There’s nothing particularly bad about the text, but developing countries are pissed that they won’t receive as much as our money as they thought and all nations would be required to comply with emissions cuts.

In other words, the alleged text would seek to make everyone walk the walk rather than just talk. It’d seek to do more than punish successful countries while redistributing wealth to third world crap holes. So, naturally, the third world is pissed.

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.

The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.

The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” – but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark – has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.

The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol’s principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol – the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

We can’t afford to cut our productivity at all in the middle of a deep recession, especially when there are now serious doubts about the underlying science. But if Obama and His Merry Band of Global Warming Alarmists are intent on forcing the United States down the crapper, why shouldn’t other nations go down with us?

Either carbon emissions are going to destroy the planet or they’re not. If they are, why should an island nation be allowed to destroy Mother Earth while the United States suffers economically? If they’re not, what are we doing in Copenhagen talking about scaling back our economy? If you’re gonna talk the talk, walk the walk.

I’m no major Palin fan, but she’s right when she says Obama should skip the conference. It was pointless to begin with, it’s only more so now. It’d be nice if he spent the time on creating jobs and fighting the war in Afghanistan instead.