I have to agree the climate mitigation industry is fraudulent and perverse. Other examples I didn't catch in the article are that of the World Bank financing coal fired power stations in Africa and Asia and paying/bribing a staggering $US550m to Chinese CFC makers to alter their formula. In the latter case a couple of million dollars or a simple export prohibition would have resolved the issue.

The so called 'clean development' carbon offsets promoted by the UN are illogical in theory and fraudulent in practice. If I read OLO instead of driving to the library I've saved fuel. Presumably I can sell that erstwhile CO2 as a carbon credit. There's no limit to such carbon 'savings'. Even if there was a genuine CO2 saving why erase it by selling it as a credit, ie for no net reduction? In the case of tree planting offsets we know that many are exaggerated, counted multiple times and in any case the trees will ultimately burn or rot releasing back the CO2.

Despite all this I think emissions trading is a good idea but with offsets disallowed. Governments have shown not only do they lack the will to toughen the rules they also fail to get their own house in order.

Hoo-Bladi-Ray!

More facts and figures to support CLIMATEGATE is the biggest SCAM of all time.

Welcome to MARXIST INCOME REDISTRIBUTION 101.

Project #1901 is 100 acres of new brick-making businesses in Bangladesh. At current rates, over the 20-year lifespan of these brickfields, Denmark will transfer $40 million in mitigation fees to Project #1901. Bangladesh carbon marketers have announced that this price will double, bringing the total of this “developed to developing country” transfer to $80 million over 20 years.

And the GREENS.. (watermelons.. red on the inside) have as their policy

http://greens.org.au/node/775
Goals
The Australian Greens want:
8. a global economic system that promotes environmental sustainability, human rights and a decent standard of living for all.

13. enter into multilateral trade agreements, except where a bilateral trade agreement favours a developing country.

(=Income redistribution)

Principles:
The Australian Greens believe that:
1. global governance is essential to meet the needs of global peace and security, justice, human rights, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability.

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE? ? ? scream/yell/brain_hemorrhage!

Strike me lucky what are these baboons on about ?

http://greens.org.au/node/764

3. establish BINDING national emission targets for 2012, 2020 and 2050 supported by a detailed strategy to reduce emissions from the
energy, transport, industry, waste and land management sectors.

THAT...= CAP (of cap and trade)

24. drive the equitable transition to a low carbon economy through a range of MARKET-BASED (Trade*) and REGULATORY (Cap*) mechanisms reflecting the real osts of greenhouse gas emissions.

(*not part of the wording)

THAT..= "TRADE" of cap and trade.

OH..what's this ? a congratulatory email to Bob Brown from Maurice Strong, CCX ?
and..oh..another.. from Al Gore of GIM. hmmmmm

"Each UN meeting requires carbon mitigation, ergo, there's plenty of money to be made!"

Platt recommends and urges the public to view money making fraud, "British Lord Christopher Monckton's" presentation too.

And there's plenty of money to be made with Teresa Platt at the helm of the Fur Commission US where minxs are incarcerated for their entire life and 3 million are brutally slaughtered every year in the US. She clucks over feeding the remains of minx to carnivorous animals and boasts that over 400 fashion designers currently incorporate 'natural fiber furs' in their collections. 'Beaver is great for eating too,' says Platt.

"Tyranny by treaty?" or "The Age of Stupid?"

Prota.. errr yeah.. but.. please..don't vote green... or Labour and tell everyone you can the same mate.. spread the word about these monsters and their odious anti Australian racist socialist agenda that aims first to break our souls and then our banks.

Yes the voice of reason

Countering the monopoly of expression demanded by the current forces of repeated failed collectivism.

The sooner people realise when you, via your UN appointed (not elected) representative puts money into the bowl of the beggar, you are condemning the beggar to aspire to nothing greater than a life of begging.

Really, Protagoras, if you're going to wax eloquent over the fate of minks you should learn how to spell the word first. It makes one's claims so much more credible. (You minx!)

But of course we needed to spend billions of dollars and waste tonnes of CO2 on a conference about how to reduce our production of CO2, because it is -- or was -- the new great hope for governments wanting their citizens to behave like willing sheep and vote them more powers. The Cold War is long over, the war on terrorism is running out of steam, the war on drugs is losing support, and the real war on those nasty foreigners is producing unforeseen results like dead Australian soldiers. AGW is the last hope of governments that want to whip up public hysteria for their own ends -- i.e. nearly all governments, including our own.

Still, hopefully the Copper Lady has enough political savvy to spot a change in the weather. She might even read a skeptical blog or two. She will be in good company: at least 124 working scientists around the world "do not find convincing support for the hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, dangerous global warming."

http://tinyurl.com/2es3rqx