The UN Climate Change Conference in Bali

The UN Climate Change Conference

Bali, December 2007

This is what the Bali conference is all about: Global taxation, world wide socialism, and strengthening the grip of the United Nations.

Dangerous assumptions: The United Nations Climate Conference in Bali in 2007 set the world on a two-year path to negotiate a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. Yet not even the most rosy-eyed delegate could fail to recognize that stabilizing atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentrations is an enormous undertaking. Here we address the magnitude of the technological changes required to meet that challenge. We argue that the size of this technology challenge has been seriously underestimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), diverting attention from policies that could directly stimulate technological innovation.

Global Carbon Tax Urged at UN Climate Conference. A global tax on carbon dioxide emissions was urged to help save the Earth from catastrophic man-made global warming at the United Nations climate conference. A panel of UN participants on Thursday [12/13/2007] urged the adoption of a tax that would represent "a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations."

Adaptation, not emission cuts. Government officials from around the world have descended on the Indonesian resort island of Bali for two weeks of climate negotiations. The talk is of a new Kyoto-like treaty, with global caps on emissions of greenhouse gases. But such a treaty would harm the poor, hampering their adaptability to climate change, while doing little to prevent it. The science of climate change remains hotly contested, with substantial disagreements over humanity's role and impact. However, powerful interest groups have spent hundreds of millions of dollars convincing us that without urgent reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate may warm uncontrollably, with disastrous effects. As a result, there is considerable pressure on politicians to take action.

Bali diary: Fortnight Of The Undead. There was surreality in the air. The overwhelming majority of the governmental delegates, journalists, quango stallholders, fortune-hunters and environmental lobbyists who attended the UN climate conference in the soulless Nusa Dua conference centre tottered aimlessly among the clumsily-constructed sets with lugubrious expressions frozen on their messily-made-up death-masks. Monckton's Rule: the further Left, the tackier the make-up. The only laughter came from our gallant band of doubters, the heroes of this otherwise gloomy production.

Climate catastrophe? Cool it!. For many, the objective of climate change policy, debate and news reporting in 2007 seems to have been to 'shame' politicians and everybody else to take action on the threat of global warming, and account for human society's role in this apparent apocalypse. Public enemy number one has been the USA, represented by the Bush administration. The final push for 2007 came during two weeks in December, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties in Bali. American negotiators were booed towards the end of the conference for their refusal to sign up to specific carbon emissions cuts.

Climate change rallies, realities and sacrifices. The consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact, Albert Einstein noted. The United Nations and its Climate Cataclysm army of 15,000 in exotic Bali clearly understood that. They were not about to let even one fact prevent them from promoting climate scares and a successor to the Kyoto treaty. Gloom-and-doom scientists and bureaucrats owned Bali's podiums. Radical environmentalists fumed and staged stunts. Al Gore denounced President Bush, repeated myths that enthralled the Academy and Nobel committees, and demanded sacrifices — by others.

U.N. Climate Distractions: The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued the final installment of its year-long scare-the-pants-off-the public assessment of global warming. It should come as no surprise that, according to the U.N., 257 years of western development and progress has placed the Earth in imminent danger of utter disaster and that the only way to save the planet is to drink the U.N. Kool-Aid and knuckle under to global government-directed energy rationing and economic planning.

UN climate circus rolls in on CO2 cloud. It has been billed as the summit that could help save the planet, but the latest United Nations climate change conference on the paradise island of Bali has itself become a major contributor to global warming. Calculations suggest flying the 15,000 politicians, civil servants, green campaigners and television crews into Indonesia will generate the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes of extra CO2.

Great global warming debate a bunch of hot air. For a couple of weeks in December, 10,000-odd politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, activists and journalists from over 100 countries invaded Bali for a conference on climate change that probably created enough carbon debits to keep a country like ours in hock for years. And, of course, it generated vast amounts of hot air which, if global warming had anything to do with mankind's activities, would have seriously contributed to the problem.

Confronting the True Costs of Climate Change 'Prevention': The mantra is repeated daily. There is consensus on climate change. Global warming is real. It will be a disaster. Humans are to blame. We have to do something — immediately. However, the consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact, Albert Einstein noted. The United Nations and its Climate Cataclysm army of 15,000 in exotic Bali clearly understood that. They were not about to let even one fact prevent them from promoting climate scares and a successor to the Kyoto treaty.

10,000 jet in for a 'green' junket. Never have so many people converged to save the planet from the catastrophic effects of global warming, with more than 10,000 flying in to Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Delegates include ministers, Nobel laureates and drought-stricken farmers, but critics say they are contributing to the very problem they aim to solve. "Nobody denies this is an important event," said Chris Goodall, the author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life. "But huge numbers of people are going and their emissions are probably going to be greater than a small African country."

Global warmers set a hot pace at Bali. The instant Kevin Rudd signed the paper on Monday [12/3/2007] to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, he signed away $150 million of [Australia's] money. Or possibly as much as $2.5 billion, if reported leaks from senior government figures are right. If that's what we lost on just day one of our new Kyoto future, imagine what this will cost us in the years ahead.

Bali Boondoggle: As folks in the northern latitudes prepare for winter, global warming zealots are heading to the tropics to join in a gabfest about global warming.

Skeptical scientists urge world to 'Have the courage to do nothing' at UN conference. Lord Christopher Monckton, a UK climate researcher, had a blunt message for UN climate conference participants on Monday [12/10/2007]. "Climate change is a non problem. The right answer to a non problem is to have the courage to do nothing," Monckton told participants. "The UN conference is a complete waste of our time and your money and we should no longer pay the slightest attention to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,)" Monckton added.

Can't you just smell it? The 15,000 people attending the Bali conference lecture the rest of us to reduce our GHG emissions. [However] You cannot credibly lecture ordinary citizens about reducing their GHG emissions at an 11-day UN conference held at a luxury resort on a vacation island paradise, which, by the time it ends tomorrow, will have generated GHG emissions equivalent to the annual output from a small African country.

Carbon Footprints Trample on Climate Conference's Aims. With 11,000 participants from all over the world, the conference is the biggest yet. And while all the delegates have come to Bali to talk about preventing global warming, the United Nations estimates that they will also emit 50,000 tons of greenhouse gases along the way.

Manic Misinterpretations of Climate Change Capitulation by US in Bali. Much as the media completely misinterpreted what came out of the G-8 summit in Germany six months ago, press outlets today are applauding an agreement that fell far short of what global warming alarmists were hoping to achieve, and much like what transpired in June, resulted in absolutely no specific international carbon dioxide emissions cuts.

Bali Highs: More than week after the big U.N. Climate Change Conference wrapped up in Bali last month, Ms. Henny-Penny, founder and now Recording Secretary of The Holy Order of The Sky is Falling, is finally back from that fabled isle herself. … For two weeks delegates from 180 countries talked endlessly, congratulating one another on their perspicacity for discovering that if they cranked down industrial society to a crawl they might reduce carbon emissions enough for the sky to begin ascending again.

March for a climate accord falters. The UN climate summit stumbled last night towards a compromise for launching a new global agreement, but it fell well short of the expectations that many countries took to Bali.

Inconvenient Truths from Bali Climate Meeting US Media Must Ignore. When it comes to current events involving global warming, if you have any interest in learning the facts, or at least a close approximation of them, you must rely upon foreign press outlets. What transpired on Saturday [11/15/2007] is a perfect example of this maxim: after the United States got virtually everything it wanted from the United Nations climate change conference in Bali, it gave in to a relatively minor demand from delegates of developing countries.

Global Warming Goals Revealed — Will Media Report? NewsBuster Noel Sheppard reported on the global climate meetings in Bali, particularly the letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon by a number of prominent scientists stating that the global warming hysteria was overblown. Now comes an attempt by US Senator James Inhofe to warn about the true goals of this movement.

U.S. drops opposition to Bali climate deal. The United States on Saturday [12/15/2007] dropped opposition to a compromise deal at U.N. talks in Bali meant to launch negotiations on a global climate pact after appeals from several nations. "We will go forward and join consensus," Paula Dobriansky, heading the U.S. delegation, told the 190-nation meeting to cheers from many in the audience, minutes after triggering boos by saying Washington was opposed.

Bali Who? China is vastly expanding its factories and power plants — it is building another coal-fired power plant every seven to 10 days — and so opposed emission targets that would bind it. … China is already home to 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities, but Su Wei, China's top climate expert in Bali, said the burden of reducing global warming pollution is one that belongs to the wealthy, not China.

The Algorism of Global Doom: Algorism means "I'm always right, no matter how the facts turn out." The trouble is that Algorism has now invaded science. This is very bad. Everybody knows that the conclusion of Global Doom is taken for granted by good and decent people everywhere — why else did the Bali circus happen, other than to divide up the loot that is bound to follow? If there were no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow the UN wouldn't be interested.

Ethanol Loses Ground at U.N. Climate Conference. Like many experts and economists, conference participants showed little enthusiasm for first-generation biofuels produced from agriculture — primarily from corn-based ethanol. Biofuels are hitting consumers at the pump, at the grocery store, and even at tax time. Without a doubt, the extremely high cost of biofuel production outweighs its supposed environmental benefits; biofuel production may actually harm the environment more than it helps.

Bush Sells Out America at U.N. Conference. Our national "news" programs have been preoccupied with baseball players on steroids, but they should devote some attention to the Bush Administration's approval of a plan to put the United Nations on steroids. Apparently looking to leave office with the blessings of the "international community," the Bush Administration just sold out American interests at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

Progressing past Al Gore: "So," said Al Gore at the recent Bali, Indonesia, conference on global warming, "I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that." Well, no, Al, what we all know is that a sufficient degree of disloyalty, pomposity, vengefulness and incompetence can lead people to dismiss truths that don't lend them credence.

BS alert! BS alert! First, whoever chose this luxury island resort to host this conference is a total BS artist. Bali's primary industry is tourism. The way you get to it is by flying. That means its economy would collapse, as would that of many developing nations that have based their economies largely on tourism (and cheap air travel), if people ever get serious about fighting global warming.

A Solemn and Prolonged Farce. The not-so-hidden agenda of the U.N. climate conference in Bali was clear for months — beat the United States into submission — and the long run-up to Bali was carefully choreographed, with no fewer than four major reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). All of them said the same thing: Doom awaits unless we take drastic action now.

Bali Conference Highlights Global Warming Divisions. The media "heroes" of the show were the Nobel Peace Prize winners: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had a prominent exhibit, and Al Gore, who turned up, attacked his own government, and was sharply disowned by United States delegates. Almost everybody seemed to be greenwashed by the view that science has proved emissions of carbon dioxide are harming the climate and have to be reduced. But there were many reservations voiced about the sort of measures being advocated to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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