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"The largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the U.S."

Read here - Obama's budget director stating what Waxman-Markey 'Cap & Trade' really means. Literally, the largest corporate welfare program ever devised.

Why Wealthy Alarmists Should Be Ignored: A Billionaire Calls For $10/Gal Gas So We Will Buy His Electric Cars

Read here and here. Hypocrisy and money-grubbing of rich and famous can truly be stunning.

How Cap & Trade Scam Works - A Video Explaining

Call your Congressional Representative, today.

Waxman-Markey Climate & Economic Impacts: In Living Color, And It's Ugly. Political Suicide By Choice?

Read here and here and here. The Waxman-Markey "benefits" and the costs - click to enlarge.

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Update: Will Waxman-Markey create the added benefit of new renewable energy resources? EPA says 'No.' -- "President Obama says the greenhouse-gas emissions cutting Waxman-Markey bill before Congress will “spark a clean energy transformation.” But a new analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency casts doubt on that claim."

Like Your Energy Rare and Unaffordable? Messieurs Waxman & Markey Are Your Leftist, Democrat Servers

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U.S Chamber of Commerce Is 'YouTube'-ing Its Members About Global Warming Legislation/Taxes

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Obama Rejects Science; Chooses Alarmist Public Relations Effort For Global Warming Tax On Consumers

Read here. Despite the scientific evidence that the globe has been cooling (land, atmosphere and oceans) over the last 10+ years, Obama chooses to publish his first "science" report void of any recent, real-world climate science. Instead, his administration hires a PR firm to embellish the past scaremongering generated exclusively from virtual climate computer models. Unfortunately for real science and America, he has sided with the pseudo science of "virtual lies" and hysterical climate claims in order to get his badly needed revenue-generation engine, 'Cap & Trade,' passed in Congress.

Duke Energy Requests 13% Rate Hike: More Evidence That 'Cap & Trade' Supporters Are Simply Anti-Consumer

Read here. Companies that are avid supporters of 'cap & trade,' such as Duke Energy (see list), do not care about the climate, they just want to assure they can pass 100% of all global warming legislation costs onto the consumer. We've written about this before here, here, here and here.

Radical Green Group Tries To Play Economist; Big-Time Smackdown of Green's Moronic Waxman-Markey Analysis

Read here. With both hands tied behind their backs, Heritage Foundation body slams the NRDC's Alice-in-Wonderland analysis that new regulations and higher energy costs imposed by Waxman-Markey legislation will be oh, so wonderful for the U.S. economy. The Heritage review does beg a question: Who the hell supports a lunatic, fringe environmental group's economic analysis anyways? Good question.

Answer: Large, anti-consumer, multinational corporations that stand to profit from carbon trading and offset schemes, while passing 100% of the new W-M costs to consumers; or, energy companies desperately attempting to bolster their "green" creds.  Which large companies are going to sacrifice their customers? Those handful of large corporations (see chart below) that publicly support the NRDC's wacky economics and fringe environmental positions. (click to enlarge)

While Politicians Focus On CO2-Based Taxes, Real World Problems Like Water Shortages Lack Proper Diligence

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Will Climate Facts & Economic Reality Trump A Potentially Devastating Copenhagen Accord?

Read here. Will politicians come to their senses, look at the actual climate facts and realize "global warming" is a fabricated crisis?

Experts: Going "Green" Will Cost U.S. 3.5 Millions Jobs; Obama's 5 Mil+ Green Jobs Promise Pure Fantasy

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Since Global Warming Is No Longer A "Crisis," Why Not Wait For The Coming Affordable Technology Solutions?

Read here.

The Futility & Stupidity of Government "Green" Schemes - How Come They Don't Work As Advertised?

Read here. They don't work because bureaucrats and politicians are basically clueless? Or, incompetent? Or, venal?

"Why, since Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place”, do some things feel not quite right?"

Read here. Unfortunately, it appears all climate science under Obama is about revenue, politics, power and control, not the actual science, nor facts.

Another Example Of MSM Elites Being Clueless About Climate & Economic Realities

Read here. More evidence of why not to rely on MSM for science or economics.

Will Waxman-Markey Cause 17% Unemployment? Obama's Climate Plan 20%? (See 'The Pain In Spain')

The potential for economic devastation from the Waxman-Markey legislation and/or Obama's type of EPA regulations remains high. What has happened when similar government climate/energy management was implemented in other countries? Call it 'ugly.' Term Limits, anyone? (H/T: www.icecap.us)

Global Warming Payola: Even The NYT Knows The 'Skeptics' Receive A Fraction of Money Flowing To Gore et. al.

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Special Interest Groups & Democrats Work To Make Energy More Expensive & Profitable (For Themselves)

Read here, here,  here and here.

"Democratic lawmakers who spent much of the Bush administration blasting officials for letting energy lobbyists write national policy have turned to a coalition of business and environmental groups to help draft their own sweeping climate bill."

GE, a leading special interest group that bankrolls MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, stands to gain billions from its support of Obama's global warming tax, which is now estimated to reach $2 trillion.

Waxman/Markey Global Warming Tax Legislation Creates 12 New Advisory Boards? Bureaucracy "Stimulus" Bill?

Read here. 'Cap & Trade' legislation is not about saving the planet. Besides $2 trillion in potential revenues, it's about control via bureaucratic mechanisms, like 12 "advisory boards." If 'cap & trade' is a market-oriented solution, as promoted by its authors, why would 12 advisory boards and other committees need to be established?

Obama & Dems Resort To Banana Republic Tactics To Ensure Passage of Consumer Global Warming Tax - $2 Tril

Read here. The Obama administration and the Democrat controlled Congress are desperate to raise tax revenues, and the Cap & Trade global warming tax is the perfect vehicle to do so if they can bribe and/or strong arm enough players to vote with them. This is not about climate change, it's about money, power and control, the lifeblood of political hacks and pork. Term limits, anyone?

Will the potential $2 trillion collected from consumers do anything to control global temperatures? Well, that's the travesty of this entire legislative endeavor since at most, global temperatures might be impacted by 0.15C degree - 15/100's of a single degree by year 2100 by this legislation!

Below is a list of major corporations that are working with Democrats to seek passage of the gigantic global warming tax on consumers:

Require All U.S. States To Achieve Zero CO2: What Would Be Impact On Global Temps? Familiar With 'Nada'?

This third recent analysis confirms what our site reported here, and what the MasterResource blog reported based on their analysis last week. The conclusions: Fundamentally, that if the U.S. could reduce CO2 emissions to zero, the impact on global temperatures of that reduction will be negligible (barely measurable) by years 2050 and 2100. Literally, we can throw trillions of dollars down the CO2-reduction rat hole and gain absolutely nothing in return. This is especially true considering China's incredible growth of CO2 emissions.

Below is this most recent analysis, by U.S. state, even. (For a better view of the below table, download this PDF and find this table on page 22.)

Instead of $650 Bil, Obama's 'Global Warming' Tax Now $2 Trillion! - Budget Office Says Consumers Pay 100%

Read $2 trillion info here and 100% consumers pay here.

Previously, we said $650 billion was too low and more likely to be $3 trillion. We are now estimating that within 12 months, the expected cost of Obama's climate plans will climb to $5 trillion, $43,000 per U.S. household.

Democrat's MSM Fail To Report The Zero Impact of Waxman-Markey On Global Temps: Incompetence or Bias?

Not reported by mainstream press: Using robust methodology, expert analysis finds Waxman-Markey proposed 'cap & trade' legislation will reduce global temperatures by 0.05C (five one-hundredths of 1 degree centigrade).

Previously, we did a primitive, back-of-the-envelope calculation of U.S. going to zero CO2 emissions, immediately, and found global temperatures would be reduced by all of 0.15C (fifteen one-hundredths of 1 degree centigrade) over next 100 years.

Which Big Corporations Are Working With Democrats To Pass Anti-Consumer, Gigantic Global Warming Tax?

Multiple large corporations are now working with Obama and Democrats to pass the infamous 'cap & trade' legislation, which will result in the the consumer and small businesses absorbing the trillions of dollars of direct/indirect costs it will generate. These big corporations are working behind the scenes for their own benefit, without regard to their customers or suppliers.

Any consumer or small company that does not want more of their hard-earned dollars going to "skyrocketing" energy costs, and gigantic CO2 taxes, passed down from the large corporations, should avoid the services and products from these corporations, as much as possible. Below the fold is a list of corporations to avoid when at all possible:

Besides Desiring Huge CO2 Global Warming Tax Revenues, Is Obama's Plan To Strangle U.S. Energy Supply?

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Why Isn't Obama Pushing The CO2 'Air Capture' Technology? Greens & Democrats Want Global Warming CO2 Tax

Read here and here.

Myths of CO2 Warming Being Proven False - Will That Kill Democrats & Obama's Gigantic Global Warming Tax?

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Do Countries That Signed Kyoto Cheat On Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Well, Canada Did

Read here. Attempting to control CO2 emissions will lead to corruption and enrichment of a few, across countries and industries.

Obama's Cap & Trade Taxpayer Cost Estimate Will Be 5 Times Higher Than Stated? Potentially $3 Trillion Plus?

Obama's proposed CO2 'Cap & Trade' U.S. program is estimated by his administration to be a total cost of $650 billion for consumers ("taxpayers") over the first 8 years. Based on previous Federal government incompetence at estimating total costs of new endeavors (see below list), one should multiply any Obama or Congressional estimate by at least 5x to be safe. So, what does that mean? The cost of Obama's 'Cap & Trade' consumer tax over next 8 years will probably exceed $3.25 trillion, or some $28,000+ per U.S. household. Here are some previous horrendously wrong cost estimates that are eye-opening, to say the least:

2009 (January) CBO estimated that the bailout TARP plan would cost taxpayers $189 billion; instead, several weeks later the estimated cost was raised to $356 billion, and will eventually be much more by end of 2009

1965 CBO estimated that Medicare Pt. A cost would be $9 billion by 1990; instead the cost was $66 billion in 1990

1965 CBO estimated that all Medicare cost would be $12 billion by 1990; instead the cost was $107 billion in 1990

1987 CBO estimated that subsidy for Medicade special hospitals would be $100 million by 1992; instead the cost was $11 billion in 1992

1988 CBO estimated that Medicade homecare cost would be $4 billion by 1983; instead the cost was $10 billion in 1983

2003 White House estimate of Iraq War cost would be $60 billion; instead the cost so far has exceeded $600 billion

As the above information reveals (and reminds us), the Federal government is absolutely terrible at cost estimates, especially for new initiatives; and, the politicians always 'way' low ball the original cost estimate.

To add to the misery of a huge Cap & Trade consumer tax looming for U.S. citizens, it should be remembered that this gigantic consumer-borne cost is expected to lower global temperatures, at most, by a mere 0.1 degree C (1/10th of a single degree) by the end of the century. That's it, 0.1 degree at a cost of $28,000+ from each household. Now do you understand? This is radical environmentalism, enhanced with the leftist Obanomics, and doing political business the same old way - sticking it to the consumer.

Sources: Here, here, & here.

Is Gore The 'Bernie Madoff' of Climate Change Investment Portfolios? Will The Gore Investment Bubble Pop?

Since many of Gore's claims about global warming have been proven to be nothing more than absurd hype, and in some cases, outright scientifically wrong, it's extremely troubling that venerable investment firms would be gathering monies from individuals and institutions based on Gore's global warming misrepresentations. These investment firms have the fiduciary responsibility to invest in opportunities of prudent nature, certainly not those based on celebrity hucksterism, climate science fiction and scaremongering. Is it investment fraud if one is attracting investor monies by hyping worst case scenarios that appear to create a future investment opportunity?

When these investment monies are lost for their clients, it will be an ugly day in court if the investment firms' defense is..."well, Al Gore said it would happen." That defense ain't going to work when a UK High Court judge has already found that Gore's claims are "politically partisan and thus not an impartial scientific analysis of climate change."

For potential investors, beware! Do you really want your money in the hands of a Bernie Madoff-type of money manager? Before investing in one of these global warming, Gore influenced money-making "opportunities," you might want to ask these questions.

U.S. CO2 Reduction Is A Worthless & Futile Gesture Even If You Believe In AGW - Why?

Read here and here; further data-crunching info here.

If U.S. Went To Zero CO2 Emissions, What Would Be Impact On Global Temps? What Would Be Cost?

As multiple politicians, celebrities and reporters believe that a reduction of U.S. CO2 emissions would have some "large" impact on global temperatures, and would only be a trivial cost to Americans, we decided to do some simple calculations to reveal what those impacts would be. Using known CO2 science and emission levels, the simple calculations show that a zero U.S. CO2 emissions would barely put a dent in global temperatures, yet it would be stupendously expensive for all Americans to create that tiny dent. And, even if we sacrificed our 'treasure' and lifestyle for a grand, global, politically correct image, CO2 emissions growth from China and India will reverse that tiny dent in a mere 6+ years.

Why Non-Rich Countries Want The U.S. To Sign Onto UN CO2 Restrictions - Just Follow The Money

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Do You Think Al Gore, Obama, and The Environmentalists Want To Solve Climate Change? You're Being Naïve

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Trial Lawyers In "Global Warming" Nirvana: Small to Large Businesses In Lawsuit Gunsights For CO2 Emissions

Read here.

Western Governors Consider 15% CO2 Decrease That Reduce's Temps By 0.0001 Degree C: $35 Billion Cost!

Download & read PDF here.

"Kyoto Protocol Has Been A Near Total Failure, With Emissions Levels Continuing To Rise Substantially"

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Proposed N. Carolina CO2 Reduction Laws Would Cause Loss Of 32,000 Jobs, Lower Income By $2 Billion

Read here.

Remember Last Year, When Journalist-Hype And Big Gov't Said Biofuels Is Solution To Warming? Wrong Again!

Read here.

Pelosi's & Obama's Cap and Trade Plan: This Gov't-Led Fiasco Hasn't Worked In Europe (EU), Why Would It Here?

Read here.

What Would Federal Climate Regulation Controls Cost At State/Local Levels? Here's Example

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From The Originator Of Gaia Hypothesis: "Carbon Offsetting? I Wouldn't Dream Of It. It's Just A Joke"

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'Cap & Trade' Program Would Cost Each American Family At Least $10,800 - And, Just Like In EU, It Won't Work

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As Obama Cranks Up White House Thermostat, Pelosi Let's Slip The Real Reason For Global Warming Regulations: $$$$!!!!

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Gore's Propaganda@School: Time To Take Back Our School's From Elites Who Manipulate Kids For Self-Enrichment?

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The Carbon-Offset Con Game: For Anyone Buying These Offsets, Helloooooo...You're Not Helping The Climate At All, Sorry

Read here.

Why Should The Climate-Clowns Be Held In Disdain? A True Scientist (Nobel Laureate) Pulls No Punches

View video here (go to 20 minute mark and watch).

California's "Warming" Model Advocates On Other Modeling: "Economic Modeling Is Not An Exact Science" Kettle, Meet Pot

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Would You Reduce U.S. Growth By Trillions To Cut Global Temps By Only 1/10 Of 1 Degree? Obama & Senators Might Do That

Read here.