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Mar 27, 2009
U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy

By George Russell

A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes - all under the supervision of the world body.

Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations “information note” on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an “effective framework” for dealing with global warming.

The 16-page note, obtained by FOX News, will be distributed to participants at a mammoth negotiating session that starts on March 29 in Bonn, Germany, the first of three sessions intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.

In the stultifying language that is normal for important U.N. conclaves, the negotiators are known as the “Ad Hoc Working Group On Further Commitments For Annex I Parties Under the Kyoto Protocol.” Yet the consequences of their negotiations, if enacted, would be nothing short of world-changing.

Getting that deal done has become the United Nations’ highest priority, and the Bonn meeting is seen as a critical step along the path to what the U.N. calls an “ambitious and effective international response to climate change,” which is intended to culminate at the later gathering in Copenhagen.

Just how ambitious the U.N.’s goals are can be seen, but only dimly, in the note obtained by FOX News, which offers in sparse detail both positive and negative consequences of the tools that industrial nations will most likely use to enforce the greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The paper makes no effort to calculate the magnitude of the costs and disruption involved, but despite the discreet presentation, makes clear that they will reverberate across the entire global economic system. Read more here. Based on the latest Nicholas Stern nonsense here.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon raised congressional hackles by calling the US deadbeats in our support fo the UN. The U.S. pays a disproportionate 22 percent of the U.N.’s $4.86 billion operating budget ($1.15 Billion), but is perennially late with its dues and now is about $1 billion behind on its payments. A better solution some have long believed, would be the dissolution of the UN as a totally ineffective organization that has done far more harm that good in the recent decades. In addition to the Secretary General Kofi Annan resignation over the food for oil scandal, disagreements in the Security Council about military action and intervention are seen as having failed to prevent the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, failed to provide humanitarian aid and intervene in the Second Congo War, failed to intervene in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and protect a refugee haven by the authorising the peacekeepers to use force, failure to deliver food to starving people in Somalia, failure to implement provisions of Security Council resolutions related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and continuing failure to prevent genocide or provide assistance in Darfur. Their political ideology driven Kyoto agreement was a dismal failure helping bring about losses of once strong industrial bases and the overall economies of many countries in Europe, Asia, in Canada and Australia that signed up to it. And now they want an even more aggressive action taken with admitted much greater economic reprecussions.


Mar 26, 2009
Climate Change Debunkers Take Stage in US Congress

WASHINGTON (AFP) - As President Barack Obama tries to green the United States by slapping limits on carbon emissions, Congress was told to ignore his plan because climate change does not exist.

“The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing,” said British aristocrat Lord Christopher Walter Monckton, a leading proponent of the “climate change is myth” movement. The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, who was an advisor to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, argued before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee that for 14 years, contrary to broadly accepted scientific beliefs, “there has been no statistically significant global warming.”

The House hearing, titled “Adaptation Policies in Climate Legislation,” discussed ways to address President Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal in his 3.55-trillion-dollar budget plan, presented to Congress in February. Obama’s proposal would limit emissions of greenhouse gases for manufacturers, and permit companies to trade the right to pollute to other firms—a similar cap-and-trade system to the European model.

The moves are now subject of intense political opposition in Congress, notably from lawmakers representing US states heavily invested in energy production through fossil fuels. “Adaptation is at present unnecessary,” said Lord Monckton at the hearing. “Mitigation is always unnecessary. It is also disproportionately expensive. “Green jobs are the new euphemism for mass unemployment,” he added.

Addressing the hearing on the “balanced Biblical view” for environment and development issues, Pastor Calvin Beisner—national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance, a coalition of clergy, theologians and religious leaders—questioned proposed efforts to combat climate change. “I am convinced that policies meant to reduce alleged carbon dioxide-induced global warming will be destructive,” he said.

“The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God’s creation and ... therefore robust, resilient, and self regulating, like the product of any good engineer.” Beisner argued that policies to reduce carbon emissions would destroy jobs and be prohibitively expensive. “The truth is that no alternative fuels can compete at present with fossil fuels for price,” he said.

Congressman Joe Barton, from the oil-rich state of Texas, maintained that “mankind always adapts,” and that “adaptation to shifts in temperature is not that difficult.” What will be difficult, he argued, was “adaptation to rampant unemployment and enormous, spontaneous and avoidable changes to our economy if we adopt such a reckless policy as cap-and-tax or cap-and-trade.” Read more here.


Mar 26, 2009
 

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