So Long, Cap And Trade!

"We've been duped!" Those are the first three words I want to hear from the mainstream media bobble heads. And from Al Gore, I want to hear, "Oh crap, I'm broke!" An apology would be nice, too.

So-called experts have been telling us that a little cold snap, such as we're experiencing all across the Northern Hemisphere, did not pardon make, and that we were nonetheless still destroying the planet with our belching of CO2. "Pay no attention to that frigid weather", they said, because weather and climate are separate issues. They told us of the melting arctic ice cap and how the north pole would be ice free in summer by 2013.

According to a story from Sunday in the UK's Daily Mail, this cold weather we're in the midst of is only the beginning of a "global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists." The article goes on:

"Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this."

Since 2007? Why have we been told all this time that the arctic sea ice was still declining? Perhaps the most confusing aspect of all of this is that it's cooling while CO2 levels continue to rise. Something just doesn't quite add up here, folks. You can be certain that the Disciples of AGW are working feverishly (pardon the pun) to develop the a way to spin this into even more proof of their insane theories.

It remains to be seen how the media - which has been eager accomplices in propagating this lie - will report on these findings. Will they be angry that they were played for fools? And what of the schools, which been teaching the children about the destructive ways of their mommies and daddies? Will they now be forced to recant?

My guess is that the cap and trade machine will suddenly turn on the very scientists they touted in their crusade who now reveal the scam. This is going to either be a very bumpy and thrilling ride, or once you're done reading here, this is the last you'll ever hear on the subject. Only time will tell.

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Don't Forget The Pestilence

As Congress begins the week debating the disastrous cap and tax legislation, Barbara Boxer is pulling out almost all of the stops. Saying that the bill must be passed to save humanity, she is warning of droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more. One can only surmise that the "more" is pestilence or possibly swarms of locusts. It might seem ironic that in order to cool the planet she relies on "fire and brimstone", but it's really not. Here's why.

The bill has nothing at all to do with the climate. It has nothing to do with green energy, creating jobs or energy independence, as Boxer claims. It has everything to do with control and global governance. Don't believe it? Listen to what Al Gore is saying now:

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global governance and global agreements.”

As the article also points out, it was former French President Jacques Chirac who also called for global governance. Add to that the comments of former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom, who said:

"Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide."

And another quote, just for good measure:

"Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in history...When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists." - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist

There are several issues involved with this whole climate change boondoggle, and the success of the perpetrators in the face of such obvious evidence is frightening. What is truly disturbing, however, is that the people we elected to represent the interests of America and the American people are involved with trying to dismantle her sovereignty in favor of a World Government.

Fortunately, James Inhofe is fighting valiantly to stop this madness, but with 60 seats in the Senate, the democrats hold the reins of power. I pray that whatever they foist upon America can be undone when Republicans once again hold that power, because if this bill gets passed by the Senate - and there is no question that Obama will sign it before the paper cools - we will be spreading the wealth not just to poorer neighborhoods in America, but to nations all over the world. There will be a global carbon tax that will allow the UN to charge American companies - and ostensibly individuals - for carbon and take the money to give to other countries.

I wish more people would see this for what it is before it's too late. I also wish the media would do its job in informing the public, but it seems that they been bought by the liberal establishment completely.

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Hold The Cap And Trade

Apparently, those little squiggly light bulbs are so effective in stopping global warming that their use has managed to offset even Al Gore's carbon footprint. Stop the presses and hold the cap and trade, we may not need do anymore than we're already doing. And we certainly don't want to over do it.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's figures are out for the month of June, and in New York, the month was the coldest and wettest in the past half century. From their website:

DUE TO THE UNUSUALLY COOL AND WET CONDITIONS IN JUNE...HERE ARE SOME
INTERESTING FACTS TO NOTE:

THIS JUNE IS TIED FOR THE 8TH COOLEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE WAS 67.5...3.7 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL...WHICH ALSO
OCCURRED IN 1897.

THIS WAS THE COOLEST JUNE SINCE 1958...WHEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
WAS 67.2 DEGREES.

BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OCCURRED ON 23 OUT OF 30 DAYS THIS
JUNE...OR 75 PERCENT OF THE MONTH.

CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 90 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1996.

CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 85 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR.
THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1916. THIS HAS ONLY OCCURRED
2 OTHER TIMES...1903 AND 1886.

I hope someone in the US Senate is paying attention. Now they can vote against the idiotic "climate change" bill with clear consciences.

Lincoln, Illinois also set a record for coldest July 4th temperature. The high in Lincoln was 68 degrees, breaking the previous record set in 1997 by one degree. So it appears that the efforts of the enviros have paid off, the Earth is cooling and we can all enjoy ourselves.

Well done, Red Team!

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EPA: Everyone Pay Attention

Will wonders never cease? The mainstream media has reported on something detrimental to their agenda.

I am stunned yet gratified that CBS News has actually reported on the EPA squashing a report questioning the science of anthropogenic global warming. The report called into question the causation of CO2 emissions and their effect on the climate. It also cautioned that limitations on emissions would have little or no impact on climate change, effectively rendering the president's proposed cap and trade scheme useless and pointless. In other words, it exposed the legislation approved by the House of Representatives yesterday as the scam that many of you have already known it to be; the largest tax increase in the history of the nation that will accomplish nothing more than spreading the wealth.

Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, told CBSNews.com in a telephone interview on Friday that his boss, Al McGartland, was being pressured himself. "It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else," Carlin said. "That was obviously coming from higher levels." Also from the linked article:

Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."

Leading up to yesterday's vote in the House, Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi were burning up the phone lines to members, beseeching them to vote for the bill on climate change. The EPA knew about this report and let it happen anyway, because they were getting pressure from above that the legislation was going to be passed and that they had better get out of the way. It should be no mystery to any thinking person that there is something foul afoot.

First it was the IPCC and the Gore-ites insisting that the "science was settled" and that anyone who dared question them were heretics and fools. Now there is collusion within our own government to ram through an horrendous piece of legislation that will cause irreparable harm to our economy, something of which I have been warning for years. Hopefully more mainstream media outlets will bring this to the public's attention so they can see that this scam is designed for no good purpose.

In the meantime, I encourage all of you to read up on this EPA scandal and bring it up when you contact your senators. Let them know not only that you are dead set against this bill, but also that you are on to the scheme and will not tolerate the destruction of your country. Here are a few good links:

CBS NEWS
Washington Examiner
The Wall Street Journal

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An Agenda Delayed

After basically telling the American people that they wanted to punch us in the face, Democrat House Reps. have decided that the subtle approach may be more successful and less dangerous in achieving their ultimate goals, after all. Make no mistake; they still intend to punch us in the face, but they've opted for a more patient and circuitous route to that end, one that will deliver the twisted satisfaction they crave while avoiding the pitfalls and perils they unfortunately saw before they leaped.

Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) , The House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) had teamed up on a bill designed to make drastic cuts in CO2 emissions that would have crippled our already staggering economy. They are the pilots of the ship making headway toward the deadly "cap and trade" scheme that harbors in the port of Copenhagen. (Many who have not kept up on this subject, due to understandable distractions, probably are unaware that Copenhagen is the new Kyoto.)

Understanding the problems they may face in their quest - such as opposition from the fools they serve, as well as more vociferous objections from those they do not serve - Waxman and Markey realized that to get their mission accomplished, they must follow the liberal playbook to the letter, being certain not to alarm the masses. Baby steps are back in vogue in this volatile economic climate, and these two are nothing if not masters of deception.

As My Way News is reporting, the strategy now is to scale back overly ambitious guidelines in the hope of feeding the masses slowly, hoping that small portions will offer up little flavor and smaller clues as to the bitter taste of the result that must surely follow, albeit it in the form of a pre-antacid belch. In the hopes of getting a foot in the door this year (everything suddenly seems so urgent with the democrats), Waxman and Markey agreed to scale back the draconian requirements they originally sought, and which were endorsed by the president.

Fully realizing that an inch eventually yields a mile in the realm of federal government, compromises like this offer little angst for advocates such as Waxman and Markey other than the irritating frustration of not being instantly gratified. However, since many of their ilk are nearly guaranteed lifetime tenure, time is a luxury, and plans are better laid without a ticking clock. They can wait and still eat well.

Rest assured, however; one day, they definitely will deliver that punch in the face.

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Cap & Cha-Ching!

So-called stewards of the environment would have us believe that gluttonous greed and capitalism will be the undoing of planet Earth, and that we must immediately put a leash on corporate big-wigs who are the culprits of it all. Spinmeisters of every stripe - including elected politicians - have unleashed a multi-front war on corporate America and have been quite successful at creating villains that unwitting Americans have giddily set upon in their manufactured outrage.

Never mind that trading carbon offsets will accomplish little more than an exchange of cash in the grand scheme of the welfare of the planetary climate, it is still a bill of goods being thrust upon every American as beneficial, and they're buying it like it's on sale. What many of them don't realize is that the benefit is going to a very few who have built a lucrative market to which they are herding us like so many beleaguered bovines.

Two of the people who are setting themselves up to make king's fortunes are Al Gore and Maurice Strong. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange (hmm, Chicago...), which has been described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.” Gore is both the chairman and a founding partner in Generation Investment Management LLP, which is a firm that holds considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms currently in existence, including the Chicago Climate Exchange.

The collaboration between the two dates back to, appropriately, Earth Day in 1995, when Gore went to give a speech at Molten Metal Technology Inc. in Fall River, Massachusetts. The company claimed to have devised a process for recycling metals from waste. It was also run by Maurice Strong and Peter Knight, Gore’s former top Senate aide and the companies lobbyist. Gore had gone there to sing the praises of Molten Metal as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and be beneficial to investors at the same time. Sound familiar?

The company received $25 million in R&D from the Department of Energy and a subsequent $8 million from federal taxpayer coffers. After Gore's endorsement, the firm's stock on Wall Street went to $35 per share. A short time later, the DOE stopped funding the companies projects due to a lack of commercial viability, and between March and October of 1996, Strong and six other officers in the company sold off $15.3 million in personal shares. On Sunday, October 20th of that year, the company issued a press release stating that DOE funding would all but end, and notified brokers via conference call. The next day when the market opened, the stock plunged 49% to $5 per share.

It was learned in the subsequent lawsuit by angry shareholders that Strong had done something similar earlier with a Swiss company called AZL Resources, artificially driving up the stock prices before bailing out with a fortune.

It gets better. On March 25th, 2009, Fox News Ed Barnes wrote an article titled, Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress , in which he wrote, in part:

"While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president."

In 2000 and 2001, Barack Obama served on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation, the above mentioned charity, which gave over $1 million in two separate grants that, according to Barnes, "were instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange".

So, while corporate CEO's are being raked over the coals (no pun intended) for their "excessive greed", we have the triad of Gore, Strong and Obama preparing to tax the living daylights out of us through the punitive cap and trade scheme and enrich themselves at the same time. But when the Earth begins to cool, so will the fervor over CO2, and you can bet your last tank of gas that these three will have long sold off their stakes before the shareholders ever knew what hit them. Meanwhile the poor grunts - the rest of us - will have been driven to poverty.

Hat Tips to:
Judi McLeod of Canana Free Press
Ed Barnes of Fox News

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Pill In The Pudding

"The science is settled", we've been told, and if we don't act swiftly and boldly we will destroy the planet through our greed and avarice. Yet, despite the fact that there are now some 700 scientists who protest the notion of settled dispute, the Obama administration is planning a massive cap and trade scheme that is being estimated to potentially cost two trillion dollars, nearly triple the administration's initial estimate.

The entire global warming industry - for that's exactly what it is - is designed to make people feel good about being "responsible stewards" of the environment. No one desires harm to befall our planet, but those who resist the machinations and manipulations of the Al Gores of the world are seen as heretics who actively plot to facilitate our demise.

Of course, like any liberal cause, the cure-all is money, and lots of it. The plan seeks to reduce pollution by setting a limit on carbon emissions and allowing businesses and groups to buy allowances. Cap and trade will generate plenty of money at the expense of virtually anyone who works and breathes. The only ones who will not feel much fiscal pain are the "vulnerable". According to a White House official, the vulnerable will receive free money in the form of "rebates". He said, "Any revenues in excess of the estimate would be rebated to vulnerable consumers, communities and businesses."

There, my friends, is the pill in the pudding. It has been well established that Barack Obama is a redistributionist. He admitted as much to Joe The Plumber during the campaign, and he has been recorded stating his philosophy on more than one occasion. He knows the prospect of overtly taking from the rich to give to the poor is a radioactive notion, so he uses the old trick mothers use to give foul-tasting medicine to their kids.

I applaud anyone who takes it upon themselves to conserve energy if it makes them feel better about their futures, but I beseech them to think about the value of a cap and trade system that will only be implemented here in America, while China, India, and other rapidly developing countries refuse to participate. You are not going to save the planet, but you will aid in the process of making Obama's wealth transfer a success.

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