Financing climate change... an air-conditioned nightmare

... and ethics mask endemic corruption?Now, as she runs for reelection, German chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the moral high ground, excoriating NATO ally the United States, and buzzing up the messianic meme that equates the government of president Donald Trump with Nicaragua and Syria, who are outliers to the Paris accord. Chancellor Merkel is on the record saying she now views China as Germany's strategic ally in the climate change conundrum. The Beijing regime, which has committed $1 trillion to its “silk road initiative,” is also dealing with a major corruption scandal involving the testing of concrete on a bridge linking Macau and mainland China with Hong Kong....