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By Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times

To meet the Obama administration's targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency's budget for fiscal 2010.

In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation's transportation sector, which consumes 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.

Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.

In the modeling, it turned out that issuing tax credits could backfire, while taxes on fuel proved beneficial.

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Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com

Massive $45 trillion transfer of wealth to fund creation of "global governance structure"

Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a "green world order" by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists' insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again.

As we warned at the time, the failure of Copenhagen in December did not spell the end of the global warming heist, but merely a roadblock in the UN's agenda to create a world government funded by taxes paid by you on the very substance you exhale - carbon dioxide.

Using the justification of the vehemently debunked hoax that carbon dioxide is a deadly threat to the planet, the UN is already working to resurrect the failed Copenhagen agreement, with a series of new Copenhagen process negotiations set to take place in April, May and June.

Leaked planning documents (PDF) obtained by Fox News lift the lid on the UN's plan to impose global governance by the time of their 2012 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio, which will mark the 20th anniversary since the notorious "Earth Summit" held in the same city.

By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones

Does John Kerry have good reason to be so optimistic about a climate bill? The Washington Post reports that he's getting strong signals that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a bill ASAP, indicating that senators might be closer to a deal on climate and energy than many people around Washington have assumed.

Kerry indicated to reporters Tuesday that an energy package is still atop Reid's agenda for the year. And in a statement to the Post, Kerry said that Reid is "deadly serious about making progress this year on climate and energy reform." Reid met with Kerry on Tuesday after a he huddled with Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to discuss the anticipated measure.

"Senator Reid made it clear to me the other day that he wants a bill and he wants it soon," Kerry said. "I can't give you an exact timeline, but we are working very very diligently with our colleagues and all of the stakeholders to think this through carefully and get this done right, and get it done in a way that can pass the Senate."

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The scientist at the Centre of the Climate Change Row, Professor Phil Jones, of the University of East Anglia faces allegations that he manipulated and suppressed data regarding global temperature changes. He has been pointed the finger at, for obstructing requests for data under the Freedom of Information Act by Douglas Keenan. Professor Jones however defended himself by saying that he covered up only the defected data on temperature rise.

Professor Jones said, "We do need to make more of the data available, I fully accept that. We need to work differently, making more data available and making our assumptions clear".

He also added, "The work we do at the University of East Anglia is only a small part of climate science, there are thousands of climate scientists around the world supporting our results. It makes me quite worried that people are beginning to doubt about the climate warmed up".

Keenan's anxiety is about the lack of information on the location of the weather stations. Charge is that Professor Jones asked a colleague to delete e-mails concerning the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last November.

Professor Jones apologized and said, "Some of the e-mails probably had poorly chosen words and were sent in the heat of the moment. I do regret sending some of them. We've not deleted any e-mails or data here at CRU".

A lot of people came out against Global Warming last week, like Leonardo DiCaprio and a group called "This Is Our Moment" came out with a nifty PSA pushing for Cap and Trade, and oddly enough so did Osama Bin Laden?!

The fact that Leonardo, Obama and now Osama want to pass Cap and Trade just maybe shows us what the ultimate goal of the bill is, as Osama put it "to bring the wheels of the American Economy to a halt".

I wonder if Hollywood will include Osama in their next PSA? If they did it could probably look something like this.

By Erika Bolstad, Anchorage Daily News

Murkowski tries anew to block EPA regulators

The Alaska Republican announced she would seek to keep the EPA from drawing up rules on greenhouse gas emissions from large emitters, such as power plants, refineries and manufacturers. Murkowski did it by filing a "disapproval resolution," a rarely used procedural move that prohibits rules written by executive branch agencies from taking effect.

By Joshua Frank, Truthout.org

It's round one in the 2010 fight against global warming and Minnesota has landed the first punch against coal-fired electricity that crosses its borders. The state is seeking to place a tariff on carbon dioxide turned out by coal plants in North Dakota.

While there has been a lot of huffing and puffing about carbon tariffs in the past from countries that want to stick a tax on items that are produced in polluting industries, Minnesota's move is the first of its kind.

Currently, the law does not mandate a carbon tariff; it only provides the framework to create such a pricing mechanism if a tax on carbon emissions becomes necessary in the future. Minnesota is currently looking at pricing guidelines for a likely utility rate increase in 2012.

Minnesota is hoping to pressure its neighbor to the west to drop coal and embrace renewable energy sources. North Dakota has ample wind energy potential and has even been called the "Saudi Arabia of Wind."

By Darren Samuelsohn, New York Times

An already tough climb to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the Senate just got a bit tougher with Republican Scott Brown's upset victory yesterday in Massachusetts.

Brown's win takes a guaranteed "yes" vote off the board for advocates of setting up a mandatory cap on greenhouse gas emissions. It also could serve as a warning shot for moderate senators nervous about voting for a sweeping new government program headed into their own tough re-election campaigns.

At his victory rally in Boston, Brown warned that his election puts Democrats on notice that they may pay a political price come November if they do not take a second look as they work through the major pieces of President Obama's legislative agenda.

"When there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured there's trouble everywhere and they know it," Brown said.

Climate bill advocates yesterday noted that the Massachusetts special election never ventured into a debate on global warming policy. And given the likely Democratic defections, they added that the issue always required bipartisan outreach to cross the 60-vote threshold, unlike the health care bill that was a central battleground in the campaign to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D).

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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

Obama set to bypass Congress and approve massive transfer of wealth to world government

The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into globalist hands.

As Lord Monckton, Alex Jones and others warned, the notion that the globalists would achieve nothing at Copenhagen has likely been a ruse all along. The elite look set to ram through the lion's share of their agenda, which would include a massive global government tax at a cost of at least $3,000 a year for American families already laboring under a devastating recession, double digit unemployment and a reduction in living standards.

Hillary Clinton arrived yesterday to rally global leaders around a resolution and Barack Obama is set to be portrayed as the savior of the world by rescuing what was pitched all along as a conference doomed to fail.

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com

"Hitler Youth" attempt to crush freedom of speech while chanting cult-like environmental mantras

Groups of agitant green youth corps invaded the stage during Lord Monckton's speech at an Americans for Prosperity event in Copenhagen yesterday, attempting to sabotage the private meeting while chanting cult-like environmental mantras in a shocking example of how the environmentalist elite have activated cadres of young brownshirts to crush the free speech of anyone who dares dissent against the global warming orthodoxy.

A Huffington Post write-up of the incident attempts to characterize Monckton as the villain of the story because he called the teenage brownshirts out for what they were, "crazed Hitler youth."

"The young activists, representing a number of youth action groups including SustainUS, the Sierra Student Coalition, the Cascade Climate Network, and other American youth NGOs, kicked off the protest by holding banners in front of the cameras reading "Climate Disaster Ahead" and "Clean Energy Now."

Associated Press Writer Rohan Sullivan

SYDNEY - Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray.

The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.

The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government's bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.

Rudd had wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue.

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AlGoreLied.com

There were 200 protesters at Gore's Boca Raton appearance a few days ago, and around 500 at this one (in Portland Oregon) i.e. about 400 around the stage at the American's for Prosperity Hot Air Tour event, and at least another 100 walking around on the sidewalks on the perimeter of the park carrying anti-Gore/anti-cap and trade signs. The Greenpeace activists seemed a bit surprised/perturbed that they had vocal opposition in their presence.

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

The King of cap and trade simply airbrushes them in to his new book to create a more scary earth

With the increasingly discredited notion of man-made global warming crashing and burning on a daily basis, climate alarmists are being forced to accelerate their fearmongering to unprecedented levels. With the evidence failing to match up to the doomsday proclamations, Al Gore has turned to PhotoShop in order to make a CO2-choked earth look scary enough to sell his cap and trade scam.

Good article, not sure on this guys tone however, is he happy about this?

By Dana Milbank, Washington Post

The New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon

It arrived at the Capitol, until that moment the seat of American government, in the form of the stooped and bespectacled figure of Ban Ki-moon, who as U.N. secretary general is the de facto leader of what conspiracy theorists call the One World Government. One floor beneath the Senate chamber, Ban, a South Korean national, took his place behind a lectern bearing the Senate seal and spelled out his demands.

"I would certainly expect the Senate to take the necessary action; that's what I have encouraged the senators," he told reporters as a trio of lawmakers stood at his side. He added an admonition for the chamber to deliver "as soon as possible."

The One World Government has specific requirements, Ban added, namely a "legally binding" commitment to "25 to 40 percent greenhouse gas reduction . . . as recommended by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

Uh-oh. A U.N. official standing in the Capitol telling U.S. lawmakers what binding commitments intergovernmental authorities expect from them? Glenn Beck was going to burst a blood vessel.

by William Yeatman, globalwarming.org

Yesterday the Washington Times hosted a briefing, "Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy," at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. The event featured four panels, one each for lobbyists, members of think tanks, Members of Congress, and foreign policy experts. This last panel included Czech President Václav Klaus, and his excellent remarks are below:

Václav Klaus, Washington Briefing: Advancing the Global Debate over Climate Change Policy,

"Many thanks for the invitation and for the courage to organize such an important gathering in the moment when political correctness tells you not to do it.

We are meeting one month before the Climate Change Copenhagen Summit and several weeks before the U.S. Senate hearing regarding the cap-and-trade scheme. For these reasons, today's meeting can't be an academic conference, even though the topic still needs academic discussion. There is no consensus - neither in science, nor in economic analysis or politics.

I left Prague after signing of the Lisbon Treaty and came here only a few minutes ago, which means that I missed most of your conference. I'm sorry for that.

I have already been at a UN Summit in Copenhagen before. It was in 1995 at the so called Social Summit. At that time, the Summit was attended by then US Vice President Al Gore who - so it seems - will be there again this year. I did also attend, as Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, but I don't plan to go there now. I don't see any chance to influence the results or to be listened to.

In 1995, there were huge demonstrations there organized by all kinds of anti-establishment groupings - from socialists and greens to anarchists and anti-globalizationists. I have never seen such clashes between demonstrators and police and army forces before. The difference is that I don't expect any demonstrations in Copenhagen now. The anti-establishment people have in the meantime become insiders and will be sitting in the main hall. This is a shift with far-reaching consequences.

By Robert Schroeder, MarketWatch

Republicans absent from vote; Sen. Baucus only Democratic dissenter

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A bill that would set tough emissions limits on U.S. industries cleared a Senate panel on Thursday morning, following two days of a bill-writing session boycotted by Republicans.

By a vote of 10-1, members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill that aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions and boost investment in alternative energy technologies. Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana lawmaker who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, was the only Democrat to vote against the measure.

Republicans sat out the vote. Members of the GOP were all but absent this week as Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the panel, conducted the committee's "mark up," or bill-writing session. Republicans said they didn't have enough analysis of the bill or time to consider it.

The measure faces scrutiny by five other committees before reaching the Senate floor.

The bill would set up a "cap and trade" system, which sets limits on pollutants and allows utilities and other emitters to trade pollution permits among themselves.

The bill targets a reduction in pollution of 20% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 from 2005 levels. Proponents like Boxer and co-sponsor Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., say the bill will clean the environment and create new jobs, (if you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you) but Republicans say the bill amounts to a huge tax on U.S. industries and families.

A similar measure has already passed in the House.

By Stephen Adams and Louise Gray, Telegraph

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Damian Carrington, guarduan.co.uk

• Senate delay means no bill likely before Copenhagen
• German leader makes historic Congress address

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel delivers remarks to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill,
Washington DC, USA, 03 Nov 2009. Photograph: Rainer Jensen/EPA

International negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming today after Democratic leaders in the US Congress ruled out passing a climate change law before 2010. In the latest obstacle on the road to the UN summit in Copenhagen next month, Senate leaders ordered a five-week pause to review the costs of the legislation.

The delay, which would push a Senate vote on a climate change bill into next year, frustrates a last-minute push by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to get America to commit itself at home to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the Copenhagen meeting. World leaders - and US officials - have repeatedly said US legislation is crucial to a deal on global warming.

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

Startling concession devastates legitimacy of carbon tax, cap and trade agenda

In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.

Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his support for the theory of man-made climate change, but his concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.

"Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions," reports BB News.

Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet.com

CO2 tax agenda front man lining his pockets on the back of global warming fearmongering

The New York Times has lifted the lid on how Al Gore stands to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars if the carbon tax proposals he is pushing come to fruition in the United States, while documenting how he has already lined his pockets on the back of exaggerated fearmongering about global warming.

As is to be expected, the article is largely a whitewash and takes an apologist stance in defense of Gore.

However, the NY Times' John M. Broder does reveal how one of the companies Gore invested in, Silver Spring Networks, recently received a contract worth $560 million dollars from the Energy Department to install "smart meters" in people's homes that record (and critics fear could eventually regulate) energy usage.

By Elmer Beauregard

Minnesotans For Global Warming is now a part of the Minnesota based No Cap And Trade Coalition and if you go and sign the petition an email will bet sent to your Senators and Congressperson no matter where in the country you live. I signed the petition, as did 90,000 others so far, so keep them coming. The next day I received an email back from my Senator Al Franken, with his stance on the issue, so I decided to share with you his letter to me and my letter back to him.

Written by Jeff Davis

At a press conference this morning, a number of business and interest groups announced the formation of a new coalition to oppose cap-and-trade public policy. The No Cap-and-Trade Coalition says it will kick-off its campaign with a new advertisement and website (NoCapAndTrade.com).

The website includes a petition that visitors can sign to express their opposition to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill and the United Nation's proposed climate treaty expected to be debated in Copenhagen this December. The group is also bringing a localized educational program to areas of the state, featuring the new global warming documentary film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong."

A parody of the ACTON CO2 commercial scaring children into believing that they are killing the planet. Sign the petition to stop Cap and Trade. It's For the Children.

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