Global warming fight to cost every Kiwi thirty dollars a week | POLITICS News

Thirty dollars a week for every man, woman and child looks likely to be the price Kiwis will have to pay to do their bit to fight global warming.

But the government says the cost would have been twice that if it had signed up to the pollution cuts urged in a high profile campaign by Greenpeace.

The sheer scale of the problem isn't questioned by the government.

"What's going on is going to have a fundamental impact on human life on planet earth," says Nick Smith, Climate Change Minister, speaking on TV ONE's Q + A programme.

Something for everyone to dislike | Cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com

Despite the best of intentions of Congress and a Presidential stamp of approval, the cap-and-trade climate legislation recently passed by the U.S. House has drawn roars of disapproval from people across the political spectrum. Frankly, it isn't hard to understand why. Congress is trying to ram through legislation that contains something for everyone to dislike.
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People of all political stripes worry about the complex credit trading system. At a time while the economy is still reeling from the meltdown of the complex, unaccountable, and non-transparent derivative trading system, cap-and-trade would give those same bankers and traders control over carbon credits and influence over energy costs. Former presidential candidate and Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean recently told a reporter, "I'm terrified of a Bernie Madoff in the Cap-and-Trade business." Emissions trading could drive the creation of more risky financial tools like derivatives, hedges, and credit default swaps that have fueled our recent economic crisis.

Talbyv: VOTE NO! Come Clean Malcolm

Can it be that Malcolm will profit from an ETS? His ex-Goldman Sachs partners in conjunction with BigAl (profiting more than if he was supported by BigOil) have set up a Carbon Credit and Sustainable Energy Trading Company GIM.

Goldman Sachs (a big contributor to the Democratic Party) people involved with GIM are
Henry Paulson, Peter Harris, Mark Ferguson and David Blood.

We know Goldman Sachs owns 10% of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
We know GIM owns 10% of the Chicago Climate Exchange.

Liberal State Council rejects attempt to dump climate change sceptic : thewest.com.au

Climate change sceptic and nuclear power advocate Dennis Jensen has survived yet another attempt to oust him from his seat, at least for the next few weeks.
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Yesterday Dr Jensen again moved to save his political career by inundating state council members with information and support from fellow climate change sceptics.

Dr Jensen sent 120 party officials an 80-page dossier of letters and emails from supporters that had urged him to continue to rebuff global warming.

Some of the letters had also suggested that Dr Jensen should quit the Liberal Party to run as an independent or join Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce in a new party.