For anyone mistakenly believing the latest United Nations global gabfest on climate change in Baku, Azerbaijan was all about saving the planet, it was in fact all about money.

This annual 11-day meeting, although it always goes into overtime — formally known as COP29 or the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — was always about money, specifically about redistributing money from developed countries like Canada to developing nations.

It’s also about hypocrisy, given the number of jet-setting politicians, bureaucrats, celebrities and billionaires who attend these annual orgies to excessive consumption, along with tens of thousands of delegates, creating an obscenely high carbon footprint.

The issue of money had to do with how much more cash taxpayers in developed nations like Canada are going to pay to developing countries in climate reparations for allegedly ruining the planet by using our fossil fuel resources during the industrial revolution to power ourselves out of the third world into the first.

The total price tag to avert climate armageddon, we’re told by........

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