> The Coming Climate Dictatorship
> Posted 07:43 PM ET
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> Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the
> president extraordinary powers in the event of a "climate emergency." As
> chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
>
> If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden
> passages that threaten our freedoms and liberty, take a peak at the
> "trigger" placed in the byzantine innards of both the House-passed
> Waxman-Markey bill and the Kerry-Boxer bill just passed by Democrats out
> of Sen. Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee.
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> As Nick Loris of the Heritage Foundation points out, the Kerry-Boxer bill
> requires the declaration of a "climate emergency" if the concentration of
> carbon dioxide and other declared greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
> exceeds 450 parts per million (ppm). It was at about 286 ppm before the
> Industrial Revolution and now sits at around 368 ppm.
>
> That figure was picked out of a hat because the warm-mongers believe
> that's the level at which the polar ice caps will disappear, boats can be
> moored on the Statue of Liberty's torch and dead polar bears will wash up
> on the beaches of Malibu.
>
> The Senate version includes a section that gives the president authority,
> under this declared "climate emergency," to "direct all Federal agencies
> to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions ... to
> address shortfalls" in achieving greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions.
>
> What the "appropriate actions" might be are not defined and presumably
> left up to the discretion of the White House. Could the burning of coal be
> suspended or recreational driving be banned? Sen. David Vitter, R-La.,
> asked the EPA for a definition and received no response.
>
> Competitive Enterprise Institute scholar Chris Horner says "this agenda
> transparently is not about GHG concentrations, or the climate. It's about
> what the provision would bring: almost limitless power over private
> economic activity and individual liberty for the activist president and,
> for the reluctant leader, litigious greens and courts" packed by liberal
> Democrat appointees.
>
> Writing in the Financial Times recently, Czech President Vaclav Klaus,
> author of the book, "Blue Planet, Green Shackles," said: "As someone who
> lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I
> see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and
> prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not communism."
>
> Klaus, who has challenged Al Gore to a debate and has rejected Europe's
> embrace of Kyoto, told the Cato Institute recently that "environmentalism
> is a religion" that accepts global warming on faith and seeks to exploit
> it to reshape the world and economic order.
>
> "Environmentalism only pretends to deal with environmental protection," he
> told the libertarian think tank. "Behind the terminology is really an
> ambitious attempt to radically reorganize the world."
>
> The Minnesota Free Market Institute recently hosted an event at Bethel
> University in St. Paul, Minn. Keynote speaker Lord Christopher Monckton,
> former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, warned
> of one of the consequences of Copenhagen - the loss of American
> sovereignty.
>
> "I read that treaty," Lord Monckton said, "and what it says is this: that
> a world government is going to be created. The word 'government' actually
> appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second
> purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third
> World countries, (to satisfy) what is called, coyly, 'climate debt' -
> because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't."
>
> This nation was founded and built by those yearning to breathe free. Its
> freedoms are imperiled by those demanding that we breathe pure. We are
> human sacrifices to the earth goddess Gaia. Loss of sovereignty to both a
> federal and a world government and redistribution of wealth on a global
> scale - all this in the name of saving the planet from a concocted threat.
>
> As we have said, the road to Copenhagen is being paved with good
> intentions. |
