The ineffectual yet supremely self-important United Nations has indulged in hubris before, but never like this: A UN panel of scientists proposes that this club for corrupt dictators and posturing bureauweenies expand its jurisdiction to cover the weather by setting a maximum allowable temperature.
If the UN really is to be put in charge of the weather, maybe it could improve Alaska’s tourist industry by bringing the temperature up a couple dozen degrees. Citizens’ morale might also be improved by shortening those long winter nights. Here in Phoenix, we could save a fortune on air conditioning if the UN would just set the maximum temperature around 80 or so. It’s too rainy in Seattle — let’s have the UN mandate a few more sunny days for the folks up there. Kansas would appreciate a ban on tornados. After all, Americans bankroll the UN, we might as well get something out of it for once.
To enforce the maximum allowable temperature decree, a “carbon tax” is proposed. Red Ken Livingston is hardly the only one to use the War on Weather as a cover to slip his hand into other people’s pockets.
More loot could be acquired by making the tax retroactive. Then the UN could fleece descendants of Vikings and classical Romans, who lived in much warmer times than we do, and therefore must have been cranking out the CO2 at unconscionable rates.
Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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