Posted on 03/19/2007 8:07:16 AM PDT by Sulsa
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States must act to cap its emissions of greenhouse gases and join the fight against climate change or risk losing global leadership, a former CIA director said in a report released on Monday.
"The United States must adopt a carbon emission control policy," John Deutch, head of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1995-96, said in a report to the Trilateral Commission, a grouping of business and opinion leaders from Europe, the United States and Asia.
"If the United States or any other OECD country that is a large producer of greenhouse gas emissions is to retain a leadership role in other areas, it cannot just opt out of the global climate change policy process," he wrote.
Deutch, an energy specialist who is now a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also proposed an expanded use of nuclear power, international cooperation to develop clean coal technology and a sharing of the costs of emissions control between rich countries and large emerging nations.
He advocated an additional tax of about $1 per gallon on gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products in the United States, coupled with a tightening of fuel economy standards for U.S. car manufacturers, to encourage fuel efficiency and dampen demand, while recognizing that would be politically difficult.
CAP AND TRADE
He suggested Washington use the same "cap and trade" system of limiting carbon dioxide emissions and issuing emissions permits to industry that can be traded, which the European Union currently uses.
His report to the council, created in 1973 to build a policy consensus among capitalist democracies on three continents, was the latest in a series of international studies highlighting the need for radical policy changes to combat global warming.
Deutch also listed so-called geotechnical measures under consideration to counterbalance climate change, including adding aerosols to the stratosphere, placing balloons or mirrors in the stratosphere and even "high altitude nuclear explosions to induce a nuclear 'spring.'
These ideas were so risky and hard to demonstrate technically that they highlighted the need to redouble efforts to mitigate human-induced climate change.
The report said the major industrialized countries must began a process of transition away from a petroleum-based economy to reduce their dependence on oil and gas imports for political as well as environmental reasons.
It also called for China and India to be admitted to the International Energy Agency to improve cooperation among major oil and gas importers and help avoid tensions over supplies.
While Deutch placed great expectations on carbon capture and sequestration technology to reduce emissions from coal-fired power stations, notably in China, a parallel report to the Trilateral Commission by French energy executive Anne Lauvergeon cast doubt on that solution.
Lauvergeon, chief executive of Areva, which builds nuclear power stations, said the capture and storage of carbon emitted through the burning of fossil fuels was too often presented as a miracle solution.
"This technology will ... not play a significant role in the limitation of carbon emissions for half a century," she wrote.
The climate issue is one of the biggest SCAMs on record by the government. It's got little to do with these yahoos, and our welfare. It's has to with $$$$, Legislation and and control by the NWO.....you can't explain this to people until they see it for themselves. You are spot on....very very misleading.
REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN ON THE POSSIBILITY
AND DESIRABILITY OF PEACE
WITH INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL BY
LEONARD C. LEWIN
"A BOOK THAT SHOOK THE WHITE HOUSE."
--US. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/conspiracy/research/iron1.html
Global warming The real agenda
By Terrence Corcoran
Copyright 1998 Financial Post
December 26, 1998
http://www.junkscience.com/dec98/corcoran.htm
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What is the most important problem facing Canada? When the annual Maclean's/CBC year-end poll asked that question, there was at least one clear answer: Not the environment; in fact, anything but the environment. Ranked by percentage of people who identified one subject or another, the top worry among Canadians is unemployment (15%), followed by government spending, the economy, health care, national unity, taxes, poverty, education and crime. At the bottom of the list, garnering only 2% support, is the environment.
The possibility that 98% of Canadians are not in a state of high anxiety over global warming, freaky weather, ozone depletion, pollution and scores of other Green scares must be a teeth-gritting irritation to environmentalists. They have, after all, spent decades fertilizing the idea that we are on the brink of environmental disaster. Ottawa and the provinces have spent billions on the campaign, which includes turning the weather into a propaganda tool and the school system into an indoctrination camp that begins in kindergarten.
The poll is a testament to the good sense of Canadians. Despite relentless scare-mongering by bureaucrats and activists, Canadians remain unwaveringly fixed on a national economic agenda of growth and prosperity rather than on fantastic claims of apocalypse. When David Suzuki says global warming 'is the most urgent slow-motion catastrophe facing humankind,' nobody is paying much attention.
Except our politicians. Backed by an army of bureaucrats and researchers, governments are systematically preparing to shut down the engines of economic progress in the name of environmentalism. In Canada, the heart of the stop-growth campaign is Environment Canada, where key bureaucrats dedicated to imposing an environmental agenda on the country have seized control. The focus of their effort is global warming and climate change, which they intend to use as a lever to impose what can only be described as a new economic order.
The politician nominally in charge of all this is Environment Minister Christine Stewart. Whether Ms. Stewart fully understands what's going on around her is unknown, but during a recent visit with the editorial board of the Calgary Herald she certainly demonstrated her conversion to the religion of global warming.
Ms. Stewart said that, 'as minister of the environment, I am very worried about global warming,' which for a politician isn't saying much. Politicians are habitually 'very worried' about one thing or another. The trouble starts when they use their power to fix problems they're worried about, even if the problems don't exist. Ms. Stewart said she's prepared to do exactly that. 'No matter if the science is all phony,' she said, 'there are collateral environmental benefits.'
Environment Canada, therefore, is prepared to act on global warming even if there's no such thing as global warming. On the strength of phony science, the federal government would still be willing to impose new taxes on energy consumption, cut economic growth, reduce our standard of living, and create bookshelves filled with new regulation governing most facets of the lives of Canadians.
In another statement quoted by the Herald, Ms. Stewart gave another reason for adopting the religion of global warming. 'Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.' Here she gets closer to the core motivation of some of the leading global warming activists. Where socialism's attempt at a global redistribution of wealth ended in economic catastrophe, global warming is being wheeled in as the next new economic crusade.
Consolidating Ms. Stewart's statements, we reach some horrific conclusions. Whether global warming actually exists is irrelevant. It is, in the hands of government and environmental activists, a convenient front for the introduction of programs and economic policies that Canadians - and most citizens of the world - would not otherwise accept.
Ms. Stewart, perhaps unintentionally, has identified the two key foundations of the global warming movement. One is based in environmentalism, which essentially claims that human beings are a problem in nature. The other foundation is the old business of economic redistribution. Both these movements are linked in the international climate change treaty Canada signed in Kyoto.
Environment Canada has already given up trying to examine the science. It never really tried. Instead, it spends hundreds of millions of dollars churning out propaganda on the hypothetical effects of global warming. Its latest reports include hundreds of studies warning of everything from spreading insect-borne disease to increasing forest fires.
The Maclean's poll shows Canadians aren't going along with the government or the claims of environmentalists. If they knew what Ms. Stewart has in store for jobs and living standards, and why, they might take a greater interest.
Global warming
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=The+Great+Global+Warming+Swindle&hl=en
Leaks, phoney documents, cronyism, more leaks, analysts "losing" laptops with hundreds of thousands of names, SS numbers and addresses, LEAKS, and now here's one posing as a climatologist. And THAT is just the CIA!!
FOLKS THIS IS THE DEMOCRATS SETTING UP SHADOW POLICY ALA A PARLAMENT.
They are INTENTIONALLY UNDERMINING THE PRESIDENT WITH THE PROMISE OF A DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE.
They can point to RINOs in the republican ranks and the entrenched left wingers in the bureacracy.
Essentially, 2008 is over. (if you follow their logic)
Yeah, John Deutch is the incompetent fool who was using unsecured home computers and an AOL account to handle our nation's most sensitive classified materials...... he's therefore well qualified to preach to all of us about scientific issues he knows nothing about.
And people tell me to put on my tin foil when I talk about the NWO.....sheesh
On the other hand how can an agency unable to correctly analyze the threat possibility of Saddam's WMD expect us to believe they can analyze the threat possibility of mane made greenhouse gasses?
You must obey the TriLateral Commission - after all it's the elites duly appointred governing body of the world. - Just ask Jimmy Carter and his cabinet.
That's why he's an "EX"
(and part of the great clintonian castration of the CIA)
Man, the smoke must've been potent during Clinton's administration. God help us if we get another eight years of that trash.
I would think if a former Director of the CIA was serious about the environment, he'd release some of that cleaner burning UFO propulsion technology they've been keeping under wraps since Roswell.
Nik,
I posted this link last week. We need to keep promoting this video - Great Global Warming Swindle - because the msm sure won't.
Deutsch should have to view it too.
link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831
Not an expert merely playing one on tv. This is an expample of how ex politicians use their ( so called ) influence to make money as a lobbyist. Some group pays them 50,000 bucks to write some article or report ( ghost written for them of course) and then published. The sheep out there read it because of the name.
I wish people would recognize when this is happening so that it can be neutralized.
Considering how many global warming scientists are social scientists not climate scientists what do you expect?
IT would be like having Lovie Smith manage the Cubs. Yes Lovie knows football and it is a sport and is good at it but doesn't mean he knows baseball.
"risk losing global leadership"
Leadership how?
In a FAIR jsutice system John Deutsch would be in prison for taking home CLASSIFIED....SUPER CLASSIFIED info!!
The chits are being called in now.
Maybe he needs to read this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1803197/posts
I appreciate your firsthand insight. The classified docs fiasco is what I remember about Deutch. John Deutch and Sandy Bergler...pfft. It figures the MSM would go to guys like them.
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