Posted on 12/20/2009 1:31:09 PM PST by Bean Counter
As President of the United States before and during the COP15 Climate Summit of December, 2009, you willfully and knowingly engaged in criminal behavior that:
(1) will greatly worsen our unfolding global Climate Crisis;
(2) will result in the deaths of millions of humans and other creatures;
(3) severely threatens the lives of your own children; and
(4) continues and extends the lethal, planet-ruining practices of your criminal predecessor, George W. Bush.
Your criminal indictment:
1.. You directed U.S. COP15 negotiators to introduce a proposal to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 4% by the year 2020, based on 1990 levels.
2.. You knew when you directed these negotiators to make this proposal that the International Panel on Climate Change had estimated that GHG reductions of 25% to 40% below 1990 levels are needed by 2020 to avoid greater than 2C degrees of global warming.
3.. You knew, prior to COP15, that the United Nations Secretariat had predicted a reduction in GHG emissions of only 4% by the year 2020 based on 1990 levels will lead to a 3C degree rise in global warming and to a concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide of 550 parts per million (ppm).
4.. You knew, prior to COP15, that independent scientists have concluded a reduction in GHG emissions of only 4% by the year 2020 based on 1990 levels would result in atmospheric carbon dioxide soaring to over 750 ppm and to 3.9 C of global warming.
5.. You knew, prior to COP15, that rises greater than 2C of global warming will likely trigger dangerous and runaway climate conditions, threatening to turn the Earth into a forbidding planet unlike that on which human civilization developed.
6.. You knew, prior to COP15, that GHG cuts of more than 45% from 1990 levels by 2020 are likely needed to get on a path for the only scientifically credible target for a safe planet: 350 ppm.
7.. You have prevented the United States from endorsing 350ppm.
8.. You knew, prior to COP15, proposals like the U.S.'s would result in the death or displacement of millions of people and the extinctions of hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of species.
9.. You knew, prior to COP15, President Mohamed Nasheed, of the Maldives, had called GHG reductions like the U.S. proposal "the logic of the madhouse, a recipe for collective suicide."
10.. You knew, prior to COP15, proposals like the U.S.'s would sign a death warrant for many of the world's poorest children. Up to 250,000 children from poor communities could die from hostile climate conditions before the next major climate meeting in Mexico at the end of 2010.
11.. You knew, prior to COP15, proposals like the U.S.'s would mean, in the words of Sudan's COP15 delegate, Lumumba Stanislas Dia-ping, the "incineration" of Africa-the land of your father.
12.. You knew, prior to COP15, proposals like the U.S.'s would badly harm climates and economies of 106 countries of the Africa Group, the Alliance of Small Island States, the Least Developed Countries Group, the Bolivarian Alliance--those least responsible for causing the Climate Crisis.
13.. During COP15, you refused to materially change the U.S. 4% GHG reduction proposal. The summit then failed to achieve any binding GHG reduction targets.
14.. These are your crimes. We are the People of the Planet. We demand you stop this criminal behavior, or, like Richard Nixon, resign from office now.
Duff Badgley is the leader of the One Earth Climate Action Group and was a candidate for Governor as a Green in 2008. He can be reached at 206-283-0621 or eduffb@hotmail.com
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom." M.L. King
“Duff Badgley is the leader of the One Earth Climate Action Group and was a candidate for Governor as a Green in 2008.”
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"Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase, which literally translates "Work Makes Free",
Is Diet Coke illegal now?
Death Panels? (2) will result in the deaths of millions of humans and other creatures;
other creatures, lol...
(3) severely threatens the lives of your own children; and
By burying them in mountains of debt? 4) continues and extends the lethal, planet-ruining practices of your criminal predecessor, George W. Bush.
Global temperatures went down under Bush.
The Left wants him arrested; the Right wants him arrested... but does anyone really believe that Obama will be arrested... LOL...
BE STILL MY HEART!
If only they had one of these warrants in the Sears Christmas Wish catalog, huh?.
I'm all for it. Hell, charge him with assault on leprechauns for all I care. Whatever it takes to get him out of the White House and into leg irons works for me.
Drop it.
hey at this point whatever works!!!
ok
Are these people mentally ill? We have some sick people running this country.
You have to wonder, no?
I do think it’s amusing to watch Libtards eat one another though...
Liberlism is a mental illness.
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