Copenhagen Climate Control

E-mail to Congress:

EIN News says, "Europe Bypassed on Climate Summit. No political entity has pushed harder for the Copenhagen conference on climate change to succeed than the European Union. But just days before the opening of the United Nations-sponsored meeting, the Europeans have been largely pushed to the sidelines, watching as the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, seek to set the rules of the game. (nytimes.com)".

The European Union has never been a bystander on important matters where they have been involved. The only exceptions have been where the United States or some other entity was going to do the job for them.

In this case, I suspect the European Union is standing aside, because it is losing confidence in the scientific validity of climate change. This loss of confidence is probably going to result in their unwillingness to put up real money. This is a favorable development, considering that climate control is based on a myth. The fact that US Congressional Republicans have just called the Obama administration and the EPA to task on this particular matter is hopefully an indication that only China will set the rules of the game. You can be sure that China will not arbitrarily limit its emissions of carbon dioxide, which would require a considerable reduction in energy usage and thereby reduce their production capability.

The key question is whether the Obama administration and EPA will adhere to the Congressional Republican request to delay efforts at climate control. The Obama Administration may decide to ignore the Congressional Republican request, because it knows that it has a majority of Democratic votes in both the House and the Senate. While the EPA is a daughter agency spawned by Congress, it may also decide to ignore the Congressional Republican request for the same reasons. But once again, it boils down to who controls the vote on how important matters are decided.