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 5, 1999



Final Week of the UNFCCC in Review



· The UNFCCC COP 5 in Bonn, Germany has concluded. Delegates agreed to

accept the scientific consensus that human activities are causing the earth

to warm even though science has not proven the emotional claims. 



· The scientific study group created by the UN, the Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change (IPCC), is largely responsible for creating the ruse even

though they have yet to publish even a glossary for a scientific paper

proving the earth is warming. Nonetheless, the IPCC says, "It is not a

question of whether the earth's climate will change, but rather when, where

and by how much."



· The secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Professor Godwin Olu Patrick Obasi admits that "limitations of data, and

current levels of scientific knowledge for the detection and attribution of

observed climate variability and change constrain the establishment of

definite associations between these observed phenomena and human induced

climate change to the realms of scientific debate." He adds, "The WMO have

identified some serious deficiencies in the global observing systems for

climate." 



· Progress has been made on last year's Buenos Aires Plan of Action that is

to lead to entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol. The deadline set for

decisions on the Buenos Aires plan is next year in The Hague, The

Netherlands at the sixth Conference of the Parties (COP 6). 



· Executive Secretary Michael Zammit Cutajar says that the Kyoto Protocol

must enter into force by 2002. Federal Chancellor of Germany, Gerhard

Schroder, endorsed the timetable and announced an "eco-tax" to raise energy

consumption costs. No wonder Germany has one of the highest unemployment

rates in the western world!



· The UK blocked the EU from opposing nuclear power in the "flexible

mechanism" called the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The mechanisms are

the manipulations used by the UN to redistribute energy, and therefore,

wealth around the globe. (See report #5 for an explanation of the

mechanisms.) France produces more than half its energy using non-carbon

dioxide producing nuclear energy. Supporters contend that the COP must

acknowledge that nuclear energy is absolutely necessary to achieve Kyoto

targets by industrial countries.



· A minister from Finland, a socialist bastion, said "there is a need to

set the framework and rules for market operations." The Kyoto Protocol is

"the framework and rules for market operations."



· Without mentioning the U.S. or Saudi Arabia directly, the radical

environmentalists described their efforts in Bonn: "A conspiracy between

those forces who might be embarrassed by this inaction, and those to wish

to block all action." The U.S. is accused of inaction because we have not

reduced greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, that the green movement

contends causes global warming. Saudi Arabia is regarded as obstructionist

because it defends its oil production. They were assisted during the

conference by Washington lawyers representing U.S. fossil fuel interests

which irritated other developing countries. Things could get very

interesting on this front at COP 6.



· The Chinese minister insulted the U.S. saying, "attempts by some Parties,

[the U.S.], to get developing countries to 'meaningfully participate'

[President Clinton uses the phrase to entice the U.S. Senate to ratify the

Kyoto Protocol in response to their unanimous resolution that it must

pertain to EVERY nation, not only 38 countries.] were destroying

confidence-building efforts between developing and developed countries."

The Chinese are consistent; they demand that the U.S. ignore its human

rights abuses and its environment. The saddest part is that we kowtow to

their demands!



· The minister from Micronesia whose country has everything to gain and

nothing to lose concluded that the complex work must "go forward in a

different spirit-a spirit of being part of the search for an urgent

solution to one of the greatest threats ever confronted by Mankind."

Otherwise, he warned, "future generations will ask, 'Why did you not act,

while there was still time?'" Get a grip!



· Japan proposed the appointment of a "facilitator," appointed by and

working on behalf of the Polish COP 5 President Szyszko. His role would be

to visit national leaders over the coming year in order to create progress

through "political impetus." At the closing press conference, Szyszko and

Cutajar refused to reveal their interim agenda.



· The U.S. wants "civil society" (radical environmentalist non-governmental

organizations) to be involved in workshops at COP 6 on the Kyoto mechanisms

and compliance schemes. That was the role the infamous, late Bella Abzug

played at the Rio meeting in 1992. Former President Bush signed that treaty

which led to the Kyoto Protocol and these continual COP meetings.



· While nothing was decided about "sinks," such as trees that remove carbon

dioxide from the air, COP 5 decided upon a work plan to start the process

for a decision at COP 6. Bureaucrats!



· Developing countries are "capacity building" which means they are

preparing to accept American technologies and industries as part of the

"flexible mechanisms" required in greenhouse gas trading regimes. Rules for

how the mechanisms will work was delayed until COP 6.



· "A typical intercontinental return flight contributes as much to global

warming as a small family in Bangladesh does over a full decade of daily

life," complained a representative from the European Union in a discussion

about "bunker fuels." In a formal statement, the U.S. agreed "with the

common view that emissions from the aviation sector are an important

contributor to climate change and that their contribution is likely to grow

significantly over time in the absence of policy actions." Expect COP 6 to

pick up the debate on emissions of airplanes and develop an "implementation

and reporting framework." It is logical that if the UN gains the right to

manage EVERY nation's economy by dictating the amount and types of

industrial fuels they can use and produce, then they will also want to

dictate EVERY citizen's coming and going!



· On "compliance," the UN's goal to hold EVERY nation accountable to the

Kyoto Protocol, COP 5 delegates decided that a decision SHALL be adopted at

COP 6.



· The World Council of Churches (WCC) contends, "The role of the churches

is to press governments and societies to look seriously at simpler

lifestyles and ask what is enough." The WCC is vocal on the environment as

God's creation, but is mute about the protection of humans created in the

image of God. Their alliance with the UN and its doctrines is consistent

with the Biblical prophecies about the one-world religion in the end times.



· The COP 6 meeting will occur after the election of a new U.S. president.

Global warming and the Kyoto Protocol should become a litmus test for the

candidates. If they accept "scientific consensus" of global warming caused

by human activity rather than insisting upon scientific evidence, then they

do no deserve our support. The Kyoto Protocol's aim is to dictate

industrial strength and thereby manage every nation's economy. Since

centralization of government leads to "The Road to Serfdom," any politician

who supports it should be shown the road back home.

End of Report VI