Friday, May 15, 2009

Does Edward Markey have any freakin' idea what the world will be like in 2109?
Under the Democrats' compromise bill, the free emissions permits for electric utilities would begin to phase out in 2026. By 2030, 100 percent of pollution permits would have to be bought by the utilities, Boucher said.

"We are creating a 100-year solution to carbon, but we create a transition to protect the consumers," said Representative Edward Markey, one of the authors of the bill.
Evangelicals Disagree on Climate Change Bill| Christianpost.com
The We Get It! Campaign, a Christian grassroots movement that believes the seriousness of global warming has been overhyped, shares EEN's concern about how the new climate change policies might affect the poor. But unlike the EEN, the We Get It! campaign is against the cap-and-trade system.

Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, founder and national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation as well as a spokesman for the We Get It! campaign, believes the cap-and-trade and similar policies to fight global warming will further push the world’s poor into poverty by denying them basic needs such as abundant, affordable energy.

“We face important environmental challenges, but must be cautious of claims that our planet is in peril from speculative dangers like man-made global warming,” wrote Beisner in an e-mail to The Christian Post.
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Groups that have signed the We Get It! declaration include the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Family Research Council, and Concerned Women for America.
Australian Climate Madness: Climate change [fraud] lawyers ready to pounce
"Goldmine" - that says it all! Virtually all corporates of any size will, when the ETS become law, require advice on their obligations under it, which will no doubt be convoluted and labyrinthine. And where do these corporates get the money to pay the lawyers bills? By charging their customers more for their products and services, which, at the end of a very long line, means you and me paying more for our products and services.

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