We have suffered a week of apoplexy having endured a bombardment of reasons offered to justify a Nobel Prize awarded for expectations and promises rather than results. Our rationality has been addled as all corners of the MSM meandered through fantastic rationalizations. All appear to have missed the mark. The ideologically motivated radicals dominating the Norwegian Nobel Committee, are not seeking peace in the world, but are making a down payment on fortification for their own agenda. The United States and Canada will pay dearly if this agenda materializes.
Let’s first dispel any doubt that the offered reasons for awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace prize were ungenuine. He hadn’t warmed the king sized bed in the White House when he was nominated, which means that any real evaluation of his authentication as a Nobel awardee, other than the oratory of his campaign, was impossible. In the end, the Nobel Committee stated that it, “… attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.” Reality and common sense in both Norway and the White House seem to have vacated the premises.
Promises made by politicians are for electioneering, and they rarely see daylight. Remember when Obama made a bold and firm commitment that he would pull out of Iraq if he were made President? That was a defining and differentiating moment in the race to the Oval Office. Did he do what he committed to do? Are some of his phantasmagorical promises also the delusions of the Norwegian Nobel Committee? We will find an answer in the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit to be held in early December.
140 nations will meet in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012, with a global deal supposedly intended to limit CO2 emissions, reduce the destruction of rainforests, and help developing countries to become low-carbon economies. On the surface, the publicly claimed intentions of cleaning up our emissions from our air, our garbage from the oceans, and our toxins from the soil are lofty objectives very deserving of acclamation. The reality that will arise from the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will prove to be something altogether different. What is to become the “Copenhagen Agreement,” will in fact be the largest international redistribution of wealth ever undertaken. The Earth and our environment will enjoy no benefit.
On December 10, Obama will receive his award in Oslo, just in time to energize the “Copenhagen” agenda. Whether or not he shows up at the UN meeting, the ideological intensions and expectations have been air freighted in the form a Nobel Prize. The Nobel awarded to Obama is a very personal stimulation to procure his support and therefore the financial commitment of the U.S. to a blueprint claiming to save the world.
The Copenhagen meeting in December will require that the United States and Canada annually transfer billions of dollars to the developing world as “climate debt” for past transgressions in their emissions of CO2. A key element in the penalization process will be the degree to which a developed country meets an allocated allowable emission schedule. Countries like the U.S. and Canada will have a tougher time than most, since it is always the last 10% or 20% that is the most difficult and most expensive to “scrub” from your emissions when you have already done more than most to clean up your own mess.
Developing countries will be using starting points with disastrous emission levels, comparable to that of the U.S. and Canada over a century ago. Minor improvements will give poor countries a leg-up on developed countries. Industrialized countries will in effect be penalized for already having well equipped, technologically advanced infrastructures. Canada in particular will very likely incur the highest penalties per capita since it is a net energy producer with production requiring extensive energy consumption, and it endures cold winters and hot, humid summers. This is not to say that every industrial sector should not strive to reduce its carbon footprint. We all should. The conundrum rests in what methodology to apply to the process and to enforcement given the reality that much has already been done by developed countries, and more is planned since all levels of society have become conscious of the need to reduce pollution.
The transfer payments from developed nations to poor ones will be made through purchases of unused “credits,” as well as through outright payments which will be made over and above the current billions distributed as foreign aid. Developing countries will be compensated for “lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity,” and the funds are to be divinely distributed by the United Nations. The UN will also be the arbiter of good taste in all things CO2 emissionable, including all approvals of emission scrubbing plans and the ensuing allocations of emission credits. The agreement also leaves room for developing countries to do absolutely nothing on emissions should they feel they are not receiving enough technological and financial support from developed countries. How is that for a backdoor to escape adaptation?
An invigorated and supremely powerful United Nations is in the offing. The principal justification for turning the UN into a true world power is this: The most advanced industrialized countries are responsible for global warming which in turn is responsible for the drought and famine being suffered by the poorest nations, ergo, the most developed countries owe cash to the undeveloped ones. How more obvious can the planners be than allowing rich countries to buy offsets rather than make emission cuts at home?
Kyoto’s good intensions have mutated into a politically charged Copenhagen draft agreement for a global plan to redistribute wealth to the tune of an estimated $1.4 trillion over the coming decade, which in and of itself will have little or no impact on pollution. The agreement’s impact on climate change will be even more amorphic, nevertheless, we can expect an abundance of fear mongering on the road to ratification.
Obama’s upcoming acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize and the invisible strings attached to it, while he is quite entitled to claim it, along with his plans for Cap and Trade, may prove to be an enormously expensive exercise for all taxpayers on this continent. The “Copenhagen” supporters on the Nobel Committee, on the other hand, are counting on it.
Crossposted from The Pacific Gate Post
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So, I guess 1.4 million dollars in prize money is today’s equivalent of 30 pieces of silver. God help us.
I miss GWB more than ever. He would NEVER have bought into any of this.
This is a nightmare that is still there when you wake up.
In the cesspool of corruption that is the UN, a mirror image of Chicago’s corruption; which bloodthirsty war lords in these third world countries will the UN decide to give the tax money from America that will slowly cripple and bleed us to death.
I am sure the Marxist war lords of Africa and the Islamic Terrorists will appreciate our dedication to saving the planet and thus allowing these murderous thugs to finance their barbarity and depravity.
Not to mention the drug lords in Central and South America.
I’ve read some of the treaty language. Took a couple of days. It’s a downloadable pdf if you really want to wade thru it.
Having said that, I’ve told people that FA gives the most concise and easy to understand summary in this article, and people do not believe that this is happening. I understand that reaction, no one wants something like this to be true, but that does not mean the threat is not real.
@ kozanne,
“I’ve told people that FA gives the most concise and easy to understand summary in this article, and people do not believe that this is happening. I understand that reaction, no one wants something like this to be true, but that does not mean the threat is not real.”
Thanks for the positive note.
Unfortunately you are right on people not believing this is happening. The extent of the ramifications to ALL North American taxpayers is that this may become an enormous debt burden that cannot be undone. Worse, …. the UN will be given unique power and influence.
This will directly impact independence of “sovereignty,” so prized by the U.S. and Canada, …. permanently.
NOTE: Perhaps Obama intends to become future head of the UN, after he leaves office, and after the UN has been newly empowered. ….. Just sayin’ …..
JR you did an excellent job of portraying the betrayal and corruption of Obama. I wish the rest of the country could read your essay. Unfortunately, our public is more enraptured with Dancing With The Stars than the loss of sovereignty and erosion of our freedoms.
Too much of our foreign aid never reaches the intended recipients, I suspect a large percentage is parlayed into Swiss bank accounts and financing war lords with visions of control and power. This scheme besides putting the garrote around the necks of free world countries would only serve to intensify this corruption exponentially. The idea of the UN controlling the trillions of dollars involved is beyond comprehension and I am sure the petty bureaucrats at the UN are salivating to enrich themselves with the boatloads of money delusional Americans are willing to throw at the grandest scheme ever designed.
I maintain that cleaner manufacturing and energy has and will continue to appear at a rate determined by the market and science, to cripple the most productive country in the world with unrealistic goals is fatally idealistic and counter productive. Surely we can stop this insanity before this pathetic little man brings this great country to its knees.