Environmentalist Air Pollution | Watts Up With That?

Environmentalists have promoted the theory that human civilization is the main cause of global warming. They argue that Governments worldwide must take immediate drastic action to prevent a catastrophe. The chain of proof in their human-caused climate catastrophe theory is broken in at least six places:

Political fallout: Cap and trade capsized : Politics

As recently as four years ago, Nebraska and the nation had the beginnings of a flourishing cap-and-trade system in which farmers were paid as much as $7.40 per metric ton to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Since then, the U.S. Senate has balked at the idea of capping CO2 levels and allowing industries to buy the carbon credits that farmers earned to avoid federal pollution penalties.

The Chicago Climate Exchange, the crossroads for cap and trade, is defunct. And John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, is left shaking his head over the demise of a climate solution his organization strongly endorsed and helped run from the national level.

The failure of the U.S. Senate to back cap and trade sent everything into a tailspin, Hansen said.

In Nebraska, what was lost included more than 3 million acres enrolled in carbon sequestration and millions of dollars per year paid to farmers who kept soil tillage to a minimum and trapped greenhouse gases under the surface.

“At that point, we released all our climate [hoax fraud swindle scam] folks from their contracts,” Hansen said. “And we said, ‘Geez, we’re really sorry. This was a good effort.’”

Nebraska and North Dakota were the two most active states in Farmers Union ranks, he said. “And then it all just collapsed.”

DECC denies policy change | City A.M.

The Department for Energy and Climate Change last night insisted it was still committed to meeting climate change targets despite reports the government was plotting to build new gas stations. The Times said this morning that the government would introduce a legal loophole to allow new fossil fuel plants to be built. Last night DECC tweeted that the story was “inaccurate”, saying there was “no change” in its targets policy.