| My Turn: 'Cap and trade' benefits whom? |
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| Written by Linus Leavens, Burlington Free Press | |||
| Monday, 22 September 2008 | |||
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The question is, important to whom? The list of people who will benefit from carbon trading is impressive. Ten Northeastern states have adopted mandatory caps on CO2 emissions by power plants under their jurisdiction. Adopted by the misguided legislatures of these states, "We don't know if the program is actually going to cause reductions in carbon," but we do know it'll cost money, the speculators will take their percentage, and that the costs will be passed to us. "We, the People" pay when new "financial products" are speculated on. "We made out like bandits," boasts Vermont Public Interest Group's James Moore. But who will make out like bandits in the future, when the squeeze begins in 2015 and the mandatory caps are lowered? Socialist billionaires (the world's richest men), nongovernmental organizations, corporations, banking institutions, all of whom have used social engineering on a global scale to make us want "cap and trade," all stand to benefit hugely from a brisk business in carbon. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), European Climate Exchange (ECX), ICE, the World Bank, Sandor, Schultz, Buffett, Branson, Gates, Turner, Strong, Rockefeller, de Rothchild, Gore, Soros, Redstone, Pickens, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Bros., Dupont, Alcoa, BP, Ford, and Pacific Gas & Electric all stand to gain substantially from trading on a new gold standard, a harmless plant food called CO2. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has used the Big Lie, the infamous Nazi propaganda policy of the 1930s, in the form of "global warming," to promote their political agenda. To succeed, they must make us want "cap and trade." Google "global warming fraud." Think the science is settled? How come the discussion is over? Who says so? NBC? Newsweek? PBS? Gannett? Gaye Symington says it is and we must act now "to take advantage of the opportunities that global warming will present." She likens this opportunity to other missed opportunities like Silicon Valley, the dot-com bubble and biotech on Boston's Massachusetts Route 128. Remember the derivative trading that led to the downfall of Enron? Global warming and "cap and trade" are brought to you by the same people who brought you Oil for Food, Enron and Fannie Mae. Biodeisel corn subsidies and now soybean speculation threaten to starve the Third World by diverting food to fuel. (How is burning your food supply a conservative ideal?) "There is no evidence that CO2 increases are having any affect whatsoever on the climate," says Dr. Vincent Gray, a New Zealand climate scientist. "Carbon emissions don't cause global warming," according to Dr. David Evans, a mathematician and computer science engineer who has specialized in CO2 emissions accounting. To quote Lord Christopher Monckton, who has relentlessly attacked Al Gore's math and computer models illustrated in "An Inconvenient Truth," climate change is a nonproblem. The correct approach to a nonproblem "is to have the courage to do nothing." The idea is if governments cap CO2 emissions, the market will take off. Let's hope the real bandits won't be allowed to get away with this. Your power is at the ballot box. Source3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved." |
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According to Free Press staff writer Candace Page, "Vermont should be a winner" in the upcoming Sept. 25 "cap and trade" auction by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative ("Cap and trade," Sept. 7). "RGGI has been important in so many ways as a model" says Judi Greenwold of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (funded by the same people who brought you Enron).