Posted on 11/26/2018 2:51:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In France all hell is breaking loose. Parisians, who live in the city of the climate accords that were supposed to save us all, are rioting. More than a quarter million protesters have taken to the streets to revolt against a rising fuel tax amid France's already exorbitant taxes.
Nearly half of France's gross domestic product is already eaten up by taxation. You might think that that frog has already been boiled, yet this environmentally inspired carbon tax proves otherwise. It is the straw that broke the camel's back.
Police deployed over 5,000 tear gas grenades and water cannons against the protesters, who donned yellow jackets for the second weekend in a row.
As a recently released report from the U.S. government demonstrates, climate change does not only have the capacity to destroy the planet in the long term but also to wreck our economy. It's a pressing and significant issue that both the country and the world will have to grapple with before it becomes catastrophic.
But the scenes of France on fire are good reminders that attempts to drive down energy use or drive up its cost tend to suffer from a lack of consent from the governed.
The best economic argument for a carbon tax is that the market price of goods and services resulting in carbon emissions fail to include the true social and environmental costs of carbon emissions. Carbon taxes can result in significant deadweight losses, but a good politician would mostly lean on the economics of a carbon tax to sell it to the people.
Or you might argue, as French President Emmanuel Macron does, that one should prefer the taxation of fuel over the taxation of labor, even though the former is regressive and affects the poor more than the rich.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Not one of their computer models is as accurate as the solar cycle, but they refuse to accept the solar cycle model because it doesn’t give them the answer they want.
I love Paris too, but not ready to go back. The street scenes I have seen scare me. The setting cars on fire. The terrorist attacks. I’ll pass on London, Brussels, Paris, and Stockholm.
Maybe so. Consider these quotes from "The Russian Revolution" by Alan Moorehead 1958
"
this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
...He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance...
Macron arrogantly lectures the French about moral values while stealing from them in the name of a better future.
Thats not what I want to hear from a politician - thats its my fault I dont get it.
If they aren’t “good Communists” then the media considers them right-wingers.
LOL. I think the French are catching on to the Fake News thing. The term, en Anglais, is even used in that above link I posted.
Parisians rioting against the Paris Climate Accords. Looks like prime material for late night comedians ....... NAH! They are all leftist fakes and phonies.
Honestly, leftist politicians just do not realize that people do not want to pay taxes, no matter how much free stuff you promise them.
The “gilet jaunes” are a sort of safety reflecting belt uniform the government handed to car drivers.
The fascism of ecology and collectivist public transport has basically created an army reminiscent of those wearing the yellow star.
it wasn’t only the rural folks.
30,000 were expected in Paris the second weekend, but Macron’s police had orders and the official Government figure ended up being 8,000 in Paris, 106,000 around the country. you could probably double those figures nonetheless:
24 Nov: RFI France: Yellow Vests clash with police, curse Macron at Paris protest
By Tony Cross
A solid cordon of police sealed off the Champs Elysées and surrounding streets, leaving the Place de la Concorde, opposite the French parliament, eerily empty.
Theyve blocked everything off! exclaimed one of a group of young men striding down the Tuileries Gardens. We cant get through. We cant tell them what we want to tell them. Theyve closed all the metro stations. They dont want us to speak up....
What about the governments claim the tax increases are needed to fight climate change.
Thats crap, said Daniel...
http://en.rfi.fr/france/20181124-yellow-vest-protesters-clash-police-curse-macron-paris-protest
24 Nov: AP: French protesters angry over fuel taxes clash with police
By THOMAS ADAMSON
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said that 8,000 protesters flooded the Champs-Elysees at the demonstrations peak and there were nearly 106,000 protesters and 130 arrests in total nationwide...
https://www.apnews.com/d3033b920af449b594e66b51890b517b
“...federal climate report...”
How did it get classed as that? Sad that the US Gov’t is so infiltrated by demonkkkRATs and libtards as to allow that BS to get published under USGov auspices.
...Including women and children?
But these taxes will save le monde! You dont want to be so selfish like les etats unis, do you? Mais non!
classic Trump. BBC includes tons of gloBULL warming propaganda as usual:
26 Nov: VIDEO: BBC: Trump on climate change report: ‘I don’t believe it’
US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on a report by his own government warning of devastating effects from climate change.
Asked outside the White House about the findings that unchecked global warming would wreak havoc on the US economy, he said: “I don’t believe it.”...
Mr Trump said other countries must take measures to cut their emissions.
“You’re going to have to have China and Japan and all of Asia and all these other countries, you know, it [the report] addresses our country,” he said.
“Right now we’re at the cleanest we’ve ever been and that’s very important to me.
“But if we’re clean, but every other place on Earth is dirty, that’s not so good.
“So I want clean air, I want clean water, very important.”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46351940
it isn’t exactly a Trump Admin report, BBC, and you know it, so why not report the full facts?
24 Nov: Voice of America: White House Says Dire Climate Report Based on ‘Extreme Scenario’
White House Bureau Chief Steve Herman contributed to this report.
White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters noted that work on the assessment began under the administration of former U.S. president Barack Obama and uses multiple modeling scenarios to assess the effects of climate change. But the report issued Friday, according to Walters, relies too heavily on the worst-case-scenario.
“The report is largely based on the most extreme scenario, which contradicts long-established trends by assuming that, despite strong economic growth that would increase greenhouse gas emissions, there would be limited technology and innovation, and a rapidly expanding population,” Walters said in a statement.
She said the next climate assessment, which will be prepared over the next four years, will “provide for a more transparent and data-driven process that includes fuller information on the range of potential scenarios and outcomes.”
Walters also pointed out that, since 2005, carbon dioxide emissions related to energy production in the U.S. have declined 14 percent, while global emissions continue to rise...
https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-says-dire-climate-report-based-on-extreme-scenario-/4672409.html
The peasants are revoltimpng....
They certainly are.....
Here's what a correctly maintained temperature station looks like (notice temps declining, on chart at right):
And, here is a poorly-maintained temperatures-gathering station, notice it is situated next to multiple heat sources - voila!, 'Global Warming' (this faulty-data gathering problem is *COMMON* for a MAJORITY of the weather stations used across the US!):
From: http://www.surfacestations.org/
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