● Climate skeptics are quite literally holding the world to ransom.
● The legion of climate change skeptics are active across the world, and they happily play with our children’s future.
● The clock is ticking for the planet, but the climate change skeptics simply do not care.
● Climate change skeptics offer no alternative official body of evidence from any credible government in the world.
● These do-nothing climate change skeptics are prepared to destroy our children’s future.
● Climate change skeptics are dangerous because if they succeed, then it is all of us who will suffer.
● Climate change skeptics in all their guises and disguises are not conservatives. They are radicals.
● The logic of these skeptics belongs in a casino, not a science lab, and not in the ranks of any responsible government.
● The Government I lead will act.
EXCLUSIVE: After a Year of Setbacks, U.N. Looks to Take Charge of World's Agenda
Fox News, September 8, 2010
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants — the top brass of the entire U.N. system — spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world’s agenda. Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:● How to restore “climate change” as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year’s Copenhagen summit.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which — according to the position papers, anyway — continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of “global governance.”
● How to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of “global public goods.”
● How to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries.
● How to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new “international migration governance framework.”
● How to make “clever” use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls “civil society,” meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in “global governance” a greater role for themselves.
As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization’s internal documents: “the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives.”
And for that to happen, the paper continues, “it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going.”
Hammering away at perceptions that nation-states cannot adequately meet global challenges, but the U.N. can, is a major theme of the position papers, which were assembled by a variety of U.N. think tanks, task forces and institutions, including the United Nations Development Program, and the U.N.’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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