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Originally Posted by bellsisland
Hi seashore!
The Copenhagen deal is so wrong.
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Hi back at you!
Here is some background information, taken from
"Enslavement by a New Copenhagen Protocol to the Climate Change Treaty" by Henry Lamb:
"Copenhagen is about to become the successor to Kyoto as the synonym for the U.N.'s plan to control climate change. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen December 7-18...
The UNFCCC was a voluntary treaty through which the United States agreed to voluntarily reduce carbon emissions in 1992. At the very first meeting of the COP [Conference of Parties] in 1995, the delegates decided to add a 'Protocol' to the treaty that would make specific emissions reduction targets set by the U.N. body legally binding on 34 developed nations. The U.S. Senate adopted a resolution instructing the Clinton administration to not participate in the Protocol unless it included all nations, or if it would have a negative impact on the U.S. economy.
At the third meeting of the COP in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, the U.S. delegation followed the Senate's instruction and refused to agree to the terms set for the United States by the U.N. body, because the developing nations refused to accept any reduction in their carbon emissions. The impasse lasted well into the second week of the meeting.
Then, Prince Albert Gore made his entrance. In a private meeting in his hotel suite, Gore negotiated a deal that completely ignored the Senate resolution...
One of the two really good things that George W. Bush did was to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol altogether...
The Copenhagen meeting is supposed to produce the successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which will expire in 2012..."