By Jim McConalogue of the European Journal
You may have noticed or been watching the United Nations Climate Change Conference of UN Ad Hoc Working Groups taking place this week and ending today at the Hotel Maritim in Bonn. Because the untruths about global warming were exposed at the UN Copenhagen summit last year, and which ultimately led to negotiations failing, they have kept a tight lid on the public relations for sessions this year but the deception continues.
This week has seen the third round of UN climate change negotiations with representatives from 178 governments meeting in Bonn to pave the way for the major UN Climate Change Conference in Cancún in November and December, even though there is no real scientific proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases resulting from human activity.
It raises the question of why politicians should devote our scarce resources in a globally competitive world to a false and ill-defined problem, whilst ignoring the real problems the entire planet faces, such as extreme poverty, hunger, disease or terrorism.
Copenhagen failed for a reason – the rationale and theory behind targets and mitigation measures are false and misleading. The same is still true in Bonn as the prepared text to facilitate negotiations demonstrates.
The future and poverty of the youngest people in Britain depends upon what is said in Bonn and the oppressive targets agreed in Cancún in December. If we swallow it all again, then surely we are condemning the people of Britain to live and work for an economy bound by pseudo-scientific targets and costly mitigation measures and regulations. It is ultimately the taxpayers who will pay.
Britain and all industrialised countries have made public pledges to cut emissions by 2020 which are proving to be no more than unobtainable, ideological sound bytes. We simply cannot continue to perpetuate the delusions and our Climate Change Act ought to have already been repealed by the present Government.
Given that we are not in fact responsible for global warming, I can only suggest that the Governments committed to these summits are wasting taxpayer money on a grand scale with breath-taking hypocrisy through the channels of the United Nations.
It would be devastating to starve individuals and businesses in the United Kingdom of credit and liquidity during the economic crisis whilst handing over exorbitant amounts of money to other nations, not in the name of poverty or saving lives, but a generalist notion of climate change and its supposed mitigation.
The Government should not be helping to raise 100 billion dollars a year by 2020, when it cannot even afford to sufficiently alleviate our own national economic crisis.
