Al Gore Invests $6M To Make BILLIONS In Cap And Trade
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Green Energy Corruption - Gone With The Wind
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SCAM ALERT - Al Gore Invests A Few Million To Make BILLIONS From Cap And Trade
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Nov 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Reader Comments (43)
California’s First Carbon Auction Challenged in Lawsuit
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-13/california-s-first-carbon-auction-challenged-in-lawsuit
With California Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program Launch, Experts Debate Economic Side Effects
http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-11/with-california-carbon-cap-and-trade-program-launch-experts-debate-possible-economic-side-effe
http://www.rechargenews.com/energy/wind/article314670.ece
You are mistaken. We expose both sides. Your assumption that we are a GOP site couldn't be more off-base.
Disinvited: IPCC will not be going to the UN COP18 Party in Doha
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/disinvited-ipcc-will-not-be-going-to-the-un-cop18-party-in-doha/
[snip]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not be attending the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, chairman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri has said.
“For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited,” he told Gulf Times in Doha.
http://dailybail.com/home/cnbc-gloomy-marc-faber-is-optimistic-about-this-region.html
Here is part of the answer.. and why GE and UPC renewables are heavily invested in those markets.
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/download/5kmd4xs1jtmr.pdf?expires=1353271707&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=8F8315DB9F24978C12F8B2D60F738CDD
And to top it off.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
Emission markets
For emissions trading where greenhouse gases are regulated, one emissions permit or allowance is considered equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide(CO2) emissions. Other names for emissions permits are carbon credits, Kyoto units, assigned amount units, and Certified Emission Reduction units (CER). These permits or units can be sold privately or in the international market at the prevailing market price. These trade and settle internationally and hence allow allowances to be transferred between countries. Each international transfer is validated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Each transfer of ownership within the European Union is additionally validated by the European Commission.
Trading exchanges have been established to provide a spot market in permits, as well as futures and options market to help discover a market price and maintain liquidity. Carbon prices are normally quoted in Euros per tonne of carbon dioxide or its equivalent (CO2e). Other greenhouse gases can also be traded, but are quoted as standard multiples of carbon dioxide with respect to their global warming potential. These features reduce the quota's financial impact on business, while ensuring that the quotas are met at a national and international level.
Currently there are six exchanges trading in UNFCCC related carbon credits: the Chicago Climate Exchange (until 2010[13]), European Climate Exchange, NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe, PowerNext, Commodity Exchange Bratislava and the European Energy Exchange. NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe listed a contract to trade offsets generated by a CDM carbon project called Certified Emission Reductions. Many companies now engage in emissions abatement, offsetting, and sequestration programs to generate credits that can be sold on one of the exchanges. At least one private electronic market has been established in 2008: CantorCO2e.[14] Carbon credits at Commodity Exchange Bratislava are traded at special platform - Carbon place.[15]
HERE IS THE PUNCH LINE:
Trading in emission permits is one of the fastest-growing segments in financial services in the City of London with a market estimated to be worth about €30 billion in 2007. Louis Redshaw, head of environmental markets at Barclays Capital, predicts that "Carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market, and it could become the world's biggest market overall."[16]
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Stay tuned.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/10/15/poll-half-of-republicans-believe-in-global-warming
Carbon Tax Getting Serious Consideration As CBO Seeks To Address Regressiveness
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/11/17/carbon-tax-getting-serious-consideration-as-cbo-seeks-to-address-regressiveness/
Green War
Defense Dept. runs more green energy projects than Energy Dept., according to congressional report
http://freebeacon.com/green-war/
Report: Global warming stopped 16 years ago
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/13/report-global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago/
Al Gore’s USTREAM viewership is as inflated as his ‘science’
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
What Scandal? CIA Hard At Work Exposing Security Risks of “Climate Phenomena”
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/11/what-scandal-cia-hard-at-work-exposing-security-risks-of-climate-phenomena/
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released... and here is the chart to prove it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html
Obama's Fiscal Cliff Chats Reportedly Extended To Buffett, JPMorgan's Dimon
http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2012/11/19/obamas-fiscal-cliff-chats-reportedly-extended-to-buffett-jpmorgans-dimon/
Global Warming and Climate Change are back on the topic menu. And of course, governments are looking at it as an excuse for a Carbon Tax
http://guardianlv.com/2012/11/global-warming-climate-change-carbon-tax/
o's favorite banker
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/07/president-obamas-favorite-banker.html
Answerable to no one
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-lets-go-over-the-fiscal-cliff/2012/11/19/be05bc72-3251-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
Buffett’s Betrayal
http://blogs.reuters.com/rolfe-winkler/2009/08/04/buffetts-betrayal/
Did you see this?
CIA climate-change unit closes its doors
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/268753-cia-climate-office-closes-its-doors
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/268703-shell-swiss-re-want-unambiguous-price-on-carbon
ZERO...
john
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/268917-sen-vitter-alleges-administration-hiding-carbon-tax-discussions
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Vitter, a top Republican on the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner alleging the administration is hammering out details for a carbon tax proposal.
Vitter questioned Treasury’s denial of a Freedom of Information Act request from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute think tank. The think tank sued Treasury last week for not releasing emails from the agency’s Office of Energy and Environment that contained the word “carbon.”
“A plan to tax carbon would inevitably be a tax on the public, so, by definition, every responsive record would on its face significantly inform the public,” Vitter wrote.
A Treasury official told The Hill that the agency had not received Vitter’s letter.
i.e.- It is an entire casino built on fake shit that will ultimately trickle down to exploit the masses of taxpayers/ citizens for use of service and/ or goods.
I still can't believe the ignorant masses are this blind, by the time it is time to say "I told you so", it will be to late for our children and grandchildren.
Club of Rome Report, 1993 - Global Warming Quotation [Pause video at 1:12, and READ!]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AqEFQcCF1c
They plan this stuff DECADES in advance.
It's Not Just That Global Warming Is Fake. What Matters Is Why This Fakery Is Being Promoted.
http://www.garynorth.com/public/5156.cfm
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/271563-al-gore-to-obama-talk-on-climate-isnt-enough
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Gore spoke at an event with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who discussed his plans to harden the city against major storms in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Gore’s comments don’t make for the first time the former vice president has offered a mix of criticism and praise for Obama.
In a lengthy Rolling Stone magazine essay last year, Gore said Obama “failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.”
NOTE: read the last sentence carefully and then read this...
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/02/is-al-gore-the-latter-day-pardoner/#more-75159
Since Bloomberg was mentioned...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-06/green-fund-may-use-100-billion-a-year-to-encourage-carbon-price.html
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/274429-senior-eu-official-lawmakers-hope-kerry-elevates-climate-at-state-dept
[snip]
From Europe to Capitol Hill, proponents of stronger action to fight climate change are hopeful that Secretary of State nominee Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) will put global warming on the front burner at Foggy Bottom.
Connie Hedegaard, the European Union’s top climate change official, lauded the choice of Kerry as the nation’s top diplomat via Twitter.
“Confident @JohnKerry as state sec is good news for #climate. Cross fingers his dedication will make climate a strategic priority. Congrats,” said Hedegaard, the E.U.’s commissioner for climate action.
Look at the picture hanging on the wall in the background.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/archives/sunnews/straighttalk/2013/01/20130129-083258.html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/02/the-week-in-gore/#more-78668
O and company are also pushing a climate march in DC on the 17th...
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/michaelbrune/2013/01/civil-disobedience.html
http://thehill.com/video/policy-areas/280749-gore-obama-has-to-follow-through-on-climate-change-vow
Obama: 'No doubt' nation needs more tax revenue to lower deficit
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/280757-obama-no-doubt-nation-needs-more-tax-revenue
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/06/canadian-tragedy/
UPDATE:
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Protesters-in-Fairfield-block-train-carrying-oil-to-New-Brunswick.html
Maine protesters arrested for trying to block oil train to Canada
http://www.pressherald.com/news/Protesters-in-Fairfield-block-train-carrying-oil-to-New-Brunswick.html
FAIRFIELD — Police arrested six people Thursday night after a group protesting “fracked oil” tried to block a train that was expected to pass through town by erecting a makeshift wooden scaffold on the tracks.
Authorities arrest a protester from 350 Maine and Earth First after the group blocked the railroad track crossing at Lawrence Avenue in Fairfield on Thursday night during protest of the transport of allegedly fracked oil on railroads. About 9:30 p.m., six protesters were arrested.
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Note: Earth First is known to do things like this and 350 dot org is financed by the rockefeller family fund.
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More regarding earth first.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=886&dat=19900527&id=v1IdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wVwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5589,5760659
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/earth-first_s-vandals-should-be-resisted_2010-07-18.html
http://s2.excoboard.com/The_Porch/79918/602785
Vandals started targeting Plum Creek’s offices after the company unveiled plans last spring to develop thousands of acres around Moosehead Lake. But the attacks reached a new level Monday night.
Vandals damaged three private homes and three office buildings in five Maine communities. They splattered orange paint and spray-painted “scum creek” and other messages on some of the buildings. They also poured a foul-smelling chemical and left parts of a raccoon carcass and animal feces at some targets. And they threw rocks through the windows of the home where Plum Creek’s top Maine official lives with his family.
Maine State Police and the FBI stepped in to coordinate the investigation, and state officials, environmentalists, business leaders and others loudly condemned the actions.
“All they are is terrorists,” said Sen. Paul Davis, R-Sangerville. “We’ve had cases in the past, but nothing like this.”
Davis was a state trooper in 1990 when extremists hammered long metal spikes into trees and logs in an effort to stop logging of an old-growth timber tract near the Big Reed preserve west of Ashland. The spikes made it difficult and dangerous to saw the wood, and forced loggers to scan with metal detectors.
In 1998, protesters spray-painted graffiti on buildings at the Lincoln Pulp and Paper Mill to draw attention to dioxin pollution.
About five years ago, vandals damaged Maine fish and game clubs, and tried to blow one up. There also are periodic reports of damaged logging equipment in northern Maine, said Patrick McGowan, commissioner of the state Department of Conservation.
But, McGowan said, those acts were “nothing as scary as this, where people’s homes were targets.”
No group has claimed responsibility, police said. That’s not unusual, according to Arnold, who works with the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and tracks eco-terrorism around the country.
Groups such as the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front will sometimes take credit, but often do not. They are the leaders of the trend and may well be linked to what’s happening in Maine, he said.
Earth First!, which took credit for spiking the trees 15 years ago and held a protest at Plum Creek offices this summer, is less likely to be involved in the vandalism, Arnold said. The group decided years ago to focus on civil disobedience and leave the criminal activity to ELF, he said.
ELF and ALF are loosely organized. Their actions are led by itinerant activists who travel the country and stop in different states to recruit young sympathizers and then attack a corporation, he said.
Targeting the homes of employees and company lawyers already is commonplace in other parts of the country, especially out West in places like California, Arnold said. And eco-terrorism also has become more dangerous and violent in parts of the country, with buildings burned to protest development and Hummers burned to object to the practices of automakers.
“Arson is pretty much the signature,” he said.
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That said Skin, the derailment was about 50 miles from my service area (the tracks ran run right through it) when I served as Fire Chief. I remember when Earth First was vandalizing logging equipment etc..
Here is an incident regarding vandals who broke in and let 3 locomotives fly...
3 unmanned locomotives crash…vandals set them loose.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19881119&id=OOAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fWMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3353,1967459
The Montreal, Maine & Atlantic train had five locomotive engines and 73 cars filled with light crude oil, and was parked in the village of Nantes – about 7km (four miles) from Lac-Megantic – during an overnight driver shift-change, a company spokesman told Canada’s La Presse newspaper.
The railway’s chairman, Edward Burhardt, quoted by CBC, said an engineer had parked the train and put the brakes on “properly” before going to a local hotel for the night.
The cars filled with fuel somehow became uncoupled, causing them to roll downhill into the town and derail, said the spokesman, Joe McGonigle.
“It seems that the brakes were tight on locomotives,” Mr McGonigle told La Presse. “We found the locomotives higher up, half a mile (800m) away.”
That implies that the train started to run away with the locos attached. The train then split somewhere down the track which should have caused an emergency brake application. It looks as though this probably happened since the locos were found 800 metres from the derailment with the brakes hard on. Once the train split, if the systems were working properly, the brakes would also have come on hard on the wagons. However, with the best will in the world, 73 loaded wagons going down an incline are going to take a long time to stop, even with a full emergency brake application.
For comparison (and from memory!) in the UK an emergency brake application on a 500t passenger train travelling at 125 mph on level track will cause the train to stop in around 800m. This train will have been many times heavier and travelling down hill so it’s no surprise that it was still travelling after 800m. Also, if I’m right, that lends a little more credence to my supposition that any train fire could have been started by overheating brakes.
geoff (July 7, 2013 at 4:30 am) suggests that in a situation like that “one of the rail car brakes were also supposed to be manually set as a safeguard”. That is highly probable but one set of wagon brakes would not hold 73 fully loaded tankers on an incline. That set would simply have overheated sooner.
Incidentally, it looks as though it came to grief at a set of points (switches to you guys in the US/Canada) according to a little diagram on the BBC website. Google seems to confirm that there are points etc. in the area of the derailment.
1. The groups I have mentioned are known for doing things that are unreasonable and dangerous. We have had to deal with them before. The economic and property damage done by them has been very substantial. These are the same people that tried to co-opt the occupy movement and please re- read how far they are willing to go.
2. They have frequent protests at or near the site of the accident. They are financed by large donors to the administration and 350 dot org has a penchant to study Global Warming in war zones i.e., Pakistan etc..
3. Fail Safes. Your friend might be able to explain how train brakes differ from those on a tractor trailer and how the hand brakes work securing a parked train. There are other automatic features that kick in and might explain why the locomotives were found 800 + yards from the scene with brakes fully applied.
4. I personally know (from my fire service days) that the rail route is extremely well maintained and that the crews are top notch.
5. While no official cause has been listed and probably won't be for awhile, you can bet your ass that these groups are being looked at closely, and deservedly so.
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/07/07/news/state/quebec-train-explosion-death-toll-at-3-expected-to-rise/
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Police were investigating the disaster, and would talk to everyone involved.
“Every time the Surete (Quebec police) needs to investigate, we need to rule out any foul play,” spokesman Benoit Richard told reporters. “Right now we cannot say it is a criminal act. We can only say we are looking at it as if it was.”
Sagebrush
Some details:
- the train was heading towards Nantes and from there to the Irving refinery in Saint John, NB
- there were 5 locomotives; 4 were shut down and one was left running in the normal practice to keep the air brakes charged; MM&A says the hand brake was set
- someone unauthorized tampered with the locomotive and turned it off (using inside and outside controls, according to railway, after examination), then the train started rolling
- so 5 non-running locos; all 5 de-railed before fast-moving train reached Lac-Mégantic (this allowed them to be examined for tampering, preserving that part of the crime scene)
- there were 72 or 73 tanker cars (depending on source) and dozens of them blew and burned
- the group that blockaded same rail line in Maine on June 27th promised more ‘direct actions’ in a ‘fearless summer’
- 5 confirmed dead and at least 40 more believed to have perished, in bar, on street, in their beds
- possibly most deadly act of eco-terrorism ever in North America
I am sick and tired of this shit too.
http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2011/10/al-gore-my-junk-science/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/5/inside-the-beltway-al-gore-on-presidential-radar/
Just call it Goretopia: While Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses multiple political challenges, the press continues to spiral off into speculation. Who is the Democratic standard bearer should she decide against running for president?
In the last 24 hours, Al Gore has made the list. Now 66, the former vice president remains stubbornly active in global warming issues; he is, in fact, going to Iowa — but not for campaign reasons. He’s teaching a climate “leadership” workshop in Cedar Rapids. All that aside, there is momentum building here as Mrs. Clinton’s complications increase. More succinct are these headlines: “With Hillary imploding, could Al Gore ride to the rescue?” (HotAir); “As Hillary Clinton wallows in scandal, desperate eyes turn to — Al Gore?” (Examiner.com); Rush Limbaugh even warned his listeners that Mr. Gore could now be “the Democratic savior of 2016.”
Yes, well. Mr. Gore has done many things since he left the White House. He’s been the climate alarmist for better or worse, a now and then media mogul, and lately, a music producer. He became a vegan. He’s been out of office longer than Jeb Bush, though he has remained in the public eye, authoring a new book and making multiple, cause-driven appearances. Yes, the hashtag #RunAlRun has now appeared on Twitter.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/5/inside-the-beltway-al-gore-on-presidential-radar/#ixzz3TkIlGaML
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
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Come on DB, we need you back.
http://freebeacon.com/blog/al-gore-lewinsky-clinton/
PARIS — THE turquoise tranquillity of the Côte d’Azur was rocked a couple of times during the Cannes Lions Festival, the advertising world’s rosé-soaked answer to the Cannes Film Festival.
Al Gore snubbed Monica Lewinsky. Lewinsky, who was giving a speech for Ogilvy & Mather about how she became “patient zero” in the cyberbullying epidemic, was slated to sit in a V.I.P. box with the former vice president, who got an award for being a good brand.
But her invite got yanked.
The snubbing, Dowd writes, was “a reminder that Gore’s prissy attitude” toward the Lewinsky scandal, and his reluctance to feature Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 2000, might have cost him the election.
Dowd also takes issue with the notion that Lewinsky was the first victim of “cyberbullying,” as such.
Monica’s main bullies were not of the cyber variety. The Internet was just getting up and running. Her chief bullies were flesh and blood, a raffish president and feminist first lady who are now vying to be a feminist president and raffish first lad. They’re the ones who tried to paint her as a “narcissistic looney toon,” as Hillary put it to her friend Diane Blair.
Sidney Blumenthal, Hillary’s Doberman and email correspondent, led the sliming of Monica as a fantasist and stalker. Hillary’s friends do not regard Monica as a victim, but a predator. They think she let herself in for trouble when she took up with a married president who was a magnet for right-wing bullies.
Blair’s “looney toon” comments were first reported by the Free Beacon.
Bill Clinton was a featured speaker at the Cannes Liones Festival. It is not known whether the former president had any interaction with Lewinsky during the event. He did, however, manage to squeeze in a taxpayer-financed shopping spree at French luxury retailer Hermès, an outlet that is currently under fire from animal rights groups for torturing adorable creatures in the name of fashion.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-gore-2016-discussions
This was also just reported on ABC news…
Break out the Popcorn!