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‘CLIMATE CRIMINAL’ BLOWS WHISTLE: ‘IT’S JUST ABOUT THE MONEY!’<\/h1>\n

‘Wealth transfer’ is ‘gesture to redesign the global economic system’<\/h2>\n

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GREG COROMBOS
\nWND.com<\/p>\n

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Secretary of State John Kerry told the Paris climate conference that ending all U.S. carbon emissions, or even those in all the industrialized world, would do nothing to impact the climate, leading one of the top critics of the climate-change movement to\u00a0call\u00a0the speech\u00a0additional proof that the effort is all about wealth redistribution.<\/p>\n

In another major development, the latest draft of\u00a0the\u00a0climate agreement does include the creation of the International Climate Justice Tribunal, which would have been a U.N. agency that billed industrialized nations for the cleanup of natural disasters around the world.<\/p>\n

In Kerry\u2019s address to the conference<\/a>, he made a push to get developing nations to make major commitments in reducing carbon emissions. However, his comments also gave considerable fuel to those who believe Kerry and others are on a fool\u2019s errand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is that even if every single American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what? That still wouldn\u2019t be enough to offset the carbon pollution from the rest of the world,\u201d Kerry said.<\/p>\n

He took a step further.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions, remember what I said all the industrialized nations went down to zero emissions, it wouldn\u2019t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world\u2019s carbon pollution comes from the developing world,\u201d Kerry added.<\/p>\n

Christopher C. Horner is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of multiple books challenging the basis for the climate-change movement. He is in Paris as an observer at the conference,\u00a0where he has been branded a \u201cclimate criminal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Horner said Kerry accidentally lurched toward the truth in trying to implore global cooperation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he\u2019s doing is inadvertently pointing out that this is all pain, no gain,\u201d Horner said. \u201cHe won\u2019t admit to the pain. They still say that if the state uses its coercive power and forces you into energy rationing and so on\u00a0\u2026\u00a0it still wouldn\u2019t impact the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerry used the hypothetical of zero carbon\u00a0emissions, which is a far cry even from the hotly contested Obama environmental regulations calling for major carbon reductions by 2030. Horner said\u00a0the real goals go much further and are plenty frightening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re talking 70-95 percent reductions in this document,\u201d Horner said.\u00a0\u201cThey really do think that\u00a0they can bring us back to the renewable age, which we left over 100 years ago because we could. Suddenly we liberated hydrocarbon energy. We didn\u2019t have to live on hydro power or solar power.\u201d<\/p>\n

While going back to renewables is the stated goal of climate-change activists, Horner said there\u2019s a good reason we moved away from it generations ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going back to that,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cWe left it. It was a time of much-shortened lifespans, disease, drudgery and mortality, crop failures leading to catastrophe and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the scrapping of the International Climate Justice Tribunal marks a win on one of Horner\u2019s highest priorities since he envisioned the panel blaming the U.S. and other advanced nations for the severe weather events throughout the world. It\u2019s a charge he believes would have stuck at the tribunal because signatories at the conference will be expected to confess their responsibility for climate change in any final agreement.<\/p>\n

But while Horner is thrilled, he said many others in Paris are not.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clearly going to leave the greens upset and some countries upset because it\u2019s kicking the can down the road on a few issues,\u201d Horner said.<\/p>\n

Persistent sticking points are leading some climate-change activists to call for Pope Francis to come and demand unity in advancing a climate deal. Horner said the pontiff had better be ready for a debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to couch this in terms of social justice, and as I have mentioned to you, that is truly perverse,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not saying the pope knows this, but social justice, as they see it, is killing tens of thousands of the most vulnerable in every country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to the WND\/Radio America interview with\u00a0Christopher C. Horner:<\/em>
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