A post by Maynard
The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide is real and driven by massive combustion of fossil fuels. Mankind is tampering with a fundamental parameter of a complex ecological system, and it’s only reasonable to be concerned about where this will lead.
A crisis is always an excuse for a government to seize new powers. The Greens and the Left don’t by nature share a common goal, but the Green fearmongering creates an excuse to control economic activity of both individuals and businesses. The Left sees an opportunity and co-opts the Green agenda for its own purposes.
This article illustrates the problem.
Every adult should be forced to use a ‘carbon ration card’ when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy, MPs [Members of Parliament] say.
The influential Environmental Audit Committee says a personal carbon trading scheme is the best and fairest way of cutting Britain’s CO2 emissions without penalizing the poor.
Under the scheme, everyone would be given an annual carbon allowance to use when buying oil, gas, electricity and flights.
Anyone who exceeds their entitlement would have to buy top-up credits from individuals who haven’t used up their allowance. The amount paid would be driven by market forces and the deal done through a specialist company.
The Government says it supports the scheme in principle, but warns it is ‘ahead of its time’.
In other words, it’s coming. You’re just not quite ready for it yet.
This is not a new notion. Here you can see a carbon ration card advocate on British TV. The clip is 2 years old, and the idea has been on the table since 1990. Note that the adoption of this proposal would require monitoring of every aspect of your life…how much you travel, every light or appliance you turn on, everything you buy. It seems that, if we are to save the planet, we must first be enslaved.
I think we have excellent reasons to search for alternatives to fossil fuels. Aside from ecological concerns, we’re getting squeezed economically and geopolitically by our thirst for oil. I’d like to establish a common cause with the “supply-side Greens”, if any such faction exists. If we are to have a future, we’ll find it in new supplies and technologies, and not in ever-more-stringent rations and controls.
It may be closer than we all think. There’s legislation pending in the senate that seems to be to be troubling. The Heritage Foundation has quite a bit of information on the Lieberman-Warner Bill:
Effect of the Lieberman-Warner Global Climate Change Legislation
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm1930.cfm
And if you’d like to sign a petition to let Congress know that you’d like them to do something to solve our energy problem instead of making it worse, you may do so here:
http://tinyurl.com/5vkk84
Anyone who hasn’t seen the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, would learn something from it. Mankind’s contribution to CO2 is trivial when compared with that of the world’s oceans AFTER the temperature has risen. Warming increases oceanic CO2 output, not the other way around, and the ice core sample data substantiates this very convincingly.
The three major temperature monitoring networks used to collect the “global temperature†data, all indicate that the “Earth’s temperature†has dropped dramatically over the past year, and the current “global temperature†is as low as it was 100 years ago. Since CO2 didn’t show the same change, it would seem there are much more influential climate factors than CO2 and that those are what’s causing the temp to change. Interestingly enough, we also just came out of a period of intense solar activity that started a couple decades ago (when the temp spiked). Mars and Jupiter also show signs of global warming. Mankind can’t be blamed for that. However, we do share the same storming Sun.
given the hysterical inaccuracy of your very first line, and utter lack of convincing proof of it’s veracity, I read on hoping it might be satire. Alas, it was simply more hysteria. 🙁
“The rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide is real and driven by massive combustion of fossil fuels. Mankind is tampering with a fundamental parameter of a complex ecological system, and it’s only reasonable to be concerned about where this will lead.”
Maynard… get a grip. Scottie is exactly right, and you are a prime example of what Vaclav Klaus was talking about when he said “We are now at the stage where the facts, reason, truth are powerless in the face of the global warming propaganda.”
Very disappointing.