http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/capandtrade/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417777/posts France’s Constitutional Council has rejected a tax on carbon emissions strongly backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy that was to take effect Friday. But his ruling conservative party said the measure would be redrafted so it could be passed into law next year.The council ruled late Tuesday that the bill contained too many exemptions for polluters, broke with past practices and threatened to make tax collection unfair. The ruling is a blow to Mr. Sarkozy, who has sought to burnish his green credentials by holding international talks next year to seek agreement on emission cuts following the Copenhagen climate conference.... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417777/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417570/posts Paul Schiffer, Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, has already written legislation to repeal last Monday's decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency calling carbon dioxide a "pollutant." Paul Schiffer pledged to introduce and fight for this repeal in January 2011 after being elected in November 2010. "All life on earth depends on carbon dioxide. Plants breathe carbon dioxide as the lifeblood of plant growth. Animals cannot exist without plants for food. Carbon dioxide is a harmless, colorless, odorless part of the air that nourishes plants,” Schiffer said. “The EPA's decision makes as much sense as calling... THE VOICE Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417570/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:33:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416531/posts Simultaneously increases nutritional value of the milk & fights global warming The first program in North America to naturally decrease global-warming gases caused by cows’ burps (enteric emissions) has been announced by environmental pioneer Stonyfield Farm, the world’s leading organic yogurt company (www.stonyfield.com). An unexpected benefit of the program is that it also significantly increases the nutritional value of the milk. “This is a watershed moment for the U.S. dairy industry,” said Stonyfield President and CE-Yo Gary Hirshberg. “By changing the feed we give our cows, we can simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve milk’s nutritional content in a... Stonyfield Farm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416531/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:55:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416424/posts Bruised by the healthcare debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a Cap & Trade bill next year. “I am communicating that in every way I know how,” says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416424/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416322/posts Second of two parts. The pending federal effort to lessen carbon emissions, especially from coal-fired power plants – called the “cap-and-trade program” – has one single goal: To improve air quality and slow down global warming – if, that is, global warming actually exists. As environmentalists favor cap-and-trade as an incentive to decrease harmful emissions, while the bill moves from the House of Representatives to the U.S. Senate, opponents say it will cause nothing but an economic disaster, especially for Pennsylvania’s coal industries. And there are two extreme views on global warming. From the National Geographic: “Glaciers are melting. “Sea... The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416322/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:36:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416319/posts JOHNSTOWN — First of a two-part series. There are the two extreme views of federal “cap-and-trade” legislation, formally known as the Waxman-Mark energy bill, that aims to reduce global-warming emissions. • Without it, the planet and future generations will warm, wither and eventually die. • With it, utility bills will soar, coal mining will die, food will become scarce and utilities be forced into brownouts. The truth may be somewhere in between. But to Dennis Simmers at the Colver Power Project outside of Ebensburg, cap-and-trade could have dire consequences. “There are power plants that won’t be able to meet the... The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416319/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415982/posts One of Europe's solutions to the perceived global warming threat is trying to regulate carbon emissions through Carbon Credits The way it works is the government sets a or cap on the total amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of credits. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed.... Times of London/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415982/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:34:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415772/posts The declining flow of oil from Alaska's North Slope is creating anxiety among executives who run the trans-Alaska pipeline. Within a matter of years, they say, they will need to take costly steps to preserve the life of the 800-mile-long line. If they aren't successful, ice and wax could become a serious problem for the pipeline, increasing the risk of corrosion and spills. Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.'s sense of urgency isn't because the North Slope is running out of oil. The Slope's producing oil fields still contain enough oil to supply the pipeline for at least several more decades. Many... Anchorage Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415772/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415723/posts Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. “I am communicating that in every way I know how,” says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. The creation of an economy-wide market for greenhouse gas emissions is as the heart of the climate bill... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415723/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:45:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415718/posts Dems to W.H.: Drop cap-and-trade By: Lisa Lerer December 27, 2009 07:10 AM EST Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. “I am communicating that in every way I know how,” says Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of at least half a dozen Democrats who've told the White House or their own leaders that it's time to jettison the centerpiece of their party's plan to curb global warming. The creation of an... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415718/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414097/posts <p>WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.</p> <p>Republican legislators say the records--due to be opened to the public in early January--could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.</p> Dow Jones Newswires http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414097/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:23:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413526/posts The credibility of the European Union’s flagship carbon trading scheme was dealt another blow on Monday after carbon prices fell to six-month lows as UN talks in Copenhagen failed to deliver a strong climate deal. Traders and analysts say low prices could continue well into 2010, slowing investment in low-carbon technologies which have already been dented by tight financing due to a slow economy. “(The low price) reinforces the idea that relying solely on the EU ETS to drive investment is probably not the answer at the moment,” said Andy Kelly, head of business development at Centrica. “This does give... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413526/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413275/posts WASHINGTON - Sounding a friendly tone to the nation's community bankers, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the White House will seek to cut bureaucratic restrictions so that local lenders can help businesses seize "enormous opportunities" for growth after bleak times. "We feel very optimistic that the worst is behind us," the president declared after meeting with heads of a dozen small and community banks. The event, among the final acts of business for Obama before he leaves for a Christmas vacation in Hawaii, follows a similar meeting the president held at the White House with some of the nation's... AP via MSNBC.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413275/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190050/posts New Hampshire fired the first shot. Although 7 other states have similar pending resolutions and bills, Oklahoma is the first to actually pass one. Another 27 states are expected to make similar moves in the coming months. That’ll leave the country split 71-29. Now, before you get too excited, bear in mind that all of this was likely Obama’s goal. Boiled down, all of these state measures are threats of secession. Recall, if you will, Obama’s obsession to be the 21st Century Abraham Lincoln, and his ominous calls to recreate and rebuild America. Who was Lincoln? Why, he was... Pat Dollard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190050/posts#comment Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:49:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412317/posts Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Aired last night (12/20/09) on FoxNews. Set in 6 parts on YouTube. For those who missed it. (I'm not sure how long they will be up.) Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 1Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 2Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 3Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 4Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 5Global Warming, Or A Lot of Hot Air? Part 6 FoxNews via YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412317/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:26:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411865/posts No excerpt allowed from Bloomberg.com, story here. Bloomberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411865/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:24:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411864/posts President Barack Hussein Obama is proceeding to destroy America and has opened up a six-front war to do so: 1. He has a Democratic controlled Congress that is willing to rubber-stamp his wildest schemes, without even reading them…as we’ve already seen. The Democratic Party is now aiding and abetting the demeaning and destruction of America and has become the voice of leftist extremism. The moderates have disappeared or been transformed, issuing only occasional squeaking and whining before following the liberal party line drawn by Mr. Obama. Where have all the Democratic moderates gone? 2. Mr. Obama has immense executive authority,... PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411864/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411706/posts The head of the UN's climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with 'carbon trading' companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and mastermind of its latest report in 2007. Although Dr Pachauri is often presented as a scientist (he was even once described by the BBC as “the world’s top climate scientist”), as a former... telegraph Uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411706/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:34:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411404/posts President Obama returned to the White House from the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen in the wee hours of this morning, having secured a modest, non-binding, three-page deal aimed at combating global warming. After getting a wee bit of rest, Obama by early afternoon had set his sights on getting a climate bill out of the Senate that, he claims, will curb carbon emissions and, to boot, create new jobs by fostering new industries. In a statement, Obama first lauded his accomplishments in Copenhagen and then focused his attention on Capitol Hill. "For the first time in history … the... npr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411404/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:20:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410354/posts Copenhagen has been a disaster for the free world and hardly anyone seems to have noticed. We have been distracted by the sweet schadenfreude as the event was overshadowed by the Climategate scandal at the beginning, and the Russian bombshell at the end. And by our delight in seeing the many business interests of the IPCC ’s jet-setting chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri cruelly exposed. And by the told-you-so satisfaction of seeing it proved beyond all reasonable doubt that the “scientific” process informing the IPCC’s increasingly hysterical reports is corrupt, fraudulent and politically motivated. And by the irony of the snow... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410354/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:17:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts Leadership: Alaska's ex-governor asks a question we'd like answered: Why is California's current governor pushing the same policies in Copenhagen that helped drive his state into record deficits and unemployment? The movie series that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name involved cyborgs traveling through time to alternately try to destroy or save one John Connor, who would grow up to be the leader of the resistance against a race of machines that ruled the planet. Prominent in the series was his tough cookie of a mom, Sarah Connor. Another Sarah has taken the lead in another resistance against another group... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410051/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:37:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409945/posts (912 on the mall) The left's anti-American coup d'etat on America, made possible by the first radical Marxist in the White House, calls for distinctly American counter measures. Dr. Jack Wheeler has "a strategy for any Republican wanting to get elected or re-elected to Congress in 2010, and for any Tea Partyer wanting to take individual action now against a government that ignores the Constitution -- Defund and Disobey." Here's an excerpt of "The Double -D Strategy for rescuing America": Let's talk about the Defund D first. The Founders in their usual brilliance place the power of the purse in... Atlas Shrugs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2409945/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:05:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409896/posts President Obama rode into office on the coattails of some horrible economic realities while promising Americans "hope and change." The nation needed both to energize new policies and to help us continue down the path to recovery, specifically in the areas of job creation and economic growth. Those who ignorantly -- and I use this word literally not pejoratively -- voted for him, have now woken up saying to themselves over and over and over again, "What the heck have I done?" FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409896/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:03:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409704/posts The Patriot Post · http://patriotpost.us The Time Has Come By Mark Alexander · Thursday, December 17, 2009 "It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth -- and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. ... Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not?" --Patrick Henry The 2008 presidential election was much more than a referendum on the two candidates; it was a referendum on the ability... The Patriot Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409704/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:36:29 GMT