Posted on 12/08/2009 1:35:01 AM PST by The Raven
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So what exactly is the point of Copenhagen? The question needs to be asked all the more insistently in the wake of last month's disclosure of thousands of documents and emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), long considered an authoritative center of temperature data, modeling and forecasts.
At a minimum, the emails demonstrate the lengths some of the world's leading climate scientists were prepared to go to manufacture the "consensus" they used to demand drastic steps against global warming. The emails are replete with talk of blacklisting dissenting scientists and journals, manipulating peer review and avoiding freedom of information requests.
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And yet, they forge ahead. They act like the emails proving their collusion in the greatest fraudulent hoax ever pulled off, never existed at all. The worst of the worst of crooks.
"Much of the momentum for Copenhagen is now driven by the alternative fuels industry and its investors, who stand to lose vast sums unless governments artificially raise the price of carbon. These include our friends at Kleiner Perkins, the ecoventure capital fund that includes Al Gore as a partner. And of course that part of the political class congenitally eager to redistribute taxpayer monies also wants to dispense "carbon credits" to friends and political donors."
I have been saying for a long time that any Cap and Trade system will naturally be corrupted by the irresistible urge that politicians have to reward their friends with an excess of "carbon credits" while punishing their enemies with more oppressive limits on carbon emission. Giving politicians this power is giving them the power to destroy any business at any time. They are certain to exploit that power for political gain. It is an absolute certainty.
They actually just got that power yesterday, when the EPA announced its unopposable bureaucratic preemptive strike, declaring CO2 a pollutant that it can regulate in any way it sees fit.
Thx Raven! The WSJ has been all over ClimateGate and I commend them for this. The WSJ commenters are very strongly against the Manbearpig disease!
BTTT
The greatest President in American history would be the one who achieves the goal of repealing virtually every law and regulation passed under Obama and Clinton (and a few others). No new laws at the Federal level need be enacted.
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