My Turn: 'Cap and trade' benefits whom? |The Burlington Free Press

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?

Canadians' resolve on global warming cools with economy

B.C. nicely illustrates the complexity of the climate change debate. Opposition to a green shift is particularly evident in the interior of the province where the carbon tax is seen as the creation of cappuccino-sipping urbanites who can walk to work from their downtown Vancouver lofts and condos. The climate change challenge is not uniting Canadians in the pursuit of a global cause, but is instead fragmenting the electorate along class and urban/rural lines.

Now, however, even the urban core in British Columbia is entertaining second thoughts about aggressive climate change policies. In short, B.C. voters are starting to resemble the core constituency of the federal Conservative party, the Tim Hortons-sipping suburbanites who are increasingly concerned about the state of the economy, who believe in greater environmental protection, but not at any price.

Anyone interested in the electoral future of climate change policies should pay careful attention to the election outcome in B.C. If the green wave is rolled back there in the face of economic uncertainty, the environmental community will have to recognize it has not made the case.