On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:07:07 -0500, John H wrote:


From the second article:
"...the United States backed what amounts to the single biggest transfer
of wealth from rich to poor nations for any one cause -- in a sense
offering compensation for decades of warming the Earth.

There are lots of weasel words in the above, but by far, the largest
transfer of wealth is our purchase of foreign oil. Or, did you think
Saudi Arabia was always a wealthy country?