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Comment by Larry Ross, November 17, 2006

The effects of climate change is "one of the most serious threats humanity will ever face" said Vice President Moody, aware to the UN Conference on Climate Change at Nairobi on Nov 16, 2006. Greenland 's ice mass is melting at "what the N.A.S.A calls a dramatic rate of 41 cubic miles per year" and "extreme drought could eventually affect one third of the planet".

"Emissions of all industrialized countries declined by 3.3 percent between 1990 and 2004, while U.S. emissions grew by almost 16%". The U.S. is already responsible for "25 percent of global emissions".

However as the authors of the following article point out, the annual U.S. spending for "research energy and development has fallen from $7.7 billion in 1979 to just $3 billion in the current budget."

In contrast U.S. "funding for military research has increased 260 percent to $75 billion a year".

Unfortunately for all of us, that's where their heart is - deeply embedded in the military-industrial complex (MIC) and it's insatiable appetites. The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of weapons.  Total World expenditure for military has never been higher, at one trillion dollars a year. Remember when they said the cold war was over, communism was defeated and now we can expect a 'peace dividend?  Forget it - a new enemy was created, just in time to prevent a weapons slump. We now have the prospect of "endless wars on terrorism" with gargantuan endless profits for MIC.

The article believes the new Democratically-controlled 109th Congress may do more to address the growing crisis. I think there will be endless talk, lots of resolutions, endless window-dressing, but little serious action on the climate change crisis.

The main culprits are the Bush Administration and some of its disciples, such as John Howard's Australian government.

Bear in mind that the Bush Regime still have two years to inflict more damage and wars on the planet. They can even start a pre-emptive war on Iran and make it nuclear under the new Bush nuclear doctrines, as is revealed in many of our website articles under "U.S. War on Iran & Syria ". That could easily grow into a global doomsday war that could kill off most, if not all life.

No wonder the Bush regime is not too worried about the effects of global warming.

Their main agenda is the so-called 'war on terror' and the Iraq war. Behind that is the neoconservative plan for U.S. global domination which has become the driving ideology of the Bush Administration and it's next step - War on Iran .

Most Democratic politicians appear to have bought into the myths, wars and strategies spun by the Bush Administration. They faithfully repeat all Bush lies and false assumptions. Any changes under the Democrats are likely to be cosmetic, and avoid real issues.

The following quote by Henry Adams, used by Gore Vidal and republished by ICH, illustrates this point.

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"Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. 'We have a single system,' he wrote, and 'in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.'" : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

More 'Profound Quotes' on this site.

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USA: Wanted for Crimes Against the Planet

Center for American Progress, November 16, 2006,

World temperatures are rising to levels not seen in at least 12,000 years. Greenland's ice mass is melting at "what what NASA calls a 'dramatic' rate of 41 cubic miles per year." And unless climate change is reined in, " extreme drought could eventually affect one-third of the planet ." More than 5,000 activists, scientists, and diplomats understand these facts and have gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for the annual two-week U.N. Climate Change Conference , which is now in its final three days . As U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, " The stakes are high . ... Yet too often climate change is seen as an environmental problem when it should be part of the broader development and economic agenda." The Bush administration and the 109th Congress haven't understood these stakes. Hopefully, the 110th Congress will. Incoming Senate Environment and Public Works chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) recently said, "Time is running out, and we need to move forward on this." The Bush administration's chief climate negotiator, however, promised conference participants that the White House would continue to do as little as possible .

Conference Against Climate Change

The Nairobi conference is the 12th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, a portion of which the Bush administration will not be attending. The United States and Australia are the only major industrialized countries to reject the Kyoto Protocol, which "requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce those emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 ." Some of the main agenda items at the conference are securing commitments to reduce greenhouse gases under Kyoto for the period after 2012 and helping poor countries manage climate change. (At the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative, the Center for American Progress made a commitment to help poor countries enter the global carbon-trading system.) "We are all gathered...on behalf of mankind because we acknowledge that climate change is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats humanity will ever face ," Kenyan Vice President Moody Awori told delegates in an opening speech. Delegates are also receiving "a closed-door preview of the latest scientific findings on a warming world, to be published next year in a comprehensive U.N. assessment by the world's leading climate scientists." This report -- which will offer "much stronger" evidence and "authoritative new data" on manmade global warming -- may provide "just the right impetus to get the negotiations going in a more purposeful way," according to the group's chief scientist.

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