Copenhagen Climate deal ‘in the balance’

October 20, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

www.irishtimes.com

Prospects for a new UN climate pact in December remained in the balance after talks among big emitters today but with signs of action by Brazil, India and Australia.

“It’s more do-able today than yesterday,” British energy and climate secretary Ed Miliband said at the close of a two-day meeting of 17 emitters that account for about 80 percent of world greenhouse gases.

“It remains in the balance in my view”.

Todd Stern, Washington’s climate envoy who co-hosted the meeting, echoed hopes of a deal despite sluggish progress in 190-nation talks meant to end with a new pact to fight global warming in Copenhagen in December.

“More progress needs to be made but we think that something can be done,” he said.

Both he and Mr Miliband said there was no “Plan B”, for example to delay Copenhagen inot 2010.

Earlier, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged world leaders to go to Copenhagen for the Dec. 7th-18th meeting, up to now intended as a gathering for environment ministers.

“Leaders must engage directly to break the impasse,” he told the talks. “I’ve said I’ll go to Copenhagen, and I’m encouraging them to make the same commitment.”

Talks are bogged down in disputes between industrialised and developing countries over how to share out curbs on emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels. Just one week of formal talks remains before Copenhagen, in Barcelona in early November. Read full article…

Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?

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On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic, gave a presentation at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. In this 4 minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

A draft of the petition can be read here:
http://www.globalclimatescam.com/documents/un-fccc-copenhagen-2009.pdf

Page 18: Section 38 of the “Share vision for long-term cooperation action plan” contains the text for forming the new government.

Page 40: Section 46 Subsection H of the “Objectives, scope, and guiding principles” contains the text for enforcement and establishment of the rule of law.

There has been considerable debate raised about Monckton’s conclusion that the Copenhagen Treaty would cede US sovereignty. His comments appear to be based upon his interpretation of the The Supremacy Clause in the US Constitution (Article VI, paragraph 2). This clause establishes the Constitution, Federal Statutes, and U.S. TREATIES as the supreme law of the land. Concerns have been raised in the past that a particularly ambitious treaty may supersede the US Constitution. In the 1950s, a constitutional amendment, known as the Bricker Amendment, was proposed in response to such fears, but it failed to pass.

Lord Monckton served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly challenged Al Gore to a debate to which Gore has refused. Monckton sued to stop Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” from being shown in British schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in-favor of Monckton, ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton travels internationally in an attempt to educating the public about the myth of global warming.