Green into Gold
If you want more proof that GW is all about the Benjamins, check this out.
Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.
A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.
Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway.
The growing political salience of environmental politics has sparked a “green gold rush”, which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go “carbon neutral”, offsetting their own energy use by buying carbon credits that cancel out their contribution to global warming.
Meanwhile, they are desperately trying to discredit the excellent “Great Global Warming Swindle” film that aired on British TV. They are trying to neuter it before it goes to DVD. It was a devastating piece on GW and they got to be running scared.
Bob Ward, the former spokesman for the Royal Society, Britain’s academy of science, and one of the letter’s signatories, said director Mark Durkin made a “long catalog of fundamental and profound mistakes”—including the claim that volcanoes produce more carbon dioxide than humans, and that the Earth’s atmosphere was warmer during the Middle Ages than it is today.
“Free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements,” he said. “Somebody has to stand up for the public interest here.”
Here’s the problem with those two arguments. No one really knows how much CO² is exhaled by volcanoes. They can only speculate. But since most of what Volcanoes exhale is water vapor, and water vapor is the largest component of “greenhouse gasses”, that would make the film accurate on that score. The Medieval Warming Period absolutely was warmer than today’s temperatures. Again, the hacks are lying.
They don’t bother to address the more damning indictments the film makes about GW. Like the fact that solar cycles seem to increase the planet’s CO² when it warms it during sunspot seasons. Or the fact that a lot of the signatories in the IPCC documents are not in agreement with it. Many of them are in fact skeptics, but they are included to make it look like the numbers of believers is overwhelming.
From the above article you can see that GW is a big money business now. All you have to do is channel surf to catch one commercial after another talking about “green”. But seeing how fake the whole thing is, it’s not surprising they would consider anything factual a threat.
I have a suspicion that the govermnent will use a Carbon Tax to fix social security.
I dont know what else they will do with the extra 100 Billion in taxes.
Posted by on 04/26 at 04:14 AM“Free speech does not extend to misleading the public by making factually inaccurate statements,” he said. “Somebody has to stand up for the public interest here.”
Yeesh. Right back atcha, Bobby-boy.
I noticed recently that the GW acolytes are “disappearing” the Medieval Climate Optimum. Not by producing tree rings or ice cores or via some new study, but by simply pretending it never happened and airbrushing it out of the scientific record. This is science...? I hope when the blowback comes from the GW scam it is huge and leads to a new era of accountability in PC science. It is desperately needed.Posted by on 04/26 at 01:45 PMThe latest issue of SEED magazine has an article about how most published scientific findings are false.
There really needs to be a huge overhaul of the science business.
Posted by on 04/26 at 02:08 PM
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