So Japan, Spain, and Italy supposedly owe $33 Billion in fines for failing to meet their promise to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions.....already? They must be really happy about that. Do you think they will pay up? They're going to give this to the United Nations who will then give it to the developing nations? What a total farce. And it is all based on lies, lies and more lies.
Peter
Global Warming Lies Create a Climate of Crisis
By Alan Caruba
Japan, Spain, and Italy face as much as $33 billion in fines for having failed to meet their agreement to reduce so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions.
The United Nations conference in Bali, attended by some 15,000 participants and observers, is likely to make future generations conclude that ours was deranged to be discussing how humans could have any affect whatever on the climate. They will, in retrospect, agree that the global warming theory was a lie whose agenda was to retard anything that might extend and enhance life on earth.
The Protocol is based entirely on a lie that predicts dramatic and imminent global warming. Global warmers insist that carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced, but carbon dioxide does not cause climate change. Climatologists will tell you that any rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not precede, but follows warming cycles.
The science is well known, but hucksters like the odious Al Gore and those behind the original Kyoto Protocol, with the media as accessories, have created a climate of crisis.
It’s a very good thing that our Senate voted unanimously in 1997 against binding America to the United Nations Kyoto Protocol on Climate Control and that both the Clinton and Bush Administrations refused to act on the proposed limits. The reason for the Senate resolution was to avoid “serious harm to the economy of the United States.”
A November 30 Bloomberg News article by Kristian Rix and Mathew Carr reported that Japan, Spain, and Italy face as much as $33 billion in fines as the result of having failed to meet their agreement to reduce so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions. These three nations are deemed the “worst performers among 36 nations that agreed to curb carbon dioxide gases that cause climate change.”
Among the nations exempt from the Kyoto Protocol are China and India, which represent a combined two of the six billion people on planet Earth. The idea that limits on carbon dioxide emissions could be achieved without their participation is idiotic.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) plays a minor role in determining the Earth’s climate but at the same time plays an essential role in the maintenance of all of the Earth’s vegetation, whether it takes the form of crops, jungles, forests, or just someone’s front lawn. Without CO2 all animal life, including our own, dies because of its dependence on food crops.
The Earth’s atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases, including water vapor. We call this “air” and humans depend on the oxygen content for life. At the same time all six billion of us individually exhale about two pounds of carbon dioxide every day. By contrast, Nature emits about 30 times more CO2 than humans. The oceans of the world absorb and release CO2 all the time. This is Nature’s balance that maintains all life, animal and vegetable, on earth.
Consider now how many schools, hospitals, bridges, roads, and other benefits to their citizens that $33 billion represents to Japan, Spain, and Italy. Such fines will be transferred to the coffers of the United Nations for having failed to curb CO2 emissions that are actually a benefit to the Earth!
An entirely bogus system of “carbon credits” has been created to transfer huge amounts of money from industrialized nations accused of producing too much CO2 to those nations that, for lack of development — failed economies — will garner funding as they “sell” their excess credits. The same system would allow various industries to sell the same worthless credits to those — primarily producers and users of energy — deemed to be major CO2 “polluters.”
Even though the U.S. Supreme Court has fallen prey to the lie that CO2 represents a form of “pollution” and should be regulated, the known science renders this decision an egregious juridical error
The Earth, over billions of years, has gone through cycles of warming and cooling that are well established. It has gone through periods when the CO2 content in the atmosphere was far higher than today. The latest cooling period is called the mini-ice age and lasted from around 1300 to 1850. The Earth has been warming naturally since then.
There is no dramatic warming occurring. Predictions of this are based on totally flawed computer models, none of which can begin to approximate the sheer chaos and complexity of the Earth’s weather system.
These computer models, put forth by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, have been repeatedly revealed to be inaccurate to the point of deliberate deception. The constant assertion that there is a “consensus” among scientists that global warming is caused by humans is yet another part of the lie.
As the anti-capitalist forces meet in Bali, the rest of us must demand that we shall not be penalized and threatened by limits imposed on industries and agriculture around the world.
The people of the world must not submit to a lie of global warming that is intended to deprive them of the future benefits that energy use, improved transportation, technological innovations, and the expanded production of food portends.
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Alan Caruba is the author of Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy. His weekly commentaries are posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center.
ACaruba@aol.com
http://www.anxietycenter.com/
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
China Tells The West What We Can Do With Our Ideas About Global Warming....
source:
China Says West Should Deal With Warming
By MICHAEL CASEY – 13 hours ago
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations.
China, which some believe has surpassed the U.S. as the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, questioned the fairness of binding cuts when its per capita emissions are about one-sixth of America's. It said, too, that it has only been pumping pollutants into the atmosphere for a few decades, whereas the West has done so for hundreds of years.
"China is in the process of industrialization and there is a need for economic growth to meet the basic needs of the people and fight against poverty," said Su Wei, a top climate expert for the government and member of its delegation at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali.
"I just wonder whether it's fair to ask developing countries like China to take on binding targets," Su said Friday. "I think there is much room for the United States to think whether it's possible to change (its) lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to contribute to the protection of the global climate."
Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the Dec. 3-14 meeting in Bali and are likely to agree to launch negotiations that will lead to an international accord to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming. They also are expected to set a deadline for completing negotiations and agree on some of the issues to be discussed.
The protocol, which was rejected by the United States, commits three dozen industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gases an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels between next year and 2012, when it expires.
Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar, who is president of the conference, said discussions on starting post-Kyoto negotiations were on track and that "God willing" an agreement would be reached by next weekend.
"There is no deadlock," he said. "I would think about 85 percent of those in the room have the same direction."
However, Climate Action Network Canada, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups, said Canadian negotiators in Bali have been told to "demand that poorer nations accept the same binding absolute emission reduction targets as developed nations."
"The Kyoto Protocol is built on the recognition that industrialized countries are largely responsible for the problem of climate change, and must take the lead in tackling it," said Steven Guilbeault of the environmental group Equiterre. "Canada is trying to rewrite history by putting the burden of emissions reductions on poorer countries."
Climate Action Network Canada provided reporters a one-page document that it described as a leaked copy of Canada's negotiating stance. It was impossible to verify the authenticity of the document, and a spokesman for the Canadian delegation did not respond to a request for comment.
The chief U.N. climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri, said it was next to impossible to expect the developing world to agree to cuts when their per capita emissions are so much less than the West.
"What is absolutely essential is to see that the developed countries establish a record of action and commitment, which I think will induce and provide a moral basis for developing countries to assume the burden," Pachauri said.
"In the absence of that, I don't think anything is going to happen. With per capita levels being so different, it's not likely that anybody in the developing world would accept commitments."
Angus Friday, chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, many of which are threatened by sea level rises, said developed countries had a "moral responsibility" to show leadership on the issue and act first to tackle global warming since they have contributed far more to the problem than poor countries.
"The danger in the developed world is that the culture of entitlement is not being matched by the culture of responsibility," he said.
Hosted by Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
China Says West Should Deal With Warming
By MICHAEL CASEY – 13 hours ago
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations.
China, which some believe has surpassed the U.S. as the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, questioned the fairness of binding cuts when its per capita emissions are about one-sixth of America's. It said, too, that it has only been pumping pollutants into the atmosphere for a few decades, whereas the West has done so for hundreds of years.
"China is in the process of industrialization and there is a need for economic growth to meet the basic needs of the people and fight against poverty," said Su Wei, a top climate expert for the government and member of its delegation at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali.
"I just wonder whether it's fair to ask developing countries like China to take on binding targets," Su said Friday. "I think there is much room for the United States to think whether it's possible to change (its) lifestyle and consumption patterns in order to contribute to the protection of the global climate."
Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the Dec. 3-14 meeting in Bali and are likely to agree to launch negotiations that will lead to an international accord to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming. They also are expected to set a deadline for completing negotiations and agree on some of the issues to be discussed.
The protocol, which was rejected by the United States, commits three dozen industrialized countries to cut their greenhouse gases an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels between next year and 2012, when it expires.
Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar, who is president of the conference, said discussions on starting post-Kyoto negotiations were on track and that "God willing" an agreement would be reached by next weekend.
"There is no deadlock," he said. "I would think about 85 percent of those in the room have the same direction."
However, Climate Action Network Canada, a coalition of Canadian environmental groups, said Canadian negotiators in Bali have been told to "demand that poorer nations accept the same binding absolute emission reduction targets as developed nations."
"The Kyoto Protocol is built on the recognition that industrialized countries are largely responsible for the problem of climate change, and must take the lead in tackling it," said Steven Guilbeault of the environmental group Equiterre. "Canada is trying to rewrite history by putting the burden of emissions reductions on poorer countries."
Climate Action Network Canada provided reporters a one-page document that it described as a leaked copy of Canada's negotiating stance. It was impossible to verify the authenticity of the document, and a spokesman for the Canadian delegation did not respond to a request for comment.
The chief U.N. climate scientist, Rajendra Pachauri, said it was next to impossible to expect the developing world to agree to cuts when their per capita emissions are so much less than the West.
"What is absolutely essential is to see that the developed countries establish a record of action and commitment, which I think will induce and provide a moral basis for developing countries to assume the burden," Pachauri said.
"In the absence of that, I don't think anything is going to happen. With per capita levels being so different, it's not likely that anybody in the developing world would accept commitments."
Angus Friday, chairman of the Alliance of Small Island States, many of which are threatened by sea level rises, said developed countries had a "moral responsibility" to show leadership on the issue and act first to tackle global warming since they have contributed far more to the problem than poor countries.
"The danger in the developed world is that the culture of entitlement is not being matched by the culture of responsibility," he said.
Hosted by Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Great Bali Global Warming Hypocrisy.......
Since global warming is a world-wide issue, I think it is fitting to listen to someone other that the mainstream true believers in the United States. Here is an example from Britain.
Peter
At last, the media appear to be rumbling (about) the sheer nonsense and hypocrisy that is the 13th U.N. Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began today in beautiful Bali. Nice conference if you can get it!
First, just listen to the scepticism in John Humphrys’ (“For it is he!”) voice (“Does it really take 10,000 delegates to set an agenda!”), as he interviews a waffling Roger Harrabin, the BBC’s ever-eager Environment Correspondent, on what Bali is supposed to be about [‘Today’, BBC Radio 4, December 3, c. 6.48 am: you can listen again here. Choose the 06.30 - 07.00 slot; the interview is around 06.48-55. After today, select ‘Monday’, and then, after 7 days, ‘Audio Archive’]. My wife declared that listening to Roger rabbit on this morning about Bali was “a laugh-a-minute”. Roger talks a lot about what the EU wants from Bali. I’ll believe the EU when it stops having two parliaments and a secretariat in three different countries!
Secondly, The Daily Telegraph (December 3) gets it absolutely right in an excoriating ‘Leading Article’, which I recommend wholeheartedly: ‘A blast of hot air at Bali’s climate conference’:
“It’s not the waste that rankles so much as the hypocrisy. Some 15,000 politicians, officials, quangocrats and assorted busybodies are descending on Bali for a jamboree that will produce more than 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions. The purpose of their trip? To discuss how to reduce CO2 emissions.
We wonder whether there would be so many observers and hangers-on if the venue were, say, Düsseldorf. For many of those attending have no direct involvement in the talks.
For example, 19 MEPs, accompanied by advisers and staff, are in Bali, staying at a luxurious spa hotel. Not only will their fares, meals and accommodation be paid for by the rest of us, but they will also claim a further £95 per day.”
Nice work if you can get it! After more scathing comment and analysis, this excellent ‘Leader’ concludes:
“The Kyoto agenda is not principally about affecting climate change. Even if we accept all its proponents’ figures, we would succeed in reducing the projected temperature rise by just 0.3F over the next century (at a cost of an almost unbelievable £3 trillion).
No, the Bali meeting is not really about doing anything. It is about feeling smug; and getting paid for it.”
I think you may also enjoy some of the reader comments which now follow at the end of the article, especially one by a particularly pithy Mr. Kaminski.
I wonder if Bali will prove a Green indulgence too far? The hypocrisy is so blatant that even the media seem less willing than usual to indulge international ‘greenfoolery’.
One of my best correspondents e-mailed to say that she gave ‘global warming’ nonsense five more years before world agendas experience a continental drift. Europe had better watch out.
Peter
At last, the media appear to be rumbling (about) the sheer nonsense and hypocrisy that is the 13th U.N. Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which began today in beautiful Bali. Nice conference if you can get it!
First, just listen to the scepticism in John Humphrys’ (“For it is he!”) voice (“Does it really take 10,000 delegates to set an agenda!”), as he interviews a waffling Roger Harrabin, the BBC’s ever-eager Environment Correspondent, on what Bali is supposed to be about [‘Today’, BBC Radio 4, December 3, c. 6.48 am: you can listen again here. Choose the 06.30 - 07.00 slot; the interview is around 06.48-55. After today, select ‘Monday’, and then, after 7 days, ‘Audio Archive’]. My wife declared that listening to Roger rabbit on this morning about Bali was “a laugh-a-minute”. Roger talks a lot about what the EU wants from Bali. I’ll believe the EU when it stops having two parliaments and a secretariat in three different countries!
Secondly, The Daily Telegraph (December 3) gets it absolutely right in an excoriating ‘Leading Article’, which I recommend wholeheartedly: ‘A blast of hot air at Bali’s climate conference’:
“It’s not the waste that rankles so much as the hypocrisy. Some 15,000 politicians, officials, quangocrats and assorted busybodies are descending on Bali for a jamboree that will produce more than 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions. The purpose of their trip? To discuss how to reduce CO2 emissions.
We wonder whether there would be so many observers and hangers-on if the venue were, say, Düsseldorf. For many of those attending have no direct involvement in the talks.
For example, 19 MEPs, accompanied by advisers and staff, are in Bali, staying at a luxurious spa hotel. Not only will their fares, meals and accommodation be paid for by the rest of us, but they will also claim a further £95 per day.”
Nice work if you can get it! After more scathing comment and analysis, this excellent ‘Leader’ concludes:
“The Kyoto agenda is not principally about affecting climate change. Even if we accept all its proponents’ figures, we would succeed in reducing the projected temperature rise by just 0.3F over the next century (at a cost of an almost unbelievable £3 trillion).
No, the Bali meeting is not really about doing anything. It is about feeling smug; and getting paid for it.”
I think you may also enjoy some of the reader comments which now follow at the end of the article, especially one by a particularly pithy Mr. Kaminski.
I wonder if Bali will prove a Green indulgence too far? The hypocrisy is so blatant that even the media seem less willing than usual to indulge international ‘greenfoolery’.
One of my best correspondents e-mailed to say that she gave ‘global warming’ nonsense five more years before world agendas experience a continental drift. Europe had better watch out.
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