With President Obama on his way to Copenhagen tonight for the close of the Climate Summit tomorrow, now seems like the perfect time to publish our complete 7-Part Report on Mayor Bramson’s plans to inflict European-style socialism on New Rochelle.
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In Part I we heard Mayor Bramson announce the The ICLEI Pilot Program, in Part II we began to unravel the organizations behind the ICLEI Pilot Program and some of the vague or undefined terms used to describe ICLEI. In Part III, we looked at the organizations behind ICLEI’s Five Milestones for Climate Mitigation. In Part IV, we outlined the historical development of ICLEI from a 1990 Global Warming conference organized by the United Nations and their efforts to implement Agenda 21. In Part V, we looked at who is running the UN Commission behind Agenda 21 and raised some questions for New Rochelle residents. In Part VI, we looked at the controversy over Anthropogenic Global Warming (i.e., man-made global warming). In Part VII, we brought our previous reports together and showed connections between members of New Rochelle’s new ICLEI-required “GreenNR” planning boards and ultra-radical anarchists based in Europe. Yep, I know it sounds incredible but as you will see, this report is based largely on words excerpted from their own web sites. Read it and weep…
All About ICLEI: Part I – The Mayor’s Speech
All About ICLEI: Part II – The ICLEI Pilot Program
All About ICLEI: Part III – The Five Milestones for Climate Mitigation
All About ICLEI: Part IV – United Nations Economic and Social Council & Agenda 21
All About ICLEI: Part V – Placing New Rochelle Under United Nations Mandates
All About ICLEI: Part VI – Anthropogenic Global Warming
All About ICLEI: Part VII – Anarchy in the N.R.
Hopefully, by the time you have read through the entire 7-Part report you will be asking “what’s this all about?”
As always, follow the money…
First and foremost, there is the question of how far developed countries are willing to slash emissions over the next four decades, as well as the broader question of whether the world can keep temperatures from rising no more than 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels. In the opinion of the small island nations and other vulnerable countries, what has been proposed so far has not been enough.
Equally barbed is the problem of what fast-growing developing countries like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia will do to help avert climate change. So far, each of those countries has plans for slashing the growth of global warming pollution, but they flatly refuse to be held internationally accountable for their plans.
“That’s a leading indicator of the bigger question about what does the new agreement look like,” said Jim Connaughton, who served as the chairman of the White House Council of Environmental Quality under President George W. Bush. “At least as we enter next week, the divide seems to be growing and not shrinking.”
And then there’s money — not enough of it, according to poor nations that expect upward of $100 billion to $200 billion each year through 2050 to avert the worst impacts of climate change. Industrialized nations have devised a $10 billion “fast-start” fund for immediate needs through 2012, but have sidestepped questions of how much long-term financing they will provide.
A few other choice quotes from the NYT article:
- Small island nations and other poor countries are loath to release their hold on the 12-year-old treaty, which the United States never ratified. “The killing of the Kyoto Protocol will mean the killing of Africa,” said Mama Konate, the national meteorological director from Mali and a member of the West African country’s negotiating team.
- Saleem Huq, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change author and an advocate for vulnerable countries…said that while African nations and some others are focusing intently on how much money they will get, small island nations like Tuvalu — which held up the talks last week in an attempt to force the creation of a new panel to discuss a two-treaty deal — are intent on making sure all countries take ambitious and legally binding targets.
- “There’s no money on the planet, I’ve been told,” said Bangladeshi scientist Atiq Rahman. “That is neither acceptable nor real.”
Keep following the money…
Carbon Credit fraud causes more than 5 billion euros damage for European Taxpayer
U.S. to contribute to $100B climate fund to help developing countries: Hillary Clinton
Mayor Bramson Could solve
Mayor Bramson Could solve our dependency on fosil fuels just by bottling up the amount of Hot Air and Gas coming out of both ends. His Mayoralty calls for cutting satin ribbons for car wash openings, getting a stipend for marriage ceremonies and maybe presiding over the now cancelled Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Citizens of New Rochelle have allowed this to gain speed by being busy figuring out how to pay all the additional taxes levied by this Political Hack. The extent of the pain to be felt from his desire to Politically Climb will be felt in New Rochelle for decades. We can only hope that somehow Nita Lowey can no longer hobble into the congress and the same genius that elected him Mayor will send him off to screw us on a National Level. Until then we can hope some people wake up and put an end to this Affected Son of New Rochelle.