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Progress at the COP17 climate talks in South Africa are paused but some fear that the delay will mean they run out of time.

"A new global climate deal has been struck after being brought back from the brink of disaster by three powerful women politicians in a 20-minute, "huddle to save the planet".

Anybody that has read the Climate 2 emails knows that the whole global warming thing is simply a rip-off.

Durban

And the Durban thing is even worse, because poor (hand-out and non-producing) countries are demanding that richer (hard working countries) subsidize them much more!

Much like many countries in Europe that want Germany to continue to bail them out.

And what arrogance to believe that, "We can save the planet", which has existed for billions of years without them!

What Happened At The Conference

A major crisis was provoked shortly after 3am on Sunday (December 11, 2011) morning when angry EU delegates clashed with China and India over the legal form of a potential new treaty.

The EU plan to bind all countries to cuts was close to collapse after India inserted the words "legal outcome" at the last minute into the negotiating text.

But EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard, backed by UK energy secretary Chris Huhne said:

"It would have made the EU plan legally meaningless and would have forced the EU to walk away effectively collapsing the negotiations".

With many ministers exhausted after nearly six days and three nights of intense discussions, Hedegaard told the 194 countries in Durban:

"We need clarity. We need to commit. The EU has shown patience for many years. We are almost ready to be alone in a second commitment period to the Kyoto protocol".

"We don’t ask too much of the world that after this second period all countries will be legally bound. Let’s try and have a protocol by 2018".

The Indian environment minister, Jayanthi Natarajan, responded fiercely that:

"Developing countries are being asked to sign up to a deal before they know what was in the proposed treaty, and whether it would be fair to poor nations".

"Am I to write a blank cheque and sign away the livelihoods and sustainability of 1.2 billion Indians, without even knowing what the EU roadmap contains?".

"I wonder if this is an agenda to shift the blame on to countries who are not responsible for climate change. I am told that India will be blamed. Please don’t hold us hostage. We will give up the principle of equity".

And China’s chief negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, lambasted the EU in a passionate speech, saying:

"Who gives you the right to tell us what to do?"

The Huddle

With tempers rising and the talks minutes from being abandoned, the chair, South African foreign minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, ordered China, India, the US, Britain, France, Sweden, Gambia, Brazil and Poland to meet in a small group or "huddle".

And surrounded by a crowd of almost 100 delegates on the floor of the hall, they talked quietly among themselves to try to reach a new form of words acceptable to all.

The Compromise

It was however, Brazil’s chief negotiator, lawyer Luis Figueres, who came up with the compromise,

"Substitute ‘an agreed outcome’, with ‘legal force for legal outcome’".

Causing a EU lawyer to respond,

"Yes, it’s much stronger; effectively meaning, a legally binding agreement".

"Yes, yes," cheered the crowd of onlookers around the politicians, and the talks were back on track.

Two hours later the 16-day talks were effectively over, with a commitment by all countries to accept binding emission cuts by 2020.

As part of the package of measures agreed, a new climate fund will be set up, carbon markets will be expanded and countries will be able to earn money by protecting forests.

The Stupidity

Chris Huhne (UK energy secretary) hailed the conclusion of the talks as,

"A triumph of European co-operation".

"We have taken a significant step forward and this will give business confidence and stop us locking in a whole generation of high-carbon technology.

And Poor Countries?

But Martin Khor, director of the intergovernmental South Centre in Geneva, said poor countries would be obliged to cut emissions proportionally more than the rich.

"It’s like the starving will be made to give up half their small amount of food but the rich just a bit".

The Rabid Ignorant And Naive Left

"Negotiators have sent a clear message to the world’s hungry: let them eat carbon", said Celine Charveriat, director of campaigns and advocacy for Oxfam.

"Governments must immediately turn their attention to raising the ambition of their emissions cuts targets and filling the Green Climate Fund. Unless countries ratchet up their emissions cuts urgently we could still be in store for a 10-year timeout on the action we need to stay under two degrees of temperature increase".

And Greenpeace International director Kumi Naidoo said:

"The chance of averting catastrophic climate change is slipping through our hands with every passing year that nations fail to agree on a rescue plan for the planet".

And Michael Jacobs, of the Grantham climate research institute of climate change:

"This will force governments to admit their current pledges to cut emissions are not enough to achieve 2C rise and will have to be strengthened".

Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International, said:

"Delaying real action till 2020 is a crime of global proportions. This means the world is on track to a 4C temperature rise, a death sentence for Africa, small island states and the poor and vulnerable worldwide. The richest 1% of the world have decided that it is acceptable to sacrifice the 99%"

The Bottom Line

The whole thing is such a rip-off, but these NGO’s would have no raison d’être without these forums; so perhaps their responses should be viewed in that light.

If their agenda is really similar to Obama’s, which is equalization (redistribution) of wealth, then at least say so, but please don’t jump on the burned out Global Warming wagon.

Even though the U.S. has the world’s largest military,

and the biggest GDP,

(the EU is not a county)

it is:

1) Pleading with Russia to help with Iran.

2) Cozying up to Gadhafi and Chavez.

3) Ignoring pleas for help from Iranians that want to overthrow a savage regime.

4) Staying silent about China’s human rights abuses.

5) Leaning on Israel.

Why is America doing all of the above and much more too?

Because it is has not developed its plentiful energy resources, and is therefore becoming increasingly dependent on outside loans and oil with every tic of the clock.

The United States is running a projected $2 trillion annual deficit, while adding to an existing $11 trillion national debt, meaning that America is getting poorer, whilst its enemies are getting richer.

Russia is now the world’s second largest oil exporter, and it’s cash rich and just waiting for a new energy crisis to hit, after which it will attempt to regain much of its former influence.

Iran, Libya and Venezuela are all major oil exporters, so it’s lunatic leaders are allowed to verbally attack the United States in New York from the UN platform, and whilst Obama warmly hugs Chavez, he treats Netanyahu as if he has swine flu.

China is America’s largest foreign creditor, financing its growing budget shortfalls at an increasing rate of interest, and it now believes it has the right to question the U.S. as to how it intends to finance the proposed health bill.

America Needs To Develop Its Oil And Coal Resources

Obama is correct to encourage the development of alternative energy sources, and in wanting to curb America’s imports of oil which would not only bring down the global price of oil, but also lessen its dependence on rogue regimes, but much time will be needed to reach a new age of non-carbon fuels

America therefore needs to better exploit its existing oil and coal ,and recent large finds in North Dakota, Alaska, California, and off the Gulf Coast suggest that America could fairly easily win back its independence, and end the need to fawn and cringe before countries that hate it.