Barrel Strength

Time to recap.  Massive extortion attempt just barely slowed by revelations of purchased science. As Christopher Booker points out, this is no victory – this Copenhagen farce, which we might construe as a win, does nothing to roll back the criminal economics set loose by Kyoto – in fact, it validates it.  There can be no rest until this elaborate criminal enterprise of ‘carbon credits’ and ‘emissions trading’ is abolished.  These people have invented a currency based on guilt. Think about that – the worse a fourteen year old girl feels about her lack of popularity, the closer the ruler of a third world shithole comes to his next helicopter gunship. ‘Traders’ acquire more money to acquire more vacation homes at which they can entertain more politicians who can rip you off some more. We did not win at Copenhagen, we just lost a little slower.

More money for the rich, through invisble taxation.

Christopher Booker is a fierce opponent of the whole scheme.

“This is the new global industry based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year, which through schemes such as the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism and the EU’s Emissions Trading System is making a small minority of people, including Al Gore, extremely rich.

“The only really concrete achievement of Copenhagen was to win agreement to the perpetuating of those Kyoto rules that have created this vast industry, which has two main beneficiaries. On one hand are that small number of people in China and India who have learnt how to work this system to their huge advantage. On the other are all those Western entrepreneurs who have piled into what has become the fastest‑growing commodity market in the world.

“The part played at Copenhagen by all the tree-huggers, abetted by the BBC and their media allies, was to keep hysteria over warming at fever pitch while the politicians haggled over the real prize, to keep the Kyoto system in place.”

The comments on Michael Mann’s Washington Post self-exculpation and Unterautobuswerfen (under-bussing) of his erstwhile friends and colleagues are all entertaining and instructive.  Post after post digs the toe of the boot into this man.  Hundreds of them.  Scientists, lawyers and decent men and women like you and me.  Mainstream newspaper, overwhelming response from the forces of good and right.  We must not stop here.  I look forward to the first criminal prosecutions and repeal of legislation.  Elsewhere today I read something like, ‘China saved world at Copenhagen’.  Whatever you think about that statement, I am not sure it would have been possible a month ago.