UN Using Climate Change Hoax as Pretext for Income Redistribution

To no surprise, the socialists at the U.N. are planning on using "climate change" as a pretext for international income redistribution.

The global fight against climate change after the Kyoto pact expires will fail unless rich countries can come up with creative ways to finance clean development by poorer nations, a U.N. official said on Saturday.

"We are not going to see that major developing country engagement unless significant financial resources and technology flows begin to be mobilized," Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said in a media briefing.

De Boer and Katherine Sierra, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, said they were studying a long list of financing schemes and proposals and were hopeful of meeting an end-2009 deadline.

What a communist/socialist dream! Take the variation in the earth's surface temperature due to whatever reason, label it, and then and use that as a license to legally take money from "rich countries" (code for "the U.S.") and hand it out to other countries as they see fit. The beauty of this from the socialist standpoint is there is no end to this money stream. You can punish success around the world plus make yourself very rich and powerful by having grantee's obligated to you for their handouts. And if you don't knuckle under and worship at the feet of the U.N., some official there punishes you by deciding that you are "rich" and have to pay some assessment.

Somewhere, Uncle Joe Stalin is smiling.