Obama campaign adviser Nigel Purvis says 'climate' issue about 3 things, 'strengthening UN, constraining US industry, and sending money abroad'

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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3/24/09, "Climate Lobbyists Look Beyond Cap and Trade," by Christa Marshall, NY Times

• "Once we're actually trading carbon, everything moves into the litigation stage," he said.

• "That's going to be a madhouse. Everyone will be arguing over whether a ton of carbon is really a ton.""

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9/16/09, McCullagh, CBSNewsBlog: "The Obama administration has privately concluded that a cap and trade law would

• cost American taxpayers up to $200 billion a year,

• the equivalent of hiking personal income taxes by about 15 percent."...
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