Copenhagen Climate Treaty & Climategate

Climate Change Treaty, a Precursor to Global Government?

October 30, 2009

Chuck Baldwin - Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Jerome Corsi states, “A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world government.”

Corsi quotes Lord Christopher Monckton as telling a Minnesota Free Market Institute audience at Bethel University in St. Paul, “Your president will sign it. Most of the Third World countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regimes from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.”

Corsi quotes Monckton as also saying, “I read that treaty and what it says is this: that a world government is going to be created. The word ‘government’ actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity.”

See Corsi’s column at:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113219

To see a YouTube video segment of Lord Monckton’s address go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40

Plus, here is a later Fox Business interview with Lord Monckton, in which he further expands his thoughts:
http://tinyurl.com/foxbusiness-monckton

Did Lord Monckton exaggerate?

My research of the Climate Change document that Monckton references found the following: it is a 181-page working document that does not mention the words “ballot,” “elected official,” or “vote” anywhere in it. In my opinion, Lord Monckton did not exaggerate; if anything, he may have understated the situation. The document does indeed appear to be the institutional framework for an unelected supreme communist-style world government.

By signing this document, the United States (and other industrial nations) will forever take responsibility for the ills of backwards and third world countries. And, according to Lord Monckton, this would include China and India, along with the countries of Africa...

The system appears to be loaded to ensure that the world body overseeing this document is granted total control for the enforcement of the requirements of this document throughout all developed countries. Penalties for non-compliance by developed countries are scattered throughout the document.

It appears that what a U.S. President and Congress (Republican or Democratic) could not do through the constitutional legislative process, they are attempting to do through international treaty. Therefore, it is my studied opinion that Lord Monckton’s assessment that this upcoming Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen is a “pretext” for the establishment of one world government is “spot-on.”

It does seem to be getting clearer and clearer that if the elected civil magistrates in Washington, D.C., do not quickly grow some backbone and develop some sagacity as to the direction these globalists are taking our country, resistance will be forced (in one way or another) upon the States and the People, because it is not possible for the policies and financial burden that are–and will be–levied upon the backs of the American people to be sustained without the surrender of independence, the abridgment of constitutional government, and the loss of liberty. Stay tuned.

Senate Democrats Push for Climate Bill Ahead of Copenhagen

October 27, 2009

The Guardian - The epic confrontation about how America will power the economy of the future formally got underway today amid stark warnings from the Obama administration of the costs of inaction on energy reform.

Today's hearing, the first of three blockbuster sessions in the Senate (the remaining two sessions to be held tomorrow and Thursday), marks a last heave by administration officials and Democratic leaders to advance a bill to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions before an international climate change meeting at Copenhagen, now just six weeks away.

They were met with strong opposition from a powerful Democrat as well as Republicans on the environment and public works committee.

With the clock running down to Copenhagen, the administration wheeled out four top officials to make the case that failure to act now on climate change would relegate America to lower tier status in the global economy.

"When the starting gun sounded on the clean energy race, the United States stumbled," Steven Chu, the energy secretary, told the environment and public works committee. "If we don't choose to begin the development of this new technology, China and other countries will."

American legislation on climate change is seen as essential to reaching a meaningful deal at Copenhagen. But the White House held up action in the Senate on a climate change bill to focus on healthcare reform. The proposed law, which now stretches for more than 900 pages, would cut America's greenhouse gas emissions by 20% over 2005 levels by 2020 and encourage the development of renewable energy sources like wind and solar power. Democratic leaders in the Senate are now struggling to advance a bill - which does not have solid support even among their own party - before the meeting in Copenhagen.

In an ominous sign for those prospects, Max Baucus, who ranks second on the environment committee and chairs the finance committee which will also review the bill, said the proposed 20% reduction target was too steep.

"I have some concerns about the overall direction of the bill," he said. "We cannot afford the unmitigated impacts of climate change but we also cannot afford the unmitigated effects of legislation."

For weeks, the White House, Democrats, and environmental organisations have lobbied hard to frame the bill as an economic opportunity.

Obama picked up the theme again in a visit to a solar plant in Florida where he announced $3.48bn in government grants to projects modernising America's electrical grid. In introducing the bill today, Barbara Boxer leaned heavily on an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency that showed the shift away from oil and coal would cost just 22 to 30 cents a day.

"Global warming isn't waiting for who is a Democrat or who is a Republican. Either we are going to deal with this problem or we are not," she said.

John Kerry, who co-wrote the bill with Boxer, said it would usher in a technological revolution akin to the rapid growth of the internet in the 1990s.

"We are going to create the equivalent of five or 10 Googles and that is going to drive the economy of our country," said John Kerry, the former presidential candidate who is the other co-author of the bill.

But their arguments appeared to make little headway with Republicans on the committee. James Inhofe, the Okalahoma Republican who notoriously declared global warming a hoax, called the bill a "temple of doom" which would cost Americans up to $400bn a year.

Some Republicans pressed for investment to build 100 new nuclear plants over the next decade, or to expand offshore oil drilling to meet America's future energy needs. Others argued that America would be damaging its own interests if it embarked on costly energy reforms - while emerging powers like India and China did not.

From Global Warming to the New World Order

October 27, 2009

Shirat Devorah - Last week it was announced that George Soros (the man who helped bring us Obama) had pledged $1.1 billion to fund "Climate Change initiatives".

"Soros will establish the Climate Policy Initiative, an organization that will work with the US, China, India, Brazil and Europe and ensure that public interests are represented as new issues that affect climate change are established.

According to Thomas Holler, who will lead the initiative, "It will be part advisory service, part policy developer and part watchdog."

What a coincidence !!

That will tie in nicely with this: Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord – in December President Obama will fly off to Copenhagen again, this time to put his signature onto a document which effectively establishes a New World Government, based on "Climate Change" – formerly known as "global warming".

Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been very quiet about climate change, and there is a reason why… listen to this Podcast from the Alan Jones show to understand why:
Is the Copenhagen treaty about creating a world government?

Poland to Sign CO2 Deal with Spain and Ireland

October 26, 2009

Reuters - Poland will soon sign a deal to sell a total 40 million euros ($60 million) of surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain and Ireland, the country's first such government-to-government deal under the Kyoto Protocol, its environment minister said.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, signatory nations that are comfortably below their emissions targets can sell their surpluses in the form of credits, called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), to governments and companies that are short of their goals.

Poland, the European Union's biggest ex-communist state, is able to sell about 500 million tons in CO2 equivalent of AAUs over the 2008-2012 period of Kyoto's first phase and is also looking to sell them in Japan, said Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki, who was visiting Tokyo for an investment seminar.

"Just in two weeks I will sign the first contract with Spain and with Ireland through EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)," Nowicki told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

The EBRD has set up a Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund to help governments seeking to trade such surplus credits via market schemes under the Kyoto Protocol.

"Spain and Ireland this year in budgets together have 40 million euros for this purpose," he said, referring to the value to be spent on Poland's AAUs by the two governments. Nowicki declined to disclose the amount of AAUs or other details.

In July, Poland completed the domestic legal framework needed to sell AAUs, lagging other sellers in Eastern Europe. The Japanese government has already settled deals to buy AAUs from Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Latvia.

Nowicki said Poland would spend the money from the AAUs only on programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions such as those investing in renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and clean-coal technologies...

($1=.6665 Euro)

EU Leaders Seek Treaty, Climate Change Deals

October 25, 2009

Reuters - European Union leaders hope to reach a deal at a summit this week removing the last obstacles to a treaty to give the bloc more global clout, but face a battle over funding for a global climate change agreement.

Failure to break the deadlock would risk leaving the 27-country bloc looking impotent when it is trying to strengthen its role on the world stage, and the influence of emerging powers such as China is growing following the economic crisis.

EU leaders say publicly they are hopeful of breaking the impasse on both issues [Lisbon reform treaty and climate treaty]. But much depends on quiet diplomacy in the run-up to the summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday...

The leaders are less likely to agree at the summit on funding for a global climate change deal that will be negotiated at talks in Copenhagen in December, EU diplomats say.

"This will be serious because then we will have no position on funding (for the Copenhagen talks)," a senior diplomat said.

Funding to help poor nations combat climate change is the main obstacle to success in the talks in Copenhagen on a new deal to combat global warming.

A draft summit statement seen by Reuters gave no precise figure for the financial contribution the EU would make to help the developing countries.

EU member states are also split over how much to contribute before the new climate deal starts. Nine of the bloc's poorer countries want the early contributions to be voluntary and EU finance ministers gave up trying to resolve the issue last week.