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[jalexson]

Remember Enron, the corrupt firm whose failure should have disproved the myth "too big to fail", but didn't? At the time it was the seventh largest corporation. It's bankruptcy was the largest in history until Lehman Brothers failed. Incidentally, Lehman Brothers was also involved in carbon trading.
http://www.chron.com/news/specials/enron/

Enron owed part of its early success to emissions trading. Basically emissions trading was established as a way for some companies to profit from pollution while allowing some companies to continue to produce the chemicals that can cause acid rain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading

Lawrence Solomon, executive director of Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute, is reporting that Enron played a major role in pushing the global warming scam, including establishing the Kyoto Protocals.
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/05/29/lawrence-solomon-enron-s-other-secret.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37287-2002Jan12?language=printer (admin note: jalexson, this is a broken link)

Enron had already profited from trading sulfur dioxide credits and saw the potential for even greater profits from trading what would become known as "carbon credits".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_credit

The article is the first in a series of articles about those who seek to profit from what Weather Channel founder John Coleman calls "the greatest scam in history."

Solomon states, " The climate-change industry - the scientists, lawyers, consultants, lobbyists and, most importantly, the multinationals that work behind the scenes to cash in on the riches at stake - has emerged as the world’s largest industry. Virtually every resident in the developed world feels the bite of this industry..." which increases the costs of various goods and services.

Enron was an early player beginning early in the administration of Bill Clinton to push for a carbon dioxide trading system. Enron also sought support from environmental groups.
"Between 1994 and 1996, the Enron Foundation donated $1-million to the Nature Conservancy and its Climate Change Project, a leading force for global warming reform, while [Chairman Kenneth] Lay and other individuals associated with Enron donated $1.5-million to environmental groups seeking international controls on carbon dioxide."

According to Solomon, "Political contributions and Enron-funded analyses flowed freely, all geared to demonstrating a looming global catastrophe if carbon dioxide emissions weren’t curbed. An Enron-funded study that dismissed the notion that calamity could come of global warming, meanwhile, was quietly buried."

Enron advised the Clinton administration what to do at the Kyoto Japan Conference in 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

To improve its chances for success Enron hired former Environmental Protection Agency regulator John Palmisano to become the company's lead lobbyist as senior director for Environmental Policy and Compliance. Palismano wrote a memo describing the historic corporate achievement that was Kyoto.

“If implemented this agreement will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the energy and natural-gas industries in Europe and the United States,” Polisano began. “The potential to add incremental gas sales, and additional demand for renewable technology is enormous.”

The memo, entitled “Implications of the Climate Change Agreement in Kyoto & What Transpired,” summarized the achievements that Enron had accomplished. “I do not think it is possible to overestimate the importance of this year in shaping every aspect of this agreement,” he wrote. He cited three issues of specific importance to Enron in the climate-change debate: the rules governing emissions trading, the rules governing transfers of emission reduction rights between countries, and the rules governing a gargantuan clean energy fund.

Polisano’s memo expressed satisfaction bordering on amazement at Enron’s successes. The rules governing transfers of emission rights “is exactly what I have been lobbying for and it seems like we won. The clean development fund will be a mechanism for funding renewable projects. Again we won .... The endorsement of emissions trading was another victory for us.”

“Enron now has excellent credentials with many ‘green’ interests including Greenpeace, WWF [World Wildlife Fund], NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council], German Watch, the U.S. Climate Action Network, the European Climate Action Network, Ozone Action, WRI [World Resources Institute] and Worldwatch. This position should be increasingly cultivated and capitalized on (monetized),” Polisano explained.

Those who believe in Global Warming like to claim that they are opposed by corporate interests in the form of the energy companies. They neglect to mention that the battle isn't against corporations, it is between different groups of corporations. The energy companies are attempting to continue providing energy to consumers. Companies on the other side are merely attempting to create a financial opportunity for themselves as financial parasites who provide nothing to anyone and get rich in return.

Democrats often criticize Republicans for being too close to business. Democrats are just as close to business. They simply favor different businesses.

As William O'Keefe, chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute, puts it: "The American people have had enough of convoluted, indecipherable financial schemes and the opportunists who exploit them. The public is understandably angry about Wall Street's exploitation of Main Street, and yet our political leaders are setting the stage for another complex trading market, ripe for corruption. The future Enrons and Bernie Madoffs of the world would like nothing better than to see the U.S. impose a new market for carbon emission trading."
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2009/04/13/next-bernie-madoff-emissions-cap-and-trade-aids-the-corrupt-hurts-the-little-guy.html
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[jalexson]

Contrary to a popular myth Al Gore and his followers are among the biggest enemies of the environment. Contrary to their lies carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant. CO2 is essential to biological life.

The CO2 cycle is the basis of carbon based biological life. Plants are carbon structures and CO2 provides the carbon they need. Carbon is the second most common element in the human body.
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-05/927309210.An.r.html

Humans and other animals get their energy from the complex carbon compounds plants produce. For example, each molecule of table sugar contains 12 carbon atoms.

Plants are the original solar energy collectors. Plants store solar energy as the chemical bonds of carbon molecules. The ability of plants to grow depends upon the available sunlight and the amount of CO2 in the air.

The global warming crowd claims that the atmosphere has too much CO2, but fast growing young plants benefit from higher concentrations . Some greenhouses use twice the concentration of CO2 to encourage faster, sturdier growth, in young plants.
http://www.imok.ufl.edu/veghort/docs/physio_121202b.pdf

Plants use CO2 to produce food for animals which return part of the CO2 to the atmosphere for plants to reuse. Unfortunately, humans don't return all plant carbon to the environment. Humans use plant carbon for building materials, clothing and long lasting paper products such as books. Humans also put carbon containing food materials along with other carbon materials into landfills where it is unavailable for plants.

If it weren't for the combustion of carbon containing fossil fuels we might already be facing a shortage of atmospheric CO2 that could significantly reduce food production.

Production of biofuels depends upon ample supplies of CO2. The most productive biofuel plants would benefit from higher concentrations of CO2 because more carbon would be available for conversion to fuel.

CO2 provides the best way to return carbon to the environment for plants to reuse. Animals exhale CO2 as their bodies use carbon molecules for energy. The wind moves it from where it is produced to where plants are growing.

The CO2 molecule is one of the simplest carbon molecules and is easy for plants to take apart for construction of complex molecules. The cell is a microscopic factory. Its genes are programmed to process CO2 into other molecules. Taking carbon from the air is more efficient for plants because the carbon is available where it is needed.

Contrary to the lies of Gore and others, increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will not increase temperatures. Niels Bohr disproved the claim that the atmosphere was heated by absorbing infrared radiation (IR) with research that indicated the process of absorbing specific wavelengths of light changed the energy state of the electrons in gas molecules instead of increasing their temperature. Physicist R. W. Wood demonstrated in a 1909 experiment that trapping IR did not heat greenhouses as many in the 19th Century had believed and thus the process could not heat the atmosphere either.

It would be easier to make a case that increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would reduce temperatures. Plants use CO2 to store solar energy in the form of chemical fonds of carbon molecules rather than converting it into heat. Plant covered areas do not become as hot as nearby areas that lack plant cover. Bare ground converts solar radiation to heat.

Increasing the availability of CO2 means that plants can store more solar energy than is possible with current levels of CO2. Storing more solar energy would reduce the amount of solar energy converted to heat.
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[Me#1You#10]

Thanks for the primer jalexson. I have been troubled by the apparent ease in acquiescence of "big business" to global warming interests for a long time now but always, perhaps naievely, hoped that its motivation was, in large part, public relations oriented. No more.

The juggernaut in this malignant cabal of leftist ideologues, unfettered government intrusiveness and unprincipled "capitalist" greed scares the crap outta me...and our American way of life now hangs on the thinnest of threads.

I hope its not too late.

P.S. Do you have a source for this material or is this your own compilation?

[dusty]

I'm pretty sure it's way too late #1.
This is a runaway train on a downhill slope and nothing in it's path like the scientific facts jalexson posted are even slowing it down.
The fact that for the last 11 yrs. the planet has been actually cooling, the fact that other planets like Mars are showing the same temp. fluctuations as the earth (a pretty good indicator that Solar activity is the cause) are just steamrollered as the train rushes by undeterred.

Even if the senate stalls this Cap & Trade bill, the next time THIS president gets to obligate the U.S. to the global community to cut our emissions he'll surely take it.
If he can't do it here he'll do it on the world stage.
Man made global warming will go down in history as the biggest scam ever perpetrated in the entire history of the world.
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[jalexson]

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...and now that the Soviet era Communist records have been made public, it turns out he was RIGHT about most of them......
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[dusty]

To my mind, when McCarthy got shut down before the purge was finished is when the Communists beat us.
It's taken a while but if the Democrat (Commiecrat) Party is any indication, they have finally won the war and America is now solidly on the road to Socialism/Communism/Marxism.
Turns out the same old class warfare, one for all and all for one, capitalism is bad strategy worked here just as well as it did in the other Communist governed countries. Just took a while.
Pretty much everyone on this forum has been watching it happen over the last several generations.
When you control the news, movie and educational institutions of a society, you control the society.

No one knows that better than a Communist.
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[Deuce]

I'm not a referee, so I'm not qualified to call foul here...just my 2 cents.

Just like The Vietnam War, the Enron Saga had its own 'fog of war'. Thru the 80's and 90's the Enron talent pool was known to be top notch...integrity beyond repute. Did they get creative in markets....sure did! all made legal by a similar Congress perhaps to the current one, and magnified by 'Mark to Market', just like 2008. Enron was the 'up slope' of Mark to Market. the Fourth Quarter 2008 Meltdown was the downslope of Mark to Market. Both scenarios are to a great extent 'blue smoke and mirrors'.

Many Vietnam veterans worked at Enron...their integrity was also beyond reproach. Much McCarthyism went into the effort to demonize Enron (both before and after its bankruptcy), so research today to find 'truths' will be futile.

bottom line, resurrecting Enron (who you may notice I perceive to have been swiftboated*, before swiftboating was cool) on this board may detract from its credibility....just say'n.


Deuce

note * not our Swiftboat definition, the sKerry one!

[Schadow]

For an extensive de-construction of the global warming fraud, take a look at this 40-minute film well-produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute:

"Policy Peril: Why Global Warming Policies Are More Dangerous Than Global Warming Itself".

Schadow
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[BuffaloJack]

Besides Carbon credits and sulfur emission credits we also have the nuts that believe that the ozone layer is a problem.
Back when all these scams got their start, they also picked on the ozone layer, blaming CFCs like freon and dry cleaning fluid for creating seasonal holes. The environmentalists proposed the chemical reactions that they said were to blame. The problem was that after trying for 30+ years to duplicate in the lab what they said was happening in the upper atmosphere they could never get the reactions to happen. Not a problem, just ignore the results. The CFCs polution theory does not meet the reasonableness criteria. Mt. St. Helens spewer 3 cubic miles of Earth into the sky in 1980; among the compounds of dust and gases spewed forth were chlorine and fluorine compounds equivalent to about a hundred times the total of all manmade CFCs ever produced. How many volcanos erupt each decade? Mt. St. Helens was just one.
All that banning CFCs has done is make air conditioners and refrigeration systems expensive without having any impact on the environment or the ozone layer from what would have happened naturally.
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[zinfella]

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[Deuce]

[TEWSPilot]

Here's another great source coming out in October. You won't see this in theaters or being played on channel 1 in your kids' schools, but it NAILS the hoax and the hoaxers. Spread the word!

Not Evil, Just Wrong

[Me#1You#10]

[jalexson]