Global Warming
The Warming Police?

Within days of the release of he International Panel on Climate Control’s report, there was a call, no demand, for international authority to be set up to police compliance of green house gas emissions. [Note: The report was a summary of what is to come…it was full of conclusions without hard data. That is to be released in the spring, but that didn’t stop the doomsayers from alleging the debate is over!] The leader of the demand was none other than Jacques Chirac of le Republique Grande. Chirac is leaving office this year and possibly he is pitching for a new job…Chief of the Warming Police!
Interestingly, 45 countries quickly jumped on the Chriac bandwagon. Absent, of course, was the USA as well as China and India, the latter being the largest countries in the world [conservatively 2.2 billion residents] both moving into the industrial age at breakneck speed. And, by virtue of their rapid industrialization, they have no environmental controls. I have had the privilege of spending time in both countries. If gw is in fact caused by man, if every SUV in the US is parked, it would make no difference in a world where China and India are cranking out unchecked emissions.
China is renowned for its ecological disasters. When I arrived in Beijing in 2001, it was like being thrust into a “B” movie thriller. The air pollution was so bad everything smelled like burned bacon grease and everything looked gray from the haze in the air. I was like looking at black & white newsreels of third world countries. It was evident that industrialization was the goal. There being no land use controls. Ten megawatt coal fired electric generating plants were built in the middle of residential neighborhoods. Neither the land nor the population was spared in the march to world wide economic power and success.
India was a different situation. The poverty and squalor was overwhelming in most of the country. In fact, where western business made an impact, the cities and standard of living was far better and conditions vastly improved. But, because only a few have so far benefited from the economic advancements in India, more and more development is in order. India, like China, has developed a voracious appetite for fossil fuels [coal and oil] which is what drives the engine of industrialization. The impact of these new participants in the industrialized world has lead to the increasing cost of petroleum world wide. And, not surprisingly, to an increase in greenhouse emissions.
It is hard to get past the point that all this posturing is for the purpose of attacking the United States and bringing her into line with world politics and desires. For many decades, a global government with international powers of enforcement has been trumpeted by those not pleased with the US domination in the world. This has only increased since the fall of world wide communism. The international community has long desired to bring under its authority the “cowboy culture” of the USA.
What better way to move to authority than through environmental control? What a good way to level out the “have not” nation states with the “have” nation states. It is troubling to see the hysteria over gw and the calls to bring individuals and governments to account for the soon to be catastrophe. Personally, I do not see the People’s Republic of China [a curious name for a Communist dictatorship] or for that matter India, turning over its burgeoning economy to an international body to determine if they are proceeding with industrial development properly. The US rejected the Kyoto Treaty with a Senate vote of 95-0. What would the vote be today now that the gw debate has been concluded in the hearts of its proponents and the issue fully politicized? Stay tuned.