Climate Bills and a Green Economy

1600 Mayors from 36 Countries Pledge to Reduce Carbon Emissions; Part of the "Covenant of Mayors"

May 5, 2010

Before It's News - Reducing carbon emissions in towns and cities and making them greener and cleaner places to live -- that is the stated aim of over 1600 Mayors from 36 countries when they met at the European Parliament on May 4th.

Part of the "Covenant of Mayors" initiative it aims to put urban areas at the heart of 21st century cleaner energy. Opening the ceremony Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek said:

"We are at the dawn of green revolution, but in this revolution the mayors of our cities are in the frontline."

The Mayors were also joined by Spanish PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as Madrid currently holds the rotating Presidency of the European Union.

He told those present that "we will have to provide subsidies and help to make sure that renewable energy based energy production is profitable, but at the same time this will be a worthwhile investment for the future."

Bob Winter, the current Lord Provost of Glasgow - said that Scotland's second city emits over 4 million tonnes of CO2 per year and there are plans to slash this by 30% with a decade. Emer Costello the Lord Mayor of Dublin pledged that in her city they planned to half CO2 emissions within twenty years. Speaking about Portugal's capital Lisbon António Costa set out a vision out how they intended to achieve their reductions -- namely through better urban planning, reduction of energy use and greater investment in renewable energy.

Supporting this approach were a number of Members of the European Parliament who also attended.

German Socialist Jo Leinen said that "the climate conference in Copenhagen has shown that the top-down approach of finding solutions among state leaders did not work. Now the time has come to promote bottom-up strategy and to start transition from the local communities and cities."

Polish MEP Danuta Hübner of the centre right European People's Party said that "the most committed supporting structure is the European cohesion policy. All cities are potential beneficiaries of European funding."

The President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso told the conference that "if your actions plans are totally implemented, as I am sure they will be, you will be contributing one fifth of the total effort needed for the whole EU."

Agenda 21 Alert: Global Warming Freeze?

May 4, 2010

Infowars.com - As the federal “Cap and Trade” bill falters in Congress, and resistance to the EPA’s 18,000-page new regulation document grows, globalists are trying to bring about expanded control, using the discredited excuse of man-made global warming on a State and local level.

Californians, finally realizing the magnitude of the cost of a”statewide ‘Cap and Trade’ scheme, in addition to a massive increase in government control, lined up to sign a petition to freeze any action on AB 32 (Cap & Trade scheme voted into law in 2006, to be implemented in 2012). Only 435,000 signatures were needed to get the initiative to suspend AB 32 on the ballot in November, but they got over 800,000 signatures. Thanks to ‘Climategate’ and the numerous other UN science frauds that have been exposed, people are beginning to understand the overall agenda: Agenda 21 Sustainable Development, which uses environmental issues to depopulate and control the masses.

This matters to everyone across the country because the Agenda 21 battle is from global to local. It will not stop here, but will continue to be pushed in local governments, in the private sector, schools and local UN programs like ICLEI. Mayors are a major target in local governments. When people become aware of the deceit, it loses its power. Therefore, it is important to understand the game plan behind the Cap & Trade scheme, by looking at the implications of the AB 32 ‘Scoping Plan’:

The scoping plan uses scare tactics based on false science; for instance, it warns that California will lose 90% of its snowpack in the Sierras by the end of the century, due to man made global warming (pg 9).

AB 32, the Cap & Trade scheme, relies on local governments (“essential partners”), as they have broad influence and the authority to plan, zone, approve, and permit where land is developed. This will impact the following sectors: transportation, housing, industry, forestry, water, agriculture, electricity and natural gas, with rules based on man-made global warming lies.

One of AB 32’s top priorities is transportation — with 3 types of regulations: vehicle emissions, carbon content in fuel and, most importantly, reduction in the number of miles that vehicles travel — in other words, collectivists want us out of our cars and walking, biking or using public transport, to increase their control (pg 71).

The AB 32 Scoping Plan further promotes land use planning and infrastructure projects designed to limit travel, otherwise known as smart growth (pg 71). The scoping plan also includes an environmental rating system for homes and commercial buildings to “encourage” costly retrofits for buildings that do not meet their minimum standards of performance. AB 32 intends to “tap into” local government authority for code compliance (pg 42). Imagine the potential burden for businesses, as California’s industry has already been crushed.

The AB 32 scoping plan also dips its tentacles into water, as it suggests that a “public goods” charge could be collected on water bills, perhaps generating $100 million to $500 million in revenue, ostensibly to fund water improvements. The scoping plan justifies this by proclaiming that there would be the benefit of water supply reliability for customers (pg 66), but at what cost?

In order to accomplish the end goal of this blueprint for control, there are numerous avenues that the collectivists will pursue:

• Public-Private Partnerships (entities that couple with the government for profit)
• Education (Fran Pavley developed a climate change school curriculum for grades K–12)
• Community and neighborhood public education
• Research will be performed by “unleashing the potential of California’s Universities and Private Sectors”

Finally, the only way to implement this nonsense is by way of enforcement through the government, so the Air Resources Board (ARB) advocates partnering with local, State and federal agencies to carry out inspections and prosecute violators (pg 109).

“To ensure compliance, ARB would administer penalties for entities that hold an insufficient quantity of allowances to cover their emissions or fail to report their greenhouse gas emissions. Missed compliance deadlines would also result in the application of stringent administrative, civil, or criminal penalties.”

Sustainable Development, another name for Agenda 21, is already in your community; awareness and action are needed to remove it. Remember, the only thing that apathy and action have in common is”you.”

Find out more information about Agenda 21 and solutions for it at http://www.morphcity.com/

Thanks to Michael Shaw of http://www.freedomadvocates.org/.