A New Sneak Attack on America: UN Revives Kyoto Treaty to Threaten US Economy
Tom DeWeese - American Policy Center 11.16.01
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While Americans have their attention focused on the events in Afghanistan, UN representatives met in Marrakesh to breath life into the moribund Kyoto Climate Control Treaty. Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center characterized it as "another sneak attack on this nation." Two thousand delegates from 165 nations met in Morocco to discuss how to enforce the UN's global warming treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, as international law. According to the UN, once 55 nations who produce a total of 55% of the so-called greenhouse gases ratify, the treaty will enter force.
"In other words, the UN would become a global environmental police force," said DeWeese, "pressuring nations that don't concur with this economically paralyzing treaty to comply. President Bush has already deemed the Kyoto Protocol unacceptable and the Senate has voted 95-0 against it, yet the UN is intent on bringing America's economy to its knees."
Even the Marrakesh meeting demonstrated how divided representatives were. Russia and other coalitions of nations demanded and received deep concessions in the final hours of negotiations.
"Everyone knows that the science behind Kyoto is flawed and littered with untruths," said DeWeese, "and everyone knows the UN is intent on implementing the treaty because it would give them global jurisdiction over industry throughout the entire world."
"The earth has not warmed at all in the past half century," said DeWeese. "The treaty represents a way to gain control over the economy of the United States through its emissions mandates. This treaty has been rejected by both the President and the Senate." Even if fully enforced, the mandates of the treaty would have no effect whatever on the earth's climate.
"The UN abhors the US as a superpower," said DeWeese. "Only months ago, the U.S. was kicked off the UN Human Rights Commission. Global jurisdiction and thwarting the growth of the U.S. economy are the only goals of the UN and
the Kyoto Protocol."
The Center, a grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, VA, has repeatedly warned that "our nation needs to produce more energy, not less, especially during this time of economic uncertainty and war."
DeWeese has called on President Bush to rescind Clinton's signature from the treaty. "This would eliminate the allusion that the US has any intentions, whatsoever, of cooperating in this global sham."
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