Choosing America's Future
By Henry Lamb
October 26, 2009
It is impossible to overstate the importance of the climate change treaty now being negotiated for adoption at the Copenhagen, Denmark U.N. meeting in December. The Kyoto Protocol was bad enough. It required the United States to reduce its carbon emissions by 7-percent below 1990 levels by 2012. When fully implemented, the Kyoto target was supposed to reduce global carbon emissions by 5.2- percent. Thanks to George W. Bush, the U.S. did not participate in the Kyoto accord.
According to the World Bank, global emissions have risen by 19-percent since 1990. U.S. emissions have risen 20-percent since 1990. India's and China's emissions have risen by 88-percent and 73-percent respectively. Neither of these countries was bound by the Kyoto Protocol
The new treaty now under negotiation seeks to impose an emissions reduction requirement on developed countries of as much as 45-percent below 1990 levels by 2017, and by as much as 95-percent by 2050. (Read paragraph 31 on page 16 of the 181-page negotiating text here). These numbers are completely ridiculous; compliance would require a return to the Stone Age.
The ongoing negotiations include whether developing nations will be required to reduce emissions, and if so, by how much. China, a so-called developing nation, has now surpassed the United States as the world's number one carbon emitter.
Regardless of the final numbers the negotiators decide upon, it will make no difference to the climate. It will, however, make an enormous difference to people, especially the people who live in the United States and the other developed nations.
This treaty will create an international bureaucracy with the authority to regulate energy use. This entity would, in fact, be a political institution with the power to govern. In other words, the treaty will create a world government to administer global governance.
Lord Christopher Monckton created a tidal wave across the Internet with excerpts from his October 14 presentation to the Minnesota Free Market Institute. He too, has read the negotiating text, and says without hesitation that this treaty will create a world government. He goes further, much further, to explain that while this treaty will have no impact on global climate, it will have a great impact on the global economy.
The purpose of the treaty is, and has been since the very beginning of negotiations in the early 1990s, to transfer the wealth from developed nations to the developing nations -- under the supervision of the United Nations. Treaty negotiations justify this action because developed nations have spewed more carbon into the atmosphere than the developing nations. Therefore, according to U.N. reasoning, it is the developed nations that caused the global warming. Therefore, the developing nations are entitled to compensation.
Go figure. Or better yet, go wade through the negotiating text, but only if you have a strong stomach. It will make a non-Marxist throw-up.
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