UN Climate Change Thieves Gather in Qatar
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By Alan Caruba
Unlike previous gatherings of the Conference
of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 18th
one occurring in Doha, Qatar between November 26 and December 7 is likely to
shun media coverage of their schemes to enrich participants who want massive
transfers of money from developed to undeveloped nations. Thieves work best
in the dark.
These are the folks who came up with the
Kyoto Protocols that were intended to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions,
primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), in order to save the Earth from becoming a
crispy desert as the result of global warming. Adopted on December 11, 1997,
the protocols set “binding targets for 37 industrialized nations and the European
community with the goal of reducing 1990 levels of CO2 over a five-year
period 2008 to 2012." Two major emitters, China and India, were exempted
from the Protocols, thus rendering it even more idiotic than it already was.
The UN explained this, saying “Recognizing
that developed countries are principally responsible for the current high
levels of GHG emissions in the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years
of industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden on developed
nations under the principle of 'common but differentiated responsibilities.'”
In other words, developed nations have more money and any “industrial
activity” must be punished for causing “global warming.”
The problem for the Protocols was that the
United States Senate unanimously rejected to signing on to this hoax. Then,
in 2009, the exposure of emails between the “scientists” responsible for the
data the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was putting out
to scare the pants off of everyone about “global warming”—since dubbed
Climategate—revealed they were not only rigging the computer models, but were
increasingly worried that the planet had entered a new, perfectly natural,
cooling cycle.
It is worth noting that, in 2011, Canada, Japan and Russia announced they
would not take on further Kyoto targets. The Canadian government invoked Canada's
legal right to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on December 12 2011.
Having initially committed to cutting its greenhouse emissions to 6% below
1990 levels by 2012, Environment Minister Peter Kent had earlier cited
Canada's liability to "enormous financial penalties" under the
treaty unless it withdrew. Smart people those Canadians, leading the way for
Japan and Russia to depart as well.
The Kyoto Protocols were an international
deception perpetrated by the UN. The Earth has been cooling for the past sixteen years. Carbon Dioxide has nothing—zero—to do with the planet’s
temperature and all warming comes from the Sun.
Even so, representatives to COP 18 are
gathering to create a “Green Climate Fund” for the same purpose that existed
in 1997.
Not long ago Christiana Figueres, the
executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was
interviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert of Yale Environment 360, and it appeared in
the Nov 21 edition of The Guardian, a British newspaper. She babbled on about “the inevitability
of world economies making the transition to a low-carbon future” and “the
need for politicians to feel the same urgency as climate scientists about the
threats posed by global warming.”
As we have seen, there are bad climate
scientists who rig the computer models representing a huge rise in the
Earth’s overall average temperature and there are good climate scientists who
have waged a long and increasingly successful effort to debunk the greatest
hoax of the modern era. The bad ones profit from the grants and other financial
support they receive. They good ones are defamed as “skeptics” and “deniers.”
In 1992, Al Gore launched his global warming
career and road to riches with a book, “Earth in the Balance.” Among his more
insane recommendations was the elimination of the internal combustion engine
within twenty-five years. Those engines can be found under the hood of the
millions of cars that are a very popular form of transportation.
Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President of the
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, recently cited a report by the
Virginia-based Science and
PublicPolicy Institute—a leading
opponent of global warming—regarding the complete futility of any effort by
the U.S. to reduce CO2 emissions. Its author, Paul Knappenberg, based his
assumptions on an IPCC report spelling out a scenario in which “the U.S. as a
whole stopped emitting all carbon dioxide emissions immediately.” He found
that “the ultimate impact on projected global temperature rise would be a
reduction or a ‘savings’ of approximately 0.08 degrees Centigrade by the year
2050 and 0.17 degrees Centigrade by the year 2100”; results that would be
negligible.
Arnold noted that “not only do the rest of
the world’s new emissions completely replace ours in just 6.6 years, but
China’s growth alone replaces them in less than 11 years.”
If you want to know about the Earth’s
“balance” than it is useful to know that the release of carbon dioxide comes
in part from its several hundred active volcanoes, from forest fires, and
from the many animals, including humans, who exhale it. Without CO2, every
tree, every blade of grass, and all the crops of the Earth would die and,
shortly thereafter, all human and animal life would die as well. The Earth
balances CO2 emissions with carbon sinks that absorb and release it as they
have done for much of its 4.5 billion years of existence.
If there was any truth to the claim that CO2
is heating the Earth, one would have to ignore all of its previous ice ages
that were followed by natural warming periods, including the most recent
mini-ice age from about 1300 to 1850.
In addition to COP 18, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency is about to unleash an avalanche of new
regulations all aimed at reducing CO2 emissions by everything from utilities
to major industries, as well as smaller ones such as your local bakery. The
“science” the EPA cites is totally bogus. It will close many of the
coal-fired utilities that produce the bulk of the nation’s electricity.
Inside of a decade the EPA may put them all out of business.
There are vast forces, all masquerading as
“saving the Earth”, at the international and national level that are seeking
to wreck all the technological advances the people of the Earth take for
granted and the citizens of the United States need to survive. That’s all you
really need to know about COP 18 and the EPA.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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