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October 4, 2009
Copenhagen Treaty Will Demand American Taxpayers Buy "Dignity" for Third World
Posted by Van Helsing at October 4, 2009 9:08 PM
Anyone who doubts that the global warming hoax aggressively promoted by Chairman Zero and his comrades at the UN is a Trojan horse for world socialism need only look at this draft of the Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty produced by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
Successful countries are called upon to severely restrict economic activity; backwards hellholes — usually ruled by socialist tyrants — face no such restrictions. But that's not enough to guarantee equal poverty for all, so they slipped in a clause on page 122 decreeing that some countries will be expected to:
(a) Compensate for damage to the [less developed countries'] economy and also compensate for lost opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity, as many will become environmental refugees;
(b) Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures.
The environmental refugee business is science fiction out of an Al Gore fever dream, but the damage to our economy if we are forced to buy "opportunities, resources, lives, land and dignity" for the entire Third World with our economy shackled in pointless CO2 restrictions will be quite real. The phrase "environmental justice" is Newspeak for "spreading the wealth around" until there isn't any left to spread, while masking the injustice in sanctimonious ecofreak blather.
Liberal elitists dream of a one-world government under the thumb of which everyone but them is a half-starved, powerless peasant with zero chance of ever accomplishing anything, because anything we create will only be expropriated. The United Nations exists for a single purpose: to make this nightmare come true. Comrade Obama is on board with the program, as is every last liar in the governmedia who pays lip service to the nonexistent global warming crisis.
Via What's Up With That? On a tip from WUWT reader.
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"While many warmist organizations concentrate on pushing lifestyle changes related to CO2 emissions, we usually see that framed in reference to total CO2 emissions per country. When you look at the per capita values, an entirely different picture emerges-"
TOP Co2 PRODUCERS BY NATIONALITY
CO2 Emissions (per capita) 2003 by country
#1 Qatar: 40.6735 per 1,000 people
#2 United Arab Emirates: 28.213 per 1,000 people
#3 Kuwait: 25.0499 per 1,000 people
#4 Bahrain: 20.0253 per 1,000 people
#5 United States: 19.4839 per 1,000 people
#6 Luxembourg: 17.977 per 1,000 people
#7 Trinidad/Tobago: 16.8278 per 1,000 people
#8 Australia: 16.5444 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 15.8941 per 1,000 people
#10 Singapore: 13.8137 per 1,000 people
#11 Czech Republic: 12.115 per 1,000 people
#12 Belgium: 12.0632 per 1,000 people
#13 Palau: 11.9096 per 1,000 people
#14 Estonia: 11.1657 per 1,000 people
#15 Finland: 10.8403 per 1,000 people
#16 Russia: 10.7402 per 1,000 people
#17 Ireland: 10.6612 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 10.6545 per 1,000 people
#19 Nauru: 10.3924 per 1,000 people
#20 Germany: 10.1591 per 1,000 people
#21 Saudi Arabia: 10.072 per 1,000 people
#22 Israel: 9.99186 per 1,000 people
#23 Japan: 9.61204 per 1,000 people
#24 Denmark: 9.44788 per 1,000 people
#25 United Kingdom: 9.23587 per 1,000 people
DEFINITION: CO2: Total Emissions (excluding land-use) Units: thousand metric tonnes of carbon dioxide Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
SOURCE: World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita&b_map=1
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LIST OF COUNTRIES RANKED BY 2006 TOTAL CO2 EMISSIONS FROM FOSSIL-FUEL
(UNIT : Tons of CO2 per capita)
COUNTRY TONS OF CO2 PER CAPITA
Qatar 49.26
Kuwait 34.22
United-Arab-Emirates 32.94
Bahrain 28.62
Luxembourg 23.89
USA 18.95
Australia 17.93
Canada 16.65
Oman 16.03
Saudi-Arabia 16.03
Estonia 13.02
Finland 12.62
Kazakhstan 12.62
Singapore 12.51
Taiwan 11.93
Czech-Republic 11.16
Russia 10.94
Ireland 10.32
DATA : Marland, G., T.A. Boden, and R. J. Andres. 2008. Global, Regional, and National CO2 Emissions.
In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A.
http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/overview.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/05/i-wonder-why-greenpeace-never-protests-in-qatar/
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"Statistics ... show that the nations which are per capita responsible for the largest CO2 emissions are those in the Middle East.
According to the official data, the single largest per capita offender for emissions is the nation of Qatar, which has an emission count of 40.6735 per 1,000 people. Second on the list is the United Arab Emirates, which has an emission count of 28.213 per 1,000 people.
Third on the list is Kuwait, which has an emission count of 25.0499 per 1,000 people, followed by Bahrain with a count of 20.0253 per 1,000 people.
The United States of America, often blamed as the single largest producer, is in fact only fifth on the list, with an emission count of 19.4839 per 1,000 people.
The United Kingdom ranks 25th on the list, with a count of 9.23587 per 1,000 people. This is considerably lower than Trinidad and Tobago, which is seventh of the list with an emission rate of 16.8278 per 1,000 people; Singapore, which with an emission rate of 13.8137 per 1,000 people is tenth on the list; and Palau, in the Pacific Ocean, which has an emission rate of 11.9096 per 1,000 people and is thirteenth on the list.
Other nations which have higher emission rates than Britain include Nauru (19th on the list with an emission rate of 10.3924 per 1,000 people) and Saudi Arabia (21st on the list with an emission rate of 10.072 per 1,000 people)."
Posted by: chairman soetoro's oprichniki at October 4, 2009 10:44 PM
Lets take all those worthless UN treaties and run them all through the papershredder its what their doing to our constitution
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at October 4, 2009 10:56 PM
It's funny that nobody ever makes the connection between the grinding poverty of Third World countries (Africa in particular)....and the absolute corruption in their governments & the accompanying lack of political freedom. Or how "successful" countries keep corruption down through transparency and *don't* have death squads going house-to-house looking for "enemies of the state."
It's almost like...there's some connection between poverty and dictatorship. Do you think?
One last thought - I've BEEN to Africa. I visited one of the countries in the sub-Saharan part, the portion which Americans think of when they hear the name "Africa." Predictably, I saw griding poverty, civil war, disorganization, and the lack of pretty much everything developed countries take for granted.
It is hard to picture how the people living there would have been any worse off under colonialism pre-1960 than they are now. At least in those days, you didn't have petty despots overthrowing the government which was set up last Tuesday and killing everyone who belonged to the prior regime.
Posted by: Cylar at October 4, 2009 11:05 PM
Whatever happened to the good old days...when the West did what it thought was best and told the rest of the world to "stuff it" if they didn't like it? What were they going to do, invade America? Side with the Soviets?
Posted by: Cylar at October 4, 2009 11:07 PM
Those are some interesting statistics, Chairman. One more thing to consider is that in the past America had a lot more to show for their CO2 emissions than any of the Middle Eastern countries that have greater per capita emissions in terms of contributions to the world at large.
Posted by: Judith M. at October 5, 2009 3:50 AM
"The development of Africa should not go alongside the same mistakes that the developed world already made - to have these high emissions that are now affecting the whole world."
(The lack of development in Africa is not due to climate change.)
They discussed a suggestion that developed countries should cut emissions by at least 40% by 2020, and that richer nations should provide $67bn (£40bn) a year to help the least well-off cope with rising temperatures.
(Guess who gets to pay those millions a year?)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8217449.stm
Posted by: Sassy at October 5, 2009 5:13 AM
What, African dictators don't get enough in "humanitarian aid"? Is the UN stupid enough to think that any of this will go to the right people? All it will do is fill the coffers of tyrants out of guilt. US OUT OF THE UN
Posted by: Jay B at October 6, 2009 6:24 AM
