Global warming profiteers seem into sexual humiliation

DSK, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Soros. In Canada's British Columbia, the global warming racket played on peoples' deepest emotions to embed a cruel crime. Public school boards now use school money to subsidize private energy companies.

5/9/11, "Canada's carbon catastrophe begins," Ottawa Sun, Lorrie Goldstein

"It’s like watching the same train wreck — twice.

Our politicians are starting to commit the same wasteful blunders, resulting in the same perverse consequences, as the Europeans have in pricing carbon dioxide emissions, ostensibly to fight climate change.

The harbinger of many bad things to come for us

• is now happening in B.C.
  

There, the provincial government is forcing the transfer of millions of tax dollars from cash-strapped schools, hospitals and other public institutions, by

• requiring them to buy carbon offsets.

Money which then benefits hugely profitable energy companies

• like Encana.

This is eerily reminiscent of what happened in Europe when it started pricing emissions years ago.

Hospitals, universities and other public facilities had to spend millions of dollars that could have gone toward hiring more nurses and professors,

• buying carbon credits.

Meanwhile, energy giants like BP and Esso made millions after receiving free carbon credits from European regulators — which they then sold

• into Europe’s disastrous cap-and-trade market,
  

• the Emissions Trading Scheme.

The reason for the fiasco in B.C. is the provincial government has decreed schools, hospitals and other public facilities must become “carbon neutral,” with municipalities joining the list next year.

The only way they can comply, because so many of their buildings are old and energy-inefficient, is to buy “carbon offsets” to — in theory — cancel out their excess emissions.

As Craig McInnes of the Vancouver Sun reported May 7, the city’s school board, facing a budget shortfall of $8.4 million, nonetheless had to spend

• $450,000 on carbon offsets
  

• and a “smart tool” to calculate its “carbon footprint.”

According to The Tyee online newspaper, the same thing is happening to school boards, hospitals and other public facilities across B.C.

As a result, schools are hiring fewer teachers and turning the thermostat even lower in winter in

• already poorly insulated buildings to save money.

The money schools, hospitals and other public institutions pay for carbon offsets (the Sun estimates up to $25 million annually) is used by Pacific Carbon Trust — a government agency — to buy carbon offsets from energy companies like Encana, helping it to pay for new technology to lower its emissions.

This is so dumb it’s hard to know where to begin.

First, tax money intended to pay for cash-strapped schools, hospitals and other public institutions is instead going to subsidize hugely profitable energy companies in the private sector.

Second, “carbon offsets,” even if they actually lead to emission reductions which would not otherwise have occurred — a hugely controversial area —

• are a poor way to lower emissions.

The best way is not to emit in the first place.

But that would require the government to fund schools and hospitals properly, so they can upgrade and replace aging infrastructure.

The government argues some of the money in play is being invested in public facilities to help them improve their energy-efficiency. But funding requests are already exceeding the amount budgeted for them.

As McInnes rightly observes: “What kind of public policy leads to a school board subsidizing an energy company? A very bad one, somewhat south of ridiculous.” Exactly."

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DSK, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Soros, Obama, the UK and its monarchy, the UN and its above the law crime operation, jet-setting show business elites, equatorial dictators, hedge fund thugs, most American politicians, and most national media who consider themselves partners with government against the people, all believe they operate under different rules than ordinary people. ed.

"Socialism is simply a form of totalitarianism, with an aristocracy that spends 100% of its political effort maintaining its ascendancy. Ivy league sociology profs, Soviet Nomenklatura, Nazi Party members, friends of Fidel; they're all the same.

• The main difference between socialism and other forms of totalitarianism is that monarchies and oligarchies admit to being what they are. Socialism always lies. And the "easy affluence" of the elite class only gets easier and more affluent by the generation."...commenter "Dr. Robert,"
  

to article, "A Teachable Moment on American-European Faultlines," V.D. Hanson, National Review, 5/17/11

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11/15/09, "Green Ice: NHL’s Andrew Ference Inspires Hockey’s Environmental Challenge," SamartianMag.com

"Ference’s awareness of the adverse relationship between professional sports and the health of the planet began when he joined the Calgary Flames in 2003 and had ongoing conversations with well-known environmental

• activist Dr. David Suzuki."

via Free Republic, Climate Depot