Progressive
liberals in lock-step consensus are not allowing the global warming cash-cow fraud
to die in spite of the fact that thousands of real scientists have debunked the
notion that humans, with their mundane activities, can cause the global climate
to change. A whole industry of snake oil salesmen was born, waiting in the
wings to get rich off the sale of carbon credits and the “green” and
“renewable” energy. The renewable part
is a fallacy in itself – once energy is spent, it cannot be renewed.
Always
at the forefront of progressivism, California lawmakers signed into law
Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) called the California Global Warming Act of 2006, a
blue print of the UN Kyoto Accord of 1997.
Californians
are organizing a rally in Sacramento on August 15, 2012 to protest California
Air Resources Board (CARB) and the planned auction of carbon credits as a
commodity on November 14, 2012.
CARB
operates outside legislative oversight like the EPA. The cap and trade program will
be implemented under the leadership of Mary Nichols and eleven board members
appointed by Governor Jerry Brown. Businesses will pay billions of dollars and
pass the cost onto hapless consumers. (http://www.cfactsocal.org/)
On
the eve of the United Nations +20 Rio Earth Summit in Brazil, the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has issued a 525-page report of “dire
warnings” that the Earth’s strained environmental systems “are being pushed
towards their biophysical limits.”
The
doomsday picture includes but is not limited to the melting of the polar ice
caps, deforestation of tropical jungles, loss of desert in Africa,
out-of-control use of chemicals, and “emptying out of the world’s seas.” Rising
sea levels, floods, droughts, collapse of fisheries, endangered coral reefs,
endangered vertebrate species, doubling
of greenhouse emissions, pesticide contamination, and other cataclysmic events
are some of the consequences compiled in the last three years by a team of 300
UN commissioned researchers.
The
upcoming conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro on June 20-22,
2012 will discuss four of the success stories (eliminating ozone depleting
chemicals, phasing out lead in gasoline, more access to water supplies,
research of marine pollutants) of the 1992 Rio Conference on Biological
Diversity, while lamenting the lack of success in other areas.
President
Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, a skeptic of global warming, told UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon that he would not attend the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
Klaus’ 2007 book (“Blue Planet in Green Shackles – What is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?”) named environmentalism
as the 21st century’s biggest threat to freedom, the market economy,
and prosperity.” (Jennifer Rigby, The Prague Post)
“We
have to say goodbye to unrealistic dreams of new sources of power and stop
subsidizing these unprofitable sources by posing a burden on the consumer,
either individual or corporate.” (President Vaclav Klaus, Energy Gas Storage
Summit at Prague Castle, May 24, 2012)
“Change
is possible,” says UNEP executive director Achim Steiner, “Given what we know,
we can move in another direction,” away from the age of irresponsibility and
towards global action. Is this global action changing fundamentally the way we
live in order to accommodate the vision for the planet of a few environmental
elites who would give precedence and rights to animals over humans?
If
increased access to water is a success story, we must tell that to the people
of Tombstone, Arizona, who were denied access to water following a devastating
fire in 2011 that destroyed pipelines carrying water to a town of 1,600
residents. The only way residents were allowed to restore their water supply was
with primitive tools and wheelbarrows, a herculean task since some sections of
the pipes were buried under 12 feet of mud, following monsoon type rains and
huge boulder fallout. The endangered Mexican spotted owl is why the EPA was
imposing such stringent requirements. The reservoir is dry and the residents
are running out of time to shore up their water supply before the new monsoon rains
start.
The
bankrupted farmers in San Joaquin Valley, California, who lost multi-generational
farms when the government cut off their irrigation water, may also ask where is
their increased access to water supply that the United Nations so proudly
boasts. The government purposefully turned large sections of a previously lush
and highly productive farming community into a dust bowl.
During
the Rio conference of 1992, three documents were produced that have altered our
lives in incremental steps and are now irreversible across the globe:
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The
Framework Convention on Climate Change
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The
Convention on Biological Diversity- UN Agenda 21
The
UN Agenda 21, although not ratified by Congress, has been quietly implemented
all over the country at the local and state levels through ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives) sponsored initiatives and visioning grants
from various federal government agencies (EPA, Department of Energy, HUD, HHS),
and NGOs (non-government organizations) such as the Sierra Club.
In
light of the fact that it is a violation of the U.S. Constitution for a local
or state government representative to collaborate with international bodies,
ICLEI changed its name to Local Governments for Sustainability.
Some
local and state governments are beginning to understand the private property
grab and are pushing back. The state of Alabama passed Senate Bill (SB 477),
“Due Process for Property Rights Act,” at the end of May 2012, approved
unanimously by both State House and the Senate. The governor signed the bill
into law, with total silence from the media. The law protects private property
rights and forbids any state or local government agency to participate in UN
Agenda 21. The law describes briefly how the UN Agenda 21 plan was devised at
the 1992 “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (thenewamerican.com)
Other
local boards and representatives, who understand fully what is at stake and
stand to benefit directly from their collaboration with ICLEI and
implementation of UN Agenda 21 goals, are forging ahead with their plans in
spite of their constituents’ protests.
The
World Bank published a report outlining how it will push economic development
that conserves natural resources and controls pollution. Rachel Kyte, World
Bank vice president for sustainable development, said, “We don’t have to have
global agreements. It would be a whole lot easier if we had them, but we can
move forward without them.” That is a scary proposition in a democracy.
Ban
Ki-Moon, UN General Secretary, discussed the newest wealth re-distribution
scheme, “Sustainable Energy for All,” pushing to eliminate fossil-fuel
subsidies.
The
Guardian received the leaked 81-page draft of Rio+20 document, “The Future We
Want.” The good news is that the 180 governments that are expected to sign the
draft are yet to agree on the exact wording; only 20 percent of the language
has been approved so far. (John Vidal, The Guardian/UK, June 8, 2012)
The
journal Nature published an article “Approaching a state shift in Earth’s
Biosphere” on June 7, 2012. The lead author, Anthony Barnofsky, and its 21
“consensus” coauthors describe how human activity has brought the globe to a
tipping point in which “planetary-scale critical transition” to a different
environment will occur and the main culprit is international trade.
I
used to think that the television docudrama, “Life Without People,” was a
doomsday ridiculous scenario because it did not explain how people suddenly
disappeared. Consensus of college professors with an agenda sounds compelling,
but it is not science. Blaming international trade for global warming borders
on the insane.
The
paper warned, “humans have radically changed 43 percent of the Earth’s surface
from its natural state” and have exceeded the 30 percent change that supposedly
triggered the “last planetary-scale environmental shift 11,000 years ago when
glaciers advanced and then retreated.” How they know with such precision what
happened 11,000 years ago when meteorologists cannot even predict tomorrow’s
weather accurately, baffles me. (Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, June 7,
2012)
Were
humans engaging in international trade 11,000 years ago? Did they have cars,
factories, planes, boats, and all the other pollutants blamed for the current
“dismal state of the planet?” Are humans that ignorant to believe the environmental
nonsense that the planet is dying?
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