{"id":1672,"date":"2015-10-26T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:53:10","slug":"kelly-ayotte-backs-obamas-climate-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2015\/10\/26\/kelly-ayotte-backs-obamas-climate-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Ayotte Backs Obama&#8217;s Climate Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that NH Senator Kelly Ayotte is not doing much to help the situation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/New-Hampshire-Kelly-Ayotte-climate-change-Obama\/2015\/10\/26\/id\/699036\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backing Obama&#8217;s Climate Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the watchdog group CFact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could the U.S. and other prosperous nations find themselves hauled before a UN climate court to account for perceived global warming sins and asked to pay restitution?<\/p>\n<p>That possibility edged closer this week when the draft agreement the UN hopes to adopt in Paris this December suddenly included an &#8220;International Tribunal of Climate Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This would allow developing nations to sit in judgment over the U.S. and its allies, but not subject those nations to the tribunal&#8217;s jurisdiction themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that a climate court has appeared in a UN climate text.  In 2011 a nearly identical provision crept into the draft at the UN&#8217;s climate summit in Durban.  The provision was stripped from the text after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2011\/12\/09\/exclusive-un-climate-draft-text-demands-new-international-climate-court-to-compel-reparations-for-climate-debt-also-seeks-rights-of-mother-earth-2cdeg-drop-in-global-temps\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFACT&#8217;s Climate Depot blew the whistle<\/a> and Marc Morano&#8217;s exclusive was picked up by the media. <\/p>\n<p>This time they substituted the word &#8220;tribunal&#8221; for &#8220;court&#8221; and insist that the body will be &#8220;non-judicial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They must have thought we wouldn&#8217;t spot the thin edge of the wedge until after it was inserted. <\/p>\n<p>We have three different drafts of the UN climate pact available for you to inspect at <a href=\"http:\/\/CFACT.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CFACT.org<\/a>.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UNFCCC-Draft-agreement-6-11-151.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June draft<\/a> is around 80 pages long and reads like a radical&#8217;s wish list.  The French hosts of the upcoming conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UNFCCC-Draft-agreement-10-5-15.pd\" target=\"_blank\">stripped the draft down<\/a> to around 20 pages on June 5th, hoping to create a version that would be easier to slip through. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Over 130 developing nations led by South Africa and egged on by China and India refused to work with the short draft and this week negotiators in Bonn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/UNFCCC-Draft-agreement-10-20-15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">put out a draft nearly twice as long<\/a>.  That&#8217;s when the &#8220;climate tribunal&#8221; was inserted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pre-Paris negotiations have become quite contentious.  Climate radicals and developing nations are demanding severe restrictions on the developed world along with hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth redistribution.<\/p>\n<p>The American negotiating position has for years been to hold the line against these demands. <\/p>\n<p>The question is, how far will President Obama sell out America&#8217;s interests in order to get the developing nations to sign?<\/p>\n<p>Judging by the recent Iran nuclear deal, it appears that Obama and Secretary Kerry may be willing to give away the store in order to claim a foreign policy victory. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing being proposed in the UN climate talks will meaningfully alter the temperature of the Earth.  None of their so-called &#8220;solutions&#8221; can pass a cost-benefit analysis.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a mistake to sign any version of a climate agreement currently envisioned.<\/p>\n<p>We intend to dig through this process and make sure the public knows about any &#8220;International Tribunal of Climate Justice&#8221; and other equally bad provisions before President Obama signs us on to them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll need your help to share the facts and get them out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2015\/10\/23\/un-climate-text-adds-an-international-tribunal-of-climate-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2015\/10\/23\/un-climate-text-adds-an-international-tribunal-of-climate-justice\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that NH Senator Kelly Ayotte is not doing much to help the situation by Backing Obama&#8217;s Climate Plan From the watchdog group CFact: Could the U.S. and other prosperous nations find themselves hauled before a UN climate court to account for perceived global warming sins and asked to pay restitution? 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