The $100 billion slush fund—er, Green Climate Fund—created at the COP17 climate summit in Durban, South Africa, is supposed to redistribute money from wealthy developed countries to poor developing countries (or at least to the thugs who run them). Call it a kind of penalty for the developed countries’ having overcome poverty before the developing ones, raising atmospheric CO2 concentration along the way, igniting sudden and catastrophic global warming (absent for the last 18 years and 8 months) that is sure to fry and drown all those poor countries.

But there’s a problem. So far, four years into the creation of the fund, only $10 billion total (not yearly) has been pledged, and of that amount only $5.8 billion has arrived.

Now, no doubt $5.8 billion is still a pleasant treat for even divided among the several thousand thugs who run the recipient countries’ bureaucracies ($1.16 million apiece if you assume 5,000 thugs), they no doubt would like more, so COP21 in Paris is where they’ll go after it, trying afresh to impose enough guilt feelings on Western leaders to get them to fork over the remaining $94.2 billion of a first year’s intentions, taken gently and lovingly of course from their citizens’ pockets.

Or maybe not. Maybe citizens around the world are sufficiently fed up with this masquerade to tell their officials to bow out and get back to their proper business: national defense, law enforcement, protection of life, liberty, and property. Those who think that way have an opportunity to communicate that thought through a petition, Forget ‘Climate Change’, Energy Empowers the Poor. Read it, sign it, tell others about it.