Climate News There are black days ahead for the 'carbon' industry
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November 27 2010
There's money in them trees.It might seem mildly entertaining that the media's warmist groupies, led by the BBC, have been so eager to report the latest claims of James Hansen and Phil Jones – of Climategate fame – that 2010 is the hottest year in history, while inches of "global warming" cover Britain with its most extensive November snowfall in 17 years, heralding what promises to be our fourth unusually cold winter in a row. The explanation for the recent renewed spate of warmist scare stories lies, of course, in the fact that several thousand politicians, officials and lobbyists from all over the world are today arriving in the Mexican holiday resort of Cancun, where they hope to salvage a binding UN treaty from the wreckage of last December's fiasco in Copenhagen.
None of the lobbying has been more telling than a statement issued by 259 investment organisations, controlling "collective assets totalling over $15 trillion" – including major banks, insurance companies and pension funds. These are the bodies calling most stridently for "government action on climate change", because they are the ones who hope to make vast sums of money out of it. They are desperate for a treaty of the type they failed to get at Copenhagen – even more so since the collapse of the US cap and trade bill – because they see their chance of turning global warming into the most lucrative fruit machine in history dwindling by the month.
Top of their wish list is "a rapid time-frame" for implementing the UN's REDD scheme, which would enable them to make hundreds of billions of dollars by selling the CO2 locked up in the world's tropical rainforests as "carbon offsets", thus allowing firms from the developed world to continue emitting CO2. Under this scheme, for instance, environmental bodies including the WWF hope to share in the $60 billion which they estimate as the "carbon value" of the Brazilian rainforest.
But nothing better betrays their gloom about any result from Cancun than that they at least want it to give "a clear mandate" for the adoption of "a legally binding agreement" at the UN's next conference, due in South Africa next year. This year, next year, sometime… With so much money at stake, they won't give up. But as the climate scare dies, the sound of whistling in the dark grows ever louder.
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The BBC, if there ever was a bigger example of a stinking maggoty peice of amphibian S**t like state funded bunch of Scumbags it's the BBC.
I resent paying the licence fee, and anyone else who sees thru their little games should feel the same.
It's enough to make ya weep.
Boo Hoo Hoo Ha ha ha
It's enough to give you a stomach-ache.
I havn't seen so many Rigs on the move for years. Pipe liners and service industry trafic, its like rush hour out in the bush.
Now theres talk of building four major Upgraders in Alberta for the export of Oil Sands bitumen products.
A very major undertaking that would see only an upgraded or value added oil product being exported. Keeping more wealth and jobs in Alberta. So we can pay more taxes and fund even more socialist programs in the eastern parts of Canada.
So as an aside shouldnt the great boreial forest of northern Canada be worth far more than 60 Billion? Seeing its a far larger Carbon Sink? Or do these schemes only work fo nations they want to transfer wealth too not from?
Albertas share would be substantial. Maybe even enough for an Upgrader or two.
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