YET ANOTHER IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: Obama's U.N. Climate "Accord" Will Trump U.S. Constitution

By Investor's Business Daily

Power: This lawless administration plans to bypass the two-thirds requirement for Senate ratification on a climate change treaty by entering into a "politically binding" hybrid agreement to "name and shame" climate scofflaws.

Apparently letting the Environmental Protection Agency run amok with regulations fulfilling candidate Obama's pledge to bankrupt the coal industry, and enact a de facto cap-and-trade regime the president couldn't get through Congress, is not enough.

The man who said his nomination was the moment the seas began to recede and the planet began to heal now plans to deal the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution yet another blow.

He's doing it by agreeing to a Kyoto-like "accord" he can use as moral cover for further destroying the U.S. economy, in lieu of an actual climate change "treaty" that must be ratified by two-thirds of a Senate that has already unanimously rejected such a pact.

The accord, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in Paris in 2015, is designed to bypass both Congress and the Constitution through the manipulation of language.

"Accords" do not have to be ratified, but they commit the nations involved to action, in this case meeting artificial and meaningless emission targets.

U.S. negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to hammer out this deal, which is grounded neither in science nor the law.

In the words of Paul Bledsoe, a top climate change official under President Clinton, "If you want a deal that includes all the major emitters, including the U.S., you cannot realistically pursue a legally binding treaty at this time."

Except not all the major emitters will be shamed by this accord.

As for the "name and shame" part of the accord, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said it best when he observed on Fox News that it was the "dumbest idea since the Russian reset."

Unlike America, countries such as China and India are going to relentlessly pursue their economic self-interest and, according to Krauthammer, "the idea of shaming the butchers of Tiananmen Square," or the provocateurs that recently buzzed a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft at 20 feet, is ludicrous.

China, exempted from the Kyoto Protocol as a "developing" nation, in fact overtook the U.S. as the world's largest carbon dioxide emitter in 2006 and has been the world's leading polluter ever since.

Any reductions in U.S. emissions as a result of this accord would be dwarfed by China's expanding pollution.

In 2012, China poured 9.8 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuel such as oil and coal. The country accounted for 70% of the increase in CO2 emissions that year.

By contrast and thanks to the shale gas boom resulting from fracking technology, a free market solution to anti-pollution and energy needs, U.S. CO2 emissions have been declining for years, reaching a 20-year low of 5.2 billion metric tons in 2012. Emissions are 10% below 2005 levels.

According to satellite data, which many scientists believe are the most accurate, global temperatures have flat-lined, and there has been no warming of the planet for almost two decades.

Islands like Tuvalu that were supposed to sink under rising seas have not. Any decrease in global temperatures as a result of any proposed "accord" would be by an amount too small to measure if any.

Like so-called health care reform, this relentless hyping of the climate change myth is not about saving the planet. It is about expanding the power of government at the expense of our liberty and freedom.

It is about government telling us what kind of car we can drive, what kind of power we can use, where we can live and even what we can eat.

As has been said, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, even if one has to be manufactured.

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