By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa
DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve.
Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call “the process” have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is “Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention — Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean ‘for’] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair.” In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants.
The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN’s skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic.
Main points:
- Ø A new International Climate Court will have the power to compel Western nations to pay ever-larger sums to third-world countries in the name of making reparation for supposed “climate debt”. The Court will have no power over third-world countries. Here and throughout the draft, the West is the sole target. “The process” is now irredeemably anti-Western.
- Ø “Rights of Mother Earth”: The draft, which seems to have been written by feeble-minded green activists and environmental extremists, talks of “The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature”. Also, “there will be no commodification [whatever that may be: it is not in the dictionary and does not deserve to be] of the functions of nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose”.
- Ø “Right to survive”: The draft childishly asserts that “The rights of some Parties to survive are threatened by the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.” At 2 inches per century, according to eight years’ data from the Envisat satellite? Oh, come off it! The Jason 2 satellite, the new kid on the block, shows that sea-level has actually dropped over the past three years.
- Ø War and the maintenance of defence forces and equipment are to cease – just like that – because they contribute to climate change. There are other reasons why war ought to cease, but the draft does not mention them.
- Ø A new global temperature target will aim, Canute-like, to limit “global warming” to as little as 1 C° above pre-industrial levels. Since temperature is already 3 C° above those levels, what is in effect being proposed is a 2 C° cut in today’s temperatures. This would take us halfway back towards the last Ice Age, and would kill hundreds of millions. Colder is far more dangerous than warmer.
- Ø The new CO2 emissions target, for Western countries only, will be a reduction of up to 50% in emissions over the next eight years and of “more than 100%” [these words actually appear in the text] by 2050. So, no motor cars, no coal-fired or gas-fired power stations, no aircraft, no trains. Back to the Stone Age, but without even the right to light a carbon-emitting fire in your caves. Windmills, solar panels and other “renewables” are the only alternatives suggested in the draft. There is no mention of the immediate and rapid expansion of nuclear power worldwide to prevent near-total economic destruction.
- Ø The new CO2 concentration target could be as low as 300 ppmv CO2 equivalent (i.e., including all other greenhouse gases as well as CO2 itself). That is a cut of almost half compared with the 560 ppmv CO2 equivalent today. It implies just 210 ppmv of CO2 itself, with 90 ppmv CO2 equivalent from other greenhouse gases. But at 210 ppmv, plants and trees begin to die. CO2 is plant food. They need a lot more of it than 210 ppmv.
- Ø The peak-greenhouse-gas target year – for the West only – will be this year. We will be obliged to cut our emissions from now on, regardless of the effect on our economies (and the lack of effect on the climate).
- Ø The West will pay for everything, because of its “historical responsibility” for causing “global warming”. Third-world countries will not be obliged to pay anything. But it is the UN, not the third-world countries, that will get the money from the West, taking nearly all of it for itself as usual. There is no provision anywhere in the draft for the UN to publish accounts of how it has spent the $100 billion a year the draft demands that the West should stump up from now on.
The real lunacy comes in the small print – all of it in 8-point type, near-illegibly printed on grubby, recycled paper. Every fashionable leftist idiocy is catered for.
Talking of which, note in passing that Rajendra Pachauri, the railroad engineer who, in the topsy-turvy looking-glass world of international climate insanity is the “science” chairman of the UN’s climate panel, has admitted that no one has been talking about climate science at the climate conference here in Durban. Not really surprising, given no real warming for getting on for two decades, no recent sea-level rise, no new record Arctic ice-melt, fewer hurricanes than at almost any time in 30 years, no Pacific atolls disappearing beneath the waves.
Here – and, as always, you heard it here first, for the mainstream media have conspired to keep secret the Madness of King Rajendra and his entire coterie of governmental and bureaucratic lunatics worldwide – is what the dribbling, twitching thrones and dominions, principalities and powers of the world will be asked to agree to.
“International Climate Court of Justice”: This kangaroo court is to be established by next year “to guarantee the compliance of Annex I Parties with all the provisions of this decision, which are essential elements in the obtaining of the global goal”. Note that, here as elsewhere, the bias is only against the nations of the West. However badly the third-world countries behave, they cannot be brought before the new court. Though none of what the draft calls the “modalities” of the proposed marsupial dicastery are set out in detail, one can imagine that the intention is to oblige Western nations to pay up however much the world government run by the Convention secretariat feels like demanding, just as the unelected tyrants of the EU demand – and get – ever-larger cash payments from the ever-shrinking economies and ever-poorer tribute-payers of their dismal empire.
The temperature target: At Copenhagen and Cancun, the states parties to the Convention arrogated to themselves the power – previously safe in the hands of Divine Providence – to alter the weather in such a way as to prevent global mean surface temperature from rising by more than 2 C° above the “pre-industrial” level. They did not even say what they meant by “pre-industrial”. From 1695-1745 temperatures in central England, quite a good proxy for global temperatures, rose by 2.2 C°, with about another 0.8 C° since then, making 3 C° in all. The previous temperature target, therefore, was already absurd. Yet the new, improved, madder target is to keep global temperatures either “1 C°” or “well below 1.5 C°” above “pre-industrial levels” – i.e., well below half of the temperature increase that has already occurred since the pre-industrial era. The twittering states parties are committing themselves, in effect, to reducing today’s global temperatures by getting on for 2 C°. This is madness. Throughout pre-history, the governing class – Druids or Pharaohs or Mayans or Incas – thought they could replace their Creator and command the weather. They couldn’t. No more can we. But try telling that to the strait-jacketed ninnies of today’s governing “elite”. Speech after speech at the plenary sessions of the Durban conference has drivelled on about how We Are The People Who At This Historic Juncture Are Willing And Able To Undertake The Noble Purpose Of Saving The Planet From Thermageddon and Saving You From Yourselves [entirely at your prodigious expense, natch].
The emissions-reduction targets: The new target proposed by the staring-eyed global-village idiots will be a reduction of 50-85% of global greenhouse-gas emissions from 1990 levels (i.e. by 65-100% of today’s levels) by 2050, with emissions falling still further thereafter. The West should cut its emissions by 30-50% from 1990 levels (i.e. by 40-65% of today’s levels) in just eight years, and by more than 95% (i.e. more than 100%) by 2050. Alternatively (for there are many alternatives in the text, indicating that agreement among the inmates in the Durban asylum is a long way off), the West must cut its emissions “more than 50%” in just five years, and “more than 100%” by 2050. The words “more than 100%” actually appear in the draft. The Third World, however, need cut its emissions only by 15-30% over the next eight years, provided – of course – that the West fully reimburses it for the cost.
The greenhouse-gas reduction target: Greenhouse-gas concentrations in the atmosphere “should stabilize well below 300-450 ppm CO2 equivalent”. This target, like the temperature target, is plain daft. CO2 concentration is currently at 392 ppmv, and the IPCC increases this by 43% to allow for other greenhouse gases. Accordingly, today’s CO2-equivalent concentration of greenhouse gases is 560 ppmv, and the current lunacy is to cut this perhaps by very nearly half, reducing the CO2 component to just 210 ppmv, at which point trees and plants become starved of CO2, which is their food, and start to die.
The greenhouse-gas peak targets: Global greenhouse gas emissions, say the mentally-challenged Durban droolers, should peak in not more than eight years’ time, and perhaps as soon as two years’ time. Western greenhouse-gas emissions should peak immediately (or perhaps by next year, or maybe the year after that) and must decline thereafter. The greenhouse-gas emissions peak in third-world countries will be later than that of the West, and – no surprises here – will depend on the West to pay the cost of it.
“Historical responsibility”: The nations of the West (for which the UN’s code is “Annex I parties”) are from now on required to beat their breasts (or at least their strait-jackets) and acknowledge their “historical responsibility” for increasing CO2 emissions and giving us warmer weather. The draft says: “Acknowledging that the largest share of the historical global emissions of greenhouse gases originated in Annex I Parties and that, owing to this historical responsibility in terms of their contribution to the average global temperature increase, Annex I Parties must take the lead in combating climate change and the adverse effects thereof.” This new concept of “historical responsibility” – suspiciously akin to the “war-guilt” of post-1918 Germany, declared by the imprudent governments of the world at the Versailles conference, which was no small cause of World War II – further underscores the rapidly-growing anti-Western bias in the UN and in the Convention’s secretariat.
Who pays? Oh, you guessed it before I told you. The West pays. The third world (UN code: “non-Annex-I parties”) thinks it will collect, so it will always vote for the UN’s insane proposals. But the UN’s bureaucrats will actually get all or nearly all the money, and will decide how to allocate what minuscule fraction they have not already spent on themselves. As a senior UN diplomat told me last year, “The UN exists for only one purpose: to get more money. That, and that alone, is the reason why it takes such an interest in climate change.” The draft says: “Developed-country Parties shall provide developing-country Parties with new and additional finance, inter alia through a percentage of the gross domestic product of developed-country Parties.” And, of course, “The extent of participation by non-Annex-I parties in the global effort to deal with climate change is directly dependent on the level of support provided by developed-country Parties.”
The get-out clause: One or two Western countries – Canada and Japan, for instance – have begun to come off the Kool-Aid. They have worked out what scientifically-baseless nonsense the climate scam is and have said they are not really playing any more. To try to keep these and the growing number of nations who want out of “the process” bankrolling the ever-more-lavish UN, an ingenious escape clause has been crafted: “The scale of financial flows to non-Annex-I parties shall be based on the assessments of their needs to deal with climate change.” Since climate is not going to change measurably as a result of Man’s emissions, any honest assessment of the needs of third-world countries “to deal with climate change” is that they don’t need any money at all for this purpose and shouldn’t get a single red cent. The UN is now the biggest obstacle to the eradication of poverty worldwide, because its pampered functionaries divert so much cash to themselves, to an ever-expanding alphabet-soup of bureaucracies, and then to heroically lunatic projects like “global warming” control. Time to abolish it.
World government: The Copenhagen Treaty draft establishing a world “government” with unlimited powers of taxation and intervention in the affairs of states parties to the UN Framework Convention fortunately failed. Yet at the Cancun climate conference the following year 1000 new bureaucracies were established to form the nucleus of a world government, with central control in the hands of the Convention’s secretariat and tentacles in every region and nation. The draft “agrees that common principles, modalities and procedures as well as the coordinating and oversight functions of the UNFCCC are needed” – in short, global centralization of political, economic and environmental power in the manicured hands of the Convention’s near-invisible but all-powerful secretariat. No provision is made for the democratic election of key members of the all-powerful secretariat – in effect, a world government – by the peoples of our planet.
Reporting to the world government: From 2013/14, the world government will oblige Western nations to prepare reports and submit them to it every two years. The format of these reports is specified in obsessive detail over several pages of the draft. The reports will describe the extent of their compliance with the mitigation targets imposed by the various treaties and agreements. The West will be obliged to to continue reporting “greenhouse-gas emission inventories”, for which “common reporting formats and methodologies for the calculation of emission, established at the international level, are essential”. Separately, Western nations will now be required to provide information on the financial support they have pledged to assist third-world countries in mitigating greenhouse-gas emissions and adapting to “the adverse effects of climate change”. The world government also expects to receive reports from Western nations on their financial contributions to the Global Environment Facility, the Least Developed Countries’ Trust Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund, the Adaptation Fund, the Green Climate Fund and the Trust Fund for Supplementary Activities”. Western nations must also provide information on the steps taken to promote technology development and transfer to third-world countries, and on how they have provided “capacity-building support” to third-world countries, and on numerous other matters. The inexorable increase in compulsory reporting was one of the mechanisms by which the unelected Kommissars of the anti-democratic European Union acquired absolute power over the member states. EU advisors have been helping the UN to learn how to use similar techniques to centralize global power just as anti-democratically in its own hands.
Review of Western nations’ conduct: Once the multitude of mechanisms for Western nations’ compulsory reporting to the world government are in place, the information gathered by it will be used as the basis of a continuous review of every aspect of their compliance with the various agreements and concords, whether legally-binding or not. Teams of five to eight members of the Convention’s secretariat will scrutinize each Western nation’s conduct, and will have the power to ask questions and to require additional information, as well as to make recommendations that will gradually become binding. The world government will then prepare a record of the review for each Western nation, including reports of various aspects of the review, an assessment of that nation’s compliance, questions and answers, conclusions and recommendations (eventually instructions) to that nation, and a “facilitative process” (UN code for a mechanism to compel the nation to do as it is told by people whom no one has elected).
Finance: One of the 1000 bureaucracies established at Cancun is the Standing Committee on Finance, which the draft says will have the power of “mobilizing financial resources” through flows of public and private finance, “mobilizing additional funding”, and requiring and verifying the reporting of finance provided to third-world Parties by the Western nations through a new Financial Support Registry. Finance for third-world countries is to be scaled up “significantly”, and Western countries will be obliged to provide “a clear work-plan on their pledged assessed contributions” from 2012-2020 “for approval by the Conference of the Parties”. Taxpayers will be compelled to provide the major source of funding through public expenditure.
Green Climate Fund: Western nations are urged to “commit to the initial capitalization of the Green Climate Fund without delay”, to include “the full running costs” and “the funding required for the formation and operating costs of the board and secretariat of the Green Climate Fund”. Here, as always, the UN bureaucrats want their own pay, perks, pensions and organizational structure guaranteed before any money goes to third-world countries.
Worldwide cap-and-trade: The draft establishes a “new market-based approach/mechanism … to promote the reduction or avoidance of greenhouse-gas emissions” – once again for Western countries only. Also, “Ambitious, legally-binding emission reduction targets for developed-country Parties … are essential to drive a global carbon market”. What this means, in the plain English that is almost entirely absent from the 138-page draft, is worldwide compulsory cap-and-trade, centrally imposed and regulated, imposed on Western countries only.
Patent rights: Under the guise of action to prevent “global warming” that is not happening at anything like the predicted rate, coded references to the extinction of patent rights in third-world countries are creeping into the text. For instance, “identification and removal of all barriers that prevent effective technology development and transfer to developing-country Parties”; and “the removal of all obstacles, including intellectual property rights and patents on climate-related technologies to ensure the transfer of technology to developing countries”. As an inventor with patents to my name, I can predict what effect any such provision will have. It will prevent the establishment and development of patent offices in continents such as Africa, which – thus far – has contributed remarkably little to the world’s inventions, not least because the structure for protecting and encouraging inventors is rickety or non-existent.
Shipping and aviation fuels were previously excluded from the scope of the Convention and are now to be included. International shipping and aviation are described as “a source of financial resources for climate change actions”. More money for UN bureaucrats.
The new bureaucracies: As though the 1000 bureaucracies created at Cancun were not enough, another bureaucracy is to be created “to oversee, monitor and ensure overall implementation of capacity-building activities consistent with the provisions of the Convention”. There will also be a new “International Climate Court of Justice” (see above). A “Financial Support Registry” is also to be set up.
The new special-interest group: Meet the “Parties that are alternative-energy-disadvantaged”. No wind, no sun, no renewables – so, handouts from the West, please.
The new buzzwords: Welcome to the notion of “equitable access to global atmospheric space”; “Mother Earth” [I kid you not: it’s in the draft]; “climate-resilient infrastructure” and “paradigm shift towards building a low-carbon society”. These buzzwords are in addition to pre-existing buzzwords such as “climate justice” and “climate debt” – the latter being the notion that because the West has emitted more carbon dioxide than the rest it owes the Third World lots of money.
“Rights of Mother Earth”: The draft burbles insanely about “The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature, and that there will be no commodification [whatever that may be] of the functions of nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose”.
“Right to survive”: “The rights of some Parties to survive are threatened by the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.” At 2 inches per century? Oh, come off it! The Jason 2 satellite shows that sea-level has dropped over the past three years.
The science is at last to be reviewed in a manner that appears independent of the discredited IPCC. However, no details of the method of review are provided, and other parts of the schizophrenic draft say we must defer to the science put forward not by the peer-reviewed learned journals but by a political body whose reports are not peer-reviewed in the usual sense.
Legally-binding treaty: According to the draft, the aim is to create a “legally-binding instrument/outcome”. This is UN code for an international Treaty. The US will sign no such treaty. Nor will Canada, Japan, France, India and many other countries. On the basis of drafts as in-your-face idiotic as this, no legally-binding climate treaty will ever be signed: which is just as well, because no such treaty is necessary.
War and the maintenance of defence forces and equipment are to cease because they contribute to climate change. Just like that. The UN draft text asserts: “Stopping wars, defending lives and ceasing destructive activities will protect the climate system; conflict-related activities emit significant greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.” A wave of the UN’s magic wand and peace will reign throughout the Earth, the sun will shine (but not too much) the rain will fall (just where and when needed), and non-gender-specific motherhood and non-commodificated apple pie will be available to all. Ouroborindra, ba-ba hee! It does not seem to have occurred to the Druids of the UN that they have near-totally failed to prevent wars on Earth – the original purpose for which it was founded. Yet now, in their gibbering, spastic arrogance, they think to command the weather. Canute, thou shouldst be living at this hour!
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No wonder they are being low key. They don’t want us to see this coming until it has already hit us.
Anna Lemma says:
December 9, 2011 at 9:43 pm
“The March of Folly”. continues.
As to JD Smith’s question as to what we can do about this….the answer is, we need do NOTHING, aide from continuing the good work here at WUWT and other “denialist” [hah!] sites.”
We are the quire. Everyone has a local newspaper which sooner or later prints a neutral to pro CAGW article. Using links point out the false lies and misrepresentations common to all such articles, really we all need to do what we can to communicate more, Until the world nations adopt a sane approach to inexpensive energy, our economy (the worlds) has no chance. These people, if they got their way, even in their attempt, are creating the seeds of war.
Liberal statist have specalized in dividing people, in making minorities feel like they are owed, now they are trying to do the same thing to nations.
“The recognition and defence of the rights of Mother Earth to ensure harmony between humanity and nature”.
EGADS! What uttter dreck! That bitch Mother Nature has been trying two kill me since I was 9 years old! By freezing, overheating, bacterial and fungal attacks, fang, claw, horn, brute force, poison oak, poison ivy, food poisoning, tornado, lighting, cancer, and fogged glasses in the middle of a challenging rapids, she has most determinedly tried to repeatedly do me in! When does this ‘harmony’ crap start? Never! That’s why they call it ‘survival of the fittest’…..
Thank you, Lord Monckton, for confirming pretty much everything I’d worked out for myself. I have no intrinsic problem with the concept of ‘globalisation’ – who wouldn’t want a world in which we sink our various national and international differences and try just appreciating one anothers’ cultures without needing to slaughter one another? The prospect of what these psychopaths are proposing under the same name, on the other hand, which amounts to neither more nor less than worldwide fascism, should send a chill down the spine of anyone who becomes aware of it.
For an overview of ‘the cause’, download a copy of Agenda 21 from the UN website – there’s no need to go to any weirdie ‘conspiracy sites’ – and just read it. This crust of unelected, self-serving parasites want nothing less than complete power for themselves and complete obedience from the 1-in-14 of us who are permitted to survive. The depopulation agenda is emphatically not the invention of conspiracy nuts, it is explicitly stated by the self-appointed UN.
It becomes increasingly urgent for us all, in all countries, to find every possible way of fighting this corruption. For sure the UN must go, as must the EU and every other body which presumes to tell any national government what to do – the World Bank, the IMF, all of them. Within our individual countries, we need to purge from public influence every “quango”, every “lobbyist” and “adviser”, every “think-tank”, so that our governments actually have to represent the interests of the people they govern. All government should be carried out in the open so that anyone who’s interested can see, and everyone can discuss and influence, what is being said or done by whom. No more secret cabals meeting in ‘unofficial’ conclaves, or Rothschild mansions, or anywhere else. A revolutionary concept maybe, but only the creatures feeding off the rest of us now could find it objectionable.
I was a little sorry to see this very website finding it necessary to boot commenter ‘Stop Common Purpose’ for excessive self-promotion – Common Purpose are a major ‘globalist’ cancer in the UK and they must, indeed, be stopped – but fear not, there’s another fifth column to match in your own country, just like them.
As usual, the ancient Greeks had a word for it – let us pass over the fact that it is implementation of ideas also going back to them which is causing the present situation. (Read Plato’s Republic lately?) What we need, urgently, is aristocracy – which, by the way, means rule by the best in society, not by Lord this, that or the other, or somebody whose many times great-grandaddy helped some king wallop the peasants. What we are heading for, if it is not stopped in its tracks, is universal kakistocracy. Yep. The very opposite.
Douglas Adams was right on target when he wrote, in “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, “it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.” There’s the problem. Let’s get fixing it.
“commodification [whatever that may be] of the functions of nature, therefore no carbon market will be developed with that purpose”.
vs.
“Worldwide cap-and-trade: The draft establishes a “new market-based approach/mechanism … to promote the reduction or avoidance of greenhouse-gas emissions”
I know I’m not at the intellectual level needed to comprehend this (thank goodness) but how can the world both establish and forbid a carbon market? Of course, if any organization can do this it’s the U.N.
Alex the skeptic says:
December 9, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Does this mean that Obama will be signing on the dotted line of this global-take-over-by-the-UN proposed contract? Will the US president hand over the key of American freedom to Mr. Ban ki Moon/Pachauri?
Ditto the leaders of the free world.
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Not a chance. Election is less than a year away.
At least the UN has now come out and stated what their policies are. They have now been outed and there is no going back.
Their best resolution is that that everyone must stop spending on defence and stop fighting wars and give the money that they save to the UN so they can fund the climate change fight. That should make the UN fabulously rich and powerful. Its a brilliant get rich quick scheme which surely must have had some Nigerian input.
I’ve got a better idea, close the UN and give the money saved back to those who have been stumping up for this useless organisation.
Don’t take this lightly. Christopher’s right. It is no joke.
Someone is bound to declare war on these environmentalist crazies.
They are aiming to kill, but not themselves, oh no. They have UN ‘live’ tickets.
They are aiming at your country, your family, your children, love ones and friends.
This cancer has grown for decades and few can see it, few let themselves care.
The time has come to remove it.
But be so PC and so quiet now [imn]
Write your representatives, place strategic votes
and be sure to warn people who never visit here at wuwt.
I first read about this Islander Extortion Ploy in Crichton’s 2004 novel ‘State of Fear’ and have been watching it unfold since then. Amazing how well Crichton told this story back then. And now here we are.
“marsupial dicastery”. Magnificent.
Lunacy! Total! When the West stops producing, all the money they handed over will be spent in China. I suppose it’s now their turn to rule the world. All I can say is good luck to all the peoples who signed up to that document. (world wars for food and land permitting)
JPeden says:
December 9, 2011 at 11:24 pm
So Far. . . . . indeed! There will be repercusions.
The alarmists’ fantasy paradigm amplified verges on madness. Billions of tax payer dollars are requested to fund a world bureaucracy to transfer trillions of tax payer dollars to corrupt third world companies and governments. A carbon monitoring bureau, a biofuel world trading corporation, a carbon off set world trading bureau, and so on.
A single example of this madness is the massive AWG driven program to convert food to biofuels. The problem with biofuels is the amount of transportation energy required would require roughly six times the total amount of the current agricultural land to produce. Biofuel production requires significant fossil energy inputs. Agricultural production itself produces significant greenhouse gases. The biofuel concept is part of a fairytale. We live in the real world not in a fairytale.
Skepticism and scientific analysis is the foundation of the development of practical environmental policy.
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/bioenergy/NewsReleases/Biodiesel%20Energy%20Balance_v2a.pdf
Vast amounts of agricultural land are being diverted from crops for human consumption to biofuel The immediate consequence of this is a dramatic increase in the cost of basic food such as a 140% increase in the price of corn. Due to limited amounts of agricultural land vast regions of virgin forest are being cut down for biofuel production. The problems associate with this practice will become acute as all major Western governments have mandate a percentage of biofuel.
Analysis of the total energy input to produce ethanol from corn show that 29% more fossil fuel input energy is require to produce one energy unit of ethanol. If the fuel input to harvest the corn, to produce the fertilizer, and to boil the water off to distill ethanol/water from 8% ethanol to 99.5% ethanol (three distillation processes) to produce 99.5% ethanol for use in an automobile, produces more green house gas than is produced than the production consumption of conventional gasoline. The cost of corn based ethanol is more than five times the production cost of gasoline, excluding taxes and subsides. Rather than subsiding the production of corn based ethanol the same money can be used to preserve and increase rainforest. The loss of rainforest is the largest cause of the increase in CO2.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html
The Clean Energy Scam
The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol–ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter–in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade. Europe has similarly aggressive biofuel mandates and subsidies, and Brazil’s filling stations no longer even offer plain gasoline. Worldwide investment in biofuels rose from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2010, thanks to investors like Richard Branson and George Soros, GE and BP, Ford and Shell, Cargill and the Carlyle Group.
But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it’s dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it. Corn ethanol, always environmentally suspect, turns out to be environmentally disastrous. Even cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass, which has been promoted by eco-activists and eco-investors as well as by President Bush as the fuel of the future, looks less green than oil-derived gasoline.
Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry. The grain it takes to fill an SUV tank with ethanol could feed a person for a year. Harvests are being plucked to fuel our cars instead of ourselves. The U.N.’s World Food Program says it needs $500 million in additional funding and supplies, calling the rising costs for food nothing less than a global emergency. Soaring corn prices have sparked tortilla riots in Mexico City, and skyrocketing flour prices have destabilized Pakistan, which wasn’t exactly tranquil when flour was affordable.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-14/biofuel-production-a-crime-against-humanity/2403402
Biofuels ‘crime against humanity’
Massive production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of its impact on global food prices, a UN official has told German radio. “Producing biofuels today is a crime against humanity,” UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told Bayerischer Runfunk radio. Many observers have warned that using arable land to produce crops for biofuels has reduced surfaces available to grow food. Mr Ziegler called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to change its policies on agricultural subsidies and to stop supporting only programs aimed at debt reduction. He says agriculture should also be subsidised in regions where it ensures the survival of local populations. Meanwhile, in response to a call by the IMF and World Bank over the weekend to a food crisis that is stoking violence and political instability, German Foreign Minister Peer Steinbrueck gave his tacit backing.
Palm oil to diesel.
http://news.yahoo.com/prime-indonesian-jungle-cleared-palm-oil-065556710.html
Prime Indonesian jungle to be cleared for palm oil
Their former hero recently gave a palm oil company a permit to develop land in one of the few places on earth where orangutans, tigers and bears still can be found living side-by-side — violating Indonesia’s new moratorium on concessions in primary forests and peatlands.
OK, we’ve all seen the JAXA IBUKI map.
http://pics.livejournal.com/johnosullivan/pic/0002dcxk/s640x480
The industrialized West is a net absorber; the UDN are net emitters.
Plug that into the nonsense from Durban and it all blows to smithereenies.
Golly, how time flys…It is the 1st April already!!!
The Green leftists in the EU bureaucracy want to give China a “carte blanche” (or noir) / free pass to pollute to their hearts content, additionally subsidized by Western tax money.
Chinese capitalism = good, Western capitalism = bad.
The self hate of these people!
The good lord has brought me the best news for a long time. That all of these demands have been written in clear simple language, and not hidden away in some appendix, shows that the lunatics are out for all to see.
Sadly, I expect there is one person who will sign up to this sick joke, and that would be me, courtesy of my Australian prime-minister!
The long battle between parliamentary democracy and the forces of fascism continues. And the centralists and the faceless bureaucrats of the U.N, ( stands for UNelected,) who dare to call themselves ‘Liberal,’ push their ad hoc working groups and turgidly worded policies to dupe and control nations. ‘Ad hoc’ and ‘clandestine’ are the favoured modus operandi.
I feel so commodified, it’s unreal!
It is, unfortunately a fact, that third world countries who would most benefit from this unbelievable nonsense now are a majority in the UN and enthusiastically support any proposal to hand over western cash.
The UN, long ago ceased to have any useful function. Time to close it down as was the League of Nations, its predecessor. Western nations just stopped paying their dues It would soon collapse.
This is about as laughable as the Kellogg-Briand treaty in the late 20s or early 30s. So I don’t put a whole lot of stock in it, because I don’t think it will do as much as some fear here. I’m actually hoping when Gingrich gets elected that not only does he appoint Bolton as Secretary of State, but also that he tells the UN this nonsense “world government” stuff they are proposing must cease immediately, or the US will stop funding the UN altogether, and kick them out of New York.
Mac the Knife says:
December 9, 2011 at 11:32 pm
“That bitch Mother Nature has been trying [to] kill me since I was 9 years old!”
Too true, Mac. It’s either religion or Stockholm Syndrome, but a lot of people have some very weird and delusional ideas about that termagant’s beneficence.
“No taxation without representation.” The fact is, when the bill gets too high and the product isn’t wanted, compliance goes away. Our tax dollars are a powerful tool. We can fork it over, or not. We recognize the consequences for non-compliance, which is illegal. Do we recognize the consequences if we are compliant?
Naturally the BBC is reporting this draft in it’s usual balanced fashion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16124670
“Agreement on new measures to combat global warming appears within reach at the UN climate talks in South Africa.
Draft documents issued overnight appear to address the concerns of all parties.”
Other than any parties such as we taxpayers who think this is completely bonkers.
Barring mention of our Kenyan Keynesian (who should not be discussed in this forum without the words “felony” and “forgery” and “fraud” used in the same sentence), the only candidates entering the U.S. presidential election process who is a committed and repeatedly self-admitted skeptic anent the anthropogenic global warming scam is, of course, Dr. Ron Paul.
The MSM-anointed “frontrunner” on the Republican Party side is Mitt “the Massachusetts Medical Marxist” Romney, while the current flavor-of-the-week in the polls is Newt “Spine? I don’ need no steenking spine!” Gingrich, both of whom are warmistas to the bottoms of their flabby little hearts.
Anybody else out there understand how and why that “unelectable” old obstetrician is actually the only genuinely electable candidate in the Red Faction race?
Moreover, with Dr. Paul sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office starting in 2013 instead of either our Mombasa Messiah or any of the nominally Republican clowns lurching around from Iowa to New Hampshire, the Durban Diddle dies the death.
Instantly, completely, and irrevocably.
If anybody scoffs at the goals of these “climate totalitarians”? Just examine the agreement Europe has reached to surrender sovereignty to the European parliament.
It wont take long for these loonies to realise they may be able to exploit the European bureaucracy to achieve their ends.