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Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'
Climate Depot ^ | Friday, July 10, 2009 | Marc Morano

Posted on 07/10/2009 2:27:32 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah

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.”

Gore touted the 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.)

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."

“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.”

'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 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, a climate justice campaigner coordinator for Friends of the Earth.


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1 posted on 07/10/2009 2:27:32 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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To: Ooh-Ah

“Cat out of the Bag?”

We already knew, Al you big Dummy.


2 posted on 07/10/2009 2:29:34 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (The last time I looked, this is still Texas where I live.)
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To: Ooh-Ah
'Global Governance'

Thats' what your scam was all about anyway wasn't it Al? You pig.

3 posted on 07/10/2009 2:29:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: Ooh-Ah
Thank you Algore for making the case against the climate bill.
4 posted on 07/10/2009 2:30:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Ooh-Ah

I recall 20 years ago when he got his start in professional politics burning/banning record albums. His committee told people like John Denver that they had nothing to worry about because they LIKED his music.


5 posted on 07/10/2009 2:31:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

6 posted on 07/10/2009 2:32:46 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Ooh-Ah
Al Gore Pictures, Images and Photos
7 posted on 07/10/2009 2:33:13 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This is just the Chicago ward-heeling tax-money-for-votes-and-power scheme on a global scale. Climate change is just the excuse.


8 posted on 07/10/2009 2:33:49 PM PDT by coydog (Proud to have slept through the Obama coronation!)
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To: Ooh-Ah

It’s pretty obvious that in another age, Al Gore would have been extremely comfortable as an officer in the SS.


9 posted on 07/10/2009 2:33:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Ooh-Ah

Gore’s IQ must be minus 100.


10 posted on 07/10/2009 2:35:09 PM PDT by pleikumud
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To: Ooh-Ah; rdl6989; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; Normandy; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; ...
Big surprise there, Algore !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

11 posted on 07/10/2009 2:35:42 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
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To: Ooh-Ah

In Pamplona, bulls gore.
In Oxford, Gore bull$#!ts.


12 posted on 07/10/2009 2:36:00 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Quix

ping


13 posted on 07/10/2009 2:36:25 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Ooh-Ah

Gee who did “Nazi” this coming?


14 posted on 07/10/2009 2:37:16 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Just today I’ve received “Heaven and Earth - global warming - the missing science” by Ian Plimer. It looks like good material, but it’ll take time to digest.

The leader of the AGW cult, namely High Priest Algore, needs to spend a little time reading this book. But it doesn’t matter; global governance was the objective the whole time.

Hey Algore, get a clue. We’re more looking at global cooling than global warming, but the facts don’t matter to you, do they?


15 posted on 07/10/2009 2:39:01 PM PDT by Ole Okie (American)
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To: Ooh-Ah
The tens of billions of dollars per year generated by a global tax would “flow into a global Multilateral Adaptation Fund NWO Black Hole” never to be seen again.

Fixed

16 posted on 07/10/2009 2:39:15 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: Ooh-Ah

Gore needs to go where there really is Global Warming......Hell.


17 posted on 07/10/2009 2:39:50 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (War is when the government tells u who the bad guy is. Revolution is when u decide that for yourself)
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To: AuntB; bamahead

I wish Gore had said this during the 2000 campaign.


18 posted on 07/10/2009 2:40:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The McCain/Palin ticket was like a Kangaroo, stronger on the bottom than at the top)
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To: Ooh-Ah

The American people are getting what they voted for.


19 posted on 07/10/2009 2:40:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The University of Notre Dame's motto: "Kill our unborn children? YES WE CAN!")
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To: tophat9000

Hey Al, Do a Google search for traitors: Benito Mussolini.


20 posted on 07/10/2009 2:41:22 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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