As Barack Obama desperately tries to cobble together an agreement, any agreement, in Copenhagen, it must be understood that the primary American beneficiary of such an agreement would be Obama’s rapidly dwindling political capital and his influence, both domestic and international.

In terms of economics, the conference represents nothing more than Third World nations trying to steal the money of American taxpayers and China trying to get the US government to kneecap the American economy to China’s competitive advantage. It’s not just for political reasons that I want Obama to fail.  Any substantial agreement would be a disaster for our nation – or at least it would be if it were ever actually implemented, a rather unlikely outcome given the inability or unwillingness of essentially every signer of the Kyoto Protocol to live up to those commitments.

Furthermore, it is far more likely that money given to developing countries would end up in dictators’ Swiss bank accounts than going to help the people (not that it’s the US’s responsibility to give money to poor foreigners just because they’re poor.) But if those dictators did “limit carbon emissions” from their countries, that would simply mean retarding those nations’ economic and industrial development, keeping their people cold, hungry, and poor – and causing them to need more foreign aid.  The best thing a developing country could do would be to ask the US for aid money to help them increase their carbon emissions with a promise that the development will wean them off the foreign aid teat forever.

In terms of science, however, it just gets worse and worse for the alarmists and the “scientists” who support them.  We all know about ClimateGate.  Now we have RussiaGate: It is being reported by Russia’s Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) that Britain’s Hadley Center, one of the most important keepers of climate data, left out 75% of Russia’s temperature sensors, representing over 40% of Russian territory (with Russia having 1/8th of the world’s total land mass).  The sensors which were included in the Hadley data tended to have two major flaws: position in urban areas subject to urban heat island effect, and stations having incomplete data.

The stations left out of the Hadley calculations tended to show no substantial warming over the last quarter century (or more…I don’t have the data, just the report.)

Several blogs have covered this story, and I recommend them to you for further reading:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100020126/climategate-goes-serial-now-the-russians-confirm-that-uk-climate-scientists-manipulated-data-to-exaggerate-global-warming/

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/146517/Climate-change-lies-by-Britain%20-

And here’s a copy of an English translation of the original Russian news story:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/BOMBSHELL.pdf