Climate panel skeptical about Copenhagen conference
Six weeks from now, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, to hammer out a treaty on climate change. But a panel at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies said they were skeptical a treaty would translate into real action.
Over 120 undergraduates, graduates and professor flocked to Kroon Hall Wednesday afternoon to listen to four members of the Yale World Fellows program speak about the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. While the World Fellows said a comprehensive treaty is necessary to replace the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, they warned that...
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By Tanner
9:00a.m. on November 2, 2009
The only thing this confrence will produce will be reems of paper. And of course more jobs in China and less cheaper less regulated countries.
The danger of the Copenhagen treaty (or formally, the "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change") is that it establishes a "transnational government" (Source: "Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?" by Janet Albrechtsen, Wall Street Journal, October 28,2009. Link is at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574500580285679074.html?mod=googlenews_wsj).
These claims were made in a speech given October 14, 2009, at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, by British Lord Christopher Monckton; an excerpt is available on YouTube under the title "Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40
Lord Monckton was a policy advisor to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Wall Street Journal article (referenced above) mentions the specific pages and clauses of the treaty that have alarmed Lord Monckton.