Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser proposing global "CO2 budget" for every individual.
Posted on 09/06/2009 8:13:20 AM PDT by ClimateDepot.com
Climate Reparations: Western nations 'have already exceeded their quotas'...'The West would give back part of the wealth it has taken from the South in the past centuries'
Sunday, September 06, 2009By Marc Morano – Climate Depot Excerpted From a September 4, 2009 article in The German Newspaper Der Spiegel. The interview was conducted by Christian Schwägerl and the article was titled: 'Industrialized Nations Are Facing CO2 Insolvency'
Der Spiegel Excerpts: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser, argues that drastic measures must be taken in order to prevent a catastrophe. Schellnhuber is proposing the creation of a CO2 budget for every person on the planet, regardless whether they live in Berlin or Beijing. [...]
Schellnhuber: Humankind has to limit itself to emit only fixed amount of carbon into the atmosphere until 2050. [...] Because the industrialized nations have already exceeded their quotas if you take into account past emissions. [...] With the current output you see that Germany, the US and other industrialized nations have either already used up their permissible quota, or will do so within the next few years. [...]
The industrialized nations are facing CO2 insolvency. This means that they have to notch up their efforts to reduce climate change, otherwise they will use up the CO2 budget actually designated to poorer countries and future generations.
Question: So industrialized nations would have to pay massive sums of money?
Schellnhuber: Yes. Up to €100 billion ($142 billion) annually. If the richest sixth of the world's population were to pay this amount, each person would have to pay €100 per year. The West would give back part of the wealth it has taken from the South in the past centuries and be indebted to countries that are now amongst the poorest in the world. It would, however, have to be ensured that the poorer nations use the money for the proposes it is intended -- namely to help them to develop a greener economy. [End article excerpt]
Climate Depot Editor's Note: Schellnhuber is not alone advocating these types of CO2 proposals. The movement to control personal CO2 "budget's" is growing internationally. Here are a few recent examples.
1) Flashback May 2009: 'He who controls carbon controls life. It is a bureaucrat's dream to control carbon dioxide'
2) Flashback 2008: 'Personal carbon trading scheme': 'Every adult in UK should be forced to use 'carbon ration cards', say MPs - Excerpt: 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 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.
3) Flashback Jan. 2009: NYT: California Seeks Home Thermostat Control - Excerpt: The conceit in the 1960s show “The Outer Limits” was that outside forces had taken control of your television set. California, state regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device.
4) Flashback May 2009: Eco-Nanny Pelosi: 'Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory'
5) Flashback Jan. 2009: Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer invokes Orwell's 1984 novel: 'CO2 is not a pollutant...we should not corrupt English language by depriving 'pollutant' and 'poison' of their original meaning'
6) Sept. 2009: 'Only way to seriously reduce the human contribution of CO2 is ...by utilizing full coercive power of each nation state and UN to enforce Draconian laws and regulations on lifestyles of every human being on this planet'
7) Flashback July 2009: Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance'
German huh!
Putting the “total” in “totalitarian.”
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the German government's climate protection adviser proposing global "CO2 budget" for every individual.
Self-absorbed pedant, sophist, a**hat and...hey wait, that describes 90% of the people in DC!
Ash heap of history for you, Bud.
ex post facto.....
.....Your grandfather's sins are yours too.
I'd say most people will not buy it, but in this day and age I think a lot will.
When will I get my "European Peasant Opression" reparations? < / sarc >
Wait just a damned minute Herr Schellnhuber. You’re telling ME that I have to limit my co2 output when I live on 33 acres of dense redwood forest, to which I am constantly adding new plantings? Have I got that right Herr 21stC.Nazi??
Seems to me I am contributing one he!! of a lot more oxygen to the atmosphere than you yourself could in several lifetimes.
Shove it, mein Herr.
Or the despotic leaders of these kleptocracies could steal all the money like they usually do...
We knew him as the former commandant of Stalag 49 ~ when it came to the Jewish POWs he only ate the plump ones.
I can’t quite make out the writing in the lower picture. Is that Deutesche BAG? He looks like a sitzenpisser to me.
If they come up with individual methane emission standards, I’ll really have to change my diet.
New law: Everyone’s breathing is now rationed. We’ll start at 50%. You can only breath one-half as much as you use to ... a brethometer will be a mandatory purchase from the government warehouses. Like a pedometer except measures your breathing. For some, possible hard wiring will be necessary (mostly rightwing radicals).
/sarc
If it looks, walks and talks like a dipsh*t, guess what it is?
Just yesterday a health department representative or maybe a doctor was saying the best way to stop the swine flu was to breath more. He said to teach kids to do this by taking 3 deep breaths out and then breath in slowly & deeply and breath out slowly & deeply. This is suppose to remove germs from your nasal passaages and the rest of your respiratory system and by doing so you will reduce your chances of catching the swine flu.
Seems to me those of us who use less should get a prize of some sort. I'm still waiting on my pony Hussein promised so I shouldn't get my hopes too high.
This guys idea also reminds me of a short story I read when I was a teen. It was about a grandmother, who was always very quiet. And then one day she starts telling her grandchildren about how things were when she was young and the things she missed. She especially missed being able to speak freely and ramble on as she had just been doing. At this point the children’s parents tell the children & grandmother it is time for everyone to stop talking because they have used up the family’s allotted amount of words to speak in a day and the family will be fined if they keep talking. This of course causes the children to grumble about gramma unfairly gabbing about nothing and using up all the words for the day.
Funny how this story stayed with me, I must have read it 30 years ago. I think it stayed with me because it seemed too far out to be something that could really happen. Yet at the same time it represented the evil in the world such as this guy who thinks he can micromanage down to the minute. Somethings are just met to be, not met to be controlled.
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