Beam me to Planet Gore !
“”Cap and trade” is first a massive indirect tax on the American people and hence another source of revenue for Congress. More importantly “cap and trade” is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.”
This is EXACTLY what is happening and it is EXACTLY as it was planned by the early socialists in England.
The goal of the communists and socialists has always been the same: the elimination of the middle class by driving down the majority of those in the middle class to the lower class and the rising of the elite. They want a two-class system, the rulers and the ruled.
Both ideologies seek their end by first implementing an all-powerful STATE. After the STATE is established, they then drive the wedge to return society to the feudal state that existed before the industrial revolution and before that thorn-in-the-side-of-tyranny called America unleashed productivity and prosperity by adding to the industrial revolution FREEDOM and PRIVATE PROPERTY.
The English socialists decided that the slower, non-violent means was the best means. They claimed they didn't want to “OWN” companies and property, like the communists. They just wanted to “REGULATION INDUSTRY.”
If they can “REGULATE” the major industries (energy, transportation, food, communication, and currency) they effectively OWN and CONTROL everyone and everything.
As Vaclav Klaus has said repeatedly, the extreme “environmentalists” are no better than old-school communists. Their goal is the same. They just have a slightly new approach.
That's why I call them Eco-commies.
Also, for FReepers who want a good overview of this GW scam, read Roy Spencer’s “Climate Confusion.”
In that work, he discusses the role of atmospheric moisture and the thermohaline (super dense salt-water rivers at the bottom of the ocean) currents in regulating the earth’s temperature.
While solar activity no doubt does cast more heat at the earth, this heat is absorbed and transferred by the earth’s climate systems.
We are just beginning to understand the role of atmospheric moisture and the role of the oceans in regulating (in part by transference) the earth’s temperature.
Climate models do not account for either of these very important variables.
Walter Williams sums things up nicely doesn’t he?
Thank you for the post.
Thank you, Walter Williams, for your sanity and brilliance.
It took congress ten years to get on the AGW band wagon. It took only ten years because that’s when the demonrats siezed control. Usually it takes longer. But the libtards just can’t let a crisis go to waste.
The problem is that it will take at leasst 20 years and a majority conservative congress to reverse all the problems this legislation will cause.
Libtard motto: If it ain’t broke, fix it until it is.
Boy, does this ring true!! In the 80s, in Dallas, the DA (a former Dem Congressman whose name I have forgotten) decided to go after a lead smelter in west Dallas as part of a political dog and pony show. He cooked up a scheme to make it appear that the lead smelter was blanketing the neighborhoods that had grown up around it with toxic lead waste.
He got the EPA involved and they went around collecting soil samples to prove that the lead smelter was indeed producing toxic lead levels in the soil of the surrounding neighborhoods. So, at a huge expense to taxpayers, the topsoil was all scraped up and stored in a small town on the south side of Dallas, plus the lead smelter was closed down with the accompanying loss of jobs.
At the time, I was dating the daughter of an EPA scientist who let me in on the dirty little secret that proved the whole thing was a political show 'n tell.
Dallas, in those days, had many earth drainage ditches that ran beside many of the roads. And, in those days, most gas still contained the lead additive. When it rained, the rain water would wash the fuel deposits from the streets into these earth drainage ditches that would carry it to the storm drains. The soil samples the EPA took showed very high levels of lead deposits because they took those samples from the earth drainage ditches, thus enabling them to obtain the results they wanted. So, squelching information that is contrary to political goals is nothing new for the EPA. This, by the way, is one of the reasons I don't trust much of ANYTHING the government says/does!!