Posted on 02/27/2007 5:24:12 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax By Peter Heinlein United Nations 28 February 2007
A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.
In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.
The report was issued three weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity. But unlike the IPCC report, this latest document makes policy recommendations.
Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University says the world must be mobilized immediately to avoid catastrophe. "Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly," he said.
The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done.
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That's what I wonder. If sending them money will alter the temperature could we send enough money to keep it in the seventies all year.
I have an even better idea, let's tax the enviros based on the accuracy of their predictions. If the sea level rises less than they predict, make them pay x number of $ for every .1 millimeter they miss their target. Or pay for each .1 degree C they fall under their warming projection each year.
The socialists think they can regulate anything. That's why the USSR failed. Democrats (socialists) would have been right at home in the former USSR.
I use to live in Detroit and my first indicator that someone was trying to con me out of some money was that they needed it right away before I had a chance to ask any questions.
Same here. This nothing but a collosal con game.
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Tax his pants, tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirts,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.
Tax his chew, tax his smoke,
Teach him taxes are no joke.
Tax his car, tax his grass,
Tax the roads he must pass.
Tax his food, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his sodas, tax his beers,
If he cries, tax his tears.
Tax his bills, tax his gas,
Tax his notes, tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers, tax him more,
Tax him until he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin, tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove me to my doom!"
And when he's gone, we won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance tax.
And when the job is finally done
Tax that evil, evil sun
"My panel did a review and determined with 100% certainty there is no correlation between charging more taxes and climate change."
Ok, So I am the US. I say, I will pay the 10 billion and continue to pump out emissions. Who gets the money and how will it change global warming?
I have a better idea. Let's drill ANWR using a cleaner and more efficient footprint, let's dig for coal with a cleaner and more efficient footprint and then let's shut down China's coal mines and Russia's oil fields.
That should do it and the money the Chinese and Russians pay us can go into stockholder equity.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . . . these people spew this crap like it was actually serious!!!
Who keeps track of the global temperature?
The same people who signed this report.
Sorry, it is a big scam. Temperatures in the 1930s were higher than today. But no one actually knows that since the global temperature monitors keep changing all of the historical records.
And not a single brain between them.
They want to tax the temperature!?
If the temperature goes down, will we get a refund?
(I know, silly me.)
They want to tax the temperature!?
If the temperature goes down, will we get a refund?
(I know, silly me.)
Goodness, I'm glad I didn't say that again.
I think there should be a tax on the sun. I mean, why should IT have an exemption?
Hillary and Obama should be up front an tell the American people that they will impose stringent carbon taxes on Americans with the proceeds going to developing countries and the UN.
In Global Warming, the liberals have found their best argument yet for convincing the unwashed masses that socialist big government solution(s) and taxation are the only thing standing between the citizenry and doomsday.
I ain't paying no carbon tax.
"Why didn't Clinton push for the Kyoto protocol ratification, if he is so concerned about this?
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I think he knew it would be suicidal for the economy and his presidency to do such a thing and I am sure that he knew that he could refuse to sign it and in a few years no one would remember.
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He DID push for it. It was rejected by the Senate of the U.S. 95 - 0. Note that a few less than half of the Senate was of his own party; every last voting soul said "uh uh, Bubba."
Exactly! Tax? The rich hypocrites like Gore can afford to pay someone else to use less energy so they can have enormous carbon footprints...but the poor are going to end up poorer if this somehow became law. Democrats, always attempting to keep people under their thumb.
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