The Senate will not approve or appropriate money for anything President Obama might agree to in Paris, and developing countries will not (and should not) stop building coal-fired power plants and using fossil fuels to lift billions out of abject poverty. However, we cannot let down our guard.
Mr. Obama will do everything possible to go around Congress and impose more Executive Branch anti-hydrocarbon edicts, to get a hypothetical, undetectable 0.05º C reduction in average global temperatures 85 years from now. Meanwhile, the $1.5-trillion-per-year Climate Crisis Industry is determined to protect its money train, redistribute the world’s wealth, and increase its power over our lives, livelihoods, and living standards. That means the mischief afoot in Paris will never stay in Paris.
The vast majority of the 40,000 attending the climate gabfest are alarmists, who have their time and lavish expenses paid by taxpayers or corporate cronies. But they still want to silence the few “dangerous manmade global warming” skeptics who have been able to attend the event on their own nickel. They want to revoke our conference credentials … and prosecute us as “racketeers” and “climate criminals” – when the real criminals are the alarmists who are committing crimes against humanity and our planet.
They use climate chaos claims to justify spending countless billions annually for biased, pseudo-scientific research. They then use that “research” to justify programs that convert habitats and croplands into palm oil and ethanol plantations, wind farms and solar facilities; slaughter birds and bats by the millions; raise food and food aid costs; and leave more people starving longer.
Alarmist policies cause numerous deaths every year from lung, intestinal, and other diseases due to an absence of electricity, refrigeration, and safe drinking water, and Western governments and banks refusing to provide financial support for power plants. It’s not fossil fuels that kill. It’s the absence of fossil fuels.
Unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats and their radical environmentalist allies in the EPA, the UN, and the EU want to de-carbonize, de-industrialize, and de-develop rich countries – and tell poor countries what level of development and “sustainable” living standards their families will be permitted to enjoy.
Meanwhile, Malaysian representative Gurdial Singh Nijar told the 40,000 attendees: “You [developed countries] grew to this level of prosperity because you burned fossil fuel at an unabated rate. You created the [climate] problem.” India Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar has bluntly said “the bill for climate action for the world is not just $100 billion. It is in trillions of dollars per year.” To be paid by countries that climate policies will make less developed, less rich, and less employed every year!
First, the bill for WHAT problem, exactly? White House press releases, COP21 climate conference speeches, and climate computer models are not evidence – especially when real-world events completely contradict the Climate Hustle and Hype. Global temperatures haven’t risen in 19 years. Greenland and Antarctic ice caps are growing, not shrinking. Sea levels are rising at barely 7 inches per century. Oceans are firmly alkaline, not acidic. Hurricane and tornado activity is below historic averages.
So before alarmists say another word about responsibility, prevention, reparation, and compensation, they need to prove that real-world climate disasters and extreme weather events from the past few decades are due to humans and fossil fuel emissions – instead of natural forces and fluctuations. They need to prove that those events are unprecedented – beyond what humanity has had to deal with in the past.
Most of all, they need to do it in a full-throated debate, where they have to defend their claims, data and studies in the open – and be questioned, challenged, and cross-examined by experts from our side.
Second, fossil fuels power technologies that have lifted billions out of poverty, disease, and despair … and that poor developing nations are now using to do the same. Developed countries burn fossil fuels to create and manufacture those technologies. Do poor countries want them or not? They can’t have it both ways.
Third, what Mr. Obama and climate alarmists at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris are trying to impose on the world should chill rational people to the bone.
The President has unilaterally “pledged” that the United States will slash its carbon dioxide emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels by 2025 – even after America reduced those emissions significantly since 1990. The impact on poor, working class, and minority families will be disastrous, but he and his bureaucracy and Big Green allies don’t seem to give a spotted owl hoot.
But now, on top of that, they and the alarmists gathered in Paris have prepared a draft climate treaty that really will “fundamentally transform” the United States and industrialized world, just as President Obama promised he would do. You can find the full text of the draft COP21 agreement here, in obtuse UN-speak – and the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow’s plain-language analysis here. The Heartland Institute provides extensive additional realism here, addressing climate change and the Paris process.
Most developed countries want binding commitments by all nations: that they will reach specified CO2 reduction targets by specific dates. The huge coalition of “Like-Minded Developing Countries,” led by China and India, want nonbinding commitments, or no commitments. They will agree only to do their best to cap their emissions by around 2030, and then gradually reduce them as their economies improve and their power plants, factories, and cars become more efficient, less polluting, less CO2-emitting.
This is called “differentiated responsibilities.” It means CO2 reduction commitments will apply only to already developed nations, which may also be subject to a new International Tribunal of Climate Justice. Currently rich countries will also have to provide additional “justice” in the form of cash: $100 billion a year to begin with, then 1% of GDP (which would be some $167 billion per year for the U.S. alone), plus billions more in free technology – to cover climate adaptation costs, reparations for past climate damages, and “losses and damages” from extreme weather events caused (solely) by now-rich countries.
The theory, the claim, the delusion – the money-grubbing, power-grabbing pretense – behind all of this is that controlling FRC (Formerly Rich Country) CO2 emissions will somehow hold the projected global temperature increase to 1.5º or 2.0º C (2.7º or 3.6º F). In other words, alarmists want us to believe that carbon dioxide functions as Earth’s thermostat, even though it represents barely 0.040% of the atmosphere (argon is 0.93% and oxygen is 20%).
Just as absurd, this is supposed to happen even if poor countries continue building coal-fired power plants, driving more cars, emitting more greenhouse gases, and increasing atmospheric CO2 to perhaps 0.05% (500 ppm), from its pre-industrial level of around 0.028% (280 ppm).
All this may happen in Fantasy Land computer models. It doesn’t and won’t happen in the Real World.
Climate Chaos Theory also absurdly assumes that any global average temperature increase above 2º C will somehow be cataclysmic – even though a warmer planet with more CO2 in the air will greatly improve forest, grassland, algae, and crop growth. And all this nonsense is driving the Paris insanity.
Nevertheless, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are determined to lock the United States into this Iran-2 deal – legally, “morally,” or because they signed it. It’s all part of their latest apology tour: America’s mea culpa for having used fossil fuels to improve lives all over the world.
Perhaps craziest of all, these computer-world, Sim Planet climate disasters are supposed to be far worse than the all-too-real butchery we have witnessed in San Bernardino, Boston, Fort Hood, Israel, Bali, Mali, Madrid, Mumbai, London, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Kenya, Nigeria – and Paris! With more to come.
When will the outrages and insanities cease?
Thanks to Climategate emails, we now know why heads of federal agencies lie to the public:
http://junkscience.com/2015/12/busted-epa-chief-lied-to-congress-about-future-of-coal-in-u-s/
The US Senate needs to pass a resolution that any climate “agreement” without the consent of the Senate will be null and void. Then transmit that resolution to the Conference while it is in progress. Get ahead of this thing. Be proactive.
I have been saying for many years now, as have many of the rest of you who might read this, that global warming is nothing but one great big fraud. It is being pushed by big governments around the world as a tool in their efforts to subject, or enslave if you want to get down to the bare bones truth, all the people of the entire world. The Useless Nations think that they will be the over all governing body and they will rule the world. They are all big frauds.
There are 159
heads of state meeting in Paris talking about saving the planet from the
ongoing Climate Change disaster (not a word about those Muslim terrorists
murdering the infidels by the hundreds in the same city of Paris). That coming
disaster was renamed as the Climate Change hoax after 20 consecutive years of
GLOBAL COOLING from the previous Global Warming scam. Those government-paid
drones ($25 billion per year of taxpayer funds) worked overtime to
“recalculate” their computer equations and “recalibrate” their instruments to
“demonstrate” how it was still getting hotter instead of colder. The chant of
the coming irreversible Planet Earth demise was led by our Marxist Muslim
President from Kenya – B. Hussein Obama – who among many other idiotic
statements also declared that fighting the Climate Change is the best way to
fight the ISIS Sunni terrorists. I feel sorry for the citizens of Paris who are
still having nightmares about the recent wave of jihadist mass murders there.
To complete that tragi-comedy we just have to wait for the concluding speech by
our Hussein shouting “Allahu akbar!”
He refuses to bomb
ISIS oil fields and their oil-transporting trucks because of possible
“environmental” damages. That ISIS oil then goes to the Turkish ports to be
exported to the world markets; let us remember that Turkey is also ruled by the
Sunni Muslim dictator Erdogan. The money earned this way then serves to buy
more bombs for the ISIS terrorists – including those curved knives with which
to cut Christian heads.
Developed countries aren’t going to give 1% of there GDP to anyone especially as they have to deal with ISIS attacks, collapsing economies and numerous external threats including Putin. It’s a pity that Obama hasn’t noticed what is happening in the world to date!
“[CO2] represents barely 0.040% of the atmosphere (argon is 0.93%
and oxygen is 20%).”
Mr Driessen this may be true but it is completely irrelevant because the latter two gases exist as single atoms or diatomic molecules resp. and are thus not greenhouse gasses. % CO2 and % water vapour, both GH gasses (or even % ozone) may be of interest though.
If the Third World figures we in the West owe them Billions for suspected global warming, I say we in the West total up how much they have benefited for 200 years of scientific advances, 100% located in our wood-coal-oil burning countries and the balance sheet will net out to zero. Do they need to be reminded where the medical solutions arose to diphtheria, tetanus, polio, malaria and thousands of other life/economy destroying diseases? Do they remember watching their children die and their villages depopulate before Western medical inventions arrived? That’s not even counting the advances through engineering they have all benefited from.