Cap & Trade will require global governance: Al Gore

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Cap & Trade will require global governance: Al Gore
and on this he is exactly correct. We've got a better idea.

July 11, 2009
We have previously pointed out that in order for "Cap and Trade" to work it will require most of the other nations of the world to also reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. And we have also previously pointed out that not only in his recent G8 trip to Europe that President Obama failed to secure a commitment from other major developing nations but as we have explained it simply is not going to happen that the necessary prerequisite number of nations will ever agree to impose restraints on themselves that are necessary to achieve enough emission reductions to stop the supposed "global warming."

Cap & Trade will NOT reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. There is no way it can. Common sense tells us not everyone is going to play ball by the same rules. Until it can be shown that it can be made to work we should not tax our economy to death.

We have suggested here that the real motive of those pushing Cap and Trade is to feather their own nests, including the Head Cheerleader Al Gore, along with all these "scientists" who have a vested interest in "more research is needed."

Gore is making a killing flying around the globe in private jets with huge carbon footprints making speeches at $100K a clip. You can listen to one such speech here in which Gore lets the cat out of the bag. The real goal, or result, of all this Cap and Trade stuff is to achieve global governance.

And of course Mr. Gore is quite correct in that observation, as we have said. It will require a global organization larger than anything now in existence, including the United Nations, to police the global "reduction" of emissions if such a scheme is passed. And if there is no policing there will be no reduction.

Greenhouse Gases are just that...gases. They know no borders. Carbon dixoide released in Mexico ends up in America. The same with that released in Brazil. It ends up in Africa or Antarctica. And that released in India and China ends up circling the globe. So even if these countries were to agree to reduce emissions the temptation to cheat will be so great that some type monitoring and enforcement system will have to be put in place. And then there will have to be some kind of enforcement mechanism. And that brings up pictures we simply do not even want to consider.

Why pay a huge cost to buy something that will not work? Delay Cap & Trade in the U. S. Senate. Put it on hold until it can be shown that it will work.

So we have a proposal for President Obama. Here it is: Delay Cap & Trade in the U. S. Senate. Put it on hold until you can show that you can make it actually work. Instead, develop a model for how you can get 150 or so nations to agree on something and then see to it that all of them adhere to what they have agreed to. We would suggest you use, as the operative of your model, nuclear proliferation. Stop the spread of nuclear weapons and then use that model to stop global warming. The problems are the same... how to get everyone to play ball together, using the same rules. So if you can keep Iran from getting the bomb you will be able to get them to hold their carbon emissions to the level that other nations tell them they can emit.

We'll check back with you in a few years and see how well you're doing. If you're doing well, we'll support Cap & Trade.

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