Winston Churchill's famous description of disarmament negotiations — "a solemn and prolonged farce" — now applies equally well to the U.N.'s endless climate-change talks. The not-so-hidden agenda of the U.N. climate conference in Bali was clear for months — beat the United States into submission — and the long run-up to Bali was carefully choreographed, with no fewer than four major reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). All of them said the same thing: Doom awaits unless we take drastic action now. The climate campaigners' goal is a 25 to 40 percent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020. Having failed to come anywhere near the more modest Kyoto targets, they apparently feel that now is the time for an even less realistic goal.
They go on to talk about how the whole thing was staged to pit the U.S. against the rest of the world, with the U.S. giving in right at the end. It happened, but -- fortunately for us -- the U.S. delegation didn't cave in on everything. Specifically, we committed to help reduce emissions, but refused to commit to certain percentages of reductions. Naturally, that made the green crowd angry, but the whole thing will come up again in a couple years, after Bush leaves office.
This is why you need to keep your eye on this one - if a Democrat gets elected President, there is very little standing in the way of the U.S. agreeing to fleece you, the American citizen, with incredible new taxes in the name of global warming.
Oh, by the way, the U.S. is the only major country that had a reduction in emissions in 2006 so far (not all countries have calculated their results). In fact, the U.S. has had the best emissions record for most of the last decade, a tribute to our superior technology and development. And we didn't even need a stupid treaty like Kyoto or the Bali conference. They're after your money, people - pay attention!
There's my two cents.
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