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Category Archives: Cap & Tax
Attention Warmist Shoppers: Carbon emissions credits 25% off already-low-prices in the China aisle
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China set to launch cap-and-trade; EU-designed program already looks doomed
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Gov. Moonbeam to use cap-and-trade money to balance budget; Air chief Mary Nichols says ‘cap’ only important part of cap-and-tax
No wonder it was nicknamed “cap-and-tax.” Continue reading
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Green’s Great GOP Hope: Jeb Bush?
He’s got RINO support. Continue reading
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Enviros go conspiracy theory: Cap-and-trade sabotaged from within by coal lobbyists pretending to work for enviros
“In the summer of 2009, a consulting firm called Blue Line Strategic Communications was picked to manage Clean Energy Works. The firm was run by David DiMartino and Michael Meehan, two former industry lobbyists and Democratic staffers.” Continue reading
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Navigating the American Carbon World (with the UN)
There is much activity in the UN climate arena at the moment, as they push for yet another “Global Agreement on Climate Change”
At the moment, UNFCC executive secretary, Christina Figueres is boasting that they have an agreement to come to an agreement by 2015. Whilst it is to be hoped that this agreement to agree goes the way of previous ones, it highlights that they haven’t gone away and are determined to keep pressing on, no matter that the AGW paradigm is collapsing.
She gave a speech this week in San Francisco, entitled Navigating the American Carbon World
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Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon capture, Carbon offsets, Carbon Tax, Carbon trading, Clean energy, Climate Change, Env. Justice, Environmentalism, IPCC, UN
Tagged carbon fund, carbon price, carbon scam, climate fraud, climate hysteria, energy subsidies, global governance, greenhouse gas emissions, UNFCCC
Spiegel: ‘Europe’s cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken’
Except for rentseekers and fraudsters. Continue reading
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Dictator Hugo Chavez dead; Joins his beloved Kyoto Protocol
Said capitalism is the “road to hell.” Now he will find out. Continue reading
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WSJ: EPA may try to implement cap-and-trade without Congress
The Wall Street Journal editorial page explains how EPA may try to implement cap-and-trade on its own. Continue reading
Mistake in First California Carbon Auction Raises Questions About Secrecy
“Some market players have expressed concern that the $16 million mistake overstated the real demand for carbon permits and set the price for carbon artificially high (“settlement” price of the first auction was about nine cents higher than the $10 floor price). It was a gaffe that ensured the auction would sell out, and a “hitch” that was never made public by regulators.” Continue reading
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The Guardian: Carbon fat cats are killing the emissions trading mouse
“A new report from carbon trading think tank Sandbag and Friends of the Earth Germany (Bund) gives a reason: just 10 German companies are €1.2bn better off thanks to the windfall brought by the spare “hot air” permits. Germany’s manufacturing sector as a whole has accrued spare carbon allowances equivalent to the annual emissions of Austria.” Continue reading
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IBD: Obama Unveils His Economy-Killing Cap-And-Tax Plan
“A nonexistent crisis is a terrible thing to waste, and in justifying his proposal for a cap-and-tax scheme, President Obama claimed in his State Of The Union that “the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15.” He was lying.” Continue reading
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Kerry remembers the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill
“Probably the finest piece of legislation I did didn’t get enacted into law yet.” Continue reading
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Emission trading schemes limit green consumerism
Collectivism backfires (again). Continue reading
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Clinton climate advisor asks Obama to back cap and trade
Why not? Cap-and-trade has already worked too well in California. Continue reading
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EU carbon price crashes to record low
A market manipulation effort failed. Continue reading
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UK Minister: Companies support decarbonising target
“Only ‘one or two’ companies had told him they did not want such a target.” Continue reading
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Harvard paper blames enviros, not Obama for cap-and-trade failure
Theda Skocpol also predicts Obama will not help enviros in his second term. He certainly didn’t mention climate at today’s press conference. Continue reading
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