Best and most concise description of the 'climate' movement

1/28/13, "Carbon Use and GDP," National Review, by Robert Zubrin  Original Article
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Commenter to this article at Lucianne.com gives concise description of the "climate" movement:
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Reply 1 - Posted by: johngalt1, 1/28/2013 6:54:44 PM   
 
"The “progressive” position on restricting the use of carbon is very simple to understand.

The “threat of climate change” is being used by anthrophobic environmentalists to punish consumption and curtail human activity.

It is being used by grant-seeking academics for job security.

It is being used by politicians to extract campaign contributions from “green” industries that require subsidies to operate, bribes from businesses that would be adversely affected by a tangled web of costly regulations, and kickbacks from operators of carbon credit exchanges that were created out of thin air.

It is being used by the U.N. to extract wealth from rich nations to bribe the leaders of poor nations 

to remain underdeveloped.

And it is being used by China, Russia, and India to gain advantage over the West.

There is no consensus describing an ideal global climate, no ceiling on what climate change alarmists are willing to spend in an attempt to preserve today’s climate, and no serious consideration of whether it makes more moral and economic sense to simply adapt to warmer or cooler global climates.

Climate change alarmism is simply the greatest scientific, political and economic scam 

ever perpetrated in history."

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Obama-Biden climate adviser Nigel Purvis freely admitted essentially the same thing, ie, that it's not about climate:

1/13/12, "US Republicans stir transatlantic tensions over climate change," EurActiv

"Ironically, the ‘cap and trade’ idea that underwrites the global carbon market was originally the brainchild of US Republicans [via George Bush #1]. But this changed because of what one senior US climate negotiator at Kyoto described as a collection of “toxic” ingredients.

“There are three issues –

• constraining industry,
• sending money abroad, and
• strengthening the UN –

that are inflammatory on their own right,”

Nigel Purvis, a State Department official under the Clinton and Bush administrations, said on the phone from Washington....Nigel Purvis, now the president of the Climate Advisers consultancy in Washington."...

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"In 2008, Mr. Purvis served as a senior adviser on climate diplomacy to the Obama-Biden campaign." He is founder and president of Climate Advisers.


 
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