Thursday, September 10, 2009

60-hour weeks, all in the name of climate change [fraud]
Projects are submitted to the CDM for registration and a staff of over 100 examine and scrutinize each one to ensure environmental integrity.

The whole scheme is supervised by a 20-member executive board, chaired by Lex de Jonge of the Netherlands’ environment ministry.
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The CDM’s executive board holds some 7 to 8 week-long meetings a year, up from 5 meetings in 2005, the year international emissions trading really began to take shape.
As Hill Debate on Climate Flounders, EPA Plows Ahead on Emission Rules - NYTimes.com
The Obama administration is finalizing rules to control industrial greenhouse gas emissions amid growing skepticism about the prospects of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill this year.
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"I think health care is sort of the Big Kahuna here," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the former chairman of the Agriculture Committee, said this week. "We've got to get that done first."

Senate Democratic leaders are also doubting that they can meet their goal of having President Obama sign a global warming law before a major U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen this December. "We may not go there with a final law," Harkin conceded.
If global warming is truly The Most Important Issue of All Time, why isn't it "The Big Kahuna"?

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