Thursday, November 03, 2011

Warmist Mary Robinson: Hey, who's up for a brand-new, hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars-per-year carbon dioxide hoax swindle?

The G20 must tackle climate change | Mary Robinson | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Oxfam and WWF have calculated that a moderate carbon price of $25 per tonne would generate $25bn per year by 2020, while raising the cost of global trade by less than $2 for every $1,000 traded.
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A joint statement by the finance ministers of France and South Africa last month named shipping and aviation taxes as one of the building blocks of a potential deal when UN negotiations resume in Durban this month. The statement also set out the two countries' "strong support" for the other opportunity presented by Gates's report: financial transaction taxes (FTTs).

Dubbed Robin Hood taxes by campaigners, these involve a tiny levy on transactions of banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions. The taxes would raise tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

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