The Hague, Netherlands, November 13, 2000 — When Americans voted on November 7, most did not realize the impact of their decision on their standard of living unless they had read Al Gore’s book, Earth in the Balance. His book was prophetic of a United Nations’ (UN) document called the Kyoto Protocol, which will force Americans to scale back our standard of living if it is implemented by the UN’s goal of 2002.
The UN begins a two-week conference today in The Hague, Netherlands to discuss the Kyoto Protocol’s rulebook for implementation and penalties for non-compliance (sanctions against sovereign nations). The only UN entity with the authority to do these dirty deeds is the World Trade Organization (WTO), the monster created when Congress approved the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT/WTO) treaty.
Under VP Al Gore’s leadership in Kyoto, Japan in 1997, the U.S. agreed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (mostly carbon dioxide, CO2) that supposedly cause global warming by seven percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. That is the first phase only; a second phase is already being considered: elimination altogether of the use of fossil fuels which would fulfill Al Gore’s dream to eliminate the internal combustion engine. The Protocol’s advocates prescribe extreme measures even though science has yet to prove that the globe is warming or that burning fossil fuels could cause it.
To understand the devastating impact, one must consider the fact that America’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown by 10-12% since 1990, which means that we would be forced to reduce our industrial output by at least 25% by 2008. The UN-Gore goal is to force American industries to move to developing nations where the Kyoto Protocol will NOT bind them since only 38 developed nations are bound by it. The bottom line is that industries and jobs will move to one of the 150 nations, such as Mexico and China, NOT bound by the Protocol in order to redistribute wealth around the globe.
With the American presidential elections in the balance, the Clinton-Gore appointments here in The Hague could agree to eliminate the two U.S. Senate resolution-imposed considerations that the Kyoto Protocol NOT negatively impact the U.S. economy and that in fairness it be imposed on ALL nations. Considering the extent that they are going to to retain control of the White House, everything is on the table and nothing is beyond belief.
If Americans need another reason to DEMAND free and fair elections, rather than third-world rigged political showdowns, this UN conference is it. We must rise above anger and arrogance, and instead seek God’s favor upon our nation in elections and in treaties.
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P.S. Tomorrow I plan to report what I learn from the conference chairman, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, the UN’s global warming zealot scientists) and the U.S delegation in The Hague.
The Hague, Netherlands —
European conferee: Too many Europeans want to live the American lifestyle; they even are clogging our highways with those awful SUVs (sport utility vehicles). They don’t seem to care that they’re dirtying the air. It’s just awful. They’re also buying bigger refrigerators because of those ads they see on TV.
American conferee: Gee, I thought it was better here. That’s too bad.
European conferee: Let’s take a cab to the conference center; I don’t want to have to carry this bag that distance.
This is a typical conversation being repeated all over The Hague during this United Nations (UN) meeting dealing with global warming. Let me help you understand the hypocrisy of this conversation and the questionable global warming theory.
While environmental extremists grouse about those awful cars, especially SUVs, they demand them for themselves, and then expect us (a.k.a. state resources) to walk, ride bicycles or use public transportation. We are to scale back our standard of living while they reap the benefits of our labor and tax us into poverty.
There is absolutely NO discussion about the validity of the claims of environmental disaster being promoted by the UN’s own political science committee known as the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Yesterday, I asked its chairman, Robert T. Watson, why he thought the Kyoto Protocol that VP Al Gore committed our nation to in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, was so important since worldwide it would only reduce greenhouse gases (the gases emitted by burning fossil fuels that purportedly cause global warming) by 5% when he claims that it would require a reduction of 50-70% of those gases to impact real change in the climate.
With a smirk he responded that Kyoto indeed would have a “very marginal impact on the environment,” but that this “will be the first step of a very long journey toward the needed “sharp reduction over the next 50-70 years.” He assured us that the climate is changing and that man’s industrial activities are causing the changes. He claims temperatures have risen by .4 to .8 degrees centigrade in the last century, the artic ice sheet is thinning and man’s activities are causing an increase of CO2 (carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted when you breathe out and when fossil fuels are burned). And he predicted that the earth would warm another 1.5 to 6 degrees centigrade over the next century creating more deserts, causing forest fires, heat stress mortalities and diseases carried by mosquitoes.
The only “proof for his claims is in computer models, while science has not concluded that the earth is warming OR than man’s activities could cause it.
The Clinton-Gore appointees in The Hague, regardless, agree with Watson’s claims. Highlights of a statement by American David Sandalow, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Environment and Science yesterday: “Human beings are changing the atmosphere”. The U.S. is committed to making real progress here and now and to shaping a treaty that can be ratified. President Clinton forcibly articulated our commitment to an international agreement to address global warming. The U.S. will work with all Parties to craft sound decisions that include: strong, market-based rules [and] binding legal consequences for failure to meet targets.
The two goals of this conference are to write a rulebook for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and to establish penalties for non-compliance. The American delegation is in locked step with these goals even though they will have a tremendous negative impact on our American lifestyle. I plan to keep you informed as the outcome unfolds.
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P.S. The real question for us is whether God is sovereign over ALL the affairs of men. Does He control the weather? Did He prophecy the seven lean years after the seven years of abundance as recorded in the Old Testament? Did He calm the storm on the Sea of Galilee as recorded in the New Testament? The bottom line is that He gave us dominion over the earth, not to abuse it, but to use and protect it until He returns. And His return could be at any time. Our greatest concern should be whether we and our families and friends are prepared for that great day.
Please continue to pray for God’s hand to move in the vote count of the Presidential elections. The outcome could have a tremendous impact on the dramatic lifestyle changes demanded by the Kyoto Protocol. May the American people through FREE and FAIR elections have the final say on who wins elections and on global warming treaties.
The Hague, Netherlands, November 17, 2000 — United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for “radical changes in the world economy, and in the way we all live” in his opening statement via video to delegates from 160 countries meeting in The Hague, Netherlands for a two-week conference concerning the Kyoto Protocol that deals with the issue of climate change. He also reminded delegates that “world leaders resolved to adopt a new ethic of conservation and stewardship, and, as a first step, to make every effort to bring the Kyoto Protocol into force by 2002” at last September’s Millennium Summit in New York. The conference goals are to create a rulebook for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and legally binding penalties for non-compliance.
The Clinton-Gore appointees in The Hague strongly support implementation of the Protocol and the legally binding penalties. In 1997, VP Al Gore flew to Kyoto, Japan to insure that America, one of only 38 nations bound by the treaty, would agree to the UN agenda even though it would devastate our economy by forcing jobs and industries to leave our shores and move to one of the 150 nations not bound by the treaty, such as Mexico and China. The Kyoto Protocol would cost American families between $3,684 and $6,400 per year for a family of four. And a recent study by the National Black Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce entitled, “Refusing to Repeat Past Mistakes,” estimated that implementing Kyoto could cost up to 3.2 million jobs, about half of them the jobs of blacks and Hispanics. Gore’ s well-known call for the elimination of the internal combustion engine is also in keeping with the Kyoto Protocol because radical environmentalists believe that more than 92% of environmental nuisances (cost of accidents, pollution, climatic change, congestion-related noise) are ascribable to the road, with only 2% caused by rail.
This call for “radical changes in the world economy and in the way we all live” should interest every American, especially since science has yet to conclude the premise of the Kyoto Protocol: that the earth is warming due to an increase in greenhouse gases emitted when fossil fuels are burned and when people breathe out. On one hand, radical environmentalists claim that rising sea levels will cause island nations to sink as glaciers and ice sheets melt, while on the other hand, they claim that the earth will become a desert. Both cannot be true, yet scientific evidence is not even being discussed in The Hague. In reality, the UN is using the climate change issue that affects people in every nation to consolidate its power over them.
During the first week of negotiations, “political” scientists met mostly behind closed doors to hammer out a rulebook for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol’s three schemes:
- trade emissions with developed countries whose emissions are lower than their targets;
- investment in emissions reduction projects in developing countries; and
- use of carbon “sinks,” forests and farmlands, to absorb carbon dioxide. The main contentions at the end of the first week regard the uses of carbon “sinks” and nuclear energy. Environmental radicals claim that the Americans want to avoid the necessity of reducing greenhouse gases by claiming that “sinks” offset their production, thereby enabling them to increase emissions by 18% from 1990 levels, while claiming that we have met our reduction target of 7% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Further, they claim “[i]f developing countries do not reject these blatant U.S. attempt at cheating, it will be they who will be the losers.” Regarding nuclear energy, the Americans hope they can break an impasse with the European Union (EU) who opposes the U.S. position on the carbon “sinks” by being “flexible” with nuclear energy since that is how France, a member of the EU, produces most of its energy.
It is difficult to believe that the rulebook and legally binding penalties will be produced by the end of next week. And it is unethical, yet typical, for lame duck President Clinton to force such drastic economic and lifestyle changes on Americans.
SOS—Save our Steak-SOS
Work It Out! That is the theme of the ongoing United Nations Climate Change Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Essentially it is a call for the United States to drop its resistance to the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty founded upon the global warming theory. Even though science about the theory is inconclusive, developing nations here are convinced that this treaty is their way out of poverty since it forces American industries and jobs to leave our shores and settle within their borders.
Global warming enthusiasts are doing their best to heat The Hague with verbal hot air, but it is just not working. The weather here is cold and rainy mixed with sleet, and there is no sign of rising sea levels even though this entire nation is below sea level to begin with. Scientific facts are frivolous to adherents of “Work It Out.”
If the UN’s global warming theory had a scientific leg to stand on, this conference would have been held in a desert-like country in order to at least try to substantiate their claims that the world will burn to a crisp unless the big bad Americans quit burning fossil fuels to drive cars and run industrial plants and, well, quit breathing out.
The Hague is anything but a desert. If you have ever heard the melodic Dutch language, you have heard the double vowels, and after spending one week in The Hague, I think I know how the language came to be. When you have been cold and wet for prolonged periods of time, you start adding ” ooh ” and ” aah ” to a lot of your words. It is hard to believe, but trust me, it happens.
Maybe the UN hopes the soggy weather will make the brains of the delegates soggy too, since there is no logical reason to attack the American lifestyle. There is no logical reason to MEASURE the amount of carbon dioxide people breathe out, or methane gas produced by farm animals and growing rice; or to LIMIT the gases which would inevitably lead to the ELIMINATION of people and farm animals; or to determine whether it would truly improve the climate if people and farm animals are ELIMINATED.
The truth is that a handful of power-hungry social and economic planners are intent on redistributing American wealth around the world using a climate stock exchange. Key planners include former Soviet Dictator Mikhail Gorbachev and his good friend Maurice Strong. While Gorbachev needs no introduction, Strong was the UN Secretary-General at the 1972 and 1992 confabs dealing with climate change, and is largely responsible for convincing people that rather than entering a new ice age, the globe is supposedly warming. Today he sits at the right hand of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in charge of “restructuring” the UN, using the global warming issue to bring nations and their economies under UN control.
The U.S. fell for the ruse when VP Al Gore flew to Kyoto, Japan in 1997 to insure the creation and America’s embrace of the Kyoto Protocol that forces 38 industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, mostly carbon dioxide that is released when fossil fuels are burned by industries and cars, and when humans breathe out, by 7% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Farm animals and rice fields emit methane gas, another greenhouse gas. The Protocol also calls on the 150 developing nations, including Mexico and China, to build their capacities to absorb our industries and jobs.
In The Hague, global planners are developing a rulebook and penalties for non-compliance of the Kyoto Protocol. Regardless the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections, the Clinton-Gore delegation says it must answer to only Mr. Clinton. Chances are good that by the end of this final week, while most Americans are enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers, the UN will be eating cake after completing the rulebook and penalties that proposes to reduce the number of humans who breathe out CO2, and intends to take away your methane gas-producing steak.
As a carbon dioxide-expelling, steak-eating Texan, I plan to express a lot of that greenhouse gas in order to expose the Kyoto Protocol ruse and retain my right to T-bone steak. Ooh-I mean–Oh, how I wish Americans knew about this scheme before the November 7 elections, because if they had known, the outcome of the election would not have even been close.