"The global warming treaty provides a pseudo-scientific cover for the international redistribution of income."
There's no denying that it's hotter this summer than it was last winter. Temperatures in some parts of the country have risen as much as 100 degrees (Fahrenheit) in just a matter of months -- and who knows what the escalation was in Celsius! "Seasonal warming" is not some farout theory; it's a proven fact. Temperature gauges, the Farmer's Almanac, and Willard Scott all confirm it. No one seems particularly alarmed by this heavily documented phenomenon, however. That's because it's supposed to be hotter in the summer than it is in the winter, at least in the northern hemisphere.
Many Americans are alarmed, however, by a purely speculative, undoubtedly specious bugaboo called global warming. Syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts charges that the recent displays of media madness over the alleged threat of global warming were "part of a strategy of softening up the public to accept draconian and totally unnecessary environmental restrictions that will cripple the economy and destroy the American lifestyle." Roberts suggests that global warming "appears to be a hoax perpetuated by power-crazed federal government regulators who pay researchers with our tax dollars to find the results that justify increased regulatory powers for bureaucrats." He warns that, "if President Clinton and environmental kooks get their way, the U.S. economy will be devastated by a treaty to be signed in Japan in December."
If it doesn't seem any hotter to you now than it was a year ago or ten years ago, that's because it isn't. "The global warming scenario is a prediction based on climate models full of unproven assumptions and very little science," Roberts explains. "Indeed, the evidence is unclear whether the Earth is warming at all, irrespective of cause. Ground-level temperature measurements indicate some slight warming, but more accurate satellite measurements show no evidence of warming during the past 18 years."
Roberts predicts that the global warming treaty will "destroy the U.S. paper and allied product industry, U.S. petroleum refining, aluminum production, and iron, steel, chemical, and cement manufacturing. In brief," he warns, "the treaty will turn the United States into a non-industrialized country." Ironically, it would also lead to "an increase in global 'greenhouse gas' emissions, because the industries would move out of the 'first world' (the United States and Europe) to 'Third World' or 'developing' countries not subject to the treaty's restrictions or to the current restrictions that already exist in the United States and Europe."
Roberts charges that the United Nations is "taking advantage of the 'green movement' in the U.S. and Europe to redistribute economic power from the industrialized democracies to the rest of the world." He claims that "America's liberal elites, disgusted with the voters' lack of support for massive foreign aid, support the treaty as a way of circumventing the 'selfishness' of Americans and redistributing economic power internationally from 'rich' nations to 'poor' nations."
