I’m sure there are some older folks on FR that remember when we were in grade school and had to walk to school, there was a lot of snow, wind, rain...but we walked because on ‘really’ outlaying areas were given bus service and we only had one car and it when with whoever was working....
I don’t believe that there is a ‘warming’ trend nor do I believe there is a ‘cooling’ trend....it’s nature....its the way life is...
Some idiot somewhere in the world decided this was a good way to make money, so a word here and a word there and what do we have....a bunch of crap about the weather....it’s either hot, mild, cold, windy, humid, snowy, sunny....live and let live....
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The EPA's And Enron's End-Runs Of Congress
12/01/2010
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/29/epa-enron-greenhouse-gases-opinions-contributors-larry-bell.html
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So Enron and others wondered, why not do the same thing with CO2? Since natural gas is a lower CO2 emitter than coal, that development would certainly be a profitability game changer. But there was a problem. Unlike SO2, CO2 wasn’t a pollutant–at least not then–and the EPA had no authority to regulate it.
After Senator Wirth became undersecretary of state for global affairs in the Clinton-Gore administration, he began working closely with Enron’s boss, Kenneth Lay, to lobby Congress to grant the EPA the authority to control CO2. Between 1994 and 1996 the Enron Foundation contributed nearly $1 million to the Nature Conservancy, and together with the Pew Center and the Heinz Foundation, it engaged in an energetic and successful global warming fear campaign that included attacks on dissenters. That was a time when that exact same Heinz Foundation, headed by Teresa Heinz Kerry, awarded a $250,000 scientific award to key global warming alarmist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen, who then publicly supported her husband in his failed presidential bid.
A Sept. 1, 1998, letter from Enron CEO Ken Lay to President Bill Clinton requested that he “moderate the political aspects” of the climate discussion by appointing a “Blue Ribbon Commission.” His intent was clear: to trash disbelievers and cut off debate on the matter.
Lay had direct contact with the White House earlier when he reportedly met with President Clinton and Vice President Gore on Aug. 4, 1997, to prepare a U.S. strategy for an upcoming Kyoto climate summit that December. Kyoto presented the first step toward creating a carbon market that Enron desperately wanted Congress to support. An internal Enron memorandum stated that Kyoto would “do more to promote Enron’s business than almost any other regulatory initiative outside the restructuring [of] the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and the United States.”
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There will be untold 000,000,000,000.00s to be made in "processing fees" trading carbon credits. Follow the money.