Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Sacré Vert! - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
It's pretty funny, actually. But it's what happens when you start down this path. You either politically allocate the ration coupons — like in the Waxman-Markey bill — or you carve out exemptions from the tax, also for politically connected.

That's what killed Gore's BTU tax in 1993 — it didn't die because Congress decided to do the right thing, it was swiss-cheesed with exemptions that finally made it not worth the candle of voting for an energy tax with hardly any revenue. The same phenomenon has played a role in halting their backdoor BTU/carbon tax — cap-and-trade. The role that such favoritism played was smaller this time: The U.S. Chamber did stand strong for a while — but more importantly, this time the public got wind of what was up and made it too uncomfortable for their elected representatives to try and drag this energy tax avec corporate welfare over the finish line.
Economists Warn of a Climate Trade War - BusinessWeek
In the wake of the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen, countries are talking about imposing carbon tariffs on imports. Bad idea, say trade experts
Does atmospheric carbon dioxide cause interglacial warmth? | CLIMATEGATE
Or, put another way, does atmospheric carbon dioxide cause interglacial warmth?
Sarah's Web Brigade: Why The Latest Terror Threats Prove Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt That Sarah Palin Is Right About Energy Independence For America
I know Obama and his group of thugs, along with Al Gore, the Bernie Madoff of the climate change hoaxers, are doing their level best to keep Americans from using their own God given natural resources, all in an effort to enrich themselves, and their friends, by lying to the American people.

First they create a "crisis" in the name of the totally laughable claim of "global warming," then, they just so happen to have ready made solutions, and the promises of completely non-existent "green jobs" that will "grow the economy," if only we will allow them to destroy the one we have now.
Die Klimazwiebel: Tuvalu, a climate change fairy tale
The journalist Michael Field and other blogs agree that sea level rise is not the reason for migration from the island. Instead, the threat from the sea is according to Field the result of a severe over-population on an island that is scarce in resources and jobs, from a profound pollution (and mismanagement) and an unusual World War II legacy - on the main islet, Japan built an airport which resulted in great land loss.
Another report confirms that seismic events or hurricanes lead to severe floodings on the islands, but that this vulnerability is not due to climate change.

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