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Copenhagen: socialism’s wet dream

By Klaus Rohrich
Monday, December 7, 2009

The Copenhagen ‘climate change’ conference is a bold initiative on the part of the world’s socialists to spread the wealth, as Barack Obama promised when campaigning for President. The disclosure that many leading climate scientists ‘cooked the books’ and attempted to actively hide data contrary to their hypotheses could theoretically derail the conference, but I don’t think it will.

The reason I think it won’t is because in recent years more and more proponents of global climate treaties have only paid peremptory lip service to the supposed catastrophe that is threatening the survival of the planet and focused more on the idea of making western nations pay for their carbon outputs and giving developing nations a free ride. Additionally, the concept of the catastrophic, anthropogenic climate change has now assumed religious proportions and many non-deniers are looking at climate change as an article of faith.

There are many rational people who believe in the possibility of climate change who object to the wholesale economic devastation that global governance of carbon emissions will bring about. Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician and self-described “skeptical environmentalistâ€