The annual convention of global warm-mongers gets underway at the resort city of Durban, South Africa.

It's gorgeous down there. There's surfing right in the city. Safari parks aren't too far away. It's full of great hotels and fancy restaurants. It's a bit of a party town. Which is why it was chosen by the world's global warming professionals as their latest winter getaway convention.

This is the annual United Nations get-together to talk about reducing our carbon footprint, which means using less fuel.

Of course the best way to do that is for thousands of very important bureaucrats, diplomats, Greenpeace fundraisers and politicians to jet from all over the world to South Africa. The only place further away by jet would be Antarctica, but that would miss the point - to give their global warmists a free sun vacation in winter.

They went to Cancun last year. They've been to exotic retreats like Bali and Marrakech. They get to see their friends every year at another five-star resort, all paid for by you and me.

This annual five-star party has been going on for nearly 20 years.

It got started in Rio in 1992. It moved to Kyoto, Japan in 1997.

If those cities sound familiar it's because global warming treaties are named after these meetings. Between gourmet meals and tax-paid massages, these bureaucrats and diplomats cook up new taxes and treaties. Like the Kyoto Protocol, which would have forced you and me to pay more for fuel.

If these global warm-mongers wanted to reduce fuel use, couldn't they meet by Skype, or by conference call, instead of jetting to Durban or Cancun?

Just kidding. Then they couldn't go to the beach.

This conference is a good time to look at a major global carbon emitter, a multinational corporation that makes a big profit off Canada's oilsands.

Greenpeace.

Greenpeace is a $350-million-a-year multinational corporation, headquartered in the Netherlands. They are a huge energy consumer - not just jetting around the world to fancy press conferences. They've also got heavy-oil-burning ships. Greenpeace has the carbon footprint of a city.

Greenpeace attacks Canada in a way they attack few other countries. Because they can. We don't give them the Tiananmen Square treatment that they'd get in China if they dared to criticize the government there.

So they hate Canada, but they love us too. Because we're a profit centre for them.

The 2010 financial report for Greenpeace's Canadian branch plant tells the story. Their Canadian operations sent $2.28 million to other Greenpeace business units around the world, and paid a $595,000 fee to Greenpeace headquarters in Holland, called the Stichting council.

So that's close to $3 million dollars annual profit that Greenpeace wrings out of Canada.

That's pretty good money.

Just to be clear, that's Canadian money they're not spending on environmental issues in Canada. It's repatriating corporate profits to their executives overseas.

Perhaps Canadians are wising up. We're sick of being fleeced of our money and abused. In fact, according to Greenpeace documents, Canadians are abandoning Greenpeace by the thousands. According to Greenpeace's own statistics, their Canadian membership plunged last year by 4,000 people.

Four thousand Canadians quit Greenpeace last year. They see Greenpeace for what it is: A branch plant for the big multinational company based in Holland.

But Greenpeace doesn't care. They still took nearly $3 million out of our country to pay for their lavish offices and fancy jet-setting overseas.

Greenpeace used to be a charity in Canada. But they were stripped of that status by Revenue Canada, since they broke the charitable laws.

I'm sure Greenpeace will have a big contingent in Durban. It's their kind of get-together. Fancy, big budgets, five-star hotels, lots of money. A great opportunity to disparage Canada on the world stage.

Welcome to the Green movement in 2011. The only green movement they care about is the green of your money.