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.
Shhhhh.... don't you know that, that's been the plan all along ?
Deutsch and Gore are in league with the Space Brothers (they're both actually hybrids; haven't you noticed the reptilian look of both of them ?)
The Whole Global Warming Agenda has been cooked up to allow the Aliens to Save Us via their zero point energy propulsion systems.
But it will be presented as the return of Jesus AND the Mahdi, all rolled into one, so that we will be deceived and accept the One World government.
Al Gore will then be installed as Prime Minister of the World.
Since oil will no longer be needed, the Arabs will no longer have the leverage that they do.
Al Gore will go to Jerusalem to host the signing of the peace treaty, with all parties agreeing to the New World Religion, led by "Jesus"/Mahdi.
The treaty will be signed on the Temple Mount.
At that point, with the entire planet tuned in via satellite television, Al Gore will shapeshift into his true reptilian self and be revealed as Satan.
Imagine the effect that will have on the economy. It is also a regressive tax that will hurt the poor and middle class more than anyone else. I can just imagine what kind of political support that would receive. LOL. This guy may be book smart, but he is an idiot when it comes to politics.
LOLOLOLOLOL
I know Sowell said this, but it wasn't produced by the BBC. It was (UK) Channel 4. And yes, it is brilliant!
ITV (BBC'S competitor) DID ANOTHER 1 HR PROGRAM OVER A DECADE AGO.
"THE GREENHOUSE CONSPIRACY" IS SUPERB.
THE WESTERN FUELS ALLIANCE ALSO PRODUCED:
"THE GREENING OF PLANET EARTH"
I used both in my education programs in Dade County Public Schools, both for the teacher continuing education programs and the student programs.
Isn't this the creep who was convicted of permitting a top secret laptop to be stolen?
Well, I suppose he's gotta be expert in something, and it sure as hell isn't (wasn't) spy craft.
And leave it connected to the internet and open to access from his kids.
Isn't he one the last day of office pardons by Clinton.
Do you have any information on whether it is possible to get DVD's of these?
I believe he has degrees in Chemistry, so he should know better.
I think this all boils down to pushing Nuclear power and making the arabs choke on their own oil.
I truly believe that if R. Reagan was alive today he would be doing the same thing.
Sadly, it wasn;'t kept open on the internet for his kids....it was for our ENEMIES....Deutsch's friends and backers are obviously our enemies. It makes me sick.
That won't happen anytime soon no matter what we do. The world's thirst for oil is growing as is the population as is affluence. The Arabs will have plenty of buyers for their oil and since they have the largest proven reserves, they can control the flow to get the price they want.
It would take at 10 years to permit and build a new reactor.
This is a long term 50 year plan.
Understood, but this plan is only for the US, not the world. Also, the US oil reserves are declining and our population is increasing. Since the 1990 census, we have added 53 million people and the Census Brueau projects that we will have 364 million by 2030 and 400 million by 2050. We currently have 301 million people.
Nuclear power plants provide about 20% of our electricity now with coal providing more than half of it. Nuclear power won't affect gasoline consumption to power our cars. And the rest of the world isn't about to discard the internal combustion engine. As long as oil remains competitive in terms of costs, it will continue to be the major source of energy. The marketplace will/should determine where we get our energy.
Koolaid my aunt Fannie! Dom Perignon.
It's not about the climate; it's the simple equation: Control + Power = Money.
For this: a sharing of the costs of emissions control between rich countries and large emerging nations.
You can insert India & China for the large emerging nations.
I am not against building nukes, in fact, I advocate it. That said, the Left won't buy it anymore than they do drilling in Alaska and offshore. If Bush thinks he is pulling one over on the Left by supporting global warming and all that it entails in terms of its costs to the economy, then he is being too clever by half. Rather, he is a fool.
I am not against building nukes, in fact, I advocate it. That said, the Left won't buy it anymore than they do drilling in Alaska and offshore. If Bush thinks he is pulling one over on the Left by supporting global warming and all that it entails in terms of its costs to the economy, then he is being too clever by half. Rather, he is a fool.
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