http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/carbontax/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:05:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417917/posts 29 12 2009 This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, and surely a blow to warmists everywhere, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. Originally found here (Google Translation). Lord Monckton was kind enough to assist me in deciphering the meaning of the ruling and writes: In France, if at least 60 Deputies of the House and 60 Senators appeal to the Constitutional Council, it has the power to pronounce on the constitutionality of... Watts Up With That (Award Winning Science Website) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417917/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:05:48 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/2409818/posts With the conference at Copenhagen collapsing and China balking at anything more than a mission statement, some have begun to wonder whether Barack Obama will follow through on his commitment to attend it this weekend.  After all, Obama has already come home from Copenhagen empty-handed once this year.  Would he risk doing it again?  ABC’s Sunlen Miller and Yunji de Nies say yes: Despite some rumors swirling in Copenhagen that the lack of progress at the ongoing climate change summit will cause President Obama to cancel his attendance tomorrow, the White House says no – the President is still committed... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409818/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:04:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409563/posts COPENHAGEN — China’s climate negotiators have told Western counterparts they can’t agree to an “operational agreement” on climate change that President Barack Obama had hoped to bring home from Copenhagen –- and will push for a short, noncommittal collective statement at the end of the talks, according to American staffers briefed on the situation. It’s not clear if remarks by Chinese officials, made during negotiating sessions on Wednesday night, signal the end of efforts to reach a significant agreement or simply represent an 11th hour bargaining tactic less than a day before Obama was due to arrive in Copenhagen. But... Politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409563/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:21:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2407873/posts On July 9, 1970, President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by executive order as an independent agency joining together a number of functions from different federal agencies. The EPA says its mission “is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment – air, water and land – upon which life depends.” An Administrator appointed by the President of the United States runs the agency, which is not a Cabinet agency, although the Administrator is usually given cabinet rank. Lisa P. Jackson is the current Administrator, and the EPA’s Website notes that the “FY 2010 Budget... Annuit Coeptis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2407873/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:13:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278597/posts While our media sleep, the United Nations is proceeding, with President Obama's acquiescence, to implement a global plan to create a new international socialist order financed by global taxes on the American people.The Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that begins on Wednesday will consider adoption of a document calling for "new voluntary and innovative sources of financing initiatives to provide additional stable sources of development finance..." This is U.N.-speak for global taxes. They are anything but "voluntary" for the people forced to pay them.The most "popular" proposals, which could generate tens of... AIM (Accuracy in Media) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278597/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:49:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403673/posts With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. "Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403673/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:30:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403286/posts With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue. "Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403286/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:20:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401393/posts WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401393/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 07:19:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401372/posts Cap and trade legislation may be one of the biggest issues facing the oil and gas industry according to Dr. Daniel Fine, Associate of Policy, Strategy and Development at New Mexico Tech. He also serves on the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy which is hosting the presentation by former Shell Oil executive, John Hofmeister tonight. “What is the purpose to cap and trade?” asks Fine. “Is the purpose to raise revenue? Is the purpose to lower CO2? Or both?” The bill (Waxman-Markey) coming out of the U.S. House of Representatives claims both purposes without a clear policy declaration. Lovington Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401372/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 05:24:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399731/posts (snip) “Why did I do this? I want my time to count. I want to be seen as someone who can solve a hard problem by working with my colleagues across the aisle. I want to do something that matters. I can’t think of a better use of my time than to work with Democrats and Republicans to break our dependency on foreign oil, to create jobs for our next generation of Americans that will never go to China. And yes, leave behind a cleaner planet.” (snip) The Hill, Washington, DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399731/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398867/posts Warming Scandal: The architect of climate fraud steps down, the creator of the infamous "hockey stick" is investigated, and Australia's parliament defeats cap-and-trade. We love the smell of truth in the morning. As the high priests of what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has called a "religion" prepare their pilgrimage to worship the earth goddess Gaia in Copenhagen, complete with humanity being sacrificed, the heresy of climate truth is finally being heard. The gospel of climate change, once expressed with the messianic fervor of an Elmer Gantry by Al Gore, is now expressed with the stammering incoherence of an Elmer Fudd... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398867/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:42:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395566/posts Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395566/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:09:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394631/posts Climate Change: Major U.S. corporations have set up a Web site calling for a global climate treaty to be signed in Copenhagen. Considering recent evidence of massive climate fraud, perhaps they should reconsider. Many will remember the classic soft drink ad campaign where young people from many nations gather on a mountaintop and sing that they'd like to buy the world a Coke, the theory being that sharing a soda was the key to world peace. That sort of naivete has led peoples and governments around the world to accept at face value the outright fraud perpetrated by the Milli... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394631/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:00:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392335/posts Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference opens in Copenhagen. Its purpose is (or was) clear: to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Under Kyoto, all those developed nations that ratified the treaty (all, in practice, except the US) agreed to cut their carbon emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. The successor treaty, to be agreed at Copenhagen, was intended to secure a cut in global emissions, from the developed and developing world alike (and China has now overtaken even the US), of 50 per cent below... timesonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2392335/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:43:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388197/posts The latest morally monstrous proposal out of the environmentalist cult comes from Lord Smith of Finsbury. He suggests that each British citizen be given a government “carbon allowance.” For any transaction that increases a person’s “carbon footprint” such as using gasoline or taking an airline flight, they would have to “spend” part of their allowance. Once their allowance reaches zero, they would have to pay out of pocket to purchase more credits, assuming that they are available. It is “cap and trade” for the individual. Appallingly anti-humanThe appallingly anti-human nature of this proposal is only surpassed by the appalling ignorance... The Atlas Society - The Center for Objectivism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388197/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:13:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384316/posts Warming: After stifling a report questioning the science behind climate change, the EPA is censoring two of its lawyers for saying the proposed solutions are also problematical. The debate isn't over. It's being suppressed. In the proud tradition of EPA whistle-blower Alan Carlin, whose leaked study blew the lid off the EPA's hyped and flawed science behind climate change, two EPA lawyers, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, have produced a Web video titled "A Huge Mistake." In it they say cap-and-trade in general and the Waxman-Markey bill in particular are the wrong answers anyway. Williams and Zabel do not deny... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384316/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:13:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377902/posts Junk Science: The oracle of climate disaster has a new book out on global warming that should be on the fiction list. He asks us to commit economic suicide while he rakes in millions from his green investments. 'Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis," Al Gore's sequel to his 2006 tome "An Inconvenient Truth," came out Tuesday. Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC (volatile organic compound) ink, it will undoubtedly be a best-seller and on the desk of every attendee at next month's climate change conference in Copenhagen. In a press release announcing the book, the Oscar-... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377902/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370188/posts Detroit — This week’s “The Business of Plugging In” electric vehicle gabfest in Motown was a Who’s Who of powerful Big Auto execs, Big Green honchos, and Big Government officials — but it was the power of the American consumer that had all of them gnashing their teeth. In the conference’s final panel discussion, Kleiner Perkins partner and green zealot Ray Lane worried about how to force a carbon tax on Americans when we have to deal “with the four-year election cycle.” Fellow panelist and Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm (who insists on calling her state tax hikes “investments”) blurted out:... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370188/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366238/posts Politics: Move over, John McCain and Olympia Snowe. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is fast becoming the Democrats' favorite Republican as he partners with John Kerry to push cap-and-trade through the Senate. Earlier this year, eight Republican congressmen made it possible for Waxman-Markey, the 1,400-page job- and economy-killing cap-and-trade legislation, to barely pass the House of Representatives. At the time it seemed dead on arrival in the Senate if it was brought up there this year. Once again, as with their medical plan, the Democrats seek to better the odds by putting a GOP hood ornament on a Democratic clunker.... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366238/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363028/posts UXBRIDGE, CANADA — Lester Brown says his views sometimes appear extreme - because the mainstream media largely doesn't understand the urgency and challenges in avoiding catastrophic climate change. The founder and president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, he is also considered by many to be one of the world's most influential thinkers. "It looks like I'm a radical because the mainstream media aren't reflecting the reality of our situation," Brown says. A farmer from the eastern U.S. state of New Jersey, Brown entered the U.S. Civil Service in the 1960s, becoming an expert on foreign agricultural policy before leaving... newjerseynewsroom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363028/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:09:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351206/posts Climate: As alternate-energy champ Spain's green economy slides into recession, a German professor says if American "climate illiterates" don't follow, the Copenhagen climate conference will fail. And the bad news is? King Canute, the Viking king of England, Norway and Denmark, was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and wisdom. As the story goes, he once stood on the shore and commanded the waves to halt. Rather than exercising his ego, he in fact was giving his followers a lesson in reality — the power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential. In December, the world's... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351206/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:33:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343154/posts PARIS (AFP) – The leaders of France and Germany called Friday for the United Nations to support a carbon tax on imports from countries who fail to back international efforts to fight global warming. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arguing that states that fail to back a deal at a climate summit in Copenhagen in December should be held accountable. "It would be unacceptable for the efforts of the most ambitious countries to be undermined by the carbon emissions released by lack of or insufficient action by other countries,"... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343154/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:33:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327489/posts Senator Kennedy was also a strong, influential advocate for the environment, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy industry reform. Change.Org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327489/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:49:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325122/posts Freepers - Don't forget about the Cap & Trade legislation that passed the House and will go to the Senate. I'm worried that all this Obamacare mania will cloud over the biggest tax increase in world history! Keep the pressure up on your Senators...tell them kindly you will vote them out of office if they vote for it. Thanks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2325122/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:03:51 GMT