in greenhouse gases over the
next two decades is going to come from developing countries,
principally China and India.
As noted in an earlier column, the United States is doing quite well,
without a
new treaty and without cap and trade, on lowering its emissions to the
level demanded by the Kyoto Agreement and the goal set by President
Obama. It is about halfway toward each.
But the developing countries are hoping to make a killing in
Copenhagen, getting a treaty that does not bind them to specific
enforceable goals (and no inspections) while giving them money to
accomplish the climate change goals. Money without responsibility suits
them fine.
Just as climate change is being hijacked in developed countries by
socialists and liberals who want to regulate business and utilities, so
it is being exploited by less developed countries as a pretext for more
foreign aid.
China, in particular, won't allow any international monitoring of its
compliance with the climate change goals. This refusal is giving
Democratic trade protectionists the cover they need to raise tariff
barriers on imports from abroad. Yet again, climate change is being
hijacked by partisans of a particular persuasion - protectionists - to
suit their goals.
Meanwhile, most voters in the U.S. are far from convinced that climate
change is happening as a result of human activity and there is no broad
consensus behind any of the regulatory changes being pushed in
Copenhagen. That's the surprise awaiting Obama when he returns, treaty
in hand.
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