The outcome of the Copenhagen Summit was a victory for the developing nations

Dec 27, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Earlier this month, British High Commissioner Fraser Wheeler made a presentation on Climate Change in Georgetown, in which he asserted that, “It (a proposed agreement to regulate CO2 emissions) must also look forward to where the future growth of the burden will come from, as the emerging economies grow and prosper. This means viable programmes of action to reduce emissions.” He also correctly credited the UK with being the prime mover behind this proposed agreement.
I would hope that Guyanese, after their past experience under British rule, would be quick to ferret out treachery here. The claim that anthropogenic (human-caused) increases in CO2 pose a threat to the environment has always been highly dubious from the standpoint of science, and there have been plenty of prominent scientists who questioned this claim, without, of course, receiving much notice from the news and entertainment media.
However, as of November of this year, there is no longer any room for doubt: the proponents of the Anthropogenic Global Warming theory have conducted a witting fraud. Computer hackers breached the security of the server at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK and made public over a thousand emails and other documents which prove that the team there manipulated and suppressed scientific data, and connived to damage the reputation of any scientist that refused to go along with the Global Warming party line. The revelations about this facility, which has played a central role in the formulation of policy by the Obama administration, are now being referred to as “Climategate,” and the head of the CRU, Dr. Phil Jones, has resigned pending an official investigation.
All of this was known at the time that Queen Elizabeth made her unprecedented intervention at the Commonwealth conference in Port-of-Spain. Even if CO2 were the threat to the environment that the British allege it to be, the amount produced by developing nations is trivial by comparison with the developed North. But as Fraser Wheeler made clear, the developing nations will now be under pressure not to develop.
They are to be kept in the role of repositories of cheap labour and cheap raw materials, in the new “green” version of colonialism. Leaders who wish to be remembered kindly by posterity would do well to resist the temptation to become compradors for this new version of Empire.
Daniel Platt

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