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[Tom Fuller comment] Limbaugh, Heartland, etc. do actually have influence...Climate Common Sense: Australia gets gold medal for solar stupidity !
The very few skeptics that focus on climate change (Morano, Monckton and Watts) have, for different reasons, been unable to make much of an impact.
The American exceptionalism rears its head with Morano and his sponsor James Inhofe. They have made climate skepticism a litmus test for Republican orthodoxy to a certain extent. As a Democrat, I applaud the damage this is certain to cause Republicans. As a lukewarmer, I’m saddened to see the effect on the debate.
Australia has the dubious honor of installing the most solar panels in the world last year because of government policies making the poor pay the electricity bills of the better-off. Those with solar panels are paid over ten times the wholesale electricity price and this is recouped from renters and pensioners among others. The figures in future will not be as rosy as both Queensland and NSW have cut rebates savagely and the last year's installation numbers reflect the last minute rush to beat the deadlines.Bringing law into the right environment
Wilder, 44, co-founded the global law firm Baker & McKenzie's climate change practice, which now spans 50 offices worldwide.
Wilder is also adjunct professor of climate change law and policy at the ANU and an affiliate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research. He serves on several boards including as chair of the federal government's Low Carbon Australia initiative, the NSW Government's Climate Change Council and the Neutral Bay Public School Council.
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It was the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that inspired Wilder and his friend from Cambridge, James Cameron, to set up Baker & McKenzie's climate practice. ''James and I were given a clean slate to develop a global international law practice focused on whatever we thought. It was going to be trade, but climate became such a dominant issue we decided to focus on that''.
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But Wilder found profitable work in 2000 advising the World Bank on its pioneering $US150 million Prototype Carbon Fund, which facilitated investment in emissions reductions projects in the developing world. He was an early adviser to the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, launched in 2003, the world's first mandatory emissions trading scheme.
''For many of those years we basically made the law up,'' Wilder says. ''We had to create a definition of carbon and carbon rights. We had to come up with the very first carbon contracts. We had to work out ways in which indigenous groups could be protected, if they had ownership rights to the carbon. We had to do a lot of the early forestry projects.''
"which facilitated investment in emissions reductions projects in the developing world."
ReplyDeleteTranslation: We are using the grossly over-exaggerated claims of AGW to redistribute wealth from the 'North" (rich nations) to the 'South' (poor nations) in order to plug the rich-poor gap between nations and help pay for economic infrastructure in the third world so they can move factories there and then build things and export them to rich nations in order to improve the standard of living in poorer nations.
Were things as Anonymous interpreted in the above comment we, in the USA and other developed nations, could at least take some comfort that the squandering of our money by AGW fanatics in government and business would at least help to improve the living standards of some extremely poor people in the Third World. But in fact such " investment in emissions reductions projects in the developing world" have only a dual purpose:
ReplyDelete1) create a bribery scheme to get support from corrupt Third world governments to international agreements on climate, 2) creating schemes for origination and trading of "carbon credits" and a market, with funding from developed world taxpayers, for products such as wind turbines and related "green energy" mirages (manufactured by companies owned by big transnational companies and well-connected rich investors in the developed countries), which thus are shoved down the throats of those poor people further trapping them in a cycle of underdevelopment and poverty.