The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson

Larry Bell, Contributor

I write about climate, energy, environmental and space policy issues.

The U.N.’s latest climate alarmist meeting in Doha, Qatar experienced somewhat of a different sort of man-made crisis in December in the form of  a typhoon named Christopher Monckton, the third viscount of Benchley, advisor to former  Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and climate realist. Temporarily purloining a vacant microphone assigned to a delegate from Burma, he gave the entire audience some very terrifying news…announcing that “in the 16 years we have been coming to these conferences, there has been no global warming at all.”

If that wasn’t scary enough, amid boos and heckles, Moncton blasted the congregation, uttering the utter blasphemy: “If we are to take action [the sort they always propose], the cost of that would be many times greater than the cost of taking adaptive measures later. So our recommendation, therefore, is that we should initiate very quickly a review of the science to make sure we are all on the right track.”

Yes, you read that right. He had the audacity to question the “science” behind the U.N.’s climate crisis-premised money grab demands. And actually, that’s truly not such a bad idea.

For starters, let’s flash back a few decades before there was any of that new science, and review a little history dating back to the 1970s and early 1980s when Third World countries, by force of numbers, and European socialist green parties, through powers of aggressiveness, seized control of the United Nations. They soon began calling for a New International Economic Order.

In the late 1980s, a scare based upon theoretical and primitive climate models that predicted man-made carbon emissions were causing unprecedented and dangerous global warming perfectly served these goals. In response, The U.N. rapidly established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to organize conferences, along with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to conduct scientific reviews.

The central FCCC strategy to fight what was promoted as “anthropogenic” (man-made) climate change was brilliant…to put a value credit on cutbacks in the amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by fossil-burning industries, and then let other industries that produced amounts of CO2 emissions in excess of their allocations, purchase credits from them. In other words, they would create a trading market to buy and sell air.

This carbon “cap-and-trade” program would be accomplished on a country-to-country international scale through the Kyoto Protocol treaty, penalizing developed countries that produce lots of CO2 emissions by forcing them to purchase credits from less developed countries (amounting to free money for them). China and India, which emit huge amounts of CO2 were given a pass because of their developing country status.

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