Big value put on carbon [swindle] market | Money | London Free Press

The Copenhagen climate accord will usher in changes for Canadian businesses and those who take advantage of the new carbon market will come out as winners, experts say.
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"Within five years, there will be a global market for carbon credits -- literally billions of dollars will flow through this system," said Greg Noble, head of Ernst & Young's transfer pricing group. "Fortunes will be made and lost."

$7.7M ends global warming case -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NY

ALBANY -- The state announced a $7.7 million settlement Wednesday with three power plant owners that ended a legal challenge against a global warming program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The deal removes the sole legal roadblock filed in New York against the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a 10-state effort in the Northeast to limit emissions of carbon dioxide.
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Jeffrey Gordon, a spokesman for NYSERDA, said the settlement is expected to cost about $7.7 million in RGGI proceeds for 2009 through 2011.

Nopenhagen Wrecks Havoc on Carbon Markets, Cleantech Investment |Triple Pundit

We can pretend that something was accomplished at Copenhagen last week, but the invisible hand of the market doesn’t b-s. After the close of talks at the Bella Center, with its watered down “accord,” the price to emit a ton of carbon plummeted 10%.

Before It's News :: Wikipedia as Elite Propaganda Mill?

Conclusion: Over time, in our opinion, all this will change. Western culture, especially American culture, is not overly amenable to the kinds of authoritarian manipulations that have taken place increasingly over the past century. Eventually exposure of dominant social themes and their agents and agencies will infect the mainstream media as well, or portions of it. The entire fabric of generational falsehoods is beginning to totter. It happened after the Gutenberg press was launched and resulted in the rise of Protestantism, the Reformation, the found of the New World, etc. It will likely happen again as history never repeats itself but historical patterns seem to.

Peddling global warming fears puts big money in pockets of climate researchers

Even some long-time environmentalists bemoan their peers' addiction to the almighty dollar. David Crowe, founder and former president of the Alberta Greens political party in Canada, said he has stopped funding environmental organizations whose focus is climate change.

"There is a lot of evidence that the activity often called science, and the scientists who practice this activity (as opposed to those few who have a monk-like dedication to the scientific method), are not trustworthy. Peer review is a bankrupt process . . . It is lousy at detecting fraud, but very good at suppressing innovative thought.

"Financial conflicts of interest are frequent and rarely disclosed. Scientists often fall into the trap of focusing on their next grant rather than what important questions need to be asked (including questioning their own assumptions and biases)."