Copenhagen’s Income Redistribution

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is about two things: Control for big government types and the redistribution of your income in a shakedown for poor countries. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jetted to Denmark to promise the latter this week, tossing the United States’ chips on the table to the tune of billions of dollars. “The U.S. is prepared to work with other countries to jointly mobilize $100 billion a year [to give to poor nations] by 2020,” she announced. Clinton did not specify the portion to be paid by American taxpayers, but she was obviously taking her cues from the Chicago mob in the White House: The bribe comes only if there is a deal reached at Copenhagen. The result would be that we would not only handicap U.S. producers, but tax them to the benefit of our competitors.

All this comes amid the backdrop of ClimateGate and its patently fraudulent science. Then there’s the record cold snap and snowstorm that Copenhagen has endured this week, no doubt attributable to insufficient sacrifices being placed upon the sacred altar of Mother Gaia. Either that, or Al Gore is to blame, since his presence at these global warming confabs always seems to bring record low temperatures.

Also, thousands of UN-accredited visitors were denied admittance and left out in the freezing warmth after flying all the way there, which sure didn’t help what was already a carbon footprint larger than any previous climate conference.

Despite Barack Obama’s arrival and his angry admonition that “The time for talk is over,” Investor’s Business Daily notes, “[A] draft climate accord by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calling for a 50% cut in global emissions by 2050, has been kicked down the road till 2015 or 2016. Gee, maybe it’s not the most urgent threat facing humankind after all.”