The House’s bill contained tough provisions to impose carbon tariffs, aimed at protecting American companies’ competitiveness against imports from countries without equivalent carbon emission controls to those in the US.
Senator John Kerry, who is helping to write the senate’s version of the bill, said in a hearing on the issue on Wednesday: “We have already come to the conclusion in working on the Senate bill that we’re going to try and change that provision . . . we haven’t landed yet completely on where we come out”.
Max Baucus, the Democrat senator who chairs the senate finance committee, said any provisions that “provoke retaliation from our trading partners will only hurt the same industries we’re trying to help”, adding that he was “confident we can craft legislation that strikes the right balance”.
My opinion? A box of rocks is smarter than this bunch!
Just follow the money!
Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.
· The IPCC’s 2007 climate summary overstated CO2’s impact on temperature by 500-2000%;
· CO2 enrichment will add little more than 1 °F (0.6 °C) to global mean surface temperature by 2100;
· Not one of the three key variables whose product is climate sensitivity can be measured directly;
· The IPCC’s values for these key variables are taken from only four published papers, not 2,500;
· The IPCC’s values for each of the three variables, and hence for climate sensitivity, are overstated;
· “Global warming” halted ten years ago, and surface temperature has been falling for seven years;
· Not one of the computer models relied upon by the IPCC predicted so long and rapid a cooling;
· The IPCC inserted a table into the scientists’ draft, overstating the effect of ice-melt by 1000%;
· It was proved 50 years ago that predicting climate more than two weeks ahead is impossible;
· Mars, Jupiter, Neptune’s largest moon, and Pluto warmed at the same time as Earth warmed;
· In the past 70 years the Sun was more active than at almost any other time in the past 11,400 years.
The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far – trillions to come
CLIMATE MONEY
by Joanne Nova | July 21, 2009
The US government has spent over $79 billion since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, education campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks.
Despite the billions: “audits” of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity o the theory and compete with a well funded highly organized climate monopoly. They have exposed major errors.
Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks are calling for more carbon-trading. And experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion making carbon the largest single commodity traded.
Meanwhile in a distracting sideshow, Exxon-Mobil Corp is repeatedly attacked for paying a grand total of $23 million to skeptics—less than a thousandth of what the US government has put in, and less than one five-thousandth of the value of carbon trading in just the single year of 2008.
The large expenditure in search of a connection between carbon and climate creates enormous momentum and a powerful set of vestd interests. By pouring so much money into a question have we inadvertently created a self-
fulfilling prophesy instead of an unbiased investigation?
Can science survive the vice-like grip of politics and finance?
