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Moonbats In Bali

Al “Carbon Bigfoot” Gore, at the U.N. sponsored conference on Climate Change may be undiplomatic enough to “name the elephant in the room,” he is also able to prove, in one fell swoop, who the “jackass in the room” is.

From the Financial Times:

Al Gore savaged the US government’s “obstructing” attitude and urged delegates at the UN conference on climate change to ignore Washington if necessary to pursue the “moral imperative” of a new global regime.

“My country is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali,” the former US vice-president told 2,000 of the 12,000 people attending the conference on Thursday. “[But] over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now.”

Someone needs to inform the Boracle that winning the Nobel “Peace” Prize in Propaganda does not turn science fiction into science fact. Especially when the person receiving the propaganda award has a financial interest in the outcome of any talks on global warming (Generation Investment Management - “got carbon credits?”).

Quite frankly, the U.S. is not, nor are Republicans, standing in the way of reducing carbon emissions. Coal burning plants are now cleaner than they were half a century ago, reducing emissions. Nuclear energy is cleanest and most economical means for generating electricity, but the Dems have hogtied the nuclear energy industry since the Carter administration, preferring to set up countries like North Korea with nuclear weapons at U.S. tax payer expense rather than easing the way of building new and modern nuclear reactors in the States; not to mention allowing for the reprocessing of fuel rods so as to reduce the amount of radioactive waste that power plants are now stockpiling.

Although the hard-left claims there is a “consensus” that the current warming trend is man caused, there is more scientific evidence coming to light everyday that indicates that the trend is, in fact, natural and not attributable to the extremely minor amount of trace gases, such as carbon dioxide, being dumped into the atmosphere.

The amazing thing is the amount of carbon dioxide that is being dumped into the atmosphere thanks to this Climate Summit. From Bloomberg:

Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.

The delegates each will produce an average 4.07 metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2, to reach the resort island 950 kilometers (600 miles) from Jakarta, according to estimates e- mailed to Bloomberg by the UN agency holding the conference.

Over 4 metric tons per attendee? Including Senator Barbara Boxer, champion of reducing said emissions? And Al “I need a paycheck” Gore? Okay, Gore probably dumped more CO2 on this junket, but then he owns Generation Investment management which supplies him with carbon credits, a product that that company deals in. No doubt the Boracle is writing the whole trip off as a business expense while he pushes his product line of carbon credits.

Now the Moonbats in Bali want us to believe that they can offset their emissions by planting trees, which take years to grow, and takes lots of, to absorb that much carbon. Then they forget to tell you that trees also produce CO2, though the decomposition of tree litter (leaves) and through photorespiration, which is the night time process trees go through. Offsetting one’s emissions is nothing more than a shell game for people with the means (and in this case, via tax dollars) to continue to live a life of luxury and privilege while those of us who work for a living get stuck holding the bill.

As if the “Cap and Trade” shell game to tax working Americans isn’t bad enough, here is what the U.N. is cooking up (from the EPW blog):

A global tax on carbon dioxide emissions was urged to help save the Earth from catastrophic man-made global warming at the United Nations climate conference. A panel of UN participants on Thursday urged the adoption of a tax that would represent “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations.”

I have no doubt that the hard-left in America will go along with this, despite the fact it goes against the U.S. Constitution and everything America stands for: No Taxation Without Representation! The U.N. has no taxing authority over the United States, its members are not elected, which is the baseline for representation when it comes to taxation, and any move by the U.N. should be met with a veto by the Security Council.

Such a global tax would be more harshly applied against the United States as a punitive move against Americans, forcing our energy prices to increase even more.

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