9/12/12, "Carbon Chronicles: Climate Change Becomes a Business Reality," Bloomberg Business Week, Diane Brady, Senior Editor. (Shadow government of billionaires desperately seeking a 'price on carbon.')
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9/12/12, "Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions," Forbes, James Taylor, opinion
"As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement. Instead, alarmists are ramping up their vitriol. The alarmists’ increasing vitriol reveals that for many alarmists, the true goal is not a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, but instead a transfer of wealth and power from individuals to government.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions during the first quarter of 2012 were the lowest since 1992. With more and more U.S. power plants switching from coal to natural gas, the decline is likely to continue and the reductions are likely to be permanent.
The decline in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions is striking when we compare U.S. emission trends to global emission trends.
In 2000, U.S. emissions totaled 5.9 billion metric tons, while global emissions totaled 23.7 billion metric tons. Accordingly, in 2000 the United States accounted for 25 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
By 2010, however, U.S. emissions fell to 5.6 billion metric tons, while global emissions rose to 31.8 billion metric tons. Accordingly, in 2010 the United States accounted for merely 18 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
If the U.S. emissions reductions in early 2012 hold throughout the year, they’ll likely fall to merely 15 percent of the global total.
By the end of the decade, U.S. emissions will most likely decline to approximately 12 percent of global emissions, or less than half the U.S. share in 2000.
Keeping in mind that the United States produces 23 percent of the world’s Gross Domestic Product , reducing U.S. emissions to 12-to-15 percent of the global total is quite impressive.
These reductions in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are taking place without all-intrusive, economy-wide, government-imposed restrictions. Yes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that economically punish coal power plants are somewhat responsible for the shift to natural gas power, but so too are technological advances and new natural gas discoveries that have dramatically reduced the price of natural gas.
If the alarmists’ true goal is significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions, they would acknowledge and celebrate these ongoing reductions. Instead, however, alarmists are doubling down on vitriol and hateful rhetoric.
Consider, for example, Bill Blakemore’s most recent column
on the ABC News Nature and Environment webpage. Among other things, Blakemore writes that “a number of climate scientists have told this reporter they agree with those, including NASA scientist James Hansen, who charge fossil fuel CEOs are thus guilty of a ‘crime against humanity.’” The traditional punishment for “crimes against humanity”
- is execution.
Why is it that so many alarmists are ratcheting up their vitriol and hateful rhetoric precisely when U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are rapidly declining? The answer is the alarmists are motivated more by a desire to reshape society into a government-centered model than they are interested in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Emissions are rapidly declining, yet money and power remains largely with the people rather than the government. Accordingly, activists ratchet up their hateful rhetoric.
For those who truly care about reducing carbon dioxide emissions, now is a time for celebration. For those who truly care about transferring money and power to government,
- now is a time to intensify their attacks." via Tom Nelson
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Ed. note: Apparently 'caring' billionaires Bloomberg and Rockefeller see a US "carbon tax" as a way to bully the defenseless US taxpayer and his hijacked culture into a price on carbon. Many rich people foolishly invested in "renewables" which they'll likely take a bath on unless they can get a "price on carbon" from the US. The problem is this is all based on a lie. Even if it were ever true, it isn't any longer in the US. US CO2 has dropped and is going lower. Normal people care about the environment but that's something different from treating CO2 as a poison threatening to cause the extinction of humanity. It's over. Who will inform the bully billionaires?
9/11/12, "A Dangerous Delusion Is Back In The Form Of Carbon Tax," IBD editorial, K.H. White
"This current carbon tax push — although only rumblings at the margins — reveals business models dependent on a carbon price. Billions of public and private funds have been invested in alternative energy with the assumption of an eventual government diktat to increase the price of fossil fuels. Without such a sanction on carbon, it is increasingly obvious that inherently less efficient, far more expensive alternative energies
- cannot compete."
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Further, Obama has ordered a drastic cutback in US measurement of so-called greenhouse gases. The CO2 terror industry pivots on these measurements. The measurements or at least some version of them is worth trillions of dollars. Assuming for a moment that collection and delivery of these numbers by parties with enormous financial interest in them has or ever will be done correctly, how are billions of dollars going to be justified with few or no numbers at all?
"NOAA has stopped measuring greenhouse gas levels at a dozen ground stations, eliminated some aircraft monitoring and cut the frequency of remaining measurements in half....50 researchers...signed a letter, published last week in the journal Science."...
9/4/12, "NOAA: Budget woes force a halt to climate monitoring at 12 ground stations," eenews.net, Lauren Morello
"The federal government is cutting back its ability to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists are crying foul.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spends roughly $6 million per year to sample carbon dioxide, methane and nearly 20 other gases using a global network of ground stations, tall towers and aircraft.
But faced with shrinking budgets and an uncertain fiscal future, NOAA has stopped measuring greenhouse gas levels at a dozen ground stations, eliminated some aircraft monitoring and cut the frequency of remaining measurements in half. The agency scrapped plans to expand its network of tall towers- and is now moving to shut down some of the seven existing sites.
The cuts come at a time when governments are pushing for more detailed information about sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. Scientists say the decision to shrink NOAA's monitoring network -- the world's largest -- threatens their ability to provide those answers.
"The reality is that countries are making commitments that will cost millions, if not billions, of investment in climate-related work, and governments want more certainty about what's happening, what other countries are doing," said Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project. "We barely have enough to provide what a lot of agencies are asking for. The prospect of having fewer sampling stations around the world is a frightening one."
Canadell is one of more than 50 researchers who signed a letter, published last week in the journal Science, warning that additional cuts to NOAA's monitoring program could harm U.S. national security and render useless the hundreds of millions of dollars that several nations, including the United States, have spent developing new CO2-monitoring satellites.Putting a crimp in long-term monitoring
The situation is likely to get worse before it gets better."...
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