It will take more time for these opinions to surface to the point that the blatant money grabbers (even self-admitted) back down. Perhaps the crumbs we offered (ageeing to further talks after W is out of office) will forestall this disaster and indeed allow the scam to become apparent.
Head honchos of the Bali summit have publically stated that economic redistribution must be at the heart of any Kyoto type agreement. You probably missed those headlines...duh. Bottom line is: the world wants to tax us in the rich and greedy US, and they frankly don't give a damn if the premise is false.
We've seen this before: charged as guilty, but proven innocent and off to jail nonetheless because we don't like you and your riches.
It's time for a new tact, which I suppose is to be sure the Senate knows this. It made me shiver when all our R candiates were ready to raise their hands in agreement last week in Iowa, until Fred stopped the charade.
Yes, while quite a bit of ink and electrons have been expended by journalists on the COP-13 track (Kyoto II emission reductions), the press for some reason hasn't made much of the second track, the so-called CMP-3 which finalizes many points on the "Adaptation Fund".
Since this U.N. entity is funded by extracting money from carbon trading (monetization of CERs is explicitly mentioned, though I believe that there are probably other possibilities), I would imagine that it actually received a lot of the actual attention of many of the attendees.