February 9, 2010 - By News Team

So, as might have been expected, the West is to bear the brunt of the deliberations at Copenhagen. The EU’s zealous Kommisars, backed by their fawning collaborators in the Lab/Lib/CON parties, will ensure that the UK continues its path of de-industrialisation at a vast cost to the electorate.

In a nutshell, the EU is committed to an emissions reduction target of 20 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels.  This will rise to 30 percent, provided that other developed countries commit themselves to comparable emission reductions and that developing countries contribute “adequately according to their responsibilities and respective capabilities.”

The EU also supports the UN backed IPCC findings that developed countries should reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050. At the same time, developing countries should merely achieve “a substantial deviation beneath the currently predicted emissions growth rate, in the order of 15-30 percent by 2020”.

The leading emitters of CO2, such as China, “will endeavour to lower its CO2 emissions” by 2020 or, as in the case of India, “will endeavour to reduce the emissions intensity” by 2020. As in both cases, “these actions are voluntary in nature” and will not have a legally binding character.

So there we have it: the West is to de-industrialise at its own expense and re-construct its plant, industry, technology and economic capability in the developing countries.

To facilitate the ‘decline of the West’, the Summit agreed to channel $30bn to poorer nations between 2010-12, with an annual sum of $100bn of taxpayers’ money envisaged by 2020.

Various green climate funds and similar such foundations and projects will be established and monitored internationally, thus creating the further mechanics of international governance, which will be overseen by an unelected globalist bureaucracy, in which the EU’s Kommissars will play an active role.

What does this all mean? Answer: the purpose is two-fold; first, in order to promote international forums of governance, various supra-national bodies under the UN will be created and empowered. Second, to render palatable the concept of the ‘New World Order’, living standards are to be raised in the developing world at the expense of the West. Meanwhile, the nations of the West will continue to be debilitated by the continuing process of multiculturalism, balkanisation and massive population movement.

As our website has previously observed, the thesis of ‘Global Warming’ has been constructed on a colossal edifice of fraud, misrepresentation, selection of the facts, deceit, profiteering, racketeering and underhand political machinations (see our article ‘Debunking Global Warming’ Dec 09).

The documented fraud of the so-called experts — all well paid officials, politicians and careerists — has been compounded by the third winter of global cooling. Last year’s winter cooling was bad enough, costing the lives of over 40,000 British pensioners. This year’s cooling is expected to inflict a toll of well over 50,000 lives — a fact well emphasised by Nick Griffin MEP in a recent speech to the European Parliament.

Minister Ed Balls stated that the cost of the Climate Change Act, paid by British energy consumers, would be £18bn per year until 2050. This arises from the need to subsidise inefficient green energy such as wind turbines, which is added to customers’ bills in the form of a premium. Only three British MPs voted against this Act, which will cost each household £720 until 2050.

If that was bad enough, the death toll on our elderly this winter is likely to explode in future years. A recent independent study has predicted that the cost of electricity bills will quadruple during the decade to an average of £5,000 a year, to meet government imposed green targets. This would plunge over half the households in Britain into “fuel poverty”, defined as those forced to spend more than 10 per cent of their income on energy. The cost will result in hundreds of thousands of deaths per annum and cause many of our elderly, quite literally, to freeze to death.

We predict we shall hear very little about these deaths from our politicians, who believe they are entitled to our money to underwrite their globalist ambitions rather than to benefit the voters they purport to represent. Contrast an estimated 50,000 British deaths this year with the 35,000 deaths across the whole of Europe in 2003, arising from that year’s heat wave, which for years afterwards was convenitently paraded as evidence of ‘Global Warming’.

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to Close British Industry

Under the CDM, Western industry and commerce earn the right to emit beyond their carbon quota by purchasing certificates from companies in the developing world.  The latter, in turn, accumulate ‘carbon credits’ for reducing their output of emissions or by employing renewable energy sources.

A taste of the future for our country was brought into sharp relief by the recent announced closure of the gaint Corus steel plant.

As the Sunday Telegraph recently established, the CDM has enabled Tata to transfer three million tonnes of steel production from its Corus plant in Tyneside to a new plant in Orissa, therby gaining as much as £1.2 billion in ‘carbon credits’, while placing 1,700 British workers on the dole queue.

The Telegraph went on to point out that “more than three-quarters of the world ‘carbon’ market benefits India and China in this way. India alone has 1,455 CDM projects in operation, worth $33 billion (20 billion pounds), many of them facilitated by Tata”.

Tata will more than double its steel production in India over the next three years. Meanwhile, the British government is forbidden to assist the Tyneside plant because this is not permitted under EU laws governing state aid.

As The Telegraph acknowledges, under the EU’s Emissions Trading scheme, by ceasing to emit six millions tonnes of CO2 a year, Corus will benefit from carbon allowances worth up to £600m over three years, before the current allocations expire.

Moreover, Corus’ parent, Tata, by replacing inefficient old plants with new ones which emit only “European levels” of CO2, Tata could claim a further £600 million under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, which is operated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This arises because in India, Corus’s owner, Tata, plans to increase steel production from 53 million tonnes to 124 million over the same period.

Under this scheme, enterprises in developed countries such as Britain — ranging from electricity supply companies to the NHS — can buy the right to exceed their CO2 allocations from those in developing countries, such as India. The huge but hidden cost of these “carbon permits” will be passed on to all of us through our electricity bills.

As The Telegraph’s Christopher Booker reflects: “Redcar will lose its biggest employer and one of the largest manufacturing plants left in Britain. Tata, having gained up to £1.2 billion from “carbon credits”, will get its new steel plants — while the net amount of CO2 emitted worldwide will not have been reduced.”

The Cost of Carbon Capture

Yet another cost to be borne by the British consumer relates to the capture and storage of carbon emissions.

Those who have read our paper on ‘Global Warming’ last December will appreciate the pointlessness and expense of this exercise.

In brief, to reduce dependence on gas, the government is to approve new coal-fired energy plants to replace those closing under EU regulations by 2015.  The new technology, required by the EU to justify the construction of the plants, is designed to capture and store the carbon emissions at a cost of approximately £9.5bn.

This expense will be met from another levy on electricity bills, calculated by the Dept for Energy and Climate Change, at upwards of £17 per household per year, for at least 15 years.

More Long Term Costs

An opening piece in The Daily Mail business section, in January, noted that the “price heavy industry will have to pay by 2020 is so high that energy-dependent firms could be wiped out, causing thousands of job losses …”

The Mail went on to denote something we rarely see, listing the charges already loaded onto energy bills, telling us that we are “loaded up by five separate charges to help fund the battle to combat climate change and become greener.” They are the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target, the Renewables Obligation, the Community Energy Saving Programme and shortly there will be a levy on investing in clean coal projects.

The projected expense of £5000 annual energy bills per household will feed through into the price of every home-produced commodity and service, while the added costs of benefits paid to redundant workers, the loss of tax income as firms close down, and the fall-off in economic activity will impose their own substantial costs on the electorate.

As another journal opined, in addition to the way we are miss-managing our energy supplies, we are looking at a slow-motion economic catastrophe far greater than the economic crisis we are presently weathering, the overall costs of which are set to exceed the entire tax bill for the average household.

Clearly, there is no difference between money paid directly from the monthly wage packet to cover taxes, and money having to be paid indirectly to meet the government’s EU requirements.

Meanwhile, so inefficient are the green sources of energy that during the recent cold spell some 80% of our power requirements came from coal-fired power stations or from gas. Many of these coal-fired stations are to be closed down under the EU’s anti-pollution directive.

Furthermore, given the dearth of Britain’s manufacturing capacity, many of the jobs generated from the switch to new technology will disappear abroad.

Summary

Clearly, the machinations that surround and derive from the ‘Global Warming’ thesis demonstrate, more than ever, the extent to which Britain has now become a captive nation, subjected to the rule and requirements of the Kommissars who run the EU, along with their agents and hirelings. Not least may this be evidenced by the failure of more than three British MPs to oppose the EU instigated Climate Change Act, which will inflict such a cost on our people.

That this has occurred is because the establishment parties — and their phoney-nationalist equivalents in Scotland and Wales – have become entirely captive to the requirements of the EU. Their purpose, quite demonstably, is to extirpate the British nation and its institutions, economy, sovereignty, culture, heritage and blood line. In its place will emerge the growing supra-national authority of the EU and allied international bodies.

In effect, the collaborators who front the parties in Westminster will be confronted by the British National Party in the forthcoming General Election.   We shall stand unashamedly to protect the interests of our island people.