Again... Global Warming Is Over

This may be rank propaganda or it may not, but it makes my point nonetheless - developing, oil-producing countries (with authoritarian polities or not) simply will not stand for the success of any major global climate change-inspired carbon mitigation regime.  More bluntly, they will not tolerate demand destruction of hydrocarbon energy.

For years, the Elites of the West have cranked up the myth of Man Made Global Warming as a means first and foremost to control the lives and behaviors of their populations. Knowing full well that their produce in China and sell in the West model and its consequent spiral downward in wages and thus standards of living, was unsustainable, the elites moved to use this new "science" to guilt trip and scare monger their populations into smaller and more conservatives forms of living. In other words, they coasted them into the poverty that the greed and treason of those said same elites was already creating in their native lands.

Which is exactly what I have said many times:

 The world has just received a lesson in what happens when people stop consuming oil. From American drivers driving less to Chinese factories producing less goods, "demand destruction" has been the buzz phrase of the second half of 2008, and for many countries around the globe who rely heavily on the production of oil for their economic health or their very survival, the picture isn't pretty...The lesson in demand destruction that we've just experienced has shown a large part of the world our potentially green future and I am certain they will have none of it.

It's over, at least globally.  If individual countries want to commit economic suicide via climate change legislation they are free to do so, but the developing world and the petro-states aren't coming along for the ride.