More pure climate fraud from Al Gore

Emissions from fossil fuels are rising faster than projected, former Vice President Al Gore told hundreds gathered Thursday night for The Climate Project's North American Summit in Nashville.
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"Temperatures are rising more rapidly," he said. "The ice is melting more rapidly."
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"This is our time," Gore said. "This is our opportunity."
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Colette Divine, an actor from Los Angeles, had come to be one of a small group of about 50 who would be newly trained to give presentations.

"I'm doing it because I care about the environment," she said, admitting a bit later with a laugh that she had originally thought she was signing up for a paying job.
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Elsewhere, two old hands — Laura Waters, an environmental consultant from Atlanta, and Sandy Hoyte, a physician from Raleigh, N.C. — chatted, saying children are the most receptive audiences for their talks.

"They've got a lot of curiosity," Hoyte said, adding that they also have enough science knowledge to understand.

Every group of adults invariably includes one skeptic who seems to be there just to try to "rile people up," Waters said.

Chamber of Commerce Details Opposition to Waxman-Markey Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Anyone who thought the specter of Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions would push the business community into the arms of Congress’ current climate bill appears to have been mistaken. And what was dubbed the “starting point” for climate legislation is turning out to be the starting point of an increasingly acrimonious debate.

Cap and Horse Trade - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Detroit, Mich. — Coastal Democrats cannot get their cap-and-trade bill passed without Midwest members of their own party who are concerned about its impact on industrial states. So on Thursday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and Rep. John Dingell (D., Mich.) announced a deal paying off the Michigan delegation by guaranteeing that three percent of all revenue from the “Obama Energy Tax” will go to the auto industry.

Using carbon revenues as a kind of slush fund, Waxman has been cutting a series of deals to bring wary industrial-state Democrats and their constituent industries on board.
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In addition to the auto bribes, Texas Reps. Gene Green and Charles Gonzalez are talking to Waxman about setting aside over 5 percent of total carbon-tax revenues for the refining industry. Waxman has also brought key Rep. Rick Boucher (D., Va.) on board after throwing money at the coal industry.

Of course, the original purpose of the bill was to redistribute wealth to green projects and low- to middle-income Americans. So all this horse-trading with Big Business is making some Democrats nervous. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D., N.C.) says that — after accounting for industry giveaways — only $18 billion in carbon revenue is left for the poor. That’s “woefully inadequate to provide the safety net,” he says.

Rep Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.), is similarly concerned. “Whether you call it a tax, everyone agrees that it’s going to increase the cost to the consumer,” said Rangel. “At the end of the day . . . if there’s nothing there to repay (consumers) for their financial expenditures, it might be difficult to fight Republicans who call this a tax.”

Global warming may be last on Americans’ priority list, but it is big business for Washington’s political class.