How’s that cap-and-trade thing going for ya, Al? Same goes for you, Barry.

A recurring theme, revisited.

Jim sent this in:

World leaders spouting their usual “sky-is-falling” rhetoric during their international climate change summit in Copenhagen this month, along with their supporters, are ignoring evidence of fraud and corruption exposed in emails exchanged by leading “climate experts.”

Last Friday, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and its subcommittees that oversee funding for federal science, commerce, energy and water development agencies, issued a statement regarding President Obama’s global warming diplomacy and upcoming appearance on December 9 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

In his statement, Rep. Fattah said, “Give President Obama credit for changing the game on climate change. His environmental diplomacy will finally place the United States at the forefront of efforts to save our planet.”

“President Obama’s pledge to reduce United States greenhouse gas emissions is in line with targets in House legislation that I supported upon passage in June. Those targets lay down a marker for the Senate. We in Congress owe it to the American people and in fact the world community to send the President a comprehensive, action-oriented bill- a necessary complement to his global leadership in climate change,” said the congressman.

Opponents of so-called Cap-and-Trade environmental legislation are quick to remind Obama’s political allies that besides being destructive to the US economy, such legislation is based — wholly or partially — on faulty or manipulated science.

“These liberal-left politicians and activists see an opportunity to use so-called global warming as a means to push forward their Marxist philosophy. Part of the agenda is to take away wealth from the American people and give it to Third-World countries,” said political strategist Mike Baker.

The evidence provided by the intercepted emails of renowned climatologists has created one of the biggest scandals in the last decade — if not the century, according to Baker.

Thousands of emails and documents allegedly “stolen” from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online indicate that researchers massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years.

These leaked emails provide compelling evidence that much of what is being touted as scientific fact is in reality erroneous, fraudulent, and perhaps criminal if participating scientists used their phony research to acquire government grants.  

Several emails contained discussions about how to best portray data sets, among other topics. Scientists maintain their comments have been taken out of context, but those who fiercely oppose the climate change thesis argue the emails invalidate most scientific research.

Even the leftist newspaper The Guardian described its newsroom’s shock over discovering that the documents revealed scientists were “cooking the books,” in order to prove the earth is warming at an alarming rate. 

What is even more shocking is that the authors of the emails are not just any old bunch of academics. “Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),” stated Baker. 

Baker points to the senders and recipients of the leaked emails saying that they are a “who’s who” of science. Their ranks include Doctors Michael Mann, Ben Santer, Kevin Trenbeth, and even Al Gore’s climate guru, Dr. James Hansen. Gore used Hansen’s studies in his Oscar-winning motion picture An Inconvenient Truth.

Even after being caught with the “smoking gun,” they and their defenders have offered every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based. Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offense.

According to the emails, scientists involved secretly discussed ways they could manipulate the scientific peer review process so that skeptic could not get their articles and papers published in scientific journals. skeptical papers had no access to publication.

For example, when Dr. Thomas Wigley of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research complained that paleo-climatologist Hans von Storch was responsible for “the publication of crap science ‘in order to stimulate debate’” and that they “must get rid of von Storch” as an editor of the journal Climate Research.

Armed with allegedly phony proof against Storch, they succeeded in getting von Storch to resign.

The scandal is also raising questions about members of the news media being complicit in covering up ClimateGate. For example, a BBC meteorologist and climate change expert, Paul Hudson, admits he was sent the leaked emails a month prior to their discovery by bloggers, radio and television talk hosts and other interested parties.

Meanwhile in the US, major media outlets continue to ignore the story, according to the media watchdog group, Accuracy in Media. 

Since the emails where first discovered, ABC had only mentioned the story once, on Sunday’s This Week with George Stephanopolous, and CBS and NBC still has never reported the leaked emails on the morning or evening news, according to AIM. 

“Rather than focus on this huge scientific scandal, the timing of which is critical considering the cap and trade legislation stalled in the Senate and the upcoming Copenhagen meeting supposedly intended to combat global warming—the mainstream media have done their best to ignore it.

“The scandal involves the destruction of data, the manipulation and cover-up of data, and a plan to punish scientific journals that might dare to publish the views of skeptics of the man made global warming theory. They realize that a full airing of the facts would likely undermine an important part of President Obama’s agenda, and expose the corruption of a significant part of the scientific establishment,” writes AIM’s contributing editor Allie Duzett.

Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an interview with the Washington Post from that Obama’s decision to go to Copenhagen suggests that “he’ll be here at the end to help seal the deal.”

“The Washington Post is one of the culprits in this enormous cover up,” accuses Mike Baker. “And why aren’t reporters flocking to Al Gore for his reaction to this proof that climate change is a farce?”

For years, Al Gore has played the role of a modern day Paul Revere, sounding the alarm regarding potential consequences of global warming in order to gain public attention. Whenever there is a story related to environmental issues, reporters quote Gore. In fact, Fox News Channel on Saturday morning reported that conservatives in Hollywood are demanding that Gore be stripped of his Oscar for his documentary that served as a vehicle to ratchet up global warming fears. 

“But putting aside the fact that Gore has honed his public speaking skills, the fly in the ointment is that he’s a fraud. Like the very global warming movement to which he has attached himself, he’s a snake oil salesman whose sales pitch is laced with scare tactics designed to push the public into embracing a radical, carbon-free agenda that rests on a combination of half-truths and outright fabrications,” alleges AWR Hawkins, a conservative writer who holds a Ph.D. in military history from Texas Tech University and writes for Pajamas Media.

“And Gore’s fraudulence is not only seen in the fact that he pawns a lie, but also in the fact that he refuses to abide by the very lie he pawns,” quipped Dr. Hawkins.

Sen. James Inhofe tells Newsmax that the cap-and-trade bill that Democrats support would amount to “the largest tax increase in the history of America” — and won’t accomplish anything.

So now we have an idea of what that crap legislation called cap-and-tax would cost each and every one of us: $1,761 per houseold, to be exact.

This comes to about $200 billion annually – that’s billion with a B! – and is the equivalent of raising personal income taxes about 15%. All of this according to internal papers within the Obama administration. Funny thing about Obama and Co. – he conveniently keeps those figures to himself while as per custom keeps the information away from us.

And as I have said on more than one occasion, global warming is a myth; not only that, cap-and-trade is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme designed to tax us even further. You do not have to be a math major or economist to figure that out. Not only is this crap legislation unnecessary, but it serves absolutely no worthwhile purpose.

Also this – energy costs would rise to the tune of an average of $1,500 a year, according t0 figures by the Heritage Foundation. So again, this crap legislation is a waste of everyone’s time and money. Which is why I predict that the cap-and-trade bill, upon coming up for a vote,. will be soundly defeated in the Senate.

I apologize in advance here folks as I know that I have on more than one occasion said that global warming is a myth and a sham.  I am again going to offer more ammunition about the global warming myth that this time includes the United Nations – yet another sham.

In one of the UN’s most daring – and very correctable – schemes to date, the agency has a document on “climate change” that’s going to be distributed to a major environmental enclave next week which envisions the reordering of the world’s economy – involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies and some complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes.  And get this folks – the UN will supervise all of this.

What I just mentioned is just a small part of what is described as a UN “information note” on the potential consequences of the measures that industrialized nations will have to have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009.  What’s disturbing about this other than just the event itself is the fact that President Obama is good with this, assuming that they can come up with an “effective framework” for dealing with global warming.

The 16-page “note” will be distributed to participants of a huge negotiating session scheduled to take place on March 29 in Bonn, Germany – the first of 3 sessions which are intended to hammer out the actual commitments involved in the new deal.   Oh – there’s most definitely some lofty goals within this note; while no effort to calculate the magnitude of the costs and disruption that would be involved, the paper does make clear that they will reverberate globally – especially in the economic system.

Some of the schemes include:

• The cap-and-trade” scheme for controlling carbon emissions.
• “Carbon taxes” on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, including airlines; lower subsidies for those same goods, as well as new or higher subsidies for goods that are considered “environmentally sound”. 
• “Energy policy reform”, which the report says could affect large-scale transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways and airports.
• New kinds of tariffs and trade protectionist barriers such as “border carbon adjustment” – which can impose a “levy on imported goods equal to that which would have been imposed had they have been  produced domestically” under more stringent environmental regimes.

There’s tons more where that came from; to view the entire UN manifesto, click here.

Folks, this is exactly why I have said more than once that the UN is nothing but a sham organization.  In a lot of ways, it reminds me of the movie Austin Powers, where the archenemy is one Dr. Evil – where his sole intent is to rule the world.  Perhaps the only difference is that the UN is doing it in more subtle ways than Dr. Evil ever did.  But the UN’s intent is loud and clear: to change the world as we currently know it.  And the United States – if it was smart – would renounce and withdraw its membership from the UN.

You know just like I do folks that the economy has taken a major swan-dive as the Dow Jones averages can attest to; after all, numbers do not lie.  As recently as the first of the year – roughly 3 weeks before Barack Obama took office – the DJA was around 9034 on January 2, its highest mark since the autumn panic.  Yesterday, the DJA fell yet another 4.24% to 6,763, a number that hasn’t been seen since 1997.  That’s a 25% drop in only 2 months, folks.

When Obama assumed office, Americans – myself not included – welcomed the Obama era  with that spirit of hope that he promised during his campaign.  But guess what?  5 weeks later, his policies are slowing down, if not already grinding to a halt; Obama’s posse is creating a lot of uncertainty and less confidence – especially on Wall Street – which explains the current prolonged period of recession.

So the Democrats have been assigning blame, thinking that the Bush administration was the root cause of this sudden downturn in the economy.  The Obama posse doesn’t want to hear the realities of their failed policies.  While it is true to an extent that the Bush administration is responsible for some of the problems on Wall and Main Street, the DJA has dropped enough for a sufficient length of time to where blaming Bush is no longer an option. 

And guess what is the result thus far?  Dropping oil prices, housing prices have dropped 27% – although to be fair, that can be of benefit to the consumer, depending on their current financial station in life.  All of the financial gloom-and-doom aside, what sets Obama’s agenda from previous administrations is the aggressive tone that it’s taking.  Most presidents have a set amount of capital – both financial and political – that they have at their disposal; as of late, Obama has used a lot of both. 

Witness the fact that Obama has chosen to use federal money on income transfers (share the wealth ring a bell?) than rather than promoting financial growth.  Most of his “stimulus spending has been geared towards social programs instead of increased incentives to work or invest.  The Treasury Department under Obama’s watch has making missteps of their own, as evidenced by the number of bailouts.  The Treasury is basically putting a bandaid on a gaping wound with their methods.

Since last week when Obama introduced his budget, the stock market has dropped like a lead balloon.  Not surprising really; what that budget indicates is an open hostility towards capitalists in all sectors of the economy.  Some prime examples are the health care industry; their stocks have dropped on the possibility of new government mandates and pricing controls.  In addition, you can add the lenders to students as they will have to turn them away.  Any company that uses carbon energy faces the prospect of cap-and-trade sanctions – a tax increase, basically.  Not to mention the risk-takers and investors who already know that a tax increase is in their immediate future, say around 2011 – unless Obama gives House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the green light to speed things up – which is entirely possible.

If any of you watched the Sunday news shows like I typically do, then you may have noticed – or at least I did – that in hearing the sound bytes from Obama and Rahm Emanuel, I got the sense that they spent more time assailing the GOP on the current economic malaise instead of focusing on the task at hand.  What I do know is this folks: 2010 is around the corner which means that congressional, senatorial and gubernaotrial elections will come into play.  This is important folks, because that will be the perfect time – actually between now and the general elections – to, when your schedule allows, to become proactive in getting the Republicans elected to Congress, the Senate and State Houses nationwide.  It is painfully obvious what the current power shift in Washington is doing to this country economically.  Now is the time to take action.

Source: Wall Street Journal