By Noel Sheppard, Fox Forums

For years, climate realists around the world have
been warning the international community that the entire man-made
global warming myth and resulting hysteria is all a scheme to
redistribute wealth under the pretense of saving the planet.

In a document obtained by FOX News, the United Nations has made it official.

As FOX News executive editor George Russell reported Friday:

A
United Nations document on "climate change" that will be distributed to
a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of
the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth
transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial
relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for
greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes -- all under the
supervision of the world body.

Those and other
results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations
"information note" on potential consequences of the measures that
industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the
Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is
negotiated and signed by December 2009. [...]

The 16-page note,
obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth
negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first
of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments
involved in the new deal.

Some of the ideas discussed in this document eerily resembled what NASA's James Hansen wrote to Barack Obama last December:

A rising carbon price is essential to
"decarbonize" the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era
beyond fossil fuels. The most effective way to achieve this is a carbon
tax (on oil, gas, and coal) at the well-head or port of entry. The tax
will then appropriately affect all products and activities that use
fossil fuels. The public's near-term, mid-term, and long-term lifestyle
choices will be affected by knowledge that the carbon tax rate will be
rising.

The public will support the tax if it is
returned to them, equal shares on a per capita basis (half shares for
children up to a maximum of two child-shares per family), deposited
monthly in bank accounts. No large bureaucracy is needed. A person
reducing his carbon footprint more than average makes money. A person
with large cars and a big house will pay a tax much higher than the
dividend.

Maybe more concerning, Obama's 2010 budget proposal includes a
carbon cap-and-trade scheme, although there is some question as to
whether this will survive the coming battle on Capitol Hill. ABC's
George Stephanopoulos reported
last Friday that cap-and-trade will likely be sacrificed this year as
Obama and Congressional Democrats focus attention on health care.

Beyond this, recent polls
have revealed an increasing skepticism by the public concerning the
veracity of media reports regarding global warming. These same polls
also find that the appetite for expensive solutions during a recession
is waning.

Add to this the recent findings which suggest the current cooling
trend that began in 1998 could last for at least another decade; the
folks looking to use this manufactured crisis as a means of
redistributing wealth must be realizing that the window of opportunity
is starting to close.

As such, they may believe this upcoming December meeting in
Copenhagen is their last chance, thereby making this 16-page document a
formal game plan for what is likely the beginning of a nine month
full-court press.

Let's be honest, folks like Nobel laureate Al Gore have their reputations and their very fortunes
on the line here, so we should all expect a great deal of hysterical
media coverage in the near future -- especially after the hurricane
season begins in May.

Here's my advice, America: Prepare now for the coming storm.

Noel Sheppard is associate editor of the Media Research Center's NewsBusters.org. He welcomes feedback at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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