Global Warming Informercial
A new U.N. report demands draconian cuts in carbon emissions, according to this article in Voice of America:
Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax
By Peter Heinlein
United Nations
28 February 2007
A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.
In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.
The report was issued three weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity. But unlike the IPCC report, this latest document makes policy recommendations.
Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University says the world must be mobilized immediately to avoid catastrophe. "Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly," he said.
The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done.
Holdren, however, says even these measure will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. "We don't think ultimately society will get it right in terms of the full range and scope of activities needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until there is an additional incentive in the form of a price on greenhouse gas emissions, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade approach," he said.
The United States is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, but is not a party to the cap and trade system contained in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Nevertheless, the Bush administration has set a target of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012, and is spending $3 billion a year on climate change research.
Peter Raven, the head of the Sigma Xi Scientific society and co-author of the latest report, says success in limiting the effects of global warming will require private sector leadership, and a combined effort by the U.S. and the international community. "The private sector is doing a very good job, and kind of leadership we're calling for from the United Nations and international organizations and the kind of leadership the United States is moving towards will both be key ingredients in that," he said.
A U.N. spokesman says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is considering calling a summit meeting on climate change later this year. Environmental activists are calling on Mr. Ban to play a leading role in the process of negotiating a successor to the Kyoto agreement, which expires in 2012.
Now, anybody familiar with informercials or snake-oil salesmen should recognize the approach of panel member John Holdren; tell the mark that they have a dire need, that you have something they simply cannot live without (in this case a program to reduce carbon emissions) which will solve all of their problems, and tell them time is fast running out and they have to act now or never. Don`t allow them time to think about it, or let them walk away. Consider ``The Music Man``; Harold Hill wanted to scam the town of River City by selling them musical instruments and promises to teach music, promises he never intended to keep. He needed a crises, so latched onto the newly opened pool hall, which became the focus of all evil. He whipped the town into a fury over the evils of pool, then brought the means of salvation with the River City Boys Band-just the wholesome thing needed by the young sprouts who would be seduced into hanging around the pool hall, using such obscene expressions as gee-whiz. Of course, the townspeople had to act quickly to bring salvation to such a wanton place! Doesn`t that bear a strange resemblance to Mr. Holdren and his cadre of Climate Doomsayers?
Notice, too, that the answers always involve either global taxation or a worldwide system of regulation. Either scenario means the growth of government-both of the individual nations AND of intranational bodies such as the U.N. Despite dubious talk at the end about private companies, the fact remains that this house of cards cannot be maintained by private enterprise, and they all know it. Not everybody is going to go along with a voluntary carbon-trading scheme, and compliance has to be enforced by law. Furthermore, there is no such thing as economic balance; the economy either grows or shrinks. Capping carbon emissions means artificially stopping growth-which means the economies of the world shrink. What is a shrinking economy? A recession, that`s what! You cannot stifle economic growth without causing catastrophic economic problems, and if the world had adopted Kyoto we would probably be facing a worldwide depression.
All of this over unsubstantiated science. These guys have very little evidence to support their claim that human carbon emissions are driving catastrophic global warming, yet we are being asked to accept a fundamental shift in our lifestyle, our economic system, and our system of world governance.
Well, I`m from Missouri and you have to show me! I`m not prepared to surrender our national sovereignty to the United Nations, nor surrender our American lifestyle to a bunch of envious socialists over dubious claims of disaster. I want to see proof that the very minor warming we have witnessed is clearly linked to human emissions and not to the other factors which drive climatic conditions. We have plenty of theory, incomplete models and the like, but no hard science, no smoking gun. It`s time to put up or shut up, Gang Green!
I`m not the only one; we have a ``Denier`s Summit`` meeting in Australia!
(Thanks, Jack!)
Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax
By Peter Heinlein
United Nations
28 February 2007
A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.
In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.
The report was issued three weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity. But unlike the IPCC report, this latest document makes policy recommendations.
Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University says the world must be mobilized immediately to avoid catastrophe. "Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly," he said.
The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done.
Holdren, however, says even these measure will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. "We don't think ultimately society will get it right in terms of the full range and scope of activities needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until there is an additional incentive in the form of a price on greenhouse gas emissions, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade approach," he said.
The United States is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, but is not a party to the cap and trade system contained in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Nevertheless, the Bush administration has set a target of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012, and is spending $3 billion a year on climate change research.
Peter Raven, the head of the Sigma Xi Scientific society and co-author of the latest report, says success in limiting the effects of global warming will require private sector leadership, and a combined effort by the U.S. and the international community. "The private sector is doing a very good job, and kind of leadership we're calling for from the United Nations and international organizations and the kind of leadership the United States is moving towards will both be key ingredients in that," he said.
A U.N. spokesman says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is considering calling a summit meeting on climate change later this year. Environmental activists are calling on Mr. Ban to play a leading role in the process of negotiating a successor to the Kyoto agreement, which expires in 2012.
Now, anybody familiar with informercials or snake-oil salesmen should recognize the approach of panel member John Holdren; tell the mark that they have a dire need, that you have something they simply cannot live without (in this case a program to reduce carbon emissions) which will solve all of their problems, and tell them time is fast running out and they have to act now or never. Don`t allow them time to think about it, or let them walk away. Consider ``The Music Man``; Harold Hill wanted to scam the town of River City by selling them musical instruments and promises to teach music, promises he never intended to keep. He needed a crises, so latched onto the newly opened pool hall, which became the focus of all evil. He whipped the town into a fury over the evils of pool, then brought the means of salvation with the River City Boys Band-just the wholesome thing needed by the young sprouts who would be seduced into hanging around the pool hall, using such obscene expressions as gee-whiz. Of course, the townspeople had to act quickly to bring salvation to such a wanton place! Doesn`t that bear a strange resemblance to Mr. Holdren and his cadre of Climate Doomsayers?
Notice, too, that the answers always involve either global taxation or a worldwide system of regulation. Either scenario means the growth of government-both of the individual nations AND of intranational bodies such as the U.N. Despite dubious talk at the end about private companies, the fact remains that this house of cards cannot be maintained by private enterprise, and they all know it. Not everybody is going to go along with a voluntary carbon-trading scheme, and compliance has to be enforced by law. Furthermore, there is no such thing as economic balance; the economy either grows or shrinks. Capping carbon emissions means artificially stopping growth-which means the economies of the world shrink. What is a shrinking economy? A recession, that`s what! You cannot stifle economic growth without causing catastrophic economic problems, and if the world had adopted Kyoto we would probably be facing a worldwide depression.
All of this over unsubstantiated science. These guys have very little evidence to support their claim that human carbon emissions are driving catastrophic global warming, yet we are being asked to accept a fundamental shift in our lifestyle, our economic system, and our system of world governance.
Well, I`m from Missouri and you have to show me! I`m not prepared to surrender our national sovereignty to the United Nations, nor surrender our American lifestyle to a bunch of envious socialists over dubious claims of disaster. I want to see proof that the very minor warming we have witnessed is clearly linked to human emissions and not to the other factors which drive climatic conditions. We have plenty of theory, incomplete models and the like, but no hard science, no smoking gun. It`s time to put up or shut up, Gang Green!
I`m not the only one; we have a ``Denier`s Summit`` meeting in Australia!
(Thanks, Jack!)
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 5:38 AM
3 Comments:
"the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling."
So I will be taxed for every degree over 80 because I exist.
Bottom line is we are going to have open wallets to the global warming fanatics and pay through our teeth to them.
Al Gore an Alien?Global Warming used as weapons?The real story is here:
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/
"Weather Wars and Area 51"
Penguins "Fed Up" With Media Attention"
Pete the penguin confided to this reporter, "It has gotten so we can't eat, drop a load, or even fool around with the missus without some yahoo taking a picture of the details, and we are sick of it. Penguins have rights, too, you know. They call themselves scientists, but all they are is a bunch of peeping Toms."
While other penguins in the brood looked on from a distance and chatted amongst themselves, Pete intoned, "…we just want to be left alone. If these bozos don't stop harassing us…well, next time they see us, it will be in international court".
``So I will be taxed for every degree over 80 because I exist.``
You breath, don`t you, Mike? Exhale CO2? Shame on you for that!
Gore rather DOES look like a mechanical device being operated by a pilot seated inside, doesn`t he!
Great points! Thanks!
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