National Science Agency Presses for Carbon Tax; Calls ‘Global Warming’ an ‘Urgent Threat’

CNSNews ^ | Thursday, May 20, 2010 | Seth Borenstein

[EBH]

Washington (AP) - Ditching its past cautious tone, the nation's top scientists urged the government Wednesday to take drastic action to raise the cost of using coal and oil to slow global warming.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap-and-trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

The academy, which advises the government on scientific matters, said the nation needs to cut the pollution that causes global warming by about 57 percent to 83 percent by 2050. That's close to President Barack Obama's goal.

"We really need to get started right away. It's not opinion, it's what the science tells you," said Robert Fri, who chaired one of the three panels producing separate climate reports.

Fri was acting Environmental Protection Agency chief under President Richard Nixon and until recently on the board of American Electric Power Co., a major producer of carbon dioxide. "The country needs both a prompt and a sustained commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions," he said Wednesday.

In the past, the academy has called climate change a problem, but it has never recommended a specific policy. The impetus for its bolder stance now was a set of questions posed by Congress on climate change and how to deal with it.

[norraad]

I want r12 back, sucka’.

[hal ogen]

The Nsational Academy of Sciences is a bunch of grant-seeking, liberal academics who have accomplished little of import tpo society. They think they are great scientists...just ask them. How they can continue this unscientific fraud (gloBULL warming) is beyond me. What a bunch of fools and anti-scientists. Yank their grants and shun them. Show us the (unaltered) data, you freaks!

[mylife]

It was 32 this morning in Spokane Wa.

[expatpat]

I’m ashamed of my fellow scientists at NAS, and have to wonder if they are scientists at all.

[Matchett-PI]

HERE

[Aussiebabe]

If you go into the details of the three reports, you find they were funded by NOAA and conducted by the Americas Climate Choices group. If you look at who is on this committee and the different subcommittees, they are mostly global warming activists. So you have activists doing doing studies on their own work.

http://americasclimatechoices.org/ccstudycte.shtml

[Brett66]

Fri was acting Environmental Protection Agency chief under President Richard Nixon and until recently on the board of American Electric Power Co

I smell mercantilism, Fri stinks of it.....

[Matchett-PI]

May 25, 2010
Could Climate Science Survive a Legal Cross Examination?
Review by Bill DiPuccio
http://www.icecap.us/

Could the global warming hypothesis meet the rigorous evidentiary standards of a legal trial? The answer, according to Jason Scott Johnston, is clearly negative.

[snip]

[Oceander]

These people are no longer scientists; they're madmen (and madwomen) from Alice in Wonderland - or worse, a new species of phrenologist.

[Secret Agent Man]

I would like to mention that anyone calling for more taxes on anything (especially fake bullsh1t) is an urgent threat.

[Matchett-PI]

Climate Fraud
http://www.climatedepot.com/

[Matchett-PI]

Shattered Warmers Become Global Mourners

VIDEO:
Betrayed By Climategate, …

Click here and scroll down: http://joannenova.com.au/

[Maceman]

You really should post that article as its own thread. It is really excellent stuff.

[politicianslie]

Until you understand how THE BIG LIE is presented and kept alive you won’t believe the truth the global warming scam.

You start with the fact that Americans have been programed to believe that CONSPIRACY THEORIES are the product of sick minds. Of course global warming is part of a conspiracy, isn’t that obvious to even the most casual observer? You only need a small number of insiders to control a large population. Educated idiots are the easiest of all to fool and the rest of the population follows the leaders right over the cliff to accept incredible stupidity.

[J Edgar]

Corruption is running very, very deep these days! Small men betraying the foundations of Western cultural advancements for forty (40) pieces of silver! IMHO
Belief in science rests upon independent, objective verification to theories and propositions. When and where has GW by man been verified and agreed upon as being as proven scientific fact?
Pray, for God is the source of all truth, and Satan is the Prince of this World of Lies!

[funfan]

I despise these people,agencies,congress,ALgore that are
pushing this agenda. Tax this jerks

[JPG]

All of you global warming freaks, we’ve heard you before and we’ve heard you now and we still don’t believe you. Now, just go away, FAR AWAY, and bother someone else.

[Matchett-PI]

“You really should post that article as its own thread. It is really excellent stuff.” ~ Maceman

Here you go!:

May 25, 2010
Could Climate Science Survive a Legal Cross Examination?
Review by Bill DiPuccio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2521183/posts

[WHBates]

I know I’m getting very tired of hearing this crap. They really need to explain what is going to be accomplished by this or any other tax. All utilities are hurting right now because the economy has depressed revenues due to lack of sales.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL in the SF Bay Area for almost all of May! We definitely need trillions of dollars in new taxes.

The more plain the empirical evidence gets that GW is a giant scam, the more outrageous the leftist calls become for more taxation.