Putting the Paris Climate Summit in Context
As we go to press, the United Nations Paris Climate Summit (November 30-December 11) is winding up its first week. The New American will have foreign correspondent Alex Newman on the ground there, along with cameraman David Lewis, to report and conduct interviews during the final week of the conference. Newman, who covered the Copenhagen climate summit with me in 2009 and the Rio+20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, has written extensively on global-warming issues for both our print and online versions. While Newman and Lewis will be providing eyewitness reporting from Paris, including real-time interviews with me via Skype, I will also be busy stateside conducting live interviews on Skype with other participants at the UN extravaganza in Paris. If you have not already done so, please visit us online at TheNewAmerican.com to see our many articles and video reports from Paris, as well as from other previous climate conferences. As with so many other issues, The New American was way out in front on this issue, exposing it decades ago (literally), while many other conservative “leaders” either failed to recognize the importance it would assume, or actually fell for the alarmist warming propaganda. The brief article that follows is but a prelude to our full-coverage special issue on climate change, née global warming, in our next print edition (cover date January 4) of The New American.
The importance that the globalists are assigning to this conference — and the binding agreement they intend it to produce — is obvious from the enormity and vehemence of the media frenzy, as well as the fact that President Obama and other heads of state are converging on Paris at the start of the summit, rather than waiting until the last couple of days, as has been the practice at previous summits. The month of November saw politicians and activists worldwide in uber-hyperventilation mode, in apparent attempts to out-apocalypse one another before the start of the Paris summit.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the presiding host for the summit, declared on November 8 at a press conference in Paris: “It is life on our planet itself which is at stake.” Failure to enact a global environmental regime, he said, would have “catastrophic consequences” for all life on our planet.
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