Bali
Exposes US, Canada And Australian Climate Racism,
Climate Terrorism, Climate Criminals And Climate Genocide
By
Dr Gideon Polya
18 December,
2007
Countercurrents.org
The
Bali Climate Change Conference has ended in a FARCE due to the US veto
of greenhouse gas emission targets for developed countries. The Bush
US position - in clear opposition to the IPCC, the world's scientists,
Green groups, Developing nations and the EU - was backed by climate
criminal, climate racist, climate terrorist neo-Bush-ite Rudd Australia,
Bush-ite Harper Canada and other climate criminal US allies such as
Bush-ite Japan and US satrap and carbon dioxide (CO2) polluter extraordinaire
Saudi Arabia .
The Bali
Farce is best summarized by the following key quote from an excellent
article by Patrick O’Connor (see: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/dec2007/bali-d17.shtml
) which summarizes this First World-imposed impending disaster for the
world, QUOTE: "The UN-sponsored climate change conference held
on the Indonesian island of Bali ended on the weekend without any agreement
on combatting global warming other than vague generalities. A last-minute,
face-saving communiqué was issued but, at the insistence of the
Bush administration and its allies [Australia, Canada, Japan], it made
no mention of specific carbon emission reduction targets. The UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had recommended a cut
in carbon emissions of 25 to 40 percent in the advanced industrial countries
by 2020 and a total world emissions reduction of 50 percent by 2050."
Before analysing
this further, we should define some TERMS that must surely become part
of the global lexicon for the FEW DECADES LEFT of the World as we know
it.
“Climate
change” refers to the warming of the planet due to anthropogenic
(man-made) greenhouse gas pollution. As summarized by the 2007 IPCC
Fourth Assessment report (for a Summary of the Summary of the IPCC Synthesis
Report see:
http://green-blog.org/2007/11/21/summary-of-the-summary-of-the-2007-ipcc-ar4-synthesis-report/
) the world is on track for an IPCC “worst case scenario”
Category VI scenario (and current global Greenhouse gas, GHG, pollution
EXCEEDS that specified in this worst-case scenario) involving stabilization
at 660-790 ppm CO2 (twice today’s level of 379 ppm) , 4.9-6.1
degrees centigrade temperature rise above the pre-industrial (4-5 degrees
above today’s) and 1.0-3.7 metres sea level above pre-industrial
sea level or about 0.8-3.5 metres above today’s).
“Climate
stress” refers to the biological consequences reality that the
world has already warmed about 1 degree Centigrade above the pre-industrial
average but with some areas being markedly hotter than this already
(the Indian Ocean has warmed about 2 degrees centigrade on average in
the last 40 years). Climate stress is manifested in relation to human
societies and with animals and plants in ecosystems around the world
(e.g. changes to polar bear habitats, coral bleaching, polar drift of
vegetation, pole-ward drift of phytoplankton, susceptibility to mega-fires,
drought etc).
“Climate
racism” refers to the extraordinary, “might is right”,
entrenched disparity in “per capita greenhouse gas pollution”
between the “colonial” Anglo-Celtic countries of the US,
Canada and Australia and the countries of the developing world (for
a very detailed analysis see the US Energy Information Administration,
US EIA: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/pdf/emissions.pdf
). Thus in 2004 “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution”
in tonnes CO2/person was 19.2 (for Australia; 40 if you include Australia’s
coal exports), 19.7 (the US), 18.4 (Canada), 4.2 (the World), 3.6 (China),
1.0 ( India) and 0.25 (for Bangladesh) (see “War on Terra, Climate
Criminals”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/
). The worst offenders (the US, Canada and Australia) successfully blocked
Scientist and EU demands at Bali for definite “25-40% reductions
by 2020” targets and argued for constraints on developing countries.
The de facto position of these climate racist countries is that they
somehow have a “right” to pollute with annual per capita
CO2 pollution up to 160 times that of Third world countries such as
Bangladesh but that developing countries must be constrained.
“Climate
terrorism” refers to “might is right” imposition of
deadly consequences on the weak by powerful “state terrorist”
countries such as Australia, Canada and the US in ruthless prosecution
of the selfish, political and economic interests of a tiny minority
of their nationals. Already 16 million people due avoidably each year
on Spaceship Earth (10 million being infants) (see “Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950” , G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
) with the world’s #1 state terrorist, Bush America, in charge
of the flight deck. Several billion people already suffer malnourishment
and US-driven global warming will exacerbate this situation and contribute
the deaths of hundreds of millions this century.
“Climate
genocide” refers to the horrendous consequences of the ongoing
“climate stress”, “climate racism”, “climate
criminality” and “climate terrorism”- estimated at
hundreds of millions of excess (avoidable) deaths this century. Thus
just read the views of Professor David King, Chief Scientific Adviser
of the UK, published in 2004 in the prestigious US scientific journal
Science(Science 9 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5655, pp. 176 – 177; see “Climate change Science:
adapt, mitigate or ignore”:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/303/5655/176?ck=
nck&ijkey=Drdt.aSScXqXI&keytype=ref&siteid=sci ).
“Climate criminal” refers to those who
act to increase global warming (“climate change”) in greedy
and immoral self-interest in disregard of the health and lives of others,
whether at an international or national level. Of course this is an
international criminality because everyone on the planet shares the
same finite atmosphere.
“Terracide”
refers to killing of the living systems of the Planet Earth, Terra.
(for an artistic attempt to address this see my HUGE paintings “Terra”:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/
and “Apocalypse Now”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17652/42/
).
The US and
its climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal allies Australia
and Canada are seriously threatening the World with man-made climate
change and the most vulnerable countries are those of the Developing
World, and in particular mega-delta Developing countries such as Bangladesh,
Thailand, Vietnam, China, Burma, Nigeria, Egypt, India and Pakistan
(see: “Climate Criminals & Climate genocide. Anglo-Celtia
threatens final Bengal Holocaust”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13576/26/
).
Data from
the US Energy Information Administration (see: http://www.eia.doe.gov/
) shows that domestic fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution by climate racist,
climate criminal, climate terrorist Australia, US and Canada has CLIMBED
at a roughly constant rate in the quarter century period 1984-2007 –
despite the pleas of scientists and 4 (FOUR) successive and increasingly
pessimistic Assessment Reports by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate
Change (1PCC) in the period 1990-2007 (see: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?cat=2
).
The US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
) shows that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is roughly linear with
time at a constant rate of increase of 2.5 ppm per year. This is already
having an impact on ecosystems and human societies around the world
– including climate criminal countries the US, Canada and Australia.
Thus, as shown by Hurricane Katrina, deltaic Louisiana – like
deltaic Bangladesh - is acutely susceptible to the global warming consequences
of hurricanes and storm surges. Canada is experiencing worsening vegetation,
snow cover and other ecosystem changes.
Climate criminal
Australia is also “fouling its own nest”. An important study
published in December 2007 in the prestigious US scientific journal
Science – the top world scientific journal – says that coral
reefs cannot survive in the warmer and more acid ocean conditions obtaining
at too high atmospheric CO2 concentrations. At concentrations of greater
450 ppm coral reefs are seriously ill and at greater than 500 ppm they
are doomed (see: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/
2007/12/14/2118585.htm?section=justin ). The key tipping point for
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will come at 450 ppm CO2 –
on present trends in only 27 years’ time (in 2034). Yet the greedy,
irresponsible US lackey and climate racist Murdochracy Rudd Australia
is still proceeding "business as usual" in relation to its
world #1 coal exports and its world #1 developed country per capita
greenhouse gas pollution (see "Australian Labor Victorious - but
not green enough": http://green-blog.org/2007/11/28/australian-labor-victorious-but-not-green-enough/
and “Climate criminal Australia and climate genocide”: http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=143
).
Bali has
clearly demonstrated that the world's top developed country “annual
per capita CO2 polluters” – Australia, the US and Canada
- will simply NOT act now, just as they have failed to act for a quarter
of a century. There has been NO RESPONSE YET, in terms of actual CO2
pollution mitigation by these climate criminal countries, to the mounting
crisis over the last quarter of a century - examination of the data
provided by the US EIA shows their CO2 pollution STILL rising inexorably
.
At the Bali
Conference these same climate criminal, climate racist, climate terrorist
Anglo countries that refuse to limit THEIR CO2 pollution nevertheless
wanted to impose targets on developing countries with VASTLY LOWER annual
per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution e.g. (2004 figures) China
(5 times lower), India (20 times lower) and Bangladesh (80 times lower)
(see “War on Terra, Climate Criminals. “Terra painting”:
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/
).
The politicians
have FAILED at Bali. Bali was a FARCE. The World at Bali failed to take
the advice of the US, the world’s #1 terrorist state, specifically
“do not negotiate with terrorists”. But what can countries
outside the Bush Climate Criminal Club DO? What can decent citizens
of Bush US, Bush-ite Canada and neo-Bush-ite Australia DO to save the
Planet?
The tragedy
of what is happening is that the science, technology and economics all
say that we CAN ACT NOW and, furthermore, we can make a PROFIT out of
acting now (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18817/42/
and http://open.newmatilda.com/crosswire/?p=143
). Indeed recent advances in solar energy are set to dramatically lower
the cost of photovoltaic (PV)-based electricity generation, enabling
Man to very cheaply tap into the solar energy hitting the earth each
day that is TEN THOUSAND TIMES MORE than we need (see ”Solar energy
and the end of war”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18667/42/
).
The WORLD
must URGENTLY ACT NOW by applying Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs
and Reparations Demands against the chief climate racist, climate criminal,
climate terrorist, climate genocidal countries Australia, US, and Canada
that are acutely threatening the world with ecosystem collapse, climate
genocide and indeed an all-encompassing Terracide.
Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade
scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor
& Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body
Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
).
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