When my backyard in Orlando looks like this:-
Posted on 02/22/2005 9:03:17 AM PST by MikeEdwards
The Kyoto Protocol, which came into effect on February 16, 2005 in a blaze of celebrations, proves the power and might of obscure Canadian, Maurice Strong.
As one of its prime architects, Strong helped lay the groundwork for Kyoto at the United Nations 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Under the Kyoto Protocol to that year’s UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), industrialized nations are to reduce their combined emissions of six major greenhouse gases during the five-year period from 2008 to 2012 to below 1990 levels.
Never mind that Kyoto mandates reductions in carbon dioxide emissions to combat an as yet unproven global warming threat, or that the treaty is predicted to plunge nations into economic ruin.
So far, some 128-member states have ratified the accord, with the two largest countries in the world, Russia and Canada expected to follow suit.
No mean feat for a man you mostly read about on the Internet.
If Maurice Strong, depending on which day of the week it is can be found hustling in the corridors of United Nations headquarters, or ensconced in the offices of Prime Minister Paul Martin, can be the Pied Piper of Kyoto, consider the impact of his next encore.
Along with former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Strong is joint chairperson of something that sounds almost as vague as the Kyoto Protocol did in opening chapters. That something is called the Earth Charter Initiative. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
I understand that one objective of the Kyoto Treaty is to have the global temperature drop by .04 degree by the year 2100. Can anyone else corroborate this piece of info?
How will we know if it works?
I guess we'll have to pass down the delegation of finding the answere to our grandchildren's grandchildren.
Interesting. The text of the Kyoto Protocal does not claim that the climate is changing or that anthropogenic CO2 has any way affected the climate.
When my backyard in Orlando looks like this:-
Yes, a "predicted" .04 degrees Cesius in the year 2100. And that's WITH the U.S. on board.
According to Kyoto, if the treaty is "sucessful" the temperature rise will be delayed by six years - in other words, the temperature would be the same as it was six years earlier without Kyoto.
Even its supporters admit its a "symbolic" effort. And that's assuming they're right about human effect, CO2 effect and so on, which is not borne out in actual scientific data.
Another huge If: No one knows whether the greenhouse effect results in more cloud cover or less. Clouds have a much larger effect on temperature.
I think its an important point in debate that you've identified: Kyoto will NOT stop, cure, fix global warming (even if you buy their bogus science.)
Maurice Strong Ping!
Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!
http://www.sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html
By Henry Lamb
January, 1997
Shortly after his selection as U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan told the Lehrer News Hour that Ingvar Carlsson and Shirdath Ramphal, co-chairs of the U.N.-funded Commission on Global Governance, would be among those asked to help him reform the sprawling, world-wide U.N. bureaucracy. His first choice, however, announced in the Washington Post on January 17, 1997, was none other than Maurice Strong, also a member of the Commission on Global Governance.
Strong's appointment as Senior Advisor, "to assist planning and executing a far-reaching reform of the world body," is seen by U.N. watchers to be a masterful strategic maneuver to avoid political opposition while empowering Strong to implement a global agenda he has been developing for years. More than 100 developing nations coordinated a "Draft Strong" movement in 1995 to replace Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
But Strong's name was never presented publicly as a candidate. His appointment avoids the public scrutiny and the possibility of a veto. As a Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan, Strong will have a free hand to do what he wants while Annan takes the heat - or the praise. Strong prefers to operate in the background. He, perhaps more than any other single person, is responsible for the development of a global agenda now being implemented throughout the world. Although various components of the global agenda are associated with an assortment of individuals and institutions, Maurice Strong is, or has been, the driving force behind them. It is essential that Americans come to know this man who has been entrusted with the task of "reforming" the U.N. - this man Maurice F. Strong.
(The rest at the link at the top)
Great Catch, JJ! Yep. WEF delivers right on schedule.
Closing Plenary: What We Should Do in 2005 [snip]
Companies, especially the companies that run the world’s media, have a critical responsibility to help spread this message, said Daniel Vasella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Novartis, Switzerland. Only by building public awareness and support for achieving these goals can political leaders move forward.
Thank you, JesseJane. It is important to read this doc - read it twice, and you will detect the differences between the different voices in that panel. One side advocates FREEDOM, the other side advocates CONTROL AND REGULATIONS OVER OTHERS. (This latter side promotes "paying the middleman". Whereas the former promotes an independent to independent, country to country, trade). I like Freedom. And without someone digging into my back pocket.
A MUST read is NR's Maurice Strong: International Man of Mystery.
Agreed.
Time to drain that swamp..
Maurice Strong is also point man for the Liberal Party of Canada and implicated in oil-for-food scandal..... And, of course, the Liberals in Canada are also involved in a massive scandal regarding misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars....
Maurice Strong is also a key player in Power Corp. (a major Liberal Party supporter) and company that stands to benefit hugely from the Kyoto Protocol because of its Chinese coal-mining ventures....
Maurice Strong is also point man for the Liberal Party of Canada and implicated in oil-for-food scandal..... And, of course, the Liberals in Canada are also involved in a massive scandal regarding misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars....
Maurice Strong is also a key player in Power Corp. (a major Liberal Party supporter) and company that stands to benefit hugely from the Kyoto Protocol because of its Chinese coal-mining ventures....
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