How to bankrupt the developed world? Take an unproven hypothesis, use fear and ignorance and tax payers money to market it as anthropogenic global warming and raise huge taxes and restrict growth. No warming? OK, re-badge it and re-market it as climate change, use even more fear and  greater ignorance and even more tax payers money to raise even more taxes and restrict growth even further. Still not working? OK, then pay huge amounts of compensation for natural weather occurrences saying that they are man made – yes, that should do it!   

It’s rained before and it’s raining again,
But this time its “climate change”.
Compensation I’ve been promised by President Obama,
So a claim form I need to arrange.

Although it has rained many times before,
I think I can claim “extreme” drops.
So I must get my form submitted, quick, quick,
Before this extreme weather stops.

After…