Nothing Surprising in Leaked Copenhagen Draft Agreement (Updated)
Kyoto II, or whatever one wishes to call the second phase of the 2002-2012 Kyoto Protocol, was understood all along to be something that “necessarily” must include those large, developing economies like China, India, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Korea, and others among Kyoto’s 155 exempt nations. Until recent months, it was acknowledged at the highest levels that Kyoto II included them in some allegedly meaningful way beyond receiving wealth transfers but also
requiring actual “reductions” (even if from artificially high, business-as-usual levels).
It was on this understanding that those few covered countries agreed to this first five-year plan. This changed suddenly in recent months as the Copenhagen talks loomed. So, for some rich countries to now say ok, it’s time to follow through on a decade-long promise made as something of a conditional precedent to those thirty five developed countries who agreed to reduce their emission levels (also mostly rigged, by clever baselines and the like) is not shocking. This call will not be consummated in any meaningful way, but its emergence is not surprising or reason to reevaluate Kyoto and Copenhagen as serious enterprises.
But this call remains unimpressive. By committing select developing countries to the gauzy notion of “nationally appropriate mitigation actions,” and making clear these actions will be underwritten by the rest of us, the document offers nothing but voluntary compliance, and a largely free lunch. These actions “could” lead to some unspecified reduction from current emission levels — which will also be a rigged number — that assumes no efficiency improvements, which is traditionally experienced by developing economies.
The document doesn’t assign any figures either, even for purposes of leverage or pressure. It’s up to the countries squealing about the prospect of having to do anything about emissions except lift the enormous bags of money parachuted out of our C-130s. It also reaffirms fealty to Kyoto’s “common but differentiated responsibilities” standard, which has been used as the excuse for wildly disparate requirements that would be applicable to these countries. As part of this, it reaffirms supposed historic Western liability for past industrialization, as opposed to recognizing that but for select industrialization the poor would be even vastly poorer.
This draft document calls for “substantially scaled up financial resources” – from us of course. “Resources will … flow through multiple bilateral and multilateral channels.” Critically, the paper confirms that this money will be new money, and that a few European noises about recasting foreign aid as “climate aid” shall not pass (Article 21).
It also means institutionalizing the third world as a perpetual welfare state, with “rents” in return for accepting their station, if there is some level of improvement (but not what you would consider “development” in the western understanding of the word). This proposal still envisions extracting enormous wealth from the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, other developed countries to underwrite that understanding.
The draft offers nothing worth pursuing any more than the rest of what has been produced in Kyoto/Kyoto II’s sorry history. In fact, it clearly perpetuates the mess while trying to keep the process from spinning into a full-blown “climate reparations” agreement, as some are pushing.
This is good news.
Any Senator voting for this will be job hunting after the next election he stands for. Bureaucrats often overestimate their power. A current example would be the Department of State claiming that LOST is in force, even though the Senate hasn’t ratified it. They can claim all they want, the US Navy, which would have to enforce LOST, just ignores them. That means everyone else ignores them also, since there can be no law without enforcement. That is a fact that most law makers and bureaucrats forget.
Hopefully, this outrageous violation of the UN Charter by the UN will give impetus to getting the USA out of the UN and the UN out of the USA. That way, we could create a new international body for nations that practice consensual government. Cut off the Despots and tyrants and let them wither on the vine. Or if that is too radical for most, change the rules at the UN so that UN Employees are drawn from the private sector for 4 year terms of employment. Keeping the turn over high would cut down on graft and corruption as well as making it harder for the UN to plan power grabs such as Kyoto II. Not as good as sending the UN the way of the League of Nations, but better then hiding our heads in the sand and pretending nothing is wrong.
To paraphrase Obama after the near fatal collapse of our economy due to CRA, Jimmy Carter, liberal “wealthy” Democrat senators, and others, “we cannot continue with an economic system that allows drastic swings, up or down.” No, Obama and his administration along with a gathering of unrealistic and ignorant leftists have purposely undertaken the self appointed task of reshaping America and the world. Using Alinsky methodology and tactics, they have seized upon an unnatural cycle of economic upheaval as a direct result of social engineering and unbridled greed emanating from Wall Street during a cycle of opportunistic wealth gains to plant the seeds of radical changes without having to fire one single shot in anger.
The AGW conference in Copenhagen is one of the major pieces of the puzzle to fall in place along with TARP, Stimulus I, and health care. As each program moves its way through the process, the entrapment of a people into a controlling regime of socialism tightens its grip on us.
We will have to pay for medical care for everyone who lives in America, legal or not, employed or not, responsible or not. All from our tax dollars that shrink in value each day. As the banks move through the briar patch of TARP regulation and requirements, they withhold needed credit and loans to legitimate business opportunities and squelch the development of smaller entrepreneurs whose growth has been stagnated. No new tax revenues are being generated by small business growth but we are expected to shoulder new burdens, one after another until the back of non-government controlled America is broken and the only medical assistance available is the government, run by Obama, liberals, socialists, and in general, America apologists. Those who believe America is the root cause of the world’s problems.
The AGW conference will assist in completing the cycle of destruction and if it is a success in terms of the attendees, we will see a set of regulations enacted by the EPA who now has a free hand in determining CO2 levels and other greenhouse gases without having to answer to anyone. Included in this scenario is the added financial burden that will be placed on developed countries, especially America, to send billions to a conglomeration of large and small third world countries to do with as they please. We will voluntarily hand over our wealth, competitive edge and all intellectual properties developed under the “evil” capitalist economic system that has served this country so well. That is except for the priviledged ones who kneel at the altars of Obama, Al Gore, and the Kennedy family.
Stimulus I, Health Care, and AGW are just three in a long list of the coming changes that will be enacted within the next few months if we are not diligent and get involved to stop this runaway train of “domestic nation building”. Obama and his crew view America as a nation that does need to be rebuilt from the ground up. So far, they have succeeded in more destruction than imaginable so they can provide fertile ground to start a new society and government. We already have an unprecedented number of czars who have an extraordinary amount of power without running for an elected office or having to go through a vetting system of elected representatives.
AGW in Copenhagen is another railcar in the runaway train of destruction and incompetence so prevalent in this administration. No wonder the polls are showing George W. Bush almost even with Obama in one year. Unfortunately, for the next few months, all we can do is continue to make as much noise as we can.
I believe North Korea with no lights at night and its starving citizens getting shorter each generation is probably the closest thing to a modern carbon neutral nation state we have. I’m sure its per capita carbon consumption is less than the third world average, and South Korea is a carbon consuming pig by comparison. Instead of the UN and its typical oil for food frauds, perhaps we should encourage more covert nuclear proliferation among rogue states to achieve a reduction in the world’s per capita carbon levels? At least their elites get to be technologically sophisticated while the masses starve for their versions of the “dear one.” And on schedule the rich and wealthy states get to pay yearly extortion to keep those rogues from building too many bombs. The same dynamic is currently working with the Palestinians, but on a less technological “kamikazi” level, where the extorted West gets to fund the “peace process” as reparations for the wrongs of occidental colonialism. It could work, and much more efficiently than cap and trade.
Let’s see if I understand this correctly. First money is taken from the “rich” energy consuming nations with or without the consent of their citizenry. The funds are then “managed” by the U.N. ( or the World bank) whose zealous administrators take a 10 to 15% cut. Whats left is sent out tho the poor nations including soe well known kleptocracies. About half the funds are eaten up in more “administration” and a whole lot ends up in numbered Swiss bank accounts as a retirement fund for certain beloved leaders. The funds are now judged as insufficient for the task of levelling the climate change playing field so we restart at the beginning.
The whole thing in Copenhagne is about control, not climate~
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