COP21 will held in Paris France from November 30 to December 11 2015 with the stated objective of achieving a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world. The reason this is required is that, according to government scientists, global temperatures must not exceed 2 degrees Celsius (C) above pre-industrial levels; or there will be dire and irreversible consequences to the planet and humanity.
This increase in global temperature is claimed, by these same scientists to be directly caused by CO2 levels going from just under 300 parts per million (ppm) 200 years ago to almost 400 ppm today because of the use of fossil fuels i.e. coal, oil and natural gas. The term they use for this theory is Anthropogenic Climate Change meaning man made climate change. To achieve this stated goal Carbon Dioxide CO2 emissions must be quickly stopped since according to NASA current temperatures are at 14.81 degrees C and pre-industrial temperatures were around 13.5 degrees C. If we add 2.0 degrees C to 13.5 degrees C we get 15.5 degrees C only .69 degrees C above where we are now and that means at their current rates of increasing we will exceed that 2 degrees C level before 2050.
The expected proposal from the COP21 conference will be a legally binding international treaty that will place a heavy carbon tax on the developed world i.e. North America and the European Union (EU). This tax will make carbon based fuels very expensive in these countries which will therefore drive down their use and allow alternative energy to take their place. Since this will be a United Nations tax it will go to the United Nations and be used to offset dislocation problems in the developing world. According to the proposed draft agreement dated October 5, 2015 the sign up dates for the states are from March 2016 to March 2017 and the agreement goes into effect 30 days later according to article 17 and article 18.
President Obama has stated that he will take the treaty developed by the COP21 conference to the United Nations as soon as he gets it and since the Catholic Pope has also supported this effort it’s unlikely that the UN will not approve it. It’s very likely that processes much like what was used to get the Treaty with Iran will be used to get congress to approve this treaty since all the Washington elitists want this to happen; more tax money. This means that congress will pass a bill that they must be involved in the process and the President will sign it. The net result of this will be that it will take a 2/3 vote to stop instead of a 2/3 vote to pass.
These are the major (but not all) steps leading to the COP21 conference.
The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1970 and the Clean Air Act 42 U.S.C. §7401 et seq. (1970) The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. Among other things, this law authorizes EPA to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) to protect public health and public welfare and to regulate emissions of hazardous air pollutants.
This perceived problem of CO2 had its beginnings in the United Nations (UN) Conference on the Human Environment, which met at Stockholm from June 5th to June 16th 1972. What happens over the next 45 years can be directly traced to this conference! The following discussion highlight only a few of the major events that have led many to believe that all life on earth is threatened by there being too many people a principle first proposed by Thomas Malthus, an early English economist. Malthus published and essay in 1798 titled An Essay on the Principle of Population where he proposed that sooner or later population growth will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe; which later technology prevented from happening.
The 1972 Stockholm conference led to European studies on the role of Carbon Dioxide and the environment such as the SCOPE 13 The Global Carbon Cycle paper published in 1979 by the Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) in Paris. This paper showed very dire results for increased levels of Carbon Dioxide, and reignited the old Malthusian catastrophe concept of too many people for the planets scarce resources.
Next was the National Academy of Science (NAS) study on the issue also published in 1979 which is now called the Charney Report, which agreed that there was a problem and justified their conclusions by defining a key number need in the science. They looked at the work of a young scientist working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) James E. Hansen’s high estimate of 4.0 C and added .5 degrees C to it for uncertainty. Then they took another scientist working a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Syukuro Manabe’s low estimate of 2.0 C and subtracted .5 from it for uncertainty. Lastly they average the two which then gives us a 1.5 C Low value, an 3.0 C expected value and a 4.5 C high value as the CO2 sensitivity values which are what are still used today thirty five years later.
Next was the creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which was set up in 1988 by the United Nations (UN) at the request of two of its other organizations; the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) formed in 1950, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) set up after the Stockholm Declaration in 1972. The IPCC’s mission is to provide comprehensive scientific assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change, specifically Anthropogenic Climate Change. A key point here is the IPCC was never charged with proving whether the anthropogenic assertion true or not it was only charged with determining how bad it would be; in essence assuming it was true.
The next major event was the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth-Summit), held in Rio-de-Janeiro on June 13, 1992, where 178 governments voted to adopt the program called UN Agenda 21. This was a comprehensive blueprint for creating a “sustainable” world which went from world governance to local school boards and zoning boards which meant that “every” aspect of a person’s life was to be controlled by UN Agenda 21. This program based on Carbon Dioxide rising world temperatures beyond the point where humans could maintain a civilization completed all that was needed for implementation and we were off on a Quest to save the planet.
President George H. W. Bush signed the Agenda 21 agreement in 1992 after it was passed at Earth-Summit and the US House of Representative then passed a Concurrent Resolution 353 on October 2, 1992 after being introduced by Nancy Pelosi indicating support for UN Agenda 21. Then a few months later the US Congress started the process of funding Agenda 21 in 1993 under a Clinton executive order 12852 establishing the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD)
Next is Al Gore who was a Congressman from Tennessee (1977–85) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state’s Senators. While in Congress became interested in Climate Change and he was instrumental in getting James E. Hansen funding from Congress to study the problem of Climate Change which was known as Global Warming back then and removing Will Happer and eminent scientist that opposed it.
Gore was very active in the environmental movement while he was Bill Clinton’s VP. Gore continued to promote the movement, after leaving office, and his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” was released in 2006; this documentary was a story about how the burning of fossil fuels was destroying the planet. It seemed to be targeted at young adults without the education to discern truth from fiction and it was very successful in achieving negative awareness on the subject. Gore’s work in climate change activism earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Unfortunately, the message in that documentary was not factually correct and appeared to be only an emotional appeal to support the regulation of Carbon Emissions’ (CO2) in some form of Carbon Tax.
On April 2, 2007 in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 549 U.S. 497 (2007), the U.S. Supreme Court in a case from twelve states and several cities of the United States against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was decided 5-4 to force that federal agency to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) as pollutants. This case legally made CO2 a pollutant and set the stage for the EPA to shut down coal power among other things.
An interesting fact, Al Gore was one of the investors that had helped set up a Carbon Trading exchange in Chicago along with a then young Barack Obama (on the board of the major investor The Joyce Foundation located in Chicago) that they named the Chicago Carbon Exchange CCX in 2003. When the American Clean Energy and Security Act was not passed by the US Senate in 2009 the CCX exchange folded the following year, 2010. Gore had been very vocal on this subject and if HR 2454 had been passed by the US Congress Gore would have become very wealthy; so the question is was his involvement in the movement because he believed what he was promoting or because what he was promoting would have made him very wealthy?
April 2009 published in nature V 458 is the justification for the 2 degree Celsius limit on global temperatures. Meinshausen et al. (2009) found that if we limit cumulative CO2 emissions from 2000-2050 to 1,000 Gt (approximately an 80% cut in global emissions),
This brings us to Bill Gates with his Gates Foundation that has taken up the cause of stopping Anthropogenic Climate Change which they believe will cause the planet to overheat and create a mass extinction and possibly even ending human life. This movement has now taken the look of a religion and therefore no debate allowed. Bill Gates gave a presentation at TED2010 (Technology Entertainment Design) where as part of that presentation he described a simple equation to show what was needed to reduce Carbon Dioxide to save the planet. Gate’s equation is CO2 = P x S x E x C which is the amount of CO2 emitted is equal to the number of people (P), times the service they use (S), times the energy per service (E), times the CO2 per unit of energy. Gates after explaining this equation goes on to describe the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe from CO2 and the necessary goal of Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. The only way to get to Zero emissions is that one of the numbers in Gate’s equation needs to go to ZERO.
On June 23, 2014 the Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is free to regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, as long as the source of emissions in question is a traditional polluter, like a factory or a power plant, rather than a school or a shopping mall.
Sadly very little of any of this is actually true. There was real concern for pollution in the 1970 when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created but as the hard core believers took over the agency they went way beyond the legitimate initial goals and they are now in the process of forcing a shift to wind and solar energy by taxing carbon out of existence. The COP21conference was to be the crown jewel of the movement but a number of years ago NASA global temperatures stopped moving up and the satellite data supported the pause as they called it. Based on analyzing the NASA temperature data it appears that a serious effort was made in to manipulate the temperatures first in 2009 and then again in 2014. This data manipulation by NASA (at the demands of the administration) is in the process of totally destroying the credibility of the worlds scientific community.
