UN PUTS A PRICE-TAG ON DEALING WITH GLOBAL WARMING HYSTERIA: $20 TRILLION

YUP: TRILLION (AP):

Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.

Ban's report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the 192-nation General Assembly prepare for a key two-day climate debate in mid-February. That debate is intended to shape overall U.N. policy on climate change, including how nations can adapt to a warmer world and ways of supporting the U.N.-led negotiations toward a new climate treaty by 2009, U.N. officials said Wednesday.

The treaty, replacing the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012, could shape the course of climate change for decades to come. The Kyoto pact requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by a relatively modest 5 percent on average.

Much of the focus has been on the United States, the only major industrial nation to reject the treaty, and on fast-developing nations such as China and India. Many are looking to next year, when a new U.S. president takes the White House. The leading contenders in both political parties favor doing more than the voluntary approaches and call for new technologies that President Bush espouses.

In his 52-page report, Ban says that global investments of $15 trillion to $20 trillion over the next 20 to 25 years may be required "to place the world on a markedly different and sustainable energy trajectory." Today, the global energy industry spends about $300 billion a year in new plants, transmission networks and other new investment, according to U.N. figures.

Now you can readily see why there are so many socialists, utopianists and crooked carbon-traders campaigning for all kinds of carbon schemes and carbon taxes - (including Johnny McCain!): they're ITCHING to get their carbon-free fingers on just a little bit dough!

And since AGW is BS every single solitary cent spent on curbing man-made CO2 is WASTED.

2007-8 is shaping up as not only the coldest of the short century, but one of the coldest winters in several decades.

Yet so convinced are the PC libs, the lefties, the assorted pseudo-do-gooders in the CW crowd, and the intimidated centrists that they don't even trust their own eyes. As in, "who ya gonna believe - Al Gore or your lying eyes!" It's the Emperor's Clothes all over again - and they will cost YOU AND ME $20 TRILLION.

If we MERELY nominate McCain, then it guarantees that we're going down that road.

And it will reduce ALL of our living standards and our incomes.

FOR NOTHING.

Sigh.