We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The grand words above, of course, are from the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Further down the document, Article VI reads:

“This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.”

The constitutional convention’s delegates, sweltering in Philadelphia’s summer heat, could never have imagined that short paragraph could potentially unravel the “blessings of liberty” for us, the aforementioned posterity. The Constitution’s unraveling begins in Copenhagen, appropriately enough, on December 7th, a date that may live in infamy. That’s where the United Nations Climate Change Conference convenes to hammer out provisions for a global treaty that aims to reduce the world’s output of carbon.

Giddy with anticipation, the environmental organization Green Peace has posted a petition on its web site for visitors to send President Obama:

“I count myself as among the people who are expecting President Obama to attend and commit to legally binding, timely and deep emissions reductions that are ambitious, equitable and fair at Copenhagen but we also want you to back your words with the necessary funds for protection of our magnificent natural forests and create a renewable energy revolution, while meeting the needs of the poor.”

While meeting the needs of the poor? Oh, you thought the Copenhagen meeting was all about global warming and carbon footprints, well, think again. You see, global warming, which is a figment of environmental pseudoscience and its computer modelers, is merely a pretext for something much larger.

In the U.N. document titled “Framework Convention on Climate Change,” which contains the ponderous legal language of the treaty for discussion, we get a glimpse of what global warming is really all about. The document states:

“…Developed countries have a historical responsibility for their disproportionate historical use of a shared global carbon space since 1850 as well as their proposed continuing disproportionate use of the remaining global carbon space.

…Developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and by the most fragile ecosystems and population, particularly in developing countries who have contributed least to climate change but who are already in vulnerable situations, owing to factors such as geography, poverty, gender, age, indigenous or minority status and disability.”

The 158-page document further states that, “Africa, in the context of environmental justice, should be equitably compensated for environmental, social and economic losses arising from the implementation of response measures…”

The climate change treaty, therefore, is a global reparations package for those countries who missed the explosion of innovation we call the Industrial Revolution. In other words, the treaty is an apologia from a dying Western World for creating everything from Joel Houghton’s automated dishwasher in 1850 to the Apple iPod.

The World Bank (IMF) released a report that estimates the price paid for environmental reparations by the developed world will amount to $100 billion annually. However, a report released by the International Institute for Environment and Development says the real figure is most likely triple the IMF estimate. For us here in America, that represents about 2% of our depression depleted GDP.

In Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, our nation’s charter mandates that congress:

“…promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.”

According to the treaty, any technology that is believed to heal the damaging effects of climate change – and what isn’t these days – “should be exempted from patent protection of climate-related technologies.” This is brilliant in that it discourages inventors from developing “environmentally friendly technologies” since there is nothing in it for them but a pat on the back and a kick in the wallet. This insures the U.N.’s global green police continue their policing in perpetuity.

And just in case you think this has no effect on you because you’re living in a remote mountain shack like Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the treaty mandates:

“…active participation of all stakeholders in this transition should be sought, be they governmental, including sub national and local government, private business or civil society.”

Sorry folks, like Obama’s health care scheme, there’s no opting out.

The bad news is that it is likely President Obama will sign the agreement when the treaty’s language is finalized. The good news is that the United States Senate must ratify it by no less than 67 votes. Even if all 60 Democratic senators vote to approve the global warming accord, that still leaves them seven votes short of the two-thirds supermajority necessary to override our Constitution. After a wooing White House dinner, it’s likely Maine’s squishy Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe will wipe the crumbs from her chin and vote to approve. That means it’s up to the remaining Republicans to show some intestinal fortitude and vote against the U.N.’s attempt to destroy our nation’s sovereignty.

Abraham Lincoln fought a long and bloody civil war to save the nation and restore Constitutional order to our Union of States. Now it falls to the party of Lincoln to assure that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not parish from the earth.”

– Mr. Curmudgeon