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Delegates to the 2010 Cancun UN Climate Change Conference (originally billed as the UN Global Warming Conference) experienced the reason for the name change when they arrived in Cancun, Mexico to hammer out the "important" details of Cap & Trade after the non-binding Copenhagen Accord was completed in December, 2009. Like the blizzards and cold weather that greeted them in Denmark, the conference delegates who had hoped for tropical weather experienced the coldest weather in Cancun in over 100 years. This was the 16th global warming summitreferred to in political company as the 16th Conference of the Parties or COP-16. The delegates who attended the Copenhagen Conference were environmental idealists who actually thought global warming was taking placeeven in the blizzards that greeted the delegates as they arrived in Denmark. Attendees at Cancun who likely expected semi-tropical weather when they planned their trips, were greeted with new record low "high" temperatures of 54°, and with even new lower temperatures coming later in the week. And, of course, they were also greeted with the trite expression: "weather is not climate"with the UN World Meteorological Organization reminding attendees that 2010 will be remembered as one of the three warmest years since 1850. What was not discussed at all during the Cancun Climate Conference was weather. Not discussed was the reality that since the end of Solar Cycle 24 in 2008, real scientists were predicting that the planet would experience what they called a "solar minimum" by 2040 with increasing icy weather well into 2100 or beyond. The Cancun climate con was not about climate changeit was about the changing national wealth. From the United States to the third world since global warming is being blamed on the people of the United States and its industrial allies in Europe. In other wordsif you didn't get itthe Climate Con was not about solving problems, it was about assigning financial blame. Before the conference started, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III [IPCC] co-chairman, Pttmar Edenhofer said that COP-16 actually has "...almost nothing to do with environmental policy..." its real purpose "...is redistributing the world's wealth and natural resources..." from the industrialized nations to the third world. British Viscount Christopher Monckton called it "...a monstrous transfer of power from once-proud, once-sovereign, once-democratic nations." And IPCC Executive Secretary Christina Figueres summed it up before conference attendees when she said: "The world is looking for new answers to the political, economic and social changes which all countries face." She explained that these "new answers" were centered on how much money the developed nations owe to the poor countries of the world. Nothing sums up the global warming debate than her assessment of the "new answer." Marc Morano of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and ClimateDepot.com, said it best for the rest of us: "If this is what science has become I, as a scientist, am ashamed."
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