Climate Change and the Arrogance of the U.N.

The Obama administration looks like it’s failed, as Bill Clinton’s administration did, to gouge consumers with his Cap and Trade Bill.  The head of the U.N. isn’t having any of it though:

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday negotiators had just 10 days left to secure a global climate deal and governments must not be hindered by domestic troubles.

“There are just 10 negotiating days left until we come to Copenhagen,” Ban said, referring apparently to the remaining days of September 28 to October 9 climate talks under way in Bangkok and to a November 2-6 meeting in Barcelona.

“In 10 days we need to decide what needs to be done for our future,” he said in a speech at Copenhagen University.

“Now is not the time to look at domestic challenges, we must look at global challenges that will impact the whole world,” the South Korean secretary-general said.

Ban said success depended on the United States, though he recognized that U.S. President Barack Obama could have difficulty pushing through the necessary legislation in time for the December Copenhagen meeting.

“It is true, a fact of life, that without U.S. participation, this deal cannot be done,” Ban said when asked what the world should do if the United States did not join.

The United States stayed outside the Kyoto Protocol when it was adopted in 1997, but Ban said this time all countries, “without exception,” should join.

So if the U.S. Congress doesn’t pass, and Obama doesn’t sign into law, Cap and Trade, then the whole world will come unraveled!  Oh no run for your lives.

Kyoto didn’t pass the Senate because almost all Senators didn’t want to vote for it.  That was in 1997.  Recent reports have indicated the world is actually cooling down (decreased sunspot activity) so the hope for the largest transfer of wealth ever from rich to poor won’t happen.

I say good!  Cap and Trade will destroy the wealth of Americans, nations that pollute more than we do (India, China) won’t sign, and countries will quickly enact all sorts of “green” tariffs on products from countries that are not killing their private industry by paying carbon tax which would pretty much leave room for a trade war.

In the United States, the Cap and Trade “revenues” (read: taxpayer dollars) would instead support a vast Federal bureaucracy with many of the “revenues” going to pay for Obamakare.

And then we have organizations like the U.N. preaching to us how to run our our affairs.