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The UN and Climate Change: How Much Will This Scam Cost Americans?
Thursday, December 13, 2007

I believe Global Warming exists. I believe Global Cooling exists. I don't believe Global Climate Change is effected by humans. A short span of two hundred or less years of industrialization cannot have such a consequential effect on the Earth's climate.

How come the Sun, the Universe's fireplace that keeps us alive, is being ignored in this theory?

What happened to the hysteria over Global Cooling of the 1970's? There were wacky ideas back then to solve the problem of Global Cooling: cover the North / South poles with black to attract the sun and help them melt.

What happened to the worry over greenhouse gases and deforestation of the Brazilian rain forest?

Do museums and science books still show what life was like on this planet for the past five billion years? There were plenty of warm and cold periods. Those warm and cold spells lasted tens of thousands of years. Yet, media organizations (New York Times, BBC, etc.) suggest we can personally witness and measure climate trends in a couple of years in what ordinarily takes thousands.

I have always believed that politicians were looking to tax people for breathing oxygen. Politicians believe that the monies people earn or have are for them to confiscate by any means and method. Environmentalists and their ilk are a close second with this arrogant belief.

Politicians have come up with an even better idea: tax people for CO2. This chatter about carbon trading and reducing carbon emissions will have only one affect: the price of energy will rise exponentially. After these schemes are implemented be assured of one thing: the Global Climate Change fever will be cooled and "cured" to be replaced by another "crisis" that so-called rich countries must pay for.

Regarding the UN Bali meeting, the International Herald Tribune, December 2007 says:

...an agreement this week to breathe new life into a fund to help poor countries cope with a warming climate is set to be the big breakthrough of the conference.

The adaptation fund, which is managed by the Global Environment Facility, an independent financial organization, was established in Kyoto in 1997, but had been criticized for being too difficult to access and for raising only paltry sums of money.

The adaptation fund is to be maintained using a 2 percent tax on transactions within the Clean Development Mechanism, under which rich nations receive carbon credits for investing in sustainable projects in developing countries.

Wow, funny how this Global Climate Change thing is turning into a world tax on "rich" countries. Guess which country is blamed the most for Global Warming? Guess which country is always seen as not contributing its fair share to aid by the UN? Long before Climate Change hysteria made its debut, the UN wanted to levy a tax on all wealthy countries.

How convenient that a tax (on rich nations) and Global Warming mesh together so nicely. Isn't the Inconvenient Truth actually a Convenient Lie?

Newspapers can certainly show their honest commitment to Global Climate: cease publishing on paper and go online, devote every story to Climate Change, don't encourage illegal immigration or open borders (more people equals more energy used equals more carbon emissions), and endorse politicians who want a carbon tax. There are so many methods they can suggest to help shut down the US economy and reduce our standard of living.

The possibilities for additional taxation are endless: further raise taxes on gasoline, tax people based on the size of their homes, tax people based on the price of their cars, tax people based on how often they fly, and a flat tax on everyone for CO2 emissions.

Oh wait, what am I saying? Americans are already taxed in every way imaginable. I really hope the environmental extremists have their way. I'd like to see what happens to the politicians who want to follow this carbon trading / taxation policy.

Labels: Climate Change, Global Warming, taxes, UN, US