Harmful, Costly, Unscientific Climate Treaties should be torn up
Summary Statement by Viv Forbes, Founding Secretary of Clexit
A new international organisation aims to prevent ratification of the costly and dangerous Paris global warming treaty which is being promoted by the EU and the present US administration.
CLEXIT” (CLimate Exit) was inspired by the Brexit decision of the British people to withdraw from the increasingly dictatorial grasp of the EU bureaucracy.
Before any real publicity or recruiting, Clexit has attracted over 60 well-informed science, business and economic leaders from 16 countries.
The secretary of Clexit, Mr Viv Forbes from Australia, said that widespread enforcement of the Paris climate treaty would be a global tragedy.
“For the EU and the rest of the Western world, ratification and enforcement of the Paris Treaty (and all the other associated decrees and Agendas) would herald the end of low-cost hydrocarbon transport and electricity, and the exit of their manufacturing, processing and refining industries to countries with low-cost energy.
“For developing countries, the Paris Treaty would deny them the benefits of reliable low-cost hydrocarbon energy, compelling them to rely on biomass heating and costly weather-dependent and unreliable power supplies, thus prolonging and increasing their dependency on international handouts. They will soon resent being told to remain forever in an energy-deprived wind/solar/wood/bicycle economy.
“Perhaps the most insidious feature of the UN climate plan is the “Green Climate Fund”. Under this scheme, selected nations (“The rich”) are marked to pour billions of dollars into a green slush fund. The funds will then be used to bribe other countries (“developing and emerging nations”) into adopting silly green energy policies.
“Naturally some smart politicians and speculators in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in the small island nations understand that they can profit from the Paris Treaty by gaming the rules on things like carbon credits, or milking the green fund for “climate compensation” or “green energy technology”. This will only work for a while, and when the handouts stop, the re-adjustment to reality will be very painful.
“This UN-driven war on carbon energy has already caused massive losses and dislocation of western industry. If allowed to continue as envisaged by the Paris Treaty, this economic depression will become world-wide, and all nations will suffer.
“We must stop this futile waste of community savings; cease the destruction and dislocation of human industry; stop killing rare bats and birds with wind turbine blades and solar/thermal sizzlers; stop pelletising trees and shipping them across the world to feed power stations designed to burn coal; stop converting food to motor vehicle fuel; and stop the clearing of bush and forests for biofuel cultivation and plantations.”
“Carbon dioxide does not control the climate. It is an essential plant food and more carbon dioxide will produce more plant growth and a greener globe.”
More detail is given in “The Clexit Founding Statement” that follows.
Viv Forbes
Rosevale Qld Australia
+61 754 640 533
The Clexit Founding Statement
If the Paris climate accord is ratified, or enforced locally by compliant governments, it will strangle the leading economies of the world with pointless carbon taxes and costly climate and energy policies, all with no sound basis in evidence or science. These destructive policies are already killing real industry while enriching the huge artificial and parasitical climate-change industry that thrives on bureaucracy, mis-directed government research, law books of costly regulations, never-ending conferences and subsidies for promoters of the failing technologies of renewable energy.
And all the time, government media and their allies dominate the political debate by trumpeting forecasts of doom, endlessly repeating the “right” messages, and making sure that dissident views are censored or ridiculed without right of recourse.
For the EU, their heavily subsidised wind and solar power will always deliver intermittent and erratic supply at great cost. This will produce periodic surges of oversupply which destabilise the grid and temporarily depress electricity prices, leading to losses and closures of reliable generators. At other times (and every still night), wind and sun will produce minimal or zero power, causing very high electricity prices and increasing the chances of brownouts and blackouts. To avoid blackouts governments and/or consumers are forced to fund diesel, gas or coal plants to remain on standby or as spinning reserves until needed. Funding these subsidies for renewables and the backups needed for them is producing crippling electricity prices (doubled in the past decade). It is also harming consumers (especially the poor) and causing financial crises for those governments who try to shield some businesses and consumers from the real energy costs.
Aluminium smelters and steel works have already closed or relocated to countries not mesmerised by the climate scam. Other industries will follow. Poland is resisting these suicidal industrial policies, and even Germany is recognising the danger by introducing subsidies to keep its industrial base.
Just one long cold European winter, with a few heavy snowfalls and a succession of still, frosty nights will produce the blackouts which will shock Europe into energy reality and bring the Paris energy follies to an end. In the last such winter, thousands of people died in Britain from cold as they could not afford home heating.
Some politicians and promoters in the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) think they can profit from the Paris accord. They hope to continue gaming the system by selling carbon credits of doubtful authenticity on an already corrupt market, and demanding climate reparations and technology transfers from the West, while remaining free to build their own clean modern and efficient coal/gas/nuclear/hydro energy grid. Their reliable low-cost power is already attracting electricity-intensive industries fleeing from the soaring power costs in the West. However, they forget that if Western energy stupidity provokes a world financial crisis, the global economy will slump and all nations will suffer.
Some of the biggest supporters of the Paris accord are small oceanic nations seeking welfare through handouts to save them from baseless predictions of rising sea levels, even though actual changes in sea levels are tiny and not unusual.
The fact is that sea level rise in Tuvalu has been effectively zero since accurate measurements commenced in 1993, on tide gauges set up by the Australian government:
http://www.bom.gov.au/ntc/IDO70056/IDO70056SLI.pdf
These climate handouts will cease suddenly as energy reality bites and current politicians in the West are thrown out of office. When this happens, the shock of losing easy money will damage these island nations far more than the gently oscillating oceans. They do have real problems needing attention, but rising seas is not one of them.
The EU is a driving force promoting green energy, environmental extremism, world carbon taxes and global control by unelected bureaucrats. Brexit was Britain’s answer to the growing over-reach of EU bureaucracies. Clexit is our answer to the push for global control through climate hysteria.
The Clexit Campaign aims to prevent ratification or local enforcement of the UN climate treaty. Nations should not tolerate UN and EU bureaucrats manipulating science in order to justify their dreams to redistribute wealth and revert to the central planning that enslaved and impoverished the old command economies.
This vicious and relentless war on carbon dioxide will be seen by future generations as the most misguided mass delusion that the world has ever seen.
Carbon dioxide is NOT a dangerous pollutant – it is a natural, non-toxic and beneficial gas which feeds all life on earth. Its increasing concentration is improving the environment, not harming it.
Carbon dioxide is also an insignificant player in global warming. Its so-called “greenhouse effect” is far smaller than that of atmospheric water vapour and, because this effect declines logarithmically as carbon dioxide levels rise, most of its small impact on surface temperature is already exhausted.
Carbon dioxide was unable to prevent the cyclic repetition of the Pleistocene Ice Ages or the Little Ice Age, and there was no human industry to create the warm climate optima of Egyptian, Minoan, Roman or Medieval times (the Earth was generally warmer than today at these past peaks). Man-made carbon dioxide did not cause the heat waves of the 1930’s or the fears of global cooling in the 1970’s. It plays no part in creating our short term weather. It does not drive ocean currents, El Nino, the Milankovitch cycles, the sun spot cycles or the eras of volcanism.
In the big climate picture, carbon dioxide hardly registers except in discredited UN/IPCC computer models.
Global warming has occurred naturally many times in the past and is not to be feared – it is not controlled by carbon dioxide or humans.
More carbon dioxide is already greening the planet as it has done in the past. Warming oceans always expel more moisture and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and these two gases-of-life always encourage plant growth and produce a verdant globe.
It was the cold, dry ice ages that created frigid deserts, life-smothering ice sheets, retreating oceans and massive losses for all life forms. Cold oceans also drain the atmosphere of carbon dioxide thus creating starvation stress for all plants. A warm globe always supports more life. The human race, the forests and the coral reefs have far more to fear from global cooling.
The world must abandon this suicidal Global Warming crusade. Man does not and cannot control the climate. Climate and weather are always changing, but apart from cyclic spikes of El Nino warming, there has been no measurable warming for twenty years.
It would be far better to spend some of the trillions being spent on the climate crusade to ensure that our infrastructure can cope with whatever weather extremes do occur; or tackling some real world problems such as terrorism, displaced people, water supply, urban air and water pollution, garbage and landfill.
If the UN/EU persists in this climate madness, the rest of the world must support Clexit.
Neither national, state or local governments should support, sign, enforce or waste public funds on any of the job-killing climate agreements, Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, Habitat 3 or any other foreign agendas transferring real power and wealth from elected nationals to unelected international bureaucracies.
To see the initial Clexit Committee and the list of Founding Members see:
http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/clexit-members.pdf
This document was prepared by Viv Forbes
with considerable help and feedback from the Clexit Committee and members.
13 July 2016
Further information from
Viv Forbes: +61 754 640 533
Bryan Leyland – New Zealand +64 940 7047
More Reading:
Australians say we need Clexit:
Good news. The Paris Agreement has been ratified by Nations representing just 0.18% of global emissions:
More good news. Brexit is likely to make climate change actions more difficult:
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c920274f2a364603849bbb505&id=1d078e6437&e=e1638e04a2
And the good news continues – Britain abolishes the Department of Energy And Climate Change (DECC):
Countering Global Warming:
http://www.nzcpr.com/countering-global-warming/
But the Banks are fixated on the money flows:
Agenda 2030 and Paris 2016 – the UN/ICC plan to control the world:
http://carbon-sense.com/2016/07/17/a-summary-of-betrayal/
But the green tide may be turning:
And some people are already having second thoughts:
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/duterte-wont-honour-climate-change-pledge-calls-it-absurd
As Denmark finds wind power too expensive:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2016/07/20/for-denmark-read-south-australia/#comments
And Renewable Energy fiascos are blowing the Paris ship off course:
More Green Energy Disasters:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/14/europes-energy-crisis-poses-warning-u-s/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/green-power-projects-hit-unexpected-hurdles-1.1058196
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CLEXIT, – I like it!!! Make sure they know what CLEXIT means…
I’d imagine clexit means clexit?
Exit, stage clex!
AGW = It’s All Gone Wrong!
first thing that came to my mind,
Cleanse it, by, Exit. : )
CLEXIT should mean freeing oneself from an unelected, destructive international bureaucracy like the UN, as BREXIT meant Britain freed itself from unelected, destructive international bureacrats when they voted to leave the EU.
Because Brexit worked so well for Britain…
One mistake that Forbes made. This is an agreement, not a Treaty. Obama was very careful to have it worded this way. If it was a treaty, it would have to be approved by the US Congress (which it won’t). This is Obama’s sneaky way of bypassing congress oversight, by not officially calling it a treaty, but inferring that it is binding.
Congress, or more specifically the U.S. Senate, may still call the “agreement” up for a vote, and if it loses, it is just as dead as if the President had called it a treaty and submitted it to the Senate.
implying, not inferring
Meant to put my comment here (It’s at the bottom)… Not CLEXIT but COPOUT.
It really is Marxexit.
Very nice development. Works for me.
Thanks for all the links at the bottom Anthony, many of which I have missed. It appears there is reason for optimism.
Be careful. The first image looks almost like 5 Nazi symbols…at the bottom images…(swastikas)…
“The way of the swaztica” is the Bön which is the indigenous religion of Tibet which is similar to Buddhism. Most Bön practitioners are regarded as Buddhists these days. Bön was the official religion of Tibet prior to 800 CE. I have severe disagreements with Wiki on the topic of Tibetan religion prior to 1100 CE.
Do the arms and legs in the cartoon intentionally look like swaztikas? I would say yes.
I would say you are a nut case.
Mr Walton, I’d say you are an A-hole.
The swastika is an ancient eastern symbol for luck. So, you are right, we are lucky to get away from this climate scam.
Don’t tell us you are blind or have never seen a fire exit sign.
Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign
Thanks Phillip for demonstrating that the poster does not actually look like any existing exit sign.
I didn’t the swastikas ( such associations are usually in the eye – or mind – of the beholder ) but since Brexit was incorrectly cast as a xenophobic, right-wing movement by those who did not agree with it, I don’t doubt that similar distortions and lies will be thrown at CLexit.
Also the figures are fairly awfully drawn. A remake of the poster with something closer to the little green men ( that will annoy the greens ) with one straighter leg would be a good idea.
Greg, they do seem to be in almost the exact same pose as the EU exit sign. Third picture down on the right in the link. The only difference is a slightly raised arm to hold the flags and these are leaning more forward.
Given the nature of the picture, it was probably drawn in Paint or something similar by a non-artist using a nearby exit sign for the pose reference.
Are you a Democrat (see Nazi’s everywhere)?
Except in their own ranks.
The really worrying thing about the cartoon is that the flag popularly known as the Union Jack appears to be upside down.
Is not the UK in “distress” until exit is complete? …
Because they are running to the right, the reverse side of the flags are showing.
Additionally, they are in uniform, in lock-step, and running to the right.
A great lineup on the Committee. Wonderful! Where do we donate?
We’ll be launching CLEXIT at our London Conference in September. Details here and here
We’ll raise a glass and toast the good health and success of all who attend the New Dawn Of Truth: London Climate Change Conference 2016, esp Viv Forbes for his launching of Clexit.
Finally someone I like gets appointed the position of founding secretary.
This never happens to me!
Very happy to see this, but Viv will be totally chopped by the Australian (and other) MSM outlets. He should probably emigrate as I can honestly see him being threatened with harm by Green groups.
I, on the other hand, am very happy to see common sense beginning to appear.
+, as there seem to be loads of petitions aimed at reducing “global warming”, maybe lots of petitions promoting Clexit. Common sense this might be but really since when have the rich & powerful been blessed with that, they’re only interested in how much easy dosh they can make out of us “plebs”.Good Luck with it, though.
We need ‘Clexit – the Movie’ to follow the successful ‘Brexit – the Movie’ by Martin Durkin.
Only the clever ones will Clexit. Australia won’t be one of them, unfortunately, because of our stupid, half-wit mainstream politicians. That is unless One Nation can do deals in the Senate. So glad I voted for them.
Nor will most of the current strongest economies, except china and india and they wont exit because they could be net receivers of UN climate funds. The rest of the west are now ‘progressive’ governments (another word for socialist).
The future must not belong to those who slander the profits of Big Green!
South Australia is already in trouble with manufacturing industry leaving or preparing to and you have to wonder if their high cost of energy has anything to do with it .
I’m proud to say that I voted for Brexit.
My main reasons were based on considerations of freedom and democracy. But the probability of being free from EU climate policy is also a big plus.
I would definitely vote for Clexit as well!
Chris
ozone depletion and AGW might have remained a scientific curiosity were it not for the tragedy that they served the UNEP’s bureaucratic purpose of increasing their size, budget, power, and scope.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2794991
The success of the UNEP in capitalizing on these faux crises has encouraged all UN agencies, regardless of their original purpose, to morph into agents of climate change hysteria. A case in point is the UNDP which was originally tasked with eradicating poverty. In the new UN of the climate change era it is now a climate change warrior. A complete CLEXIT may require an exit from the UN.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2812034
Perhaps we could shut down the UN and design something new and workable with constraints, accountability, and oversight just as we had shut down the League of Nations and started anew with the United Nations, Conceptually, the UN is a creature of the post-war world and is somewhat of a dinosaur.
Never trust a bureaucracy! A despot may be actually better. At least you may know who to blame:s
Cheers
Roger
You recall what happened after the League of Nations crumbled?
Massive war and death. Fun!
Wow!, can sanity really return to the world? Will be such a big task de-brainwashing the younger generation though:(
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
Cheers
Roger
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is any of this necessary? The actions under the Paris agreement are purely voluntary. The only enforcement mechanism I’ve heard of them trying to impose is some kind of pitiful ‘name and shame’ system. All we need to do is ignore it (both the agreement and the naming).
Most countries have already been named and shamed for far worse things (invasions of foreign countries, human rights violations, torture, Geneva Convention violations etc) and these barely make a blip in the political context a few months after the scandal (if any).
It is only ‘necessary’ if you value freedom and oppose misappropriation of public funds
” “Perhaps the most insidious feature of the UN climate plan is the “Green Climate Fund”. Under this scheme, selected nations (“The rich”) are marked to pour billions of dollars into a green slush fund. The funds will then be used to bribe other countries (“developing and emerging nations”) into adopting silly green energy policies.”
And, of course, since these countries are known to have zero corruption, they can be sure that 100% of it gets spent on the intended green policies.
I once talked to a nurse (Australian) who had volunteered to help in Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami there. She said the tons of medical supplies she and fellow volunteers desperately needed (and donated by rich countries) were guarded by armed guards until the medical supplies could be re-sold for a profit. She was actually assigned to distract one of the guards until a colleague could steal something from the stack to help the injured.
This is OT but might be of interest to those in the high latitudes
“CME embedded in a high-speed solar wind stream hit Earth’s magnetic field during the late hours of Aug. 2nd,… colorful lights were sighted over Estonia, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, NOAA forecasters say there is a 55% chance of additional storms on Aug. 3rd”
9hr Kp index=5 , 3hr Ap =55 major storm, Bz peak =500nT (caused 1% positive swing in the earth magnetic field)
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.png
Please change to human kind instead of
A warm globe always supports more life. The
human race,
the forests and the coral reefs have far more to fear from global cooling
This is off topic but a note for Steve, the cartoonist, that the flags for France, Sweden, Norway and Britain should have the flagpoles placed to the left, and not the right as shown.
It’s telling that an US blog is needed showing the EU what thei’re doing. Priceless.
The EU is a driving force promoting green energy, environmental extremism, world carbon taxes and global control by unelected bureaucrats. Brexit was Britain’s answer to the growing over-reach of EU bureaucracies. Clexit is our answer to the push for global control through climate hysteria.
That’s ok Johann. I read the European news to find out what my government is up to.
Viv a Clexit.
Helpful, cheap and scientific climate treaties aren’t necessarily good either. There are some things you just need to find a better way of doing and, unless it’s stopping fighting, if it’s worth doing, you probably don’t need a treaty to do it and you definitely don’t need to surrender sovereignty, freedom or well being.
We don’t need climate treaties to save the world from climate change. It’s mostly natural and there isn’t much of anything we can do to stop the weather.
Rather than running away in unison as shown, I think a likelier outcome will be lines of disheveled, hungry people shuffling away from the treaty… kind of like what is seen with Venezuelans crossing the border into Columbia with the hope of finding food. The sheepful masses won’t do anything until the carbon refuse hits the fan.
I hope I’m wrong.
Clexit makes a lot of sense. Almost as much sense as UNexit (or NOUN).
Amen! Down with the watermelons.