'Global warming' hype reaches fever pitch
But critics doubting data compare ideology behind movement to Communism, Nazism
Posted: January 24, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
As cold weather sweeps across much of the U.S. and buries New England in
several feet of snow, global warming hyperbole reached new heights today as an
apocalyptic international report, "Meet the Climate Change," warned the world
is reaching a "point of no return" that will bring unprecedented famine and
drought catastrophes.
The report was assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, the Centre for American Progress in the United States and the
Australia Institute.
It warns the danger point will be reached when temperatures rise by 2 degrees
Celsius above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750, before the
industrial revolution – and the world may be only 10 years away.
While the global average temperature has only 0.8C, according to the data
gathered by those advocating radical actions, the global warming lobby sees the
glass half empty – cautioning the world has little more than a single degree
of temperature latitude before the crucial point is reached.
In addition to famine and drought of spectacular proportions, the report warns
of increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests.
"There is an ecological time bomb ticking away," said Stephen Byers, former
British transport minister and a close ally of British Prime Minister Tony
Blair.
The report urges all G-8 countries to agree to generate a quarter of their
electricity from renewable sources by 2025, and to double their research
spending on low-carbon energy technologies by 2010.
The report comes just three weeks before the Kyoto Protocol, designed to deal
with the climate change issue, takes legal effect on signatories Feb. 16.
The controversial Kyoto Protocol became binding on industrialized nations who
have signed onto it after Russia reluctantly moved to ratify it.
But, Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reports, Vladimir Putin's personal economic
adviser, Andrei Illarionov, said last summer Russia's approval of Kyoto came
under severe duress – an "all-out and total war on Russia" directed by Blair.
He said the pressure included "bribes, blackmail and murder threats."
Illarionov said global warming advocates refused to answer questions posed to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a Moscow symposium. He claimed
British science advisers tried to stop skeptics from being heard.
"When this attempt to introduce censorship ... failed, other attempts were made
to disrupt the seminar," said Illarionov.
Illarionov said "none of the assertions made in the Kyoto Protocol and the
'scientific' theory on which it is based have been borne out by actual data.
.... There is no evidence confirming a positive linkage between the level of
carbon dioxide and temperature change. If there is such a linkage, it is of a
reverse nature. ... The statistical data ... are often considerably distorted
if not falsified."
While some in the U.S. have offered sharp criticism of the ideology driving the
global warming crusade, none of the rhetoric has been as penetrating as
Illarionov's, who compared it "with man-hating totalitarian ideology with which
we had the bad fortune to deal during the 20th century, such as National
Socialism (and) Marxism."
"All methods of distorting information existing in the world have been
committed to prove the validity of these theories," he continued.
"Misinformation, falsification, fabrication, mythology, propaganda. Because
what is offered cannot be qualified in any other way than myth, nonsense and
absurdity.
Illarionov's comments, made in a press conference, were quoted by the Moscow
News but received little international attention.
He described the protocol as "one of the biggest, if not the biggest,
international adventures based on man-hating totalitarian ideology, which,
incidentally, manifests itself in totalitarian actions and concrete events,
particularly academic discussions, and which tries to defend itself using
disinformation and falsified facts. It's hard to think of any other word but
'war' to describe this."
Yuri Izrael, one of the three vice chairmen of the panel, said: "The Kyoto
Protocol aims to impoverish our country, and not only us but our children and
grandchildren."
"There have been examples in our fairly recent history of how a considerable
portion of Europe was flooded with the brown Nazi ideology, the red Commie
ideology that caused severe casualties and consequences for Europe and the
entire world," said Illarionoc. "Now there is a big likelihood that a
considerable part of Europe has been flooded with another type, another color
of ideology, but with very similar implications for European societies and
human societies the world over. And now we in Russia are facing a historical
opportunity: Are we going to let the genie out of the bottle as the previous
generations let the Nazi and Communist genies out of the bottles or not?"
While Putin agreed to participate in Kyoto, some observers believe he left
Russia enough wiggle room for his country to back out of ratification.
Under the Kyoto Protocol, undeveloped Third-World nations – including China,
India, Brazil and Mexico – will be free to produce whatever they want. Yet 82
percent of the projected emissions growth in future years will come from these
countries. This is why many critics see is global wealth redistribution scheme
rather than a real plan to improve the environment.
"The wealth of the United States is, and has always been, the target," says Tom
DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center. "The new scheme to grab the
loot is through environmental scare tactics."
He predicts international corporations, "who owe allegiance to no nation, will
bolt America and move their factories, lock, stock, and computer chip to those
Third World countries where they will be free to carry on production. But that
means the same emissions will be coming out of the jungles of South America
instead of Chicago. So where is the protection of the environment? You see,
it's not about that, is it?"
He points out that hidden in the small print of the treaty is a provision that
calls for the "harmonizing of patent laws."
"Now, robbing a nation of its patent protection is an interesting tactic for
protecting the environment, don't you think?" he adds.
DeWeese concludes: "The fact is that one person now stands between the global
warming jackals and economic sanity — George W. Bush. Will he stand firm in
his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol? Or will he capitulate to massive
international pressure and sell America's soul?"
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'Global warming' hype reaches fever pitch
But critics doubting data compare ideology behind movement to Communism, Nazism
Posted: January 24, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
As cold weather sweeps across much of the U.S. and buries New England in
several feet of snow, global warming hyperbole reached new heights today as an
apocalyptic international report, "Meet the Climate Change," warned the world
is reaching a "point of no return" that will bring unprecedented famine and
drought catastrophes.
The report was assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in
Britain, the Centre for American Progress in the United States and the
Australia Institute.
Sounds like WorldNutDaily *****. The IPPR issued the following press
release TODAY. Black is white, eh?
http://www.ippr.org.uk/press/index.php?release=352
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As chair of the G8, the Prime Minister should seek agreement to create
a G8-Plus Climate Group to engage the US and major developing countries
in action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a high-level
taskforce established by the Institute for Public Policy Research
(ippr), the Centre for American Progress and the Australia Institute.
In its report out tomorrow (Tuesday), the International Climate Change
Taskforce concludes such a group would provide a way for G8 countries
and other major economies - including India and China - to take action
that would lead to large-scale reductions in emissions. The G8-Plus
Climate Group would pursue partnerships to achieve immediate deployment
of existing low-carbon energy technologies, including agreements to
shift agricultural subsidies from food crops to biofuels and promote
sales of highly efficient cars.
The report also argues that all G8 countries should set a lead by
adopting national targets to generate at least 25 per cent of
electricity from renewable energy sources by 2025 and mandatory
cap-and-trade schemes for emissions, like the EU scheme. In the US, this
could happen through the Climate Stewardship Act, proposed by Republican
Senator John McCain and Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman, and could
provide a path for US re-entry into a global climate change agreement
after the Kyoto Protocol's first phase ends in 2012.
The Taskforce also calls on governments to agree to a long-term
objective of preventing global temperature from rising by more than 2 C
above pre-industrial levels. Other key recommendations include:
* The need for a step-change in financial and technical assistance
for developing countries to adapt to climate change.
* The creation of a leadership coalition of countries to move ahead
with reforms to boost investment in climate-friendly energy technologies
worldwide.
Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP, co-chair of the Taskforce with US Republican
Senator Olympia Snowe, said:
"Our planet is at risk. With climate change, there is an ecological
time-bomb ticking away, and people are becoming increasingly concerned
by the changes and extreme weather events they are already seeing.
Urgent action is required if we are to win the battle against this
problem. That can only happen with strong political leadership.
"I appreciate that tackling climate change is politically difficult.
First, there is a mismatch between the potentially unpopular decisions
that need to be taken now and the benefits that will come in the medium
and long term. Secondly, no country acting on its own can resolve the
issue. Strong international action is vital.
"The Taskforce with its diverse membership has been able to find common
ground. Our recommendations are practical, realistic but also
challenging. World leaders need to recognise that climate change is the
single most important long term issue that the planet faces and to
discharge their responsibilities to the people they represent by
agreeing to concerted international action to tackle climate change."
Key recommendations of the Taskforce include:
1. The G8 and other major economies, including from the developing
world, form a G8+ Climate Group, to pursue technology agreements and
related initiatives that will lead to large emissions reductions.
2. The G8-Plus Climate Group agree to shift their agricultural
subsidies from food crops to biofuels, especially those derived from
cellulosic materials, while implementing appropriate safeguards to
ensure sustainable farming methods are encouraged, culturally and
ecologically sensitive land preserved, and biodiversity protected.
3. G8 governments establish national renewable portfolio standards
to generate at least 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources by
2025, with higher targets needed for some G8 governments.
4. G8 governments increase their spending on research, development,
and demonstration of advanced technologies for energy-efficiency and
low- and zero-carbon energy supply by two-fold or more by 2010, at the
same time as adopting strategies for the large-scale deployment of
existing low- and zero-carbon technologies.
5. All industrialised countries introduce national mandatory
cap-and-trade systems for carbon emissions, and construct them to allow
for their future integration into a single global market.
6. A global framework be adopted that builds on the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol,
and enables all countries to be part of concerted action on climate
change at the global level in the post-2012 period, on the basis of
equity and common but differentiated responsibilities.
7. A long-term objective be established of preventing global average
temperature from rising more than 2 C (3.6 F) above the pre-industrial
level, to limit the extent and magnitude of climate-change impacts.
8. Governments remove barriers to and increase investment in
renewable energy and energy efficient technologies and practices by
taking steps including the phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies and
requiring Export Credit Agencies and Multilateral Development Banks to
adopt minimum efficiency or carbon intensity standards for projects they
support.
9. Developed countries honour existing commitments to provide
greater financial and technical assistance to help vulnerable countries
adapt to climate change, including the commitments made at the seventh
conference of the parties to the UNFCCC in 2001, and pursue the
establishment of an international compensation fund to support disaster
mitigation and preparedness.
10. Governments committed to action on climate change raise public
awareness of the problem and build public support for climate policies
by pledging to provide substantial long-term investment in effective
climate communication activities.
All of the Taskforce's recommendations are designed to build on the
UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol to help ensure that climate change is
addressed effectively over the long term.
Jonathon Porritt Taskforce member and Chair of the Sustainable
Development Commission said:
"As the news about climate change goes on getting worse, political
inertia all around the world remains the biggest barrier to finalising
an appropriate response. It's now critically important to inject some
creative new thinking into today's climate change negotiations, and the
Taskforce has an important contribution to make to that process."
Notes to editors:
The International Taskforce was established in March 2004 by the
Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), the Centre for American
Progress and the Australia Institute. The Taskforce is co-chaired by
Labour MP Stephen Byers and Republican Senator Olympia Snowe. Its
14-strong membership - listed below - includes eminent people from
politics, business and civil society from both developed and developing
countries.
The report 'Meeting the climate challenge: recommendations of the
International Climate Change Taskforce" will be launched on Tuesday 25
Jan 2005, in the UK by the Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP, Taskforce Co-Chair,
Adair Turner: Vice-President of Merrill Lynch Europe and former Director
General of the Confederation of British Industry and Jonathon Porritt:
Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission.
Taskforce co-chair Rt Hon Stephen Byers MP will be presenting evidence
on the Taskforce recommendations to the House of Commons Environment
Select Committee at 4.30pm on Wednesday 26 January.
The Prime Minister will be delivering a speech on climate change and
development to the World Economic Forum in Davos on 27 January.
The International Science conference at the Hadley Centre will debate
the long-term implications of climate change from 1-3 February.
Taskforce members are:
Rt. Hon. Stephen Byers MP: former Secretary of State for Trade &
Industry and for Transport, Local Government & the Regions (UK). (Co-Chair)
Senator Olympia Snowe: Two-term Republican Senator from the State of
Maine and Member of the Senate Committees on Finance, Intelligence, and
on Commerce, Science and Transportation (USA). (Co-Chair)
Hon. Bob Carr MP (Labor): Premier of New South Wales (Australia).
Professor John Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy and Director
of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (USA).
Dr Martin Khor, Director of the Third World Network (Malaysia).
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet: Member of the National Assembly, President
of the the governing UMP' health & environment Committee, and former
environment advisor to Prime Minister Raffarin and President Chirac
(France).
Dr Claude Martin, Director General of WWF International (Switzerland).
Professor Tony McMichael: Director of the National Centre for
Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at the Australian National
University (Australia).
Jonathon Porritt: Chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission and
Co-Founder and Programme Director of Forum for the Future (UK).
Adair Turner: Vice-President of Merrill Lynch Europe and former Director
General of the Confederation of British Industry (UK).
Professor Ni Weidou, Director of the Clean Energy Centre at Tsinghua
University, Beijing (China).
Dr Ernst von Weizsäcker: member of the German Bundestag (for the
governing Social Democratic Party). Chairman of the Bundestag's
Environment Committee. Former President of the Wuppertal Institute for
Climate, Environment and Energy (Germany).
Hon. Timothy E. Wirth: President of the UN Foundation, former
Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs under President Clinton,
former Senator (Democrat). (USA).
Cathy Zoi: Group Executive Director of Bayard Capital, former Executive
Director of the Sustainable Development Energy Authority of New South
Wales (Australia).
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