Enslavement by a New Copenhagen Protocol

Enslavement
by a New Copenhagen Protocol

By

Henry Lamb

October 26,
2009

See
Reinventing the World and
The Revolutionary Roots
of the UN

Copenhagen is about to become the successor to Kyoto as the synonym for
the U.N.’s plan to control climate change.   The 15th meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
will meet in Copenhagen December 7-18. Until this meeting ends, expect to
hear a growing number of climate-related horror stories, presented by a wide
array of so-called environmentalists, at a rising decibel level that’s sure
to drive the sane quite mad.

The UNFCCC was a voluntary treaty through which the United States agreed
to voluntarily reduce carbon emissions in 1992. At the very first meeting
of the COP in 1995, the delegates decided to add a “Protocol” to the treaty
that would make specific emissions reduction targets set by the U.N. body
legally binding on 34 developed nations.   The U.S. Senate adopted a
resolution instructing the Clinton administration to not participate in the
Protocol unless it included all nations, or if it would have a negative
impact on the U.S. economy.
At the third meeting of the COP in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, the U.S. delegation
followed the Senate’s instruction and refused to agree to the terms set for
the United States by the U.N. body, because the developing nations refused
to accept any reduction in their carbon emissions. The impasse lasted well
into the second week of the meeting.

Then, Prince Albert Gore made his entrance. In a private meeting in his
hotel suite, Gore negotiated a deal that completely ignored the Senate
resolution, and agreed to accept a legally binding emissions reduction equal
to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012, while agreeing to impose absolutely no
requirements on developing nations. The Senate was steamed, and Clinton
knew better than to transmit the Kyoto Protocol for ratification.

One of the two really good things that George W. Bush did was to withdraw
from the Kyoto Protocol altogether. (The other good thing he did was to
withdraw from the International Criminal Court).

The United Nations, Hollywood, environmental organizations, and most of
the Democrats, squalled, bawled, cursed, and ridiculed “W” for his cavalier,
go-it-alone, cowboy swagger. The Kyoto Protocol went into effect without
the United States’ participation.

The Copenhagen meeting is supposed to produce the successor to the Kyoto
Protocol, which will expire in 2012. This new agreement is supposed to set
new emissions reductions targets, even more onerous than the Kyoto targets.
The same arguments plague the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen
meeting that plagued negotiations in Kyoto: developing nations absolutely
do not want any kind of reductions imposed upon them, while insisting that
developed nations, especially the United States, be forced to drastically
reduce carbon emissions.

Problem for Obama: he has as much as promised the world that the United
States would rejoin the international climate change treaty regardless of
the cost. Apparently, he thought his promise, and his teleprompter would be
sufficient to persuade developing nations to join the party. So far, they
haven’t. His ace-in-the-hole is his “Cap & Trade” bill that he wants signed
before the Copenhagen meeting. If he gets his bill, he can tell the
developing nations that the U.S. has already done its part, and that he will
not sign the Copenhagen agreement unless the developing nations do.   Of
course, if he doesn’t get the Cap & Trade bill before Copenhagen, he may
have to develop a new strategy.

Notice the absence of any discussion about the validity of climate change
science, or the need to control it? Climate change has nothing to do with
the negotiations or the meetings, or the treaties. It never has. Climate
change is simply an excuse to construct a monstrous international
bureaucracy that meets many times each year in exotic venues around the
world. Billions of dollars flow into and out of the climate change
industry.   No one involved in the climate change business wants to hear
anything other than a new horror story to put the fear of catastrophe into
appropriators.

Dissent is worse than a dirty word at these U.N. meetings. The actual
meetings where negotiations occur are closed. Mercy be unto anyone caught
with a tape recorder or video camera in an area other than a lobby of
cafeteria, or when accompanied by a U.N. staff member. Literature may not
be distributed unless first approved by the U.N. staff. In fact, ordinary
people cannot even get into one of these meetings. Only official delegates
of a government, approved representatives of accredited NGOs, or approved
press professionals can register.

Watch the momentum mount as the December meeting draws closer. Ice caps
will melt faster, oceans will rise higher, droughts will be more severe,
snow falls will be deeper, ice storms will be slicker, crops will fail more
often, men will become impotent, and African pygmies will be recruited by
the Boston Celtics all because of climate change with the only cure
being enslavement by a new Copenhagen Protocol to the Climate Change Treaty.

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