Carbon [swindle] market growth stalls in 2009

Point Carbon, 26 October 2009 - The world carbon market will be worth $122 billion in 2009, just $3 billion higher than last year.
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The US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has seen a pick up in volume traded over the year, but the analysts warned this growth may not last as prices will likely fall further.

“We expect to see a further decline in price, towards the auction reserve price ($1.86) as we are unable to identify any bullish factors for the RGGI market,” the report said.

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EU sets $163bn [annual climate hoax wealth transfer] | The Australian

EUROPEAN leaders set a baseline goal for a world climate summit of E100 billion ($163bn) a year by 2020 to help developing countries fight global warming, a draft text revealed last night.

Willing to give up blue skies for climate fix? - Climate Change- msnbc.com

We can probably engineer Earth's climate to cool the planet, scientists say, but are we willing to live with the downsides? Those could include creating more droughts, more ozone holes and, oh yeah, a thin cloud layer that obscures blue skies and gives astronomers fits.

FT.com / [Fiona Harvey provides a heap of alarmism seldom seen anymore; suggests walruses trampled each other trying to get ON shore]

Life for the Inuits, before air travel opened up the country and the cold war brought a little wealth in the form of air bases and listening posts, was so harsh it seems incredible that human beings could cling on here. Agriculture and livestock husbandry were out of the question, so Greenlanders subsisted on a diet of mainly fish and seals, and learnt to use every part of each creature. With no trees, they relied on driftwood to build their boats. Half the year was spent in darkness, mainly in communal turf houses dug into the thin soil, lit only by blubber lamps. With no means of softening the hides of the animals they killed, Inuit women chewed sealskins for much of the winter, their saliva curing the hides and readying them for use. Early visitors reported that the women’s teeth were worn down to the gums from an early age.
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A US Geological Survey expedition in September spotted a large group of walrus carcasses, more than 100, on an Arctic shore. They were almost certainly corpses from a bigger group seen a few days earlier congregating on the ice. Examination of the carcases, mostly calves and yearlings, indicated they had been trampled to death by other walruses, stampeding to find a place on the crowded shore.
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Greenlanders have been the world’s master survivors, stubbornly carving a life for thousands of years out of the most inhospitable desert on the planet. They have little to fear from warming. Tom Ostermann told us: “I have no concerns that the people of Greenland will survive and will be OK. We have always been able to adapt. We are more concerned about places like Holland, for when the sea level increases. It’s those places where people have to be worried.” He leaned forward in his boat, smiling mischievously, and added: “One up to the Eskimo.”