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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 321
implement the objectives of the UNFCCC. The text of the Protocol to the UNFCCC was adopted
at the UNFCCC conference in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997. As of July 2004, “124 Parties
[nations] have ratified or acceded to the Kyoto Protocol.”
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The requirements of the Kyoto Protocol direct the U.S. to reduce total green house gas
carbon emissions, primarily carbon dioxide (CO²), by 7 percent below 1990 levels. Reductions
are to be attained by 2012. Approximately 38 other industrialized nations are required to make
similar reductions; this includes Canada and most of Europe.
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The CONSAD Research Corp.
wrote a report on the effects the Kyoto Protocol would have on the U.S. CONSAD has more than
30 years experience in economic analysis and their client list includes many Corporate 500 firms
as well as at least 13 branches of the federal government. CONSAD projected the following
result on the U.S. economy based on the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: Energy costs
would increase with the resultant increase in the price of consumer goods. 3.1 million Americans
would loose their jobs; “The highest job losses will be in high-skilled, high-wage employment
sectors.” And U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the year 2012 will decline by at least $177
billion and perhaps by as much as $318 billion.
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA) also issued a
report. The EIA Report estimated increased energy costs as a result of the Kyoto Protocol as
follows: Coal—153 to 800 percent increase; electricity—20 to 86 percent increase; gasoline—up
to $0.66 per gallon increase. The EIA Report also predicted that total energy consumption would
fall by as much as 18 percent by 2010.
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Similar devastating effects can be predicted in all the industrialized nations who ratify the
Kyoto Protocol. Of course painful steps would be warranted to save the world from a devastating
ecological disaster but there is no evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are causing global
warming. The U.N.’s purpose for establishing the Kyoto Protocol appears to be another attempt
to gain control over the nations of the world. In a speech at the Hague in November of 2000,
French President Jacques Chirac recognized the Kyoto Protocol as “the first component of an
authentic global governance.” He stated:
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global
governance…we must go as far forward as possible in inventing mechanisms to
guarantee that our efforts are effective and enduring…. By acting together, by
building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global
governance, we are working for dialogue and peace. We are demonstrating our
capacity to assert control over our fate in a spirit of solidarity, to organize our
collective sovereignty over this planet, our common heritage. We are working to
give practical expression to the ethical demands of our peoples. That is the
measure of the immense issues entailed by an agreement, here, in The Hague. It is
the measure of the burning obligation on us to succeed.
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The U.S. has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, the Bush administration abandoned talks on
the treaty in 2001. It is likely to be revived under a later administration. But at present count the
treaty impacts at least 124 nations.
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