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Corruption of Bribery

Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

The justification for the magnanimity towards Non‐Annex countries was that they had not been
responsible for historic greenhouse gas concentrations and should therefore be given time to
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catch up . In fact, this was not true as some of these exempt countries had ravaged their forests
in ways that make industrial emissions look like chicken feed.

Allowing China and India etc. to continue emitting at alarmingly escalating rates made the Kyoto Protocol a
nonsense and unacceptable to American voters but fine to the more altruistic or gullible Europeans. The
indulgence is akin to developing a law that allows rape and pillaging for those who have not previously indulged
so that they can catch up with the Vikings.

The United States of America, under President Clinton and Vice President Gore, signed the
protocol but refused to ratify it. In July 1997 the US Senate rejected Kyoto on a 95:0 vote with
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five abstentions . Subsequently, President Bush decided the same way on the clearly sensible
grounds that it was unrealistic and unfair to give very large emitters such as China, India and
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Korea a free run while constraining developed nations .
In May 2002 the EU ratified the treaty as a single body and agreed to go beyond the basic targets
and to make an 8% reduction during the first commitment period of 2008‐2012 with additional
reductions to follow in the trading periods of 2013‐2017, 2018‐2022 and 2023‐2027. This EU
initiative is typical of the naivety that if Europeans self‐flagellate enough on any “noble cause” –
bribery being a more recent example ‐ others will follow. When will they learn?

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Progress stalled until Prime Minister Blair persuaded President Putin of Russia to ratify the
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treaty which he did in November 2004, being the 126 country to do so and providing the critical
55% majority.

Russian scientists had consistently rejected the theory of “global warming”. Andrei Ilarionov, a top economic
adviser to President Puttin, stated "there is no evidence confirming a positive linking between the levels of carbon
dioxide and temperature change. The UN's panel so‐called scientific data are considerably distorted and in many
cases falsified”. He continued that the sole objective of climate change advocates is to disrupt the advanced
economies of the US and Japan by convincing multinational companies to move plants and jobs to developing
countries that don't have to comply with emission restrictions

The Russians were offered a carrot and threatened with a stick. The carrot was that because of
the collapse of its industrial output and the drop in emissions between 1990 (the base year) and
Kyoto Protocol coming into effect it would immediately collect 12 billion excess credits in the
period to 2012, and would have to do nothing to achieve its targets going forward. It has been

32 Kyoto’s magnanimity ignores the reality that a significant part of the problem- if one exists - was caused by forestry
clearance in Less Developed Countries.

33 Perhaps they were being entertained by the Chinese in the Pink Pussycat Lap Dancing Club
34 It is odd that believers condemn President Bush for not ratifying but worship Messrs Clinton and Gore
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