If you want to read an article that will surely make your eyes bleed, be sure to check out Reuter’s latest “alert”, New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest. This piece of tripe, written by so-called “environment correspondent” Deborah Zabarenko, is one of the most egregious examples of MSM propaganda that I’ve come across in a long time. The gist of the article is that we should tax the “wealthy” and by extension the country they belong to, more for carbon emissions. From the article:
As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries — including fast-growing economies China and India — are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.
Rich countries, notably the United States, have said this gives developing countries an unfair economic advantage; China, India and other developing countries argue that developed countries have historically spewed more climate-warming gases, and developing countries need time to catch up.
The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.
One wonders why they don’t look at the carbon footprint of Algore? He must easily have one of the largest carbon footprints of anyone alive as he runs around the world in his private jet and leaves the lights on in his large 14 bedroom mansion, which only he and his wife now live in (servants too I guess). Ms. Zabarenko also points out that the average carbon footprint is about 5 tons, but for Americans the average carbon footprint is 20 tons. Obviously the gist here is we have to make the evil Americans pay, after all they are responsible for all this gorebull warming.
I’m guessing that the Obama administration will be down with this proposal, I wonder if its too late to add it to the current Cap and Trade legislation. Get ready to pay up.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
The carbon taxes are a massive burden on everyone. There is no way to put it besides that. There will be no end to it everything we buy will go up in price and it will destroy our economy so rapidly. This is a massive expansion of Government that is made to bring us to Socialism as fast as the destruction of Sarah Palin career. This bill makes it so the federal government is aloud to send people into your house to make it so it’s up to date with there energy standards and if you don’t comply you can’t sell the house. I’m 100% positive that this won’t have any effect on home sales. Crap and Trade my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And obama is talking about using Spain as our influence on energy. Well I would be fine with that if they didn’t have a hire unemployment rate than us. Now this will lower the use of gas no question, because there will be know factories in the U.S. anymore they’ll all be in China and India. Now I think that’s just dandy really I do. I mean maybe this will benefit me, because the unemployment rate will go so high they’ll legalize prostitution to create more jobs. In fact that might help with gas consumption, because less people will go out for dates. They’ll just have some girls walking around there apartment building, because you know how this hurts the home market.
Oh! And sorry about the Palin line if I was in Mccain’s position I would of done the same thing, but she’s dead politically.
July 6th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Everything about the article: “New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest” is a LIE.
The world’s REAL rich (the richest of the rich who pay no taxes, have assets that stretch back hundreds of years and make the rules for the rest of us) are the same who have concocted this ‘global climate change warming/cooling’ lie for the expressed purpose of controlling the world’s population and as an additional way to get rich.
The only so-called rich who will be targeted are the same ”rich” Obama and the other frauds target when they talk tax increases. Saps making $75K a year are ‘rich’ according to these con-artists.
What is remarkable is that the climate-hoax is a hoax and the majority of Americans and Europeans and Asians KNOW it is a Hoax and yet the extraordinary power possessed by the Elite causes the hoax to continue to be spoken of with a straight face. Anyone who is just slightly open-minded can look into the issue and quickly catch on to the lies and obfuscations used by the con-artists to promote the global tax.
All should know and recognize: The ‘carbon’ tax (remember – you and I and your dog and your child and your mom and dad are carbon-based) is for one purpose only. It is to unite the world under one taxing authority to achieve the goal of forcing 1 currency down our throats and to allow 1 group of elite to rule the rule with their Iron Fists. Anyone who tells you differently has either not studied the issue or is attempting to deceive.
Unfortunately, it appears no one is strong enough to stand against them.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
It’s not Gorebull Warming, it’s Greybull, Wyoming, the home of Wilfred Brimley.
I like that: we are all carbon-based. Then why is everyone so upset about so much CO2 in the atmosphere? If we are all carbon-based, then I would think that a lot of carbon in the atmosphere would be good for us.
Could someone explain this to me please? Call up Michelle Bachman. She seems to know about these things.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Algore and the other climate disaster peddlers figured no one would notice for the first 5 or 6 years. So they all got rich. Now we have a President and a congress ready to tax us for breathing.
Any of you Obamanites having buyer remorse yet?
July 10th, 2009 at 10:01 am
America is a society in decline because it’s become politically incorrect to tax the rich. They’ve convinced us that they’re some kind of persecuted minority. Please. I hope America wakes up before we go the way of Africa.