Last minute Durban deal reached – extends life of Kyoto protocol

Well this is non-news for the U.S. which is essentially the extension of a treaty that the U.S. is not a party to in the first place. So 5 more years of business as usual. The biggest CO2 emitter in the world, China, is exempt. The second fastest growing emitter, India, is also exempt. And the second largest emitter, the United States, is not a party to the treaty. The rest of y’all in Annex I countries must feel sort of hoodwinked. You’re getting taken to the cleaners and the worst part of it is you don’t get anything in return as the amount of CO2 reduction won’t reduce global warming by any detectable amount. Funny stuff. I wouldn’t be laughing if the U.S. had signed on to this scam but it didn’t so all I can do is bemusedly watch the rest of the western world voluntarily cripple itself.

forget 67 votes. Kyoto did not receive 1 vote in the US Senate. And without the US, this is nothing but a way for the rest of us to watch the EU implode. Get out the popcorn and watch the show.

What this means is that this crowd of priviliged would-be plutocrats who couldn’t hold a real job if their lives depended on it will be free to fly around the allegedly carbon dioxide afflicted globe (increasing their carbon footprints in the process) and having grand parties while tweaking the boilerplate in their Marxist manifestos. Fortunately, the U.S. Senate, which couldn’t muster a single vote to ratify Kyoto, won’t come remotely close to ratifying some Son of Kyoto. Let them have their parties. As their alarmist warnings continue to prove false, folks around the world will have enough of higher energy costs and consign this farce to the trash bin of history…DJ

Perhaps not all of the Annex 1 countries have agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol. Canadas Environment Minister (Peter Kent) statement Sunday regarding the Durban agreement….
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/12/canadas-statement-on-durban-climate-deal.html
Some highlights from the Globe and Mail.
Mr. Kent, who came to Durban saying Kyoto represents the past, declared Sunday that Canada would not undertake a second Kyoto commitment period.
“Nor will we devote scarce dollars to capitalize the new Green Climate Fund — part of the Durban agreement — until all major emitters accept legally binding reduction targets and transparent accounting of greenhouse gas inventory.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-hopeful-of-finalizing-new-climate-deal-by-2015-environment-minister-says/article2267220/
The following link says Japan and Russia are out too.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/11/canada-cautiously-optimistic-about-new-climate-deal-despite-not-signing-on/

The CAGW movement is in freefall …. there will still be vast amounts of propaganda hot air, but this pseudo “agreement” sounds like the most minimal nonsense that could be put out so that they can all agree to continue the meetings in the future. Kyoto will not be succeeded by any new “binding” agreement on emissions, and China, India, and USA were not on board with Kyoto anyway. We can’t declare victory since there is still an unlimited capacity for spewing and believing b.s. among media, NGO, and governmental types, but the “writing is on the wall” announcing the doom of the CAGW frauds.

Such conferences should be held in inhospitable places. May I suggest Iqaluit? Then we would see how dedicated those attendees are.
IanM

Dumban and Dumberest. There typo fixed. City and the results of the conference.

With the Greenhouse Gas Theory now scientifically, without the usual ‘adjusted’ data, trashed and trounced, by, Joseph E. Postma. (M.Sc. Astrophysics, Honours B.Sc. Astronomy
in his article, Understanding the Thermodynamic Atmosphere Effect, published March 2011
which concludes:
“The conclusion of this article is very simple: there is no such thing as a radiative Theory of the Greenhouse Effect, not in real greenhouses, and certainly not in any planetary atmosphere known to man. The true role of the atmosphere, on Earth, is that it cools the ground, not warms it. Therefore, there is no such thing as Anthropogenic Global Warming or anthropogenic-CO2 induced climate change, because that supposition is based on the false Theory of the Greenhouse Effect. Any monetary expenditure or political debate on this issue can therefore stop. Now. Or, those can exist only in so far as they are directed to eradicate the false science.”
One wonders, if the UN, who instigated the Anthropogenic Global Warming scam during its African Review, as a means of imposing a ‘wealth redistribution tax’ to benefit, Africa, will ban the use of actual science on humanitarian grounds?
In the meantime can any of you guys tell me, how much electricity it takes to operate one of those giant wind turbines (bonfires on sticks), as this information seems unavailable. Unlike other means of generating electrical power, apparently wind turbines cannot power themselves and have to draw power from the national grid. Uniquely, the power supply is free and not metered, could it be that these monstrosities are using more power than they actually produce?

I think this is the major deal that was glossed over:
….The Durban agreement…sets up the bodies that will collect, govern and distribute tens of billions of dollars to poor countries suffering the effects of climate change….
EXACTLY what does that mean???
Back to Lord Monckton’s earlier post.

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…..
Who pays? Oh, you guessed it before I told you. The West pays…. 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.”
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.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/09/durban-what-the-media-are-not-telling-you/

The real lunacy comes in the small print…..
Since the UN never believed in Climate Change/Globull Warming in the first place, it is the FINE PRINT that sets up the bodies that will collect, govern and distribute…
That is the real I gotcha. The United Nations gains the holy grail, the ability to TAX directly. This is a major step in changing the UN into a WORLD GOVERNMENT.
For an analysis of what the United Nations is actually after see: From Carroll Quigley to the UN Millennium Summit: http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates14.html

Gary Mount says:
December 10, 2011 at 9:57 pm
It took 70 years for the Soviet Union experiment to end. Facts and reality will also end this global warming hysteria, hopefully sooner than how long the socialist experiment took.
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The socialist experiment is alive and well even though one “experiment” failed. http://www.lewrockwell.com/yates/yates14.html
The Unseen war in the USA Farmageddon: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2011-09-24/article/38459?headline=Farmageddon-America-s-War-Against-Small-Farmers

JMW says:
December 11, 2011 at 4:09 am
……And the idea of handing over technology isn’t too clever because where does it stop?
Indeed, in some countries (most?) some Intellectual capital is considered of vital importance and may not be shared…..
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ERRRRrrr that is already being done.

Source: The White House Office of Public Liason
NOVEMBER 17, 1999
BRIEFING ON THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AGENDA FOR THE
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION MATERIAL
SUMMARY OF U.S. – CHINA BILATERAL WTO AGREEMENT
PROTOCOL PROVISIONS
Commitments in China’s WTO Protocol and Working Party Report establish rights and obligations enforceable through WTO dispute settlement procedures. We have agreed on key provisions relating to antidumping and subsidies, protection against import surges, technology transfer requirements and offsets as well as practices of state-owned and state-invested enterprises. These rules are of special importance to U.S. workers and business.
China had agreed to implement the TRIMs Agreement upon accession, eliminate and cease enforcing trade and foreign exchange balancing requirements, eliminate and cease enforcing local content requirements, refuse to enforce contracts imposing these requirements; and only impose or enforce laws or other provisions relating to the transfer of technology or other know-how, if they are in accordance with the WTO agreements on protection of intellectual property rights and trade-related investment measures.
These provisions will also help protect American firms against forced technology transfers, as China has also agreed that, upon accession, it will not condition investment approvals, import licenses, or any other import approval process on performance requirements of any kind, including: local content requirements, offsets, transfer of technology, or requirements to conduct research and development in China….
https://www.uschina.org/public/991115a.html

The transnational corporations are not about to let “Nationalism” stand in the way of business.

Rare Earth Elements (REE) have become a hot media top with the unofficial Chinese export embargo to Japan.REEs are crucial raw materials for a wide range of industries in the Green and Defense Sectors.The Chinese monopoly over the production and supply of these commodities have made EU and USA thinking of taking the WTO route.However this had not detered China from clamping down on the production and exports.China wants to use these minerals as a strategic resource to force Green companies to relocate to China and transfer hard to get technologies to local Chinese companies.Note while EU and USA are looking to export Green Product to China,the government there has shrewdly only given permissions to companies willing to transfer technology
http://www.greenworldinvestor.com/tag/wto/