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Gosh. Who knew that a massive tax could solve all imagined climate problems? David L. Hagen writes: The UN is demanding control over $1.6 trillion per year to control climate. Extract: 47. The provision of the amount of funds to be made available annually to developing country Parties, which shall be equivalent to the budget that developed countries spend on defence, security, and warfare. Fifty per cent of that amount shall be for adaptation, 20 per cent for mitigation, 15 per cent for technology development and transfer and 15 per cent for forest-related actions in developing country Parties;

Good news. The talented strategists left the UNFCCC team before COP17 in Durban. The A-graders saw the trainwreck coming and moved on.Everyone knows it’s a herculean task to get 190-odd countries to sign anything, and with a typical pragmatical approach the UN drafting team have gone for … not just a new “International Court” (crikey!) but rights for Mother Earth (can we be sued by a rock?), and oh boy, the holy grail, the whole kit and caboodle … we demand Peace On Earth, and a  Partridge in a Pear Tree, as Part 47a, and starting by morning tea tomorrow.Monckton ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Nearly 200 countries agreed Sunday to work on extending limits on greenhouse gas emissions well into the next decade, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Click to Play UN climate talks reach deal Participants in the U.N. climate talks agree a legal deal on an effort to control global warming. At a conference in Durban, South Africa, governments agreed to adopt a legal agreement “as soon as possible” but no later than 2015 to curb greenhouse gas emissions to limit the rise in average global temperatures by 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. The agreement...