Email: "Believe It Or NOT  Please Watch This And Pass It On To All Americans"

Fw: Believe it or NOT  please watch this and pass it on to all Americans

[note - all mistakes below are original to the text]

From: XXXXX@yahoo.com
To: XXXXXX@gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:29 PM
Subject: Fw: Believe it or NOT  please watch this and pass it on to all Americans

This is really unbelievable.

If you are on dial up you need to get somewhere and watch this. This trumps healthcare issues by 1000% If you really think that this is  NOT possible think about what is happening around you right now...

Get this out to everyone you know....

One World Government Coming This December

http://theiceblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/one-wprld-government-coming-this-december/

This article was beneath the video.  This is interesting to read also.

Global Cooling, Misguided Leaders, Mythical Consensus

By Marita Noon

This year, amidst reports of cooling temperature, the climate change debate had apparently cooled as well. Then the Waxman/Markey Bill, pushing cap and trade as the solution for global warming, was introduced. Now, with President Obama addressing the UN and calling for extreme measures to prevent catastrophic consequences, suddenly it's front page news again.

On the same day that Obama was presenting his dramatic message to the UN, the New York Times published an article acknowledging "global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may drop in the next few years." Clearly the debate is not as one-sided as our leadership wants us to believe.

While Obama and his "alarmist" science czar, John Holdren, are moving forward, the polls repeatedly show lack of public and scientific support. Aggressive climate change measures rank last on almost any list of current crises; people do not think the issue is one on which our government should be focused.

I predict climate change will be Obama's Iraq.

Bush, it is widely accepted, went into Iraq based on his advisors' belief that weapons of mass destruction awaited them. There seemed to be consensus. Even Democrats voted in favor of war. Once there, no WMDs were found. But Bush did not pull out. Instead we spent billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives with minimal results--all based on bad advice. The public did not like the war. They did not want it. He had great plans for overthrowing Saddam, but the Iraqi military was no where near ready to take over--leaving us foundering between being occupiers and advisors. The failure in Iraq defined the Bush presidency, turning even his own party against him.

Obama's advisors are telling him that climate change legislation is imperative. They believe there is consensus. But the temperatures have stabilized and dropped--despite increased CO2 emissions. Even the NYT admits that the declining temperatures will make legislation a hard sell to the public. But Obama is not backing down. He is willing to kill off the American economy based on bad advice. The people do not want it now and they will hate it later. We'll spend billions of borrowed dollars for minimal results. He is focused on overthrowing hydrocarbons, but renewable energy is many years away from being ready to take over--leaving us floundering between the light and freezing in the dark. The folly of climate change legislation will define his presidency and turn citizens against him.

Read the rest of this piece at Citizen's Alliance for Responsible Energy<http://www.responsiblenergy.org/newsroom/display.asp?id=83>.

Response

Hey! Thanks for sending that my way.

If you look at the website PolitiFact.com (they critique both Democrats and Republicans), it's clear that this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

First, PolitiFact says there's not even a treaty yet - so any conversation about what the treaty would do to America is probably not true because there's nothing to talk about yet.

Also, it takes a super majority in the Senate to pass ANY treaty.  The site says "The Senate would have to approve any binding agreement with a 67-vote supermajority. This means that a treaty only becomes binding after a supermajority of democratically elected senators, plus the president, consent. So if the United States decides to give up some of its sovereignty in the matter of carbon emissions, it will only do so after a significant amount of political consent is given."

Finally, PolitiFact says: "we find Monckton's claims to not only be unsupported but preposterous. First, it's impossible to know what agreement will come out of Copenhagen, and when. Second, the U.S. procedure for ratifying treaties requires consent by a supermajority of the Senate - a steep hurdle. Third, it's hard to envision anything coming out of Copenhagen that would change the United States' bedrock principles of freedom and democracy. And fourth, contrary to what Monckton says, the United States can leave an international agreement. So while it pays to be vigilant about threats to U.S. sovereignty, this one is not the threat that Monckton's rhetoric suggests."

If you have time, you should read the whole article, it's really good: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/oct/20/christopher-monckton/british-climate-skeptic-says-copenhagen-treaty-thr/

As for the article in the email, that's also not based on fact.  For starters, the author repeatedly insists that global temperatures are cooling.  That's not true. According to the US Department of Commerce, the ocean temperatures this summer were the hottest EVER... and hot oceans lead to more dangerous storms. http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090916_globalstats.html

Plus, the last decade has been the hottest on record.  There's an awesome chart here that shows just how much warmer the planet is getting. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2008/pr20081216.html

And as for the author's assertion that clean energy legislation would be "Obama's Iraq," that's just false. For obvious reasons, war is always a tragedy - especially when our motivation for starting the war turns out to be misguided.

Investing in clean energy, however, is a great thing. Studies show it will create 1.7 million American jobs across every state AND help lift the nation out of the economic slump.  Already, abandoned factories are being retooled and reopened to manufacture wind turbines and solar panels.  Also, it will help us become less reliant on the Middle East for our energy - which everyone agrees is a MUST.

Anyway, I hope that sets your mind at ease.  A lot of these emails going around are pretty scary, but it's important to see if they're true before you let them get to you.

Hope all is well!