Posted on 09/08/2015 11:01:00 PM PDT by CutePuppy
The United Nations body that oversees greenhouse gas reductions is reeling from another cap-and-trade scandal that may have put 600 million tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere — roughly speaking, the annual CO2 output of Canada or Britain — while the emissions were ostensibly suppressed, according to an independent study.
In the process, the fraudsters, largely in Russia and Ukraine, were likely able to transfer credits for more than 400 million tons of their apparently bogus greenhouse savings by April 2015 into Europe's commercial carbon trading system — the largest in the world — thereby undermining that continent's ambitious carbon reduction achievements.
Perhaps significantly, the vast bulk of the assumed fraud took place in countries that are — or were, in the case of Ukraine — notorious for their kleptocratic leadership under the regimes of Vladimir Putin and ousted Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled his country in 2014. In Russia, much of the contract work for carbon project approval was carried out by state-owned Sberbank, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. and the European Union as part of the Western response to the Ukraine crisis.
The bulk of the fraud occurred under the battered Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas emissions ..... < snip >
..... Among other things, the emerging deal is based on what the U.N. calls "intended nationally determined contributions," or INDCs, that leave individual countries wide latitude for "estimating and accounting for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and, as appropriate, removals," as well as how the countries themselves consider their INDCs to be "fair and ambitious." ..... < snip >
..... The most recent scandal — there have been others — involves the United Nations Convention for Combating Climate Change (UNFCCC), the body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol .....
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Can't they hear the "great sucking sound" of the economic, financial and political power transfer, while the CO2 bubbles are floating to the top of their club soda, cola or other carbonated soft drink?
the whole idea is so laughable- the title is fairly sunny also- UN,climate change,mammoth and fraud altogether, Only thing missing is space aliens
hey!
31 trillion in carbon trading credits created for the manipulation by Enron’s CEO’s - with Gore and the communist-democrat party right in the middle of it.
What’s a few billion here or there in fraud?
Nonsense. The whole damn thing is a fraud. Carbon dioxide is not a “greenhouse gas,” whatever illogical negative connotation that means. Carbon dioxide is a PHOTOSYNTHETIC GAS, absolutely necessary for life on earth. Carbon dioxide in increased greenhouse concentrations beyond its naturally occurring concentration of .03-.04 atmospheric concentration has been demonstrated to allow plants to grow faster, stronger, and allow mankind to produce more food. Enough of this crap already!
Who cares about “Fraudulent Carbon Credits”?
ALL THAT MATTERS is that AL Gore, and the Soros Group-connected Billionaires are making BILLIONS off of it. That’s what ALL of this economic destruction is about.
Move the UN, move climate change (and possibly end it)
I live in Montana and want my one mile thick ice cover back!
Great opportunity for Trump to underscore his point of how other are screwing us.
600 million tons of carbon and, yet, we’re still here.
Gee, another massive government program that is rife with corruption, malfeasance and incompetence.
What a shock!
Nooooooo. Really?? What a surprise!
CCCP - Climate Change Communist Party
Socialists scamming sociailists. UNaccountable bureaucrats (socialists) are shocked. Who’s zoomin’ who?
Well, there's about 3,000,000 million tons of CO2 is the atmosphere. 600 million more or less doesn't make much of a difference.
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Exactly! The insane "war on carbon" is the war on all organic life, flora and fauna on this planet Earth.
From Shine on you crazy diamond: why humans are carbon-based lifeforms - SA, by S.E. Gould, 2012 November 11
As well as being the main element in organic matter, carbon atoms are the only element in both graphite and diamond. **
It would be impossible for life on earth to exist without carbon. Carbon is the main component of sugars, proteins, fats, DNA, muscle tissue, pretty much everything in your body. The reason carbon is so special is down to the electron configuration of the individual atoms. Electrons exist in concentric 'shells' around the central nucleus and carbon has four electrons in its outermost shell. As the most stable thing for an atom to have is eight electrons, this means that each carbon can form four bonds with surrounding atoms.
Each bond in the above molecule is formed by the sharing of two electrons; one from the carbon and one from the hydrogen. The ability to form four bonds isn't restricted to carbon though, it's a property of every atom with four outer electrons, including silicon, tin and lead. What's special about carbon, and the reason that silicon-based lifeforms are restricted to science fiction (and lead-based lifeforms are hardly ever mentioned) is that it can form double-bonds which share more than one electron with another atom ..... < snip >
Why is carbon able to do this while silicon can't? Although the bonds are all drawn as straight lines in the diagram above, in real life not all bonds are equal. The double bond consists of two different types of bond. ..... < snip >
So why can carbon and not silicon manage this double-bond trick? The answer lies in the size. Carbon is the smallest of all the atoms with four outermost electrons, which means that the electrons in the above-and-below orbitals are close enough to overlap and form that second bond. For silicon however, there are more electron orbitals in the way, the entire atom is bigger, and it is almost impossible for the outer orbitals to get close enough to form a double bond. This is why carbon dioxide is a small gaseous molecule consisting of two oxygens both forming a double bond with a single carbon while silicon dioxide is a massive behemoth of a molecule made of huge numbers of alternating oxygen and silicon atoms and is more commonly known as sand.
You can just about get silicon-silicon double bonds if you try hard, but they are fairly unstable and will take any chance they can to loose that double-bond in favour of forming another single one. Carbon-carbon double bonds on the other hand form naturally and easily, and are crucial for every living organism on earth. ..... < snip >
One can just search "carbon-based life" to see why carbon (and carbon dioxide) is not the enemy but is essential to the mankind.
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** Superstrong and flexible graphene, carbyne, penta-graphene, phagraphene, which consist of only carbon molecules are newly discovered materials, and are actually fairly cheap to produce from coal — a cheap and abundant source of carbon.
Not to mention the strong but lightweight materials like carbon nanotubes, carbon fiber, carbon plastic, carbon materials used in packaging, like AirCarbon) etc. etc.
Carbyne: Material could be Stronger than Graphene, Diamond - Sci-News, 2013 October 10
Bill Gates condom challenge 'to be met' by graphene scientists - BBC, 2013 November 20
A significant breakthrough in graphene synthesis could lead to new flexible and wearable electronics - ED, 2014 July 23
EU Bets a Billion on Fantastic Voyage Exploiting Graphene - Sci-News, 2014 September 04
Germanene: European Scientists Synthesize New Cousin of Graphene - Sci-News, 2014 September 10
Road Rave: How graphene, a nearly magic material, could revolutionize automobiles - FoxNews, 2015 January 02
Penta-Graphene: Scientists Discover New Allotrope of Carbon - Sci-News, 2015 February 05
Imperfect Graphene Could Lead to Better Fuel Cells, Water Filters - Sci-News, 2015 March 17
Researchers Create 'Light Bulb' with Graphene Filament - Sci-News, 2015 June 11
Phagraphene: Scientists Discover New Structural Variant of Carbon - Sci-News, 2015 September 02
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What a joke!
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Guess again.
Trump is likely up to his eyebrows in the carbon fraud.
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Yes, whoever put “mammoth” in the title has keen sense of humor.
Thank you, well said. This nonsense about carbon is only meant for one thing—control, control by whomever sees fit to make money on fraudulent science, whether it be Al Gore, that nut case in Canada, the Feds, or anyone else, it is all about control, money and confiscation—nothing else.Truth? No one has any time for that anymore.
You can all be rest assured that when you buy “Honest Tim’s EZ A1 OK Carbon Credits” I am not involved in any of these scams or schemes. BUY with pride. American Made! “Honest Tim’s EZ A1 OK Carbon Credits” order them by name!!
Wellllllllllll, OK then!
See, I'm always afraid of any fraud (er, energy scheme) that Enron dreamed up and sold to the democrats. But - Well - YOU claim you are honest and “I” can buy with pride!
So, all I need is your banking ID code and account number, plus your date of birth and social security account number - for taxx purposes obviously. After all, I will need to send you your very own honest-as-a-dollar-donated-to-the-democrats 1099 at year's end.
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