Yesterday the Washington Examiner reported on some of the plans of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. The group is currently meeting in Durban, South Africa.
The article reports:
Negotiators at the conference are considering “a new tax on every foreign currency transaction in the world,” according to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). “Every time you travel abroad, you’ll have to pay a climate tax,” explains CFACT, the group that released the “Climategate” emails. “More importantly, every time we import goods, every time we export our fine products (think jobs) we will do so with a climate tax skimming off the top.”
The article states that President Obama is open to the idea, which will place most of the burden on Americans–Europeans will not have to pay the tax within the Eurozone and thus will avoid most of the expense.
The article concludes:
CFACT suggests that Obama is open to implementing this tax and similar policies in the absence of a full climate treaty, which would require congressional approval. “We have learned that while many have discounted this conference, knowing that a full climate treaty is difficult to achieve especially with a U.S. Senate that will not vote to ratify,” CFACT says. “Obama and his fellow climate travelers are working around the Senate and planning to stick America with the bill.”
Some perspective on this can be found at wattsupwiththat.com, where Anthony Watts posted a commentary by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. Lord Monckton concludes his article by stating:
As President Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic pointed out at a recent climate conference in Cambridge, if we leave less wealth to our successors because we have wasted trillions on the non-problem of global warming, we harm future generations by denying them the full inheritance they would otherwise have received.
But don’t expect any of the delegates here to get the point. They are making far too much money out of the climate scam –at taxpayers’ expense – to want to do anything other than recite that The Science Is Settled. As the West goes bust, drowned under the sheer cost of the ever-expanding State, the UN, the IPCC, the UNFCCC, the UNEP and the WMO are luxuries we can no longer afford and will no longer pay for. Time to shut them all down and make their self-serving, rent-seeking bureaucrats go out into the real world and do a proper job.
This is one more reason for America to get out of the United Nations. If this is a conference of United Nations delegates, how much of a carbon footprint did they leave by meeting in Durban instead of closer to the United Nations headquarters in New York City?
