Friday, February 14, 2014

Our Constitution-shredder-in-chief is at it again

He's circumventing Congress and submitting a plan for "the climate" to the UN that cuts developing nations slack on emissions that it doesn't cut for developed countries.

U.N. diplomats are set to meet in Paris next year to hash out a new international climate agreement, though talks last year were stalled by disagreements over how much rich countries would have to pay poor countries to offset carbon emissions and forgo some development.
“There have been, and will continue to be, dramatic and dynamic shifts in countries’ emissions and economic profiles that make such an approach untenable, environmentally and otherwise,” the United States plan said.
Annie Petsonk, international counsel to the Environmental Defense Fund, noted that the U.S. plan was legally different than the Kyoto Protocol — it doesn’t require congressional approval.
The U.S. Constitution says that the president “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate” to make treaties with other countries. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol had to be ratified by Congress — and it never was, even though the Clinton administration signed onto it.
But Obama’s plan would rely on individual countries to enforce their own emissions reductions. And since the president has already implemented his own “climate action plan,” the U.S. would not need congressional approval to implement it, since it’s already being done through executive orders. Petsonik said Obama’s U.N. plan was simply an “international counterpart” to his plan to cut U.S. carbon emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 — and not a treaty.


So you see, it's just a plan for other countries to follow post-America's example of planned decline in the service of a faux-science fantasy by bypassing their legislatures and controlling emissions by executive fiat, like the Most Equal Comrade is doing through his EPA.

Is there anything about the MEC that is not bad and wrong?

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