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I’m still trying to understand what President Obama is doing when he attends this conference in Copenhagen.  There seems to be a bit of a conspiracy theory that Obama will sign away our nation’s sovereignty, but I’m hesitant to jump on board with that theory until I have more information.

I started learning about this when someone sent me an email asking me to check out the following video:

I have no idea who Lord Christopher Monkton is and I’m suspicious of anyone who is so arrogant that he needs to refer to himself as “Lord” or “Sir”…  So I’ll take this video as information that needs to be examined further.

Looking at some other sources, I’ve come across an internet publication from a group of Ivy League types called the American Thinker.   They are discussing US plans with Japan to lead the way for 80% global emission reductions by 2050 amongst other environmental goals that, on the outset, seem like a great idea.

But now you start looking at the nitty-gritty and apply these goals to industrialized vs. emerging industrial nations and the problem becomes insane.  Even in discussing the ideals of a proposed treaty were met with resistance from emerging nations like China, India and 70+ other yet-to-industrialize nations.

The Times of India reported Nov. 6 that even Western attempts to merely include a “shared vision” statement in the treaty “would destroy the firewall between the higher level of commitments of the rich countries and the conditional obligations of the rest” and was thus opposed by India, China, and the Group of 77.

This means that the developed countries of America, Japan, and the European nations will have to carry the entire burden of reducing energy use and industrial production to meet the targets set by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In Barcelona, fifty African nations walked out of negotiations, supposedly to protest the refusal of the “rich nations” to cut their emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2020 — the highest figure suggested by the IPCC. But what the Africans really wanted was a pledge of substantial financial aid from the West under the guise of paying for environmental programs.