If you're still not convinced global warming hysteria is rooted in a desire to redistribute wealth, an annoucement out of the European Union Friday might finally change your mind.
As reported by the Associated Press moments ago:
The European Union called Friday on the United States to join it in stumping up cash to help poor developing nations cope with climate change.
Hold onto your wallets, for it gets worse:
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, said Europe wanted the U.S. to "also put their weight behind the issue" ahead of global talks in Copenhagen in December on a new pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"We must heat up the climate debate," he said after economy talks between EU nations in Goteborg, Sweden.
"Europe cannot solve this alone," he said. "We need stronger U.S. activity on the climate change issue if we are going to move forward. We are trying to do what we can to convince them to be more active on this."
The 27-nation bloc wants to put the pressure on other major polluters such as the United States and China to get them to either promise emission cuts or pledge funding toward poorer nations.
The funds would help developing nations curb their own emissions by paying for the rollout of energy efficient technology and more renewable power. It would also pay some of the costs of adapting to climate change as warmer weather causes deserts to spread and triggers more unpredictable weather, such as sudden storms and floods.
Seems a metaphysical certitude global warming obsessed media will eat this EU request up, doesn't it?
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Crisis
October 2, 2009 - 10:02 ET by sevenThe carbon crisis cartel is wanting us to pay for indulgences.
Why not...
October 2, 2009 - 10:09 ET by stage9Thanks to Mahdi Obama since the dollar is worthless we can just print more and give them as much as they want!
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge
They want our tax $$$$$$
October 2, 2009 - 10:19 ET by ww thumperThey want our tax $$$$$$$ for that BS called "global warming" NO! and HELL NO!! When you elect a communist for your President... don't be surprised when Communisem breakes out!...
I say...
October 2, 2009 - 11:28 ET by stage9we also throw in the Congress for free as a kind of show of good will so we can get back to our Federalist roots.
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge
A better idea.
October 2, 2009 - 10:30 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonWhy don't we start printing euros so we can help them with their own form of currency?
36 trillion euros should go a long way towards curing the ailments of the european community.
http://gjresult.com
They can't beat us on the
October 2, 2009 - 10:13 ET by d1carterThey can't beat us on the battlefield, but they will financially bleed us to death. It is a shame we don't have the national leaders to stop them.
More Fraud
October 2, 2009 - 10:18 ET by dboThe climate blogs are totally abuzz this week as Steve McIntyre has uncovered the alarmists latest scandal. Here is a good recap by Ross McKitrick.
Re Indulgences
October 2, 2009 - 10:18 ET by slickwillie2001Yes, indulgences would be appropriate, since global warming has become the religion of the left, complete with deities, holy books, and an eschatology.
We know that the Bamster is all for radical redistribution of income, but I don't think he means to other countries. Let's see how he handles a globalization of one of his marxist goals.
Fine. Tell them to take it
October 2, 2009 - 10:20 ET by mattmFine. Tell them to take it out of all the other money we already give them every friggin' year.
Money
October 2, 2009 - 10:22 ET by GothampcIt's interesting that everyone hates the US for being greedy capitalists...until they have a need for money. If they did things the way we do them, they'd have the same results we have. But Europe insists on living as socialists and depending on labor unions and making laws that hinder ingenuity.
America Asks Europe
October 2, 2009 - 11:23 ET by CobraManAmerica asks Europe to repay the hundreds of billions of dollars we've pumped into their economies over the last 60 years before even ATTEMPTING to ask for more money.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court
Sorry, Europe, but we're broker than broke
October 2, 2009 - 11:27 ET by R D HelmGo talk to George Soros.
-Dave
The election of 2010 will be our last chance to save our republic. -Neal Boortz
Cheaper solution in helping third-world countries
October 2, 2009 - 11:35 ET by UltraCWhy not simply bomb these developing countries back into the Stone Age? The radical environmentalists will never be satisified until we've regressed to the point of renouncing the industries and technologies that have made us prosperous and are making the third-world prosperous (that's why they're "developing"). So why not cut out the intermediate steps?
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. -- Ronald Wilson Reagan
Let them eat cake
October 2, 2009 - 11:36 ET by QueenMumCourtesy of:
Michigan
Florida
and Iowa
Cope with that, Euroweinies!
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher
follow the money
October 2, 2009 - 12:20 ET by WatchesI can't believe how much money these guys are making by not burning carbon. I has to be more money than the carbon burners are making.
On an Oct morning when cold temp records are falling...
October 2, 2009 - 12:48 ET by Gary HallOn an Oct morning when cold temp records are falling... all around the country, after a colder than normal summer.. why not shrill about global warming - it'll help folks stay warm.
Here's a very interesting analysis I ran about (somehow I expect it's already been around). And there is no surprise here to anyone who has looked at the temperature records a few times:
(;~> gary
"We must heat up the
October 2, 2009 - 12:55 ET by Reaver"We must heat up the climate debate,"
Now if they could only heat up the weather.
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
Carbon Debits Here!
October 2, 2009 - 13:09 ET by slickwillie2001I am selling Carbon Debits for ten dollars per hundred. For every hundred debits, a young child in Brazil is pulled out of school and sent into the rain forest to cut down a tree, cut it up, and burn it.
Ironically it is global
October 2, 2009 - 17:32 ET by deerjerkydaveIronically it is global warming mythology as enforced by the EU which prevents many African nations from developing clean energy through electrical power grids. So they're forced to heat their homes with unhealthy pollution rich wood fires.
I say
October 2, 2009 - 18:22 ET by doug1950They can just deduct it off the billions of dollars America spent to rebuild all of Europe.....twice. When they get to a sum balance of zero then come on back. Till then piss off.
We gave at the Oval Office
October 2, 2009 - 18:50 ET by ChattychitoYou know we give more money to foreign countries and most of it is pocketed. We just gave AL Gore a big chunck of change to produce jobs in EU. which should tell people which way this nation is going economically.
you know teh US started a Prison in the 1900 overseas. todate that prison is still in the same shape it was when it was first started. We are trying to get a grant fromt eh US to help moderninze the facility and make it more Humane. No can't even a couple hundred thousand for cement buildings, beds, medical supplies and equipment for the prison hospital, modern farming equipments and techniques, and food and vitamins.
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effect of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer's "State Tamperings with Money Banks"