Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'
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Friday, July 10, 2009By Marc Morano
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Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill
will help bring about "global governance."

"I bring you good news from the U.S., "Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford
at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored
by UK Times.

"Just two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey
climate bill," Gore said, noting it was "very much a step in the right
direction." President Obama has pushed for the passage of the bill in the
Senate and attended a G8 summit this week where he agreed to attempt to keep
the Earth's temperatures from rising
<http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=598036> more than 2
degrees C.

Gore touted the Congressional climate bill, claiming it "will dramatically
increase the prospects for success" in combating what he sees as the
"crisis" of man-made global warming.

"But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the
ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global
agreements." (Editor's Note: Gore makes the "global governance" comment at
the 1min. 10 sec. mark in this UK Times video
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece> .)

Gore's call for "global governance" echoes former French President Jacques
Chirac's call in 2000.

On November 20, 2000, then French President Chirac said during a speech at
The Hague that the UN's Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of
an authentic global governance <http://sovereignty.net/center/chirac.html>
."

"For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global
governance," Chirac explained. "From the very earliest age, we should make
environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of
political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as
fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by
building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic
global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace," Chirac added.
Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom said, "Kyoto is about the
economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide."
Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN's Kyoto Protocol as
a "socialist scheme."
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/30/harper-kyoto.html>

'Global Carbon Tax' Urged at UN Meeting

In addition, calls for a global carbon tax have been urged at recent UN
global warming conferences. In December 2007, the UN climate conference in
Bali, urged the adoption of a global carbon tax
<http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRec
ord_id=D5C3C93F-802A-23AD-4F29-FE59494B48A6> that would represent "a global
burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all
nations."

"Finally someone will pay for these [climate related] costs," Othmar
Schwank, a global tax advocate, said at the 2007 UN conference after a panel
titled "A Global CO2 Tax."
Schwank noted that wealthy nations like the U.S. would bear the biggest
burden based on the "polluters pay principle." The U.S. and other wealthy
nations need to "contribute significantly more to this global fund," Schwank
explained. He also added, "It is very essential to tax coal."

The 2007 UN conference was presented with a report from the Swiss Federal
Office for the Environment titled "Global Solidarity in Financing
Adaptation." The report stated there was an "urgent need" for a global tax
in order for "damages [from climate change] to be kept from growing to truly
catastrophic levels, especially in vulnerable countries of the developing
world."

The tens of billions of dollars per year generated by a global tax would
"flow into a global Multilateral Adaptation Fund" to help nations cope with
global warming, according to the report.

Schwank said a global carbon dioxide tax is an idea long overdue that is
urgently needed to establish "a funding scheme which generates the resources
required to address the dimension of challenge with regard to climate change
costs."

'Redistribution of wealth'

The environmental group Friends of the Earth advocated the transfer of money
from rich to poor nations during the 2007 UN climate conference.

"A climate change response must have at its heart a redistribution of wealth
and resources," said Emma Brindal
<http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRec
ord_id=D5C3C93F-802A-23AD-4F29-FE59494B48A6> , a climate justice campaigner
coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

[Editor's Note: Many critics have often charged that proposed climate tax
and regulatory "solutions" were more important to the promoters of man-made
climate fears than the accuracy of their science. Former Colorado Senator
Tim Wirth reportedly said,
<http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/10/92300.shtml> "We've
got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming
is wrong, we will be doing the right thing - in terms of economic policy and
environmental policy."]

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