By Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil -
Obama and UN seek to transform
The following commentary by Ben Zycher on the United Nations’ top climate change official, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), tells how the goal of UNFCCC is to “intentionally transform” the world's economic development model. In Christina Figueres own words, spoken on February 4th:
This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model. This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for the last 150 years; since the industrial revolution.
Instead of focusing on the central issue which is addressing the cost effectiveness of the global warming issue, the main focus continues to be on the nearly irrelevant causation issue. Neither does Christiana Figueres seem to understand that a transformation of the "economic development model" is a repository of consequences unintended but predictable; foremost among them, the impoverishment of many millions of people.
Africa in the crossfire with other 3rd world countries
Much rides on the UN Kyoto Protocol of 1992 that legally binds developed countries to emission reduction targets. The Protocol’s first commitment period started in 2008 and ended in 2012. The second commitment period began in January 2013 and will end in 2020.
Regarding CO2 emissions in Africa: Carbon emissions are estimated to be lower compared to western and emerging countries. In so far as South Africa is so addicted to coal and dependent on coal, the country itself has very high emissions – 13th biggest emitter in the world -- in contrast to the rest of the continent, where most countries have very low emissions, or even zero emissions.
The irony is that those who are behind the U.N. Agenda 21 road map, claim all of the changes they want forced upon us are for the good of our planet and people. That simply is not true, and South Africa is a case in point. The cost to switch from coal towards renewable energy in South Africa would be significant. Energy needs in Africa and other developing countries will increase as countries become more industrialized and prosperous. Restricting or reducing CO2 emissions in places such as South Africa, to those below its position of 13th in the world, would cause much hardship and limit overall the growth within the African Continent. Even in this day and age heating and cooking is widely done by African natives with animal dung patties, which is a source of unhealthful pollution.
Questions as to why the push for a successful UN Kyoto Protocol by 2020
Some brave souls have begun questioning whether there are more sinister and self-serving reasons that the UN Kyoto Protocol be successful by 2020. Could one covert reason be to reduce populations by making life even more difficult for third world poor populations to prosper? In 2009 a report was published by Scientific America, first appearing in Earth Talk produced by E/The Environmental Magazine, which questioned whether the rate of people reproducing needed to be controlled in order to save the environment. They postured that human population growth is a major contributor to global warming, as humans use fossil fuels to power their increasingly mechanized lifestyles. According to the United Nations Population Fund, human population grew from 1.6 billion to 6.1 billion people during the course of the 20th century. It was that unprecedented increase that began to concern people, who then began looking for ways to control our population. The United Nations Population Fund, likewise predicts that fast-growing, developing countries will contribute more than half of global CO2 emissions by 2050, thereby erasing other countries' adoption of long held over-consumptive ways.
This article also published in 2009, began raising the question as to whether, given population and sustainability, the planet could avoid not limiting the number of people (or slowing the rise in human numbers) to save the planet.
Alex Epstein, in his book "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels" -- adapted from a published review by Jay Lehr, Director of Science at the Heartland Institute -- "lays out a clear story that the use of fossil fuels in the less developed world has dramatically increased life expectancy and reduced infant mortality. Epstein further states that "millions of individuals in industrialized countries finally have their first light bulb, their first refrigerator, their first decent paying job, their first year with clean drinking water or a full stomach.” Hence, the moral case for fossil fuels is ultimately not about fossil fuels; it is the moral case for using cheap, plentiful, reliable energy to amplify our abilities to make the world a better place for human beings.
Shame on our leaders for proposing massive bans on fossil fuels with the promise that these radically inferior technologies will be their replacements, reflecting either an ignorance or indifference to the need for efficient cheap reliable energy for 1.3 billion people without electricity and over 3 billion who do not have adequate electricity.
In summing up his moral argument, Epstein made this excellent and common sense statement:
We don’t want to save the planet from human beings; we want to improve the planet for human beings. We need to say this loudly and proudly. We need to say that human life is our one and only standard of value. And we need to say that the transformation of our environment, the essence of our survival, is a supreme virtue. We need to recognize that to the extent we deny either, we are willing to harm real flesh and blood human beings for some antihuman dogma.
In a message to media and legislators: "We will no longer take it!"
The time has come for truths to be told, and for the media to provide facts and articles by skeptics. We no longer are confident in the reporting on this important issue, nor do we have confidence in those who have already proven to have reported misinformation. It is imperative that the unreported agendas of those at the highest level of government be fully documented by credible sources and revealed for what they portend for future generations of Americans.
While we are grateful more climate scientists and experts from other related fields have begun to carefully study these important issues and are finding fault with highly reported conclusions, we must demand their work be printed and reported. The views of skeptics are important for us and future generations, so that any misrepresented figures, deceptions, and mistakes are widely reported and revealed to the public.
It may become necessary for an enlightened public to demand that the media cease their practice of only publishing material that reflects the views of the U.N. and those of the ilk of Al Gore. Accordingly, when so-called “established” facts are refuted, they must be reported as such by a media that has proven itself highly prejudiced to only one viewpoint. The public deserves a two-sided debate, and it may come to the point citizens may have to demand it.
It is up to informed citizens, scientists and other experts to investigate and report false or questionable information about global warming in order to set the record straight. Those with opposing opinions and fact must write letters and articles to newspapers and other offending media sources. Any media source that refuses to publish credible material should be exposed. Derelict and biased media sources, and our elected legislators, must know that anything less is unacceptable to a concerned public.
Bravo to The Heartland Institute for being the leader in the field of education by getting facts out to legislators here in the US, and individuals worldwide, about the false premise of global warming which has been and continues to be pushed worldwide as proposed by UN Agenda 21.
Tnorner & O'Neil: Fighting climate change through compact cities without cars (Part 1)
Thorner & O'Neil: UN promotes Global Warming consistent with Agenda 21 (Part 2)
Thorner & O'Neil: Man's folly to curb CO2 emissions continues to advance unabated (Part 3)
Thorner & O'Neil: Will Agenda 21 continue to go forward despite proven deception (Part 4)
