Gore: U.S. Climate Bill, Global Warming, Pave Path to “Global Governance”

“I keep asking, to whom do I send flowers when the global warming industry trots out Al Gore to do their bidding? Today’s gem only reinforces that. The gift that keeps on giving, this guy,” Chris Horner commented today at The American Spectator.

Marc Morano reports today at Climate Depot (h/t JB) (1:10 minute mark):

Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about “global governance.”

“I bring you good news from the U.S.,” Gore said on July 7, 2009 in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by UK Times.

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On November 20, 2000, then French President [Jacques] Chirac said during a speech at The Hague that the UN’s Kyoto Protocol represented “the first component of an authentic global governance.”

“For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance,” Chirac explained. “From the very earliest age, we should make environmental awareness a major theme of education and a major theme of political debate, until respect for the environment comes to be as fundamental as safeguarding our rights and freedoms. By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace,” Chirac added.

Coming in second in the stupidest things you’ve ever (today, anyhow) heard category is this observation from All American Blogger Duane Lester:

The man can’t get Joe Biden to keep his goofy mouth shut, he can’t meddle in the fight for freedom in a foreign land, he can’t even get his staff to spell his name right, but he is going to keep the global temperature from rising 2°C.

It’s for real. The UK Times reported (inactive link):

For the first time, America and the other seven richest economies agreed to the goal of keeping the world’s average temperature from rising more than 2C (3.6F).

They also agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 as they strove for a worldwide deal at Copenhagen in December.

The moves were designed to put the squeeze on the world’s developing nations, most of whose leaders will join the G8 for a debate chaired by President Obama today.

Lester adds, “you have to realize they know the temperatures are already dropping, even while the CO2 emissions keep rising.”

This is a no brainer. Promise something that’s already happening then take credit for it.

Also citing Chirac, Lester writes:

So what is this all about? Leveling the economic playing field and global governance.