Hillary Clinton: $100 Billion for poor countries to help staunch global warming
Except, now, hang on a second here: I thought it was us “rich countries” that are causing global warming. Because we’re rich, meaning we consume, meaning we excrete, if you don’t mind the mild vulgarity. Rich nations are more to blame for global warming than poor nations.
That’s why poor nations want rich nations to pony up.
But if the conference is really about putting the clamps onto human-caused global warming, then wouldn’t that $100 billion be better spent on…oh, hell, I don’t know…alternative energy research?
So I read the story a little more carefully:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in Copenhagen Thursday the United States is willing to commit up to $10 billion a year by 2012, and would support a global fund of $100 billion a year to help developing nations deal with climate change, provided that other nations are willing live up to the “transparency” demanded by the U.S.
Ah, there it is. “Other nations,” in this context, means “China.” See, China has (by its own numbers) one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Therefore, they’re also one of the fastest-growing carbon-producers in the world.
So spending those billions in that way…y’know, that actually might have the effect of reducing carbon emissions worldwide.
Ha! Just kidding. Like China would ever agree to that. Or even if they did, it would be like the UN weapons inspectors trying to get Saddam Hussein to cooperate with them.
No, the real goal here is to push world opinion away from China, and towards us. See? We’re giving away free money! And where’s China? Home washing their tights!
And that’s fine. I could be wrong – I’m hardly a geopolitical expert – but this looks to me a little like Republicans passing No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D some years back. Trying to win a little love from the Left, and failing.
Huh. You’d think this would be on Memeorandum. Well, no matter, this story is:
World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
That would be a lot funnier if it wasn’t December. Here’s another one:
A confidential UN analysis obtained by the Guardian reveals that the emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit will lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C.
And that’s just from the emissions produced by the conference itself.
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