Kerry's flip-flop on global warming

Henry Lamb on global warming a la Kerry (emphasis mine)

What people fail to understand is that the Kyoto Protocol is simply the first step toward a multi-step procedure to eventually eliminate all use of fossil fuel on a timetable set by the U.N. What's worse, no credible scientist can say for sure that were the protocol fully implemented, it would have any detectable effect on global temperatures.

To achieve the protocol's objective — to stop the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — all nations would have to reduce emission by nearly 80 percent below 1990 levels. The reduction of energy use required to meet this objective would change the way we live beyond recognition.

China and India, on the other hand, as well as about 150 other nations, are not bound by Kyoto energy restrictions and will remain free to use as much fossil-fuel energy as they wish. Their economies are free to expand as rapidly as possible, while the United States would be at the mercy of the U.N. to allocate how much energy could be consumed here.

The Kyoto Protocol is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, about global warming. It is, instead, an ingenious mechanism to centralize the control of energy availability and consumption. It is the perfect mechanism to enforce the redistribution and equalization of wealth, while eliminating the principle of free markets in the energy industry.