Climate Bills and a Green Economy

Global Warming is Just Another Scam

December 25, 2009

Daily Herald - A letter by Sandra Kaptain of the League of Women Voters in the Daily Herald includes several outrageous statements about "global warming," in urging that we "go green."

In the '70s, comparable claims were made about a coming Ice Age. The proposed solution was the same -- authorize proponents to "regulate," i.e., tax us, because industrial activity was alleged to be the cause. That idea fell flat, so 10 or 15 years ago they came up with "global warming."

Professor Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, was skeptical. He and Edward Teller, famous for his work in several areas of science, endorsed an independent study of the subject. A white paper resulted, describing scientific evidence for at least six 1,500-year cycles of warming and cooling.

In the first half of the last millennium, the last "warm" period, Vikings farmed on Greenland. Neither that "warm" period nor any of the prior ones was man's doing. There was more arable land, larger harvests, more food and larger incomes. Coastal cities, such as London and Tokyo, did not flood. Mankind was better off. Climatologists call that period the "medieval climate optimum." Over several centuries following, average temperatures declined as much as three 3 degrees.

The petition project documents all this and more. If you visit petitionproject.org, you will find a good deal of data, developed by scientists without an ax to grind, the white paper and a petition opposing the global warming idea.

Sandra Kaptain and the League of Women Voters would do well to cut their losses and stop participating in the "global warming" scam.

Save the Planet! Eat Your Pet!

December 26, 2009

American Thinker - The Financial Times reported that "Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union's carbon-trading scheme."

An indulgence for a ton of carbon closed at €12.41, while "prices of more than €40 a tonne are required to stimulate investment in new low-carbon technologies." Oh no! This is-this is "bearish for the market and bearish for the world."

So where's a global warmist to turn now? Well, Robert and Brenda Vale are training their sights on Fido and the other family pets. See their new book, Time to Eat the Dog, the Real Guide to Sustainable Living. And how, you might ask, do the Vales sustain themselves? By teaching sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington.

A medium-size dog had a carbon footprint about twice the size of the Land Cruiser, while a cat's carbon footprint was about equal to a small Volkswagen ... Two hamsters had the footprint of a plasma television, while a goldfish was comparable to a pair of cell phones.

The leftward alarmists are truly antilife. Books like the Vales' are warming us up for new policy initiatives. After all, we must do something! It's getting so warm in here! What can we expect from Copenhagen II, when limos will again be imported from Germany to ferry the concerned, green diplomats from one banquet to the next? Will I have to swallow my goldfish if I wish to get a permit to purchase a couple cell phones? Fry up the hamsters in order to apply for permission to buy a TV?

How about a Bowsers for Clunkers program? I roast the canines on a spit in the front yard in order to buy a lottery ticket which grants the privilege to bid on a Government Motors green machine.

Now there's a clunker.

Gordon Brown Calls for New Group to Police Global Environment Issues

December 21, 2009

The Times - A new global body dedicated to environmental stewardship is needed to prevent a repeat of the deadlock which undermined the Copenhagen climate change summit, Gordon Brown will say tomorrow.

The UN’s consensual method of negotiation, which requires all 192 countries to reach agreement, needs to be reformed to ensure that the will of the majority prevails, he feels.

The Prime Minister will say:

“Never again should we face the deadlock that threatened to pull down those talks. Never again should we let a global deal to move towards a greener future be held to ransom by only a handful of countries. One of the frustrations for me was the lack of a global body with the sole responsibility for environmental stewardship.

“I believe that in 2010 we will need to look at reforming our international institutions to meet the common challenges we face as a global community.”

The summit failed to produce a political agreement among all the countries. Delegates instead passed a motion on Saturday “taking note” of an accord drawn up the night before by five countries: the US, China, India, Brazil and South Africa.

Despite being the first world leader to join the summit, Mr Brown was excluded from the key meeting where the compromise was decided.

Ed Miliband, the Climate Change Secretary, admitted today that the results of the Copenhagen conference were “disappointing” because of the absence of agreement on emissions targets or a deadline for turning the accord into a legally binding treaty...

Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax

Obama set to bypass Congress and approve massive transfer of wealth to World Government

December 18, 2009

Prison Planet.com - The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into globalist hands.

As Lord Monckton, Alex Jones and others warned, the notion that the globalists would achieve nothing at Copenhagen has likely been a ruse all along. The elite look set to ram through the lion’s share of their agenda, which would include a massive global government tax at a cost of at least $3,000 a year for American families already laboring under a devastating recession, double digit unemployment and a reduction in living standards.

Hillary Clinton arrived yesterday to rally global leaders around a resolution and Barack Obama is set to be portrayed as the savior of the world by rescuing what was pitched all along as a conference doomed to fail.

“The summit “hangs in the balance,” said Obama this morning. “We are running out of time. The time for talk is over. It is better for us to act than to talk. The question is whether we move forward together or split apart.”

The final agreement may not force countries to meet CO2 emission targets, but it will grease the skids for the biggest tax hike in human history, a fact that establishment media outlets have completely failed to emphasize.

Monckton told the Alex Jones Show last week that the initial secretive draft version of the Copenhagen agreement represented a global government power grab on an “unimaginable scale,” and mandated the creation of 700 new bureaucracies as well as a colossal raft of new taxes including two percent levies on both GDP and every international financial transaction.

Monckton said that the new world government outlined in the treaty would be handed powers to “tax the American economy to the extent of two percent GDP, to impose a further tax of two percent on every financial transaction… and to close down effectively the economies of the west, transfer your jobs to third world countries.”

As the leak of the Danish text outlined, such taxes, earmarked as “climate financing,” will go straight into the coffers of the IMF and the World Bank. These funds will be used to bankroll the imposition of global governance that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon promised would be achieved at Copenhagen.

According to the latest news out of Copenhagen, the taxes that were included in the initial text are still in the final agreement which is set to be passed later today or in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the final text “proposes a range of innovative mechanisms for raising the money, ranging from a tax on air and sea transports fuels to a tax on financial transfers.”

This would form part of an initial commitment of $US10 billion a year from 2010 to 2012, climbing to $US50 billion annually by 2015 and $US100 billion by 2020, although these figures will inevitably increase if the UN ramps up its climate fearmongering as it has done at each successive climate conference since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

The treaty outlines:

“Penalties or fines for non-compliance” in developed countries, and the creation of an international police force to “enforce its will by imposing unlimited financial penalties on any countries whose performance under this treaty they don’t like,” Monckton told the Alex Jones Show, saying that it amounted to a total global government takeover on an “unimaginable scale.”

“We’re looking at a grab for absolute power and absolute financial control worldwide by the UN and its associated bureaucracies and 700 new bureaucratic bodies,” said Monckton, adding that if the agreement was signed by Obama, the U.S. would be losing its freedom to a “sinister dictatorship” being formed under the contrived pretext of global warming.

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