Just as the small nations in the world thought they would be able to attach to the US as climate leeches, sucking off billions of dollars from American citizens to repay the outrageous claims of “climate debt", a leaked document being put together by a small group of “rich nations” threatens to disrupt the entire Copenhagen Climate Summit.  We should be so lucky.

The document, which was leaked to the UK’s most pro-warming-alarmist newspaper, the Guardian, is notable for havin no mention of Kyoto and for apparently pushing aside the UN in favor of a climate “fund” structured within the World Bank.

It’s not surprising that someone from the left would try to torpedo this plan.  While still moving in the direction of socialst world government on the basis of the hoax of man-made global warming, it nevertheless puts the power in the hands of the developed world and begins with a fund of $10 billion which, while being approximately $100 billion more than the Third World owes the rest of the world, is nevertheless smaller than the extortionists and anti-capitalists were hoping to see drained from the US and Western Europe.

The draft document contains some of the same mindless notions that we hear regularly from the alarmist/socialist camp:

• Limiting global average temperature rise to two degrees above pre-industrial levels.
• Reducing global annual CO2 emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2050, with developed nations in particular reducing emissions by 80% over that same period.
• Redirecting taxpayer money to developing nations to bribe them to reduce their emissions

Assuming that governments can limit the planet’s temperature rise to two degrees is roughly as sensible and as up to human control as limiting the drift of the Atlantic continental plate to two centimeters from its pre-industrial position.  Not only are humans an insignificant factor in planetary climatic changes, but the impact of increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmospheric is logarithmic, meaning every new molecule or ton of CO2 has less warming influence than the molecule or ton before it.  Beyond that, 95% of the “greenhouse effect” is caused by water vapor, which is 99.999% naturally occurring.  And, as if that weren’t enough, only about 3% of all the CO2 in the atmosphere is man-made!

But as the public has learned from ClimateGate (and many of us knew already), this debate is not about science. It is about power and money, whether one country trying to steal from another, scientists trying to grab grant money from taxpayers or foundations. or Algore trying to profit from fooling us into buying into his “green” investments.

Massively reducing CO2 emissions over a short time is nothing more than economic suicide. CO2 emissions correlate remarkably well with a nation’s standard of living and its citizens’ life spans. CO2 emissions are a product of a productive society, and will remain so for a century or more.  A Bloomberg News story makes the point nicely:

Carbon dioxide output from the U.S. energy sector has already fallen half as much as needed to meet the 2020 emissions reduction target the Obama administration took to the Copenhagen climate-change summit.

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will be 5.45 billion tons this year, or 8.6 percent below the 2005 level of 5.96 billion tons, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said today.

Before United Nations talks on a new global emissions treaty started yesterday in Copenhagen, White House officials said the U.S. is willing to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases “in the range of 17 percent” below the 2005 level by 2020.

Falling U.S. emissions are the result of the “weak economy,” which grew at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter after shrinking for a year, and a cleaner fuel mix in the electricity sector, the EIA said in its December Short- Term Energy Outlook.

After falling 6.1 percent this year, energy-related CO2 emissions should increase 1.5 percent next year on “projected improvements in the economy,” EIA said. This would put 2010 emissions at 7.2 percent below the 2005 level, making the 2020 target harder to reach relative to the 2009 total.

In other words, the way to make Obama’s low CO2 dreams come true to to have massive unemployment.  How’s that hope and change working for you now, industrial union members?

And here’s another version of the same concept, this time from Japan: http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/japan_to_meet_co2_goals_due_to_recession/

As for redirecting taxpayer money, we do far too much of that already with foreign aid.  The last thing America needs to feel guilty is about is that we don’t dump enough money into Third World rat-holes for which we get corruption and swollen Swiss bank accounts of dictators.  Climate debt?  To put it plainly: Go screw yourself.

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