Thousands of global warming profiteers are working 24/7 to strangle our towns and cities unbeknownst to the average American

The organized crime CO2 racket rests on the theory that all Americans are criminals. It says CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a poisonous and murderous substance caused mainly by criminal Americans who must pay billions to UN grifters, hedge fund thugs, and equatorial dictators who will use our money like others at the UN do, to redecorate their summer homes.

4/8/11, "Global Warming Alarmism's Long March through State and Local Institutions," American Thinker, Peter Wilson

"It's tempting to be complacent about the progress made against global warming alarmism. Climate legislation seems to be stalled in the U.S. Congress. A recent Gallup poll shows that concern about global warming among the American public is at historic lows; a mere 32% of Americans believe that global warming will affect them during their lifetimes.

We must keep in mind however that true believers don't give up simply because theirs is a minority opinion. They just try in other ways.

We have witnessed the Obama administration attempting an end run around Congress by siccing the EPA on "carbon polluters." Another means of pushing climate legislation that makes fewer headlines is the multitude of activities at state and local levels. A flyer for a meeting titled "Green Future 2020" that I attended in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week makes this exact point:

• As the federal government continues to falter in its efforts to impose any meaningful standards of carbon emission control, it now falls to the states to step into the breach and push for innovative advances in clean, renewable energy to safeguard our environment and revitalize our national economy.

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change likewise agrees that "states and regions are acting as both leaders and innovators of climate change policy."

State climate legislation is not limited to the bluest states. A 2009 report from the Pew Center on the States lists 36 states with State Climate Action Plans. Thirty states have mandatory Renewable Portfolio Standards requiring a percentage (on average 20%) of electricity to be supplied by renewable sources. Five more states have RPS "goals." States without an official Climate Plan are sure to have numerous climate programs. Alaska has a Climate Change Sub-Cabinet position in former Governor Palin's office. Red state, oil-rich Texas is home to the Texas Climate Initiative, the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan, and the Texas State Energy Conservation Office. The Mayor of San Antonio is pushing a green jobs initiative. Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston are all members of Clean Cities Coalitions, and not surprisingly, Austin has its own Climate Protection Program, whose goal is "to make Austin the leading city in the nation in the fight against climate change."

Somewhere in the departments of Environmental Protection or Environmental Quality in all fifty states and in thousands of city governments, bureaucrats are hard at work -- for once! -- passing new legislation or implementing existing legislation, much of which was enacted in 2007 and 2008 when the public hadn't had time to figure out they were being taken for a ride.

My home state of Massachusetts is a case in point. In 2008, the Legislature passed the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act, which mandates a reduction of between 10% and 25% below 1990 levels in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. This unrealistic target is a first step toward a fantastically unrealistic 80% reduction by 2050. To repeat, these reductions are mandated by law, although it must be said that the mandates make no provision for the probable eventuality when targets are not met.

In response to the Global Warming Solutions Act, Governor Deval Patrick released his "Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020" in the final days of 2010, announcing that he was going with the upper limit suggested by the Legislature -- a 25% reduction by 2020.

Last week at the Green Future 2020 meeting mentioned above, Dr. David Cash, our State Undersecretary for Policy at the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs led a panel discussion. Citizens were invited to "state their concerns," although the moderator announced at the outset that the only concerns permitted would be regarding things like, to quote from the flyer, "How can Massachusetts be a leader of the green revolution?"

Dr. Cash candidly admitted that his side is losing the public opinion battle over global warming and he therefore suggested that advocating for "clean energy" was a better marketing strategy than fighting to stop global warming -- er, climate change. Like Obama, Cash pushes climate legislation under the guise of green jobs, which he claims will not only address global warming, but will also bring thousands of green jobs to Massachusetts, and will save consumers billions of dollars.

Unfortunately evidence supporting Dr. Cash's argument is scarce. Last year Spain pulled the plug on its green jobs program after a widely reported study found the green job philosophy "terribly economically counterproductive." According to the study, every green job created required an investment of $774,000 and cost Spain 2.2 other jobs due to increased energy costs....

Closer to home, Massachusetts's green jobs venture with Evergreen Solar ended in failure when Evergreen moved manufacturing jobs to China. Harvard professor Edward L. Glaeser wrote about Evergreen in the New York Times, maintaining that "it was always a mistake to think that clean energy was going to be a jobs bonanza." The Massachusetts Clean Energy Plan however takes it for granted that the State can shovel any amount of taxpayer money into green investments because it will come back with dividends, never addressing how much all this will cost Massachusetts taxpayers....

Although global warming alarmism seems to be on the decline, it's in the nature of bureaucratic endeavors to perpetuate themselves. The thousands of regional, state, city, and NGO organizations created to combat global warming have a vested interest to stick fast, like limpets,

• to the public trough."

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• Reference:

RGGI, the "Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: "The secrets 10 states and Wall Street don't want you to know," by Mark Lagerkvist, NJ Watchdog, 7/28/10

"7/28/10, "Secrecy and greed are polluting the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the nation’s first

• mandatory cap-and-trade system.

Under the RGGI scheme, the smell of profiteering is powerful. New Jersey and nine other Northeast states have sold

• $662 million in carbon dioxide permits since 2008.

The bidders at RGGI auctions include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase and other Wall Street heavyweights. They hope to make

• big money by speculating on the price of permits, called allowances.
  

Electric power plants are required to obtain an allowance for each ton of CO-2 they emit.

• But exactly who is buying what at these auctions? How much of the carbon market have they cornered?
  

What effect will the wheeling and dealing have on the electricity bills paid by consumers?

• That’s none of our business, according to the bureaucrats in charge.
  

They denied New Jersey Watchdog’s Open Public Records Act requests for auction details,

• contending the bidders’ “expectation of privacy” and
  

• “trade secrets”
  

• outweigh the public right to know.

RGGI executive director Jonathan Schrag claims RGGI is not a “public body” subject to state open records laws –even though it’s

• a non-profit cooperative created and governed by the states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware and Maryland.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection contends it

• “does not have documents responsive to (the) request in its possession.”
  

Reached by telephone while vacationing, Schrag expressed surprise at NJDEP’s statement. He said RGGI provides details of auction particulars to all 10 states.

• State officials were ready with more hot air: “Even if the documents requested were in the possession of NJDEP…requested items would also be subject to confidentiality as trade secrets,” the agency argued in its written response.

“Balancing the interests of the ten signatory states…and the potential harm to the performance of the auctions against the private right to access and disclosure of such documents, the private right to access would be outweighed by the public interest in confidentiality of any records maintained by RGGI Inc.,” concluded NJDEP.

When Schrag returned from vacation, he declined New Jersey Watchdog’s request for an interview. According to RGGI records,

• all ten states have agreed not to release so-called ”market sensitive information” –
  

• even weeks, months or years after the auctions are over."...

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While average Americans weren't looking, every issue in this country has been made political. Global warming has little or nothing to do with climate, if it ever did. It is championed as a civil rights and justice issue. ed.

1/18/11, "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Helped ‘Plant the Seeds’ for ‘Environmental Justice Movement,’ Says Attorney General Holder," CNS News, Nicholas Ballasy

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2/21/11, "Green economy needs 2% of every nation's income, says UN," UK Guardian, Fiona Harvey
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7/16/10, "Carbon Trading Used as Money-Laundering Front," Jakarta Globe

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10/8/10, "Murder on the Carbon Express: Interpol Takes On Emissions Fraud," Mother Jones, M. Schapiro

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11/14/10, "Climate policy distributes the world's new wealth," NZZ, am Sonntag, German press, interview with former co-chair of the UN IPCC Ottmar Edenhofer" a German economist.

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UN environmental consultant says fraud in UN carbon trading can't be fixed, is interwoven in too many public and private sector jobs including the World Bank and the UN. And, "there is

• nobody in that world that is critical of the process because they are all making their living off it.”"...

10/12/10, "A carbon trading system draws environmental skeptics," New York Times, Patricia Brett
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12/1/10, "EU Carbon permits missing from registry due to (computer) virus," Reuters, Nina Chestney

"One million European carbon permits (valued at $19.54 million US) have gone missing from the Romanian subsidiary of cement company Holcim's (HOLN.VX) emissions registry account due to a computer virus,

• the EU Commission said on Wednesday."...

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Christian Science Monitor, 4/20/10, "Buying Carbon offsets may ease eco-guilt but not global warming," by Doug Struck.

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Bloomberg News, 12/4/09,"Carbon Capitalists warming to climate market using derivatives"

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4/1/11, "Politically incorrect prof. may lose his job," Donna Laframboise

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12/1/10, "How corrupt is government?" CA Political News

"The foremost exhibit against CARB is Dr. Hien Tran, a CARB scientist who wrote a key study the agency used to force recession-wracked operators of diesel off-road construction equipment to buy new, less polluting graders and trucks, at a cost of up to $12 billion. CARB identified Tran as a UC Davis-educated Ph.D. in statistics, a claim that gave his report some credence. But that was a false statement – Tran’s Ph.D. is from Thornhill University, which the Pacific Research Institute, the parent organization of Calwatchdog, points out is located “in a New York City office of the United States Postal Service.”Government is forcing businesses to spend $12 billion based on fraud."...



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