Welfare states... Many believe that the real agenda of the warmists is to use AGW as a pretext for a massive redistribution of wealth from richer nations to poorer nations. Anyone holding that suspicion saw the demand for $100B in annual payments from rich nations to poor nations at the U.N. climate talks as validation, or even proof. But now the poor nations have been rebuffed; their demand denied, and they've left the talks.
Personally, I think the notion that such transfers would actually mitigate the effects of AGW (even if there is AGW) is absurd. One of the major reasons countries are poor is their political systems are blocking prosperity for all but the thugs at the top. Like other cash foreign aid, the vast majority of it would be siphoned off to enrich those thugs. Hell, even the food we send to North Korea is mostly being siphoned off!
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