The government would dole out what bureaucrats think we should have.
If this were all that there is to it, there would be no panic or even controversy. The absurdity of the proposal alone would condemn it to ridicule and oblivion.
The part no one seems to talk about (except in world summits and workshops by the parasites) is "carbon credits". THe average person is not even aware of this, and is woefully unequiped to understand it even if he were eager to grasp the concept.
As I understand it, carbon credits are a device to obfuscate. Its relation to actual CO2 is theoretical and abstract, which makes it a handy tool for the monumental scam. For example, if a gigawatt of electricity is used by the technologically advanced countries by means of hydroelectic generation, it is converted to the equivalent amount of coal required, and the perpetrator is assigned that much "carbon use" - bad. Presumably, that would be true of solar-generated power too.
Here's where it gets byzantine. The producers of the world (rich) use way too much "carbon credits" compared to the useless non-producing (poor) countries. There is a fundamental unfairness in some minds about this. So, to set things right, the producer (rich) countries will be obligated to pay the poorer countries for the carbon credits that they are entitled to, based on population, that they don't actually use.
Bottom line, Kyoto is a huge wealth transfer proposal based on arbitrary definitions and a phony construct of the real world.
If Kyoto prevails, and 100% of the US energy is produced without burning a single gram of anything, the US would still be penalized trillions of dollars for exceeding the "carbon equivalent" some NGO parasites have determined is "fair"
How can such a monumental scam possibly succeed?
" How can such a monumental scam possibly succeed? "
It is succeeding -- given President Bush's capitulation in his SOTU speech, it may have already succeeded...
And the lemmings will tear to pieces anyone wanting to turn them away from the cliff....
Hope you have some skills at subsistence farming -- we're all gonna need 'em........
You've pretty much nailed it on the head. Global Warming® is just a massive wealth-distribution scam. Judging by the rhetoric (those that question Global Warming® are "flat-earthers", etc.), I don't know if they're ratcheting it up because they're winning the argument and are going for the kill, or they're losing badly and this is their last gasp. There are certain indicators that they're winning (e.g., states like California passing ridiculous Global Warming® laws).
The US should do what the Euroweenie countries did - sign the Kyoto Treaty and then just ignore it.