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Posted: 8:36 AM Oct 27, 2009
UN signals possible delay in climate change treaty
The United Nations is apparently lowering its expectations about reaching a climate change agreement during an international conference in December.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is apparently lowering its expectations about reaching a climate change agreement during an international conference in December.
The director of the secretary-general's Climate Change Support Team cites the lack of U.S. climate legislation, lack of carbon reduction targets from industrialized nations, and lack of funding for developing nations.
Janos Pasztor says that makes it hard to say "how far the conference will be able to go."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has made a new climate treaty his top priority to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol, which only requires 37 industrialized nations to cut emissions.
Pasztor indicates that the Copenhagen conference most likely won't produce a treaty, but instead will push governments as far as they can go on the content of an agreement.
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If this administration signs the Copenhagen treaty on climate change we will be signing away our national sovereignty. In this farce of a treaty all western industrialized nations (excluding India and China) will have to pay HUGE taxes to supposedly repair the environmental damages we did to the world. Non industrialized nations bear no responsibility for corruption or war in their own countries. It is a mass redistribution of wealth for the crime of too much CO2. The science is questionable at best and if we sign it we cannot pull out unless these third world dictators, who want our money, give us permission. We will no longer be a free nation and that reason alone trumps the questionable science promoted by dictators as an attempt to take over the world.
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