Here's an example of the eco-nonsense that incites backlash.

Yet his [Yvo de Boer] departure, is hardly the death knell for international negotiations. It is not proof that such talks are of no value or that the U.N. negotiating framework in place since 1992 should be abandoned. Even Copenhagen, messy as it was, brought rich and poor nations closer together than they had been. And more than 90 countries representing 83 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases promised, at least notionally, to reduce their emissions.

Promised? Notionally? I'd say that this is indeed proof that such talks are of no value and that the U.N. negotiating framework in place since 1992 should be abandoned.

Even before Copenhagen, global leaders were exploring parallel tracks. Former President George W. Bush brought together some of the big emitters, and President Obama has expanded on this idea with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, a group of 17 countries that plans to meet regularly. The Group of 20 has put climate change high on its agenda, and bilateral efforts — technology exchanges between China and the United States, for instance — are under discussion.

The underlying thought is that the ultimate goal is a safe planet, and that absent a top-down global treaty, that goal is probably best achieved by aggressive, bottom-up national strategies to reduce emissions. Not that these are a sure thing; the United States, embarrassingly, has no national strategy. Until it gets one, it can hardly lecture anyone else. Nor will the world stand a ghost of a chance of bringing emissions under control.

National strategies are of no more value than international strategies. Bottom up is bottom up. These issues are far better dealt with at a lower level without the backward-looking distortions of centralized power. Why would anyone who actually cares about emissions go all in for national and international power centralization? They don't care about emissions, it's power that they seek. Emissions are yet another excuse to pursue their heart's desire for authoritarian socio-political systems.

The world will not stand a ghost of a chance of lowering emissions until it abandons the idea of getting the world under control. Control is a problem, not a solution.