The head of the American delegation Stuart Eizenstat said last night that
we have a "long night ahead with no assured results." That's been the
continuing saga at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Despite of the snail's pace negotiations in Buenos Aires, Eizenstat smugly
spoke about the progress being made back home citing the diminished
business opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. He claims that now dozens of
companies want to make it work mentioning utilities as an example. He said
about the progress, "This is a sea change" and that an aggressive program
of domestic outreach will "increase that significantly."
At the UN conference, Eizenstat said he wants the G77/China (132 developing
countries) to agree to "meaningful participation." He explained that that
would mean categorizing the nations by per capita wealth, then setting
"abatement targets" for greenhouse gas emissions that would provide for "a
growth target lower than business as usual."
Imagine the international bureaucracy necessary to assess, implement and
oversee the different targets and the loss of national sovereignty because
of penalties for non-compliance. Regardless, the Clinton Administration
wants to impose the devilish Treaty.
The Kyoto Protocol was signed in New York yesterday in order to signal to
the world that America is serious about climate change, but there is
NOTHING to gain by impressing the UN. Chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Jesse Helms has already taken away any wind that the
signing may have put in its sails. He notified Secretary of State Madeleine
K. Albright that she should "recommend to the President that he quickly
submit the treaty for Senate advice and consent so that the Senate may
reject the treaty and scrap the Kyoto Protocol process altogether."
The President isn't letting Senator Helms' promise slow his radical
environmental agenda. Senator Joseph Lieberman is in Buenos Aires to
introduce a bill being proposed in the U.S. Congress (S. 2617) that intends
to be an "early credit bill that will bring in small businesses." It's as
if Lieberman wants to make amends to the President for publicly rebuking
him on the Senate floor for his sexual perversion.
Just as Clinton lied about committing adultery, he is lying when he tells
the American people that the Kyoto Treaty would be inexpensive to
implement. Clinton's own Department of Energy has produced a new study that
says gas prices could raise by $.66 per gallon, electricity prices by 86%
and coal prices could more than double by 2010.
The Treaty would force American industries to be gutted and/or moved to one
of the 132 nations that don't have to adhere to the Treaty unless they
"voluntarily" establish their own greenhouse gas emission standards.
Countless American jobs would be lost and our standard of living would be
drastically reduced.
Americans need to ask our Congressmen to support Senator Helms' call to
"reject the Treaty and scrap the Kyoto Protocol process altogether."
Furthermore, Congress must reject Senator Lieberman's bill (S. 2617)
because it intends to impose the Kyoto Treaty using the legislative
process.
The mainstream media claims that Americans only care about "the economy
stupid." If that is true, then we'd better be concerned that the European
Union labels our wealth and standard of living "immoral" to the developing
world.
Americans wake up! Recognize that it is NOT IMMORAL to have freedom or
ingenuity or free markets. If the rest of the world wants a higher standard
of living, then let them learn from our Constitution that has granted the
U.S. national sovereignty and its people the freedoms necessary to EARN our
standard of living. And let's not forget that we owe the UN nothing, even
though regrettably it owes the U.S. its very existence. Now is the time to
dismantle the UN's global government before it is used to dismantle the
U.S.
If delegates at the conference come to "consensus" on a final document,
then I plan to send a final report before departing Buenos Aires on Sunday.
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