The Politics of Carbon Footprints

Ron Fraser
theTrumpet.com
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The general public is being duped into signing up to one of the biggest globalist scams in history. It’s about time these global warmists started to eat crow.

But they won’t. There’s just too much at stake. Someone stands to make a lot of money out of this scam, and it’s all based on false science.

The number of qualified scientists that have now signed a petition decrying the faulty science that promotes the global warming theory grew to 31,000 in May and continues to grow by an average of 35 signatures daily.

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The greatest concern of the more sensible commentators on the scam is the speed with which politicians—ignoring true science—are rushing to embed global warming in government policy. This is in process at both the national and supra-national level. The result could well be huge taxes on the public which will simply feed the coffers of big business, the legal profession and government. These burdensome costs will be passed off to the consumer and the taxpayer, all in the interests of reducing “human-induced climate change”—your “carbon footprint”!

Meanwhile, more balanced and responsible scientists, analysts and commentators are giving increasing vent to the exposure of the utter foolishness of this whole scenario. But far from the warmists backing down, they just tunnel their heads even more deeply into the sand of deceit. In the meantime, bankers, industrialists and politicians rub their grubby hands with glee, anticipating the windfall that carbon trade-offs will yield to them.

When considering this whole global warming hoax and its hugely successful sell to the public in the effort to convince us all that we must reduce our “carbon footprint” or be penalized, we ought to dig a little deeper to see who is going to win from this whole debacle. It certainly won’t be John or Jane Doe.

Take the example of a bill considered by the U.S. Senate last week.

Senator James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, commented last week in the Wall Street Journal, “The Senate is debating a global warming bill that will create the largest expansion of the federal government since FDR’s New Deal, complete with a brand new, unelected bureaucracy. The Lieberman-Warner bill (America’s Climate Security Act) represents the largest tax increase in U.S. history and the biggest pork bill ever contemplated with trillions of dollars in giveaways. Well-heeled lobbyists are already plotting how to divide up the federal largesse. The handouts offered by the sponsors of this bill come straight from the pockets of families and workers in the form of lost jobs, higher gas, power and heating bills, and more expensive consumer goods” (June 3).

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