Walter Russell Mead continues his critique of the UN climate change treaty process with a biting article about the Cancun conference.  Expectations that the conference will produce anything newsworthy are so low that the New York Times will not be sending a reporter to cover the full conference and the BBC, which sent 20 reporters to Copenhagen, will only send one to Cancun.

According to Meade:

“It is not just that the Cancun meeting isn’t expected to produce much.  The whole UN treaty process is increasingly being seen as a colossal and humiliating blunder.”

By highlighting the unworkability of the grand plan at the core of the climate change treaties, Meade demonstrates the utter insanity of the UN Climate Change big thinkers:

“This is the fruit of the gigantic brains of the Great Gurus of Green.  This is the bright shining idea at the core of the UN process: that US opposition to Kyoto could be overcome by requiring the US to pay tens of billions of dollars in Green Danegeld to the third world every year.  And the people who thought of this had Big Degrees from Name Schools!  We know, because they keep telling us, that they are smarter than the rest of us and they understand complex systems better than we do.  These are the geniuses to whom we are to entrust ever greater control over ever larger swathes of the global economy because, after all, they see so clearly and so far.”

Read the entire article here: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/11/28/dead-green-treaty-stinks-up-the-room/

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KJC