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February 26, 2008
U.K. Global Warming Hoaxers Move toward Absolute Control
British totalitarians now want to impose cap-and-trade lunacy on individuals, giving everyone a "carbon allowance" so that they don't emit too much utterly harmless CO2. This would exceed the wildest dreams of Stalin and Hitler, giving authoritarian bureaucrats absolute control over every aspect of our existence, all in the name of a manufactured crisis with zero validity.
This appalling attempt to squash out the last vestiges of liberty has actually been endorsed by U.K. environment secretary David Miliband. The British government is currently exploring the feasibility of imposing it.
Even the Boston Globe admits:
Carbon dioxide is an inevitable byproduct of most modern human activities.
This should be corrected to read: "an inevitable byproduct of ALL human activities." Our very breath contains CO2. Fortunately, it is absolutely harmless. In fact, plants need it to live.
If there were such a thing as global warming caused by greenhouse gases, the culprit would be water vapor, not CO2. But don't tell the bureauweenies from Airstrip One, or they'll ban hot showers.
The individual emission caps would be lowered each year, so that we are allowed to exist less and less until eventually we don't exist at all.
As always, scratch the green skin and you will find communist red underneath:
One of the main attractions of this idea is its equity. The outsized carbon footprints of the wealthy — those who fly by private jet and live in McMansions — would come with an extra price tag, so the penalty would fall on the people most able to afford it. The poor, who generate much lower emissions, could actually turn a profit by selling their surplus.
In other words, leftists hope to use the phony crisis to impose coercive wealth redistribution. What the Soviet Union with all its nuclear weapons never managed to accomplish, the squishy, lying moonbats who run our bureaucracies and bring us our "news" still might.
On a tip from baldeagle390.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 26, 2008 9:13 AM
Comments
I wonder how long it will be before they impose a tax on breathing.
Posted by: IOpian at February 26, 2008 9:42 AM
The proof of the fascism of the left is that ManBearPig is used as an opportunity to advance political control over what were formerly individual freedoms. Leaving aside whether anthropogenic global warming is happening, much less is the express lane to catastrophe the left makes it out to be, note that the left is uninterested in engineering solutions, such as the creation of technological carbon sinks, or the development of nuclear and other proven alternatives. Instead the only tool the left gets excited about is social control: Who is allowed to travel and how often. The state will tell you how large your home may be and how much energy it may use. Sort your trash or get fined (Big Gaia is watching you.)
Leftism is fascism. The Peace symbol is the new swastika. Carbon is the new "Jewish problem."
Posted by: V the K at February 26, 2008 9:50 AM
I wonder how long it will be before they impose a tax on breathing. Posted by: IOpian
95 years ago.
For working folks (which excludes most liberals) it began in earnest in 1913.
Posted by: Jimbo at February 26, 2008 10:10 AM
Soon they will be killing people to reduce "carbon signitures". How do people push something where "real scientists have debunked it" and no real science is behind it??? I guess Soros dollars buys a lot when you want to manipulate the masses.
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at February 26, 2008 10:11 AM
The new crime: Beating up homeless people to steal their carbon credits.
Posted by: baldeagle390 at February 26, 2008 10:44 AM
Global Cooling in 2007 erased all previous Global Warming. Can we have our incandescent light bulbs back now?
Reality smashes another "scientific consensus."
Posted by: V the K at February 26, 2008 1:04 PM
Why grow wheat when barley sequesters more carbon dioxide? Shouldn't there be a tax on farmers who choose to grow foods that require more fertilizer?
Shouldn't we be required to use hemp for the upholstery of an automobile? Doesn't leather contribute greater drain on Beautiful Mother Gaia? Not to mention the aggression effect of all that meat on white, middle-aged oppressors?
We can't stop with taxation. We need to be directing production so that only those things which benefit mankind are produced. All the wasteful things need to be outlawed.
Only then can we serve man.
Posted by: OregonGuy at February 26, 2008 3:28 PM
VtheK,
That last posted link on temps is something you will never see on NASA Watch. It uses NASA GISS data but that is not PC since NASA wants manmade global warming to be true.
Posted by: Hasketeer at February 26, 2008 3:32 PM
Soon they will be killing people to reduce "carbon signitures".
I've have heard that used as an argument for abortion. Here in Minnesota they voted a huge subsidy for ethonal, which was pushed by our Governor. He's making a big production of going to the antartic next summer. Meanwhile we've had our coldest winter in a decade.
Posted by: Eric at February 26, 2008 3:57 PM
"Why grow wheat when barley sequesters more carbon dioxide?"...
Would this mean "More Beer"??? Or does beer emit a boatload of carbon? I would gladly give up incandescent light bulbs forever if it meant more beer!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at February 26, 2008 3:59 PM
Eric, it sounds like your "Governor could be a moonbat"!!! LOL!!!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at February 26, 2008 4:02 PM
Unlike localized climatological phenomena (storms, cold temperatures, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes), the global cooling data cannot be explained in terms of Global Warming.
Posted by: NRO at February 26, 2008 4:18 PM
Eric, it sounds like your "Governor could be a moonbat"!!! LOL!!!
Yup. There's talk he could be McCain's running mate.
Posted by: Eric at February 26, 2008 4:41 PM
A local radio commentator here in Oz came up with a great comment. "If global warming is so bad, why do so many retirees move from Tasmania to Queensland?"
Probably the same as moving from Chicago to Miami I think... although I have never been to the US so maybe you guys have a better example?
Posted by: Aussie-John at February 26, 2008 6:39 PM
"Yup. There's talk he could be McCain's running mate."
Oh...that is real comforting! :-(
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at February 26, 2008 8:28 PM
Carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced enormously if the politicians would just shut up.
chsw
Posted by: chsw at February 26, 2008 8:42 PM
Aussie-John --- A better example is the Canadians who flock from the Great White North to Arizona. Given a choice, Canadians prefer global warming to socialized medicine.
Posted by: V the K at February 27, 2008 3:02 AM
