Greg noted earlier the New York Times report from the climate confab in Singapore.

Read down the article and note the several claims by participants offering the greatest exhibits imaginable of the running absurdity — now in its 18th year! — that is this movable feast of conferences in Rio, Barcelona, Bangkok, Bali, Buenos Aires, Bonn, and next month Copenhagen: We had to declare it a failure in advance in order to ensure its success. Mmm. Yes.

But here’s the far larger point:

This also makes the Kyoto II, the proposed 20-year extension of a five-year plan that was the Kyoto treaty, an inescapable issue for the 2010 U.S. mid-term elections.

The outcome of these elections will surely dictate the outcome of this scheme — which, as European diplomats have long admitted, is targeted at the U.S. Kyoto II would exempt the overwhelming majority of the world’s nations, including those bit players like China, India, Mexico, Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia — where greenhouse gas emissions actually are growing, rapidly (which would be odd, if emissions really were the point; clearly, they are not).

If the Nov. 2, 2010, elections go better than Team Soros/Obama fear, that will embolden them in the talks less than one week later (November 8-19). A wipeout ensures the right result. Too busy saving my presidency to spend whatever capital remains to push the whole global-governance routine just now.

This means every candidate for every federal office must be pressed to state whether this underlying issue of prophesied yet oddly nonexistent catastrophic man-made global warming, on which they bob and weave if they’re not shrieking to the heavens about the horrors, is sufficient grounds for the sort of binding international framework to which we are supposed to agree only days later. Those who still won’t answer the question need to go to the back of the line. The American public is with the voters in the U.K. and Norway — to name two countries where recent polls reveal a majority-skeptic electorate — and we don’t believe that, at all. And we’re the ox this deal is supposed to gore (so to speak).

Of course, Bill Owens in NY-23 showed you can vow opposition to, say, the “public option” to gain election and vote the other way within mere hours. Still, we’ve gotta ask — and this means every candidate, on both sides, since if warmist-friendly John McCain had been elected last November, we already would have adopted cap-and-trade, and would be facing a “successful” Copenhagen collapse.

So, 2010 is now on track to be the Kyoto Election. And, so long as we start early reinforcing that point, will be.