Don’t Be Fooled By A Cooling Copenhagen

As you know, next month Obama will go to Copenhagen for continued negotiations on a UN climate change treaty. The treaty is not politically popular here at home, and some say Obama will not move as boldly at Copenhagen as he might have a few months ago. The conventional wisdom is that he will make agreements to agree, which may be furthered or fulfilled at the next big climate change pow-wow in Mexico 2010. Any delay on this insanity should be considered a win for the nation, but do not think for a minute that nothing of substance will come out of Copenhagen.

Indeed, both the U.S. and Great Britain have made it clear that they will hammer out the financial responsibility aspects of the treaty, and therein lies the snare. This treaty is all about the money– we and Western Europe will be providing it to the rest of the world as “economic reparation” for being the horrid creators of global warming. Our first downpayment is to be in the neighborhood of $250 billion. Remember, this treaty is the product of the powerful communists in the green movement, and a global redistribution of wealth is at it’s core.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Barack Obama are certainly on the same page…Brown addressed the Lord Mayor’s banquet saying:

In just three weeks time countries will gather at the UN conference in Copenhagen to forge a new international agreement to combat global warming. And let us be clear what such an agreement must involve. Britain is prepared to lead the way proposing a financial plan to ensure all countries can cut carbon emissions. And this should form part of a comprehensive agreement based on politically binding commitments of all countries, which can be implemented immediately and which can act as the basis for an internationally legally binding treaty as soon as possible. The agreement must contain the full range of commitments required: on emissions reductions by both developed and developing countries, on finance and on verification.

And Obama in China:

“Our aim … is not a partial accord or a political declaration,” Obama said, “but rather an accord that covers all of the issues in the negotiations and one that has immediate operational affect.

“This kind of comprehensive agreement would be an important step forward in the effort to rally the world around a solution to our climate challenge.”

Instead of reaching a final deal in Copenhagen, a strategy dubbed “one agreement, two steps” was unveiled at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit over the weekend in Singapore.

The first step would be to have all 191 countries involved in the Copenhagen summit signing on to a framework that includes key ingredients, such as how to finance the coordinated effort to battle climate change. The second step will probably be pushed to the 2010 summit in Mexico, where a binding deal on cutting carbon emissions, would be hashed out.

Delays are battle-wins for us, but do not forget the big war. We have a year for scientists who don’t buy what Al Gore is selling to be bold and speak as loudly as they can, and for the real agendas and consequences of this potential nightmare to become evident. Scientists will encounter much opposition (like the EPA silencing), but the American people know a scam when they see one. We have a small amount of time left to clue them in.

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