United Nations Conference in Bonn, Germany

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 5)



For Immediate Release

Contact: Cathie Adams (cathieadams@texaseagle.org)

November 1, 1999



The World Council of Churches Preaches a New "Earth Gospel"



I attended a worship service on Sunday organized by the Protestant Churches

of Germany with participation by Klaus Topfer, the UN Environment Program

(UNEP) executive director, and members of the World Council of Churches

(WCC) to the Conference of the Parties 5 (COP5) in Bonn. The WCC Program

based in Geneva, Switzerland, parallels the prophetic "one-world religion"

with its three-pronged agenda: justice, peace and creation.



Following a magnificent musical prelude, the pastor cited Philippians

2.:12, exhorting us to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and

trembling" in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

(UNFCCC) meeting in Bonn. 



"God's creation is being damaged," he said, which is "one of the greatest

threats to human existence. The WCC is involved because the threat is

deeply spiritual and rooted in the Bible. We believe they have deep ethical

and religious ramifications; we must recognize this because it is a matter

of justice and love. Love," he continued, "for one another and for the

earth. War, materialism and consumerism are problems," he claimed, but,

"happy are those who are humble. We are deeply concerned about the danger

of climate change. May God the Creator listen to our prayers," he

concluded. 



He then reviewed the evolution of the UNFCCC. Since its beginning in Rio de

Janeiro in 1992, the UN has held follow-up meetings in Berlin in 1995,

Geneva in 1996, Kyoto in 1997, Buenos Aires in 1998 and now in Bonn to

debate the mechanisms for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.



Unwittingly, the pastor preached the new "earth gospel" that industrialized

countries are doing harm to the environment and that the world needs a

far-reaching policy to achieve social and environmental "justice."

Industrialized countries must scale back our standard of living (become

humble) in order to save the earth.



The WCC has co-opted unsuspecting churches in their mission to save the

earth while they have chosen to be mute about the annual holocaust of 1.5

million human babies created in the image of God! The UN spews its

propaganda that the earth's carrying capacity (population explosion) has

reached 6 billion people, although they cannot substantiate their numbers

nor do they know how many people the earth's resources can provide for. 



Fertility rates in most "industrialized" countries are below replacement:

2.1 children per woman. The UN contends, however, that if the fertility

rate in "developing" countries drops to 2.2 children per woman, the world's

population would reach 8.9 billion by 2050 (The Dallas Morning News,

"Population problem hasn't been solved," September 11, 1999). These UN

numbers require more faith than is required by any of the world's

religions! 



Regardless, the world's largest human genocide organization, Planned

Parenthood (PP), preaches the UN message that "Americans gobble up 33% of

the world's energy and produce 25% of its solid waste." Their summer 1999

West Texas newsletter states that "[w]e have real challenges ahead of us

with 6 billion people, including educating the increasing numbers of

children, creating jobs for swelling ranks of young job seekers and dealing

with the environmental effects of population growth such as deforestation,

soil erosion and falling water tables." To the contrary, only about 5% of

America's lands are developed and 75% of the U.S. population lives on only

3.5% of our land. More than five times as much land is set aside in

national parks, wilderness areas, federal forests and federal grazing lands

than has been developed (Investor's Business Daily, September 21, 1999, by

H. Sterling Burnett, NCPA)



It is fascinating that the UN, the World Council of Churches and Planned

Parenthood preach the same "earth gospel" that places more value on tigers

and elephants than on humans. In September, for example, the UNEP reported

that representatives from 147 countries met in Lisbon to strengthen

international protections for the tiger and consider the status of a

program allowing controlled trade in elephant ivory. In contrast,

billionaires Bill Gates, Ted Turner, George Soros and Warren Buffett are

contributing a lot of their wealth to the cause of the environment and

population programs aimed at limiting/destroying humans

(http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/09/30/fp17s1-csm.shtml).



"The Ecologist" magazine, March/April 1999 edition expounds on the

spiritual aspects of the radical environmentalists in an article entitled,

"Gaia's Fever." Gaia is a female pagan deity name for the earth. The

article contends that man's industrial activities cause the earth to warm

and that mankind should not wait for "all the details in order to act"

claiming scientific proof of global warming is unnecessary. Gaia's

lifespan, they contend, is ten billion years, with at least another five

billion to go. If we do not act now, they claim, it "could be the end of

civilization for us." 



An advertisement inside the magazine's cover promotes a new book entitled,

"The Way, An Ecological World-View" by Edward Goldsmith

(http://www.uga.edu/ugapress) which puts the issue into a nutshell. Gilles

MacBain of Common Ground said about the book: "One of those books, like

Darwin's Origin of Species or Karl Marx's Das Kapital, that is going to

change the world we live in." If his assessment is true, then the radical

environmentalists have surpassed Marx who convinced too many that there was

no God and that man's innate goodness could equitably distribute wealth.

The new "earth gospel" teaches that the God-ordained church is to condone

wealth redistribution and abortion/genocide in order to save the earth.



Christians do have a responsibility to care for our environment because God

uses it to profit our health and welfare. Our responsibility, however, is

first to human beings because we, including the pre-born, are eternal

beings. The new "earth gospel" demands faith in MAN, that he CAN change the

earth's climate, rather than in Creator God. Their rhetoric about

hurricanes and melting glaciers makes me wonder what part of climate change

is causing earthquakes in various places!



In Matthew 16:2-3, Jesus told religious leaders who were testing Him by

asking for a sign from heaven, "When evening comes, you say, 'It will be

fair weather, for the sky is red,' and in the morning, 'Today it will be

stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' You know how to interpret the

appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. A

wicked and adulterous generation looks for a miraculous sign, but none will

be given it except the sign of Jonah."



This "wicked and adulterous generation" is meeting to develop rules and

mechanisms to implement the Kyoto Protocol, allegedly to save the earth,

rather than to seek and obey the Creator God. Let us, instead, be more

concerned about the climate inside the hearts of men. Those of us who place

our faith and hope in Jesus-- who was born of a virgin, died on a cross and

arose from the dead--will be saved from eternal destruction. As for the

earth, it will be done away with, by the hand of God, not of men. The

church has better things to do; we have an entire world of peoples to

reach!

End of Report IV









REPORT V:



United Nations Conference in Bonn, Germany

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 5)



For Immediate Release

Contact: Cathie Adams (cathieadams@texaseagle.org)

November 3, 1999



America's Road to Serfdom



America is following what Friedrich Hayek entitled his 50-year-old book,

"The Road to Serfdom." In the book, Hayek explains how the German "managed

economy" led to the government of Adolph Hitler and WWII. While he

correctly describes the nature of society and the errors of collectivism,

he wrongly thought that the League of Nations, the attempted predecessor of

the UN, could be used to avoid wars. If he could have foreseen how the UN

is implementing the Kyoto Protocol, he would have rewritten that chapter!



The final days at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change the Fifth

Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC-COP5) meeting in Bonn, Germany are

brimming with double-speak. The radical environmentalists have placed their

gauntlet: adopt the implementation "rules" for the Kyoto Protocol by the

2000 COP 6 meeting and set the deadline for its entry into force at 2002.

As the high level negotiations begin, however, these goals are illusive.

Unbridled by national sovereignty or science, nonetheless, the U.S. has

signed the treaty that will not be completed until possibly late 2000 or

early 2001. 



American Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Frank E. Loy, has

arrived in Bonn "pleased and proud to be part of COP 5." He says America is

"more committed than ever to deal with climate change" because of a

"growing scientific consensus on the causes and consequences of climate

change." Calling the Kyoto Protocol "the basic architecture of an

international strategy," he added that last year's Buenos Aires plan of

action "laid out a road map for turning Kyoto's broad concepts into working

realities." Loy also touted President Clinton's Executive Orders and record

funding levels for the cause.



Careful study of Loy's remarks unmasks unscientific folly. While there may

be "scientific consensus" about global warming, there is NO scientific

evidence for it. "Consensus" is based on emotions rather than facts, which

is evident by the fact that "developing" countries believe that

industrialized countries, primarily the U.S., are damaging their

environments which will bring about imminent deaths and destruction. 



Island nations, for example, are convinced that their islands will sink due

to America's industrial greenhouse gases that are supposedly causing the

West Antarctic ice sheet to melt. A recent study in "Science," however,

reports that the melting is NOT as a result of global warming (AP/Richmond

Times-Dispatch, October 8, 1999). And even if the ice sheet melted, it is

doubtful that islands would sink. Regardless, repetition of environmental

lies has led to the establishment of the "consensus" to act. Afraid to be

labeled anti-environment, governments and industries are going along with

the ruse. 



The "rules" the parties are debating in Bonn are for the three "flexible

mechanisms" of the Kyoto Protocol. Loy says the mechanisms are

"market-oriented strategies that will reap rewards for developing countries

that voluntarily reduce their emissions." In reality, they are rules that

surpass the "rules" of the World Trade Organization; the Kyoto Protocol

will allow UN bureaucrats to manage EVERY nation's economy. 



The first mechanism is called a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It would

allow "developed" countries to use certified emissions reductions from

project activities in "developing" countries to contribute to their

compliance with greenhouse gas reduction targets. Using the CDM, America

could build high-tech, environmentally sound power plants in Mexico,

Brazil, Saudi Arabia or one of the other 147 "developing" countries. In

other words, the Kyoto Protocol would allow Americans to transfer

technologies to developing countries in order to gain greenhouse gas

credits and keep our "home fires" burning.



The second "flexible mechanism," called Joint Implementation (JI), would

allow America to obtain credits toward our greenhouse gas reduction target

(7% below 1990 levels by 2008-2012) through project-based emission

reductions in other "developed" countries through "public-private

partnerships," a.k.a. fascism.



The third "flexible mechanism" would allow America to pursue, through an

umbrella group (a climate stock exchange), the implementation of a trading

regime. The U.S. could buy emissions permits from countries that have

already met their targets with room to spare.



Underscoring the fact that the Kyoto Protocol is NOT intended for "free

people" or "free markets, verification, reporting and accountability

"rules" must be developed for each of these mechanisms. New UN

bureaucracies will attempt to verify greenhouse gas emissions, but how are

they measured? Will Texas ranchers have to register their cows (methane gas

producers) along with a description of their diets in order to appease the

UN bureaucrats? Will trees and other "greenhouse gas" absorbers known as

"sinks" have to be registered with the UN? What penalties will be foisted

upon Americans and American industries if we do not comply? Who will impose

the penalties?



Americans should demand immediate de-funding of the UN because it is the

most abusive hot air producer on earth and because it recognizes no

borders! While Under Secretary of State Loy believes that if a Republican

is elected president in 2000, he will join in support of the Kyoto

Protocol's finished document because the "science is getting hard," I

believe weak-willed politicians who substitute sound science for

"scientific consensus" do not deserve our support! And any politician who

aids "the road to serfdom" should be turned out of office!

End of Report V