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Algore Akbar!

By Jed Babbin on 10.10.11 @ 6:08AM

The cultist EU is about to impose cap-and-trade on U.S. airlines. Our president will approve, instead of declaring Europe a no fly zone.

Every Europe-bound U.S. airliner is about to be hijacked. No, not by box cutter-wielding Saudis or squads of Nigerian explosive underwear bombers. This attack is mounted by a bunch of euro-grifters who are about to impose the European Union's "cap and trade" global warming tax on every flight landing in the EU.

You might think that the fact of the euro's downward spiral might focus the EU bureaucracy on saving their own phony baloney jobs before the euro's dissolution. But you'd be wrong, because the global warming crowd is just as much of a cult as the Islamofascisti who try to blow up their shoes and underwear to kill their fellow air passengers. They are just as fanatic, too. They probably mumble "Algore Akbar!" under their breath while smiling politely at our objections.

As the Financial Times has reported many times over the past few months, the EUnuchs "cap and trade" scheme is the largest such in the world and although aviation accounts for only 2-3% of the global carbon dioxide emissions every year, the EU will impose its costs and burdens on every aircraft flying into or out of Europe beginning in January.

Consider, please, the brazenness of the Euro "Algore Akbar" cultists. Even if we accepted the nonsensical theory of man-made global warming, the imposition of the EU cap and trade scheme on U.S. airlines would be impermissible. Perhaps they can impose another tax -- call it what you will, but this is all the cap and trade scheme is -- if they craft it within proper limitations. But limitations are not for the Algore Akbar! cult.

The way the EU plan will be imposed on U.S. airlines will be to grant them "permits" to emit carbon dioxide and such under certain limits each year. Those limits will, of course, be much lower than the estimated emissions to force the airlines to buy more "allocations" from the EU and create a "market" in which to buy and sell them. Of course, that market will be European and subject to European regulations and corruption. (Think about auctioning guns in a Mexican border town or the insurance "cooperatives" set up under Obamacare.)

And even that is not the worst of it. The emissions included in the amount regulated, taxed, and traded will not just be those flowing from engine exhausts in European skies. The regulated/taxed/traded emissions of, for example, a Los Angeles to London flight will be the entire amount from takeoff to landing despite the inconvenient truth that about 99% of the flight occurs over U.S. territory and the Atlantic.

And that's the point. With a brazenness that would make Lady Gaga or even Harry Reid blush, the EU is imposing its power and its ability to tax on actions that occur entirely within the United States and over the free oceans of the world.

This is, to state the obvious, an invasion of U.S. sovereignty and a limitation of our freedom of navigation in the air and at sea. In better times -- say, for example, the two previous centuries -- any nation or group of nations that tried to impose a tax on American shipping sailing U.S. waters or on the high seas would have bestirred a rather different reaction than the non-response from Team Obama. Wars have been fought -- justly -- over less than this.

But all this, we are assured, is a matter of international law. As Judge Bork memorably wrote a few years ago, there's no such thing. International law -- except for the law of war, which was used in earlier times to punish war criminals -- is just international politics written down. Which the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg proved last week when its advocate general issued her preliminary opinion dismissing the grounds for the case brought by two U.S. airlines -- United Continental and American -- to overturn the law.

(India is also fighting the EU airline cap and trade law, and will achieve no better result.)

The advocate general -- formally, an advisor to the court -- issues opinions that aren't binding on the court, but usually presage the court's decisions. The only difference is the court uses paper even more expensively produced with fancier seals.

The ECJ-AG opined that "EU legislation does not infringe the sovereignty of other states or the freedom of the high seas guaranteed under international law, and is compatible with the relevant international agreements."

The State Department issued a harrumph at the ECJ-AG opinion last week, reaching the startling conclusion that the ECJ case isn't likely to resolve this dispute. While Attorney General Holder is busy dodging questions on "Fast and Furious," there's no reaction from the Justice Department or the White House. Why?

You, dear reader, already know the answer. It is because President Obama doesn't object to the Europeans doing indirectly what he can't do directly. Our president picks and chooses the laws he likes, and his ever-willing Attorney General agreeably declines to enforce those that Obama disdains.

Even liberals should be objecting to the EUnuchs' scheme. Their objection, of course, would be that the tax take won't go into the U.S. treasury. How dare someone take the "enhanced revenue" the libs want to control and spend?

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About the Author

Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (57) | Leave a comment

Ken (Old Texican)| 10.10.11 @ 6:45AM

I vote for the no-fly zone, and no Euro flights here.
But,
Just like every other American company, the airlines will wait till we have a grownup in the whitehouse.

Notes From Under The Bridge| 10.10.11 @ 2:03PM

Any country can impose whatever fees or taxes it wants as a condition of using its airports.

Airlines can fly to those airports, or not.

If airlines fly to those airports the cost is higher, so the price of tickets will be higher.

Customers can choose to buy those tickets, or not.

If the price of tickets is too high for the market to bear, then the airline won't sell enough tickets on those flights, which means they'll cancel the flights, which in turn hits the EU economically.

The EU either reduces the oppressive fees in response, or it doesn't and the economic hit hastens the collapse of the EU.

This is called "letting market forces do the work rather than whining for big government power to solve the problem for you."

Give it a try some time.

Mike 3/505| 10.11.11 @ 12:25AM

I agree...with one adder...refuse landing permits for Euro-flagged airlines until the fees go away for US-flagged carriers. European companies get backed by their governments...especially the French. A little turnabout might shake the tree a little.

Regards,

Mike

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.10.11 @ 6:52AM

What's the problem? Just impose the same thing on their Planes. Just make it a LOT HIGHER. Charge them so much, that they can never afford to pay it.
I guess that Europe has nothing better to do, these days. After all, it's not like they are IMPLODING, Financially, or, that, people are RIOTING in the street, or, that, Millions of Muslims are living inside of their Countries, or, that, there are groups of them, plotting Terrorists Attacks, every day. And, it's not like they have a Population Problem, whereby, they are not having enough children to sustain their own Native Populace, and Culture.
No. Everything's fine. So fine, in fact, that they have nothing better to occupy their time. So, WHY NOT, Global Warming?

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 12:14PM

Much wisdom, Tim. The You're a Peons are Revolting, aren't they?

Timothy L. Pennell| 10.11.11 @ 6:25AM

Where ya been?

martin j smith| 10.10.11 @ 7:42AM

I do not fly to Europe and unless one must don't.
By the way the EU supports and have always supported Obama. Money folks European money.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 12:23PM

Yeah, Martin. You know, I flew to California in non-first class or business status for the first time when I was 8. The seats were comfortable, the food was excellent, and my parents arrived in California refreshed. Now I dread EVERYTIME I must fly somewhere.

Intelligent Design| 10.10.11 @ 8:22AM

It will all be passed on to consumers, just like the new costs to banks as a result of Dodd-Frank's price fixing of swipe fees. The natural reaction of consumers is to use less of the product, thereby creating another drag on the economy, worldwide.

John Navratil| 10.10.11 @ 8:28AM

Intelligent Design,

Yup! The TSA discouraged ME years ago. Perhaps this will finish the job.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 12:17PM

Well, I only have a few countries left on my go to list out of the US. Israel, of course, when the kids can appreciate it, and Guatemala to visit the foster families. ( Besides, I like Guatemala.)

Neither are in Europe, which I expect to become part of Dar-es-Islam by 2030-2040. The economic crunches we are seeing today are just the beginning as the European population ages AND contracts.

John Navratil| 10.10.11 @ 8:25AM

The problem with simply ignoring the law is that it becomes the offence. Suddenly people who couldn't give a hoot in hell about carbon taxes become indignant that the big bad U.S. airlines were unilaterally pushing the Europeans around. See what happens when one of their $250 million planes gets arrested in Europe - if it isn't flying, it's costing the airline a bundle to finance.

The airlines are between a rock and a hard place. They cannot absorb the costs and can't afford to lose the business. Ultimately, as Ken points out, they will be forced to wait for an adult in the White House.

Jordan| 10.10.11 @ 8:28AM

There are other courts appart from an obviously biased and far-left "EU court"; what about the WTO, OECD, or some other international economic organization, I mean this really is outrageous, a tax from travelling over International waters, and I certainly agree with Mr. Babbin that non-European airlines should band together on this, perhaps threaten to raise fees on passengers travelling to Europe and reduce fees on passengers coming into their own country; a boon for tourism in India/America and a bust in Europe. Perhaps the US could also play hardball with Dreamliner or whatever that major European airliner is called that receives EU subsidies. If Europe wants a trade war, I say give it to them, it will be a lot less damaging than what could happen with this China currency manipulation bill.

Of course, I dream, as the article states, Obama supports this and wishes he could impliment cap and tax/trade in this country.

Dai Alanye| 10.10.11 @ 9:01AM

"...aviation accounts for only 2-3% of the global carbon dioxide emissions..."

That's 2-3% of human-generated carbon dioxide. And since Mother Nature, through surface and sub-sea volcanic action, wildfires, and decay of vegetable and animal products releases vastly more CO2 than humans, the airline contribution is hardly measurable.

Not that CO2 causes any significant increase in global warming in the first place. What a fiasco.

DaveD| 10.10.11 @ 10:21AM

Global Warming presents the investment opportunity of a lifetime, and I am here to let you in on the ground floor. Call me foolish, but I am willing to sell 99-year leases for shoreline along McMurdo Sound, with an option for another 99 years, for a mere pittance. In a few short years, this land will be preferred destination of the rich and famous as they flee the heat of the northern latitudes.

There will never be another investment opportunity like this one, so act quick, supplies are limited.

Don't miss out on this fabulous chance to become fabulously rich.

Call 1-800-GLOBALONEY. Operators are standing by.

Al Adab| 10.10.11 @ 11:22AM

Oh but you see Dai, it is a matter of Faith and the worship of Gaia (an idolotry after all) that demands adherence to doctrine even in the face of facts.

We remember that the Norse were farming Greenland in 1000AD and that England was warmer in the time of King John, 1215, when wine grapes grew in England than it is today. Nothing must interfer with the ongoing centralization of the world economy. Freedom, what's that?

David W| 10.10.11 @ 9:04AM

Obama can't bow low enough to satisfy the liberal elitists. Nice to know that Obama has our backs.

Mike Rogers| 10.10.11 @ 10:04AM

HAH! Not sure if the UK is playing this game, but it would be wise to opt out and become a hub for (even more) long haul flights, so that the fee is only paid on the short hop to the final destination.
Also Switzerland does not play by these rules, and can be rapidly expanded as a hub, with SwissAir laughing all the way to the bank!
Stick it to the EU guys! Show some spine until we have a president and congress who will call a tariff what it is, and denounce Europe for trying to tax our companies.

Mike Rogers| 10.10.11 @ 10:09AM

More...
Not only should we tax their flights even more heavily, but we should specifically tax all European airlines flying from countries which subscribe to this tax.
Thus there will be very few affordable direct flights to countries why impose the tax, and lots of good cheap connections through Switzerland, (UK?), even Iceland, which is about 1/3 the distance of USA-Europe. Their government and airports will suffer a loss of traffic and revenue, so sorry!

Who Knows?| 10.10.11 @ 10:23AM

“The EU's financial meltdown and the failure of the euro currency have reached the stage of inevitability.”

Really?

You mean it’s as “inevitable” as manmade global warming? Do you truly believe the economic and political “science” is as “settled” as Big Science is claimed to be by Al Gore and his ilk?

We conservatives like to use what Europe has become under majority rule by socialists, to scare us that we’d better be careful or we’ll end up like them. Well, America is ALREADY way too close to the tipping point!

It is essential to keep in mind that Europe has for a long time chosen to pay over half of GDP in taxes, which means the Eunichs are ALREADY in control. Their ongoing efforts to complete the economic union and to force a political one seem to me to be facing an impotent opposition, therefore.

When over half of the people WANT the government to take care of them from cradle to grave, well----maybe Greece is the cutting edge culture, and its example will infect the other countries, so that country by country we’ll see a furthering of the “slothing” down of their economies.

Anyone ever see the movie “Zardoz”, from the early 70’s, starring Sean Connery? What a wonderful sci-fi flick!

Inside a literal bubble, the advanced scientific society has ended “inevitable” death, but if anyone ever has a negative moment of anger, they age a little bit, so the oldest farts are relegated to a most painful end-of-life suffering state, with NO RELEASE in death.

Of course, the vital humans on the outside, such “beasts’ like the Connery character, break in and return order to the universe .

Who Knows? Maybe Europe is simply getting closer to the day when Big Change has to come, but it sure looks to me like we’re years away from that “inevitability”.

PJ| 10.10.11 @ 11:34AM

You & Jeb hit the nail right on its head: the cradle to grave entitlements causing the European financial meltdown.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 12:20PM

PLUS the demographic implosion. Ponzi schemes need increasing amounts of suckers.

Occam's Tool| 10.10.11 @ 12:20PM

Why are the Japanese leading the world in the development of Robot grandchildren toys? Answer that demographically in one paragraph, please, and you will understand what is about to hit Europe in the next 10-20 years.

PJ| 10.10.11 @ 1:25PM

Many in their society have the same attitude about children, just like the west, except the Japanese started earlier. Their attitude is that children are an extension of the self not the perpetuation of the species (other than the self). Why I think this is so & I'm going to make a giant leap into theory is that Europe & the English-speaking world were inoculated w/ingrained, Judeo-Christian beliefs.

Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 4:15PM

The Great Sage,(and former AMSPEC columnist) Mark Steyn, asks the greatest question of the 21st century:
"When the future comes a'knocking, the only question that matters is, who's there?"
Demography is destiny.

Pecos Pete| 10.10.11 @ 10:52AM

Sounds like a tariff war to me. Well, it would be if King O would act to penalize in-bound flights of foreign carriers.

Otherwise, I like the suggestion(s) above that the Swiss ignore the tariff and allow US planes to arrive without paying the EU's cap & trade tariff.

Pete| 10.10.11 @ 10:56AM

Someone should do the calculation. What would a 1% reduction in tourism do to those already crumbling countries?

Pete| 10.10.11 @ 10:58AM

Or perhaps we could tie dollar for dollar our military support to the tax.

Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.11 @ 11:09AM

Great article, Jed. Interesting to note this in a UK paper today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/deb.....esses.html

Paul from SA| 10.10.11 @ 11:44AM

Thanks for the link. It's quite an extensive article. I pulled this one statement of dozens that boggles the mind:

"Then it was announced that Britain, uniquely, should set a minimum price for carbon credits, instead of allowing the market to decide."

Huh? They're taking it to a whole new level. We're actually very lucky Obama and the Dems, when they had total control, did not enact Cap and Trade when they had the chance.

LindaF| 10.10.11 @ 11:09AM

The airlines need to inform the EU that, if they impose the fine, American carriers will refuse to land there, and find another country that wants to have the traffic.

RND | 10.10.11 @ 11:48PM

Linda, I think you are onto something there. Tap into the goodwill of the Hungarians and their desire to get more cash inflow. Ditto for the Slovakians. Work to make the airports of Bratislava and Budapest the new big hubs.

In street language: Dis the Frankfurt and Heathrow hubs.

The Frankfurt airport is the largest employer and biggest source of income in all of central southern Germany.

Make them feel the pain of such daffy cap and tax buffoonery.

They'll change real quick if they lose the Canadian and US planeflow market.

**Also team up with the Asian air carrirers on this. You cannot tell me that the carriers from Korea, Australia, Singapore, and Japan are keen on this new tax -- a tax which will ultimately lower passengers.

PJ| 10.10.11 @ 11:23AM

This disgusting European behavior displayed by a few importantly placed bureaucrats makes me think that the Enlightenment never took place on that continent. It seems to me they spent so many decades fighting off autocratic monarchism & ended up w/autocratic bureaucracies.-----Only difference is in the blood

Al Adab| 10.10.11 @ 11:24AM

This President will support any and all actions which work to centralize control of the economy. Nothing must stand in the way of that goal which is, after all what every "crisis of the day" is about. If it can be exploited to increase government control, it will be. Freedom has no meaning to these people.

Paul from SA| 10.10.11 @ 11:45AM

Liberals will love this setup. We could raise taxes on them, and they could raise taxes on us. What an arrangement!

nohussein| 10.10.11 @ 12:33PM

Socialism is alive and well in the EU, four more of the hussein and it will be here too.

saleboter| 10.10.11 @ 1:04PM

Just make a stop or even change planes in tghe azores or someplace like it and presto a different flight

Fast Johnny| 10.10.11 @ 2:38PM

Well, I guess the airlines will have to raise prices for tickets to those countrys that are waging an eco-terrorist campaign (I use the word terrorist because it is so fashionable now), and lower the prices of tickets to those countrys that do not do the carbon fees. This would see a significant drop in Europes tourism business, which is no small percentage of their GDPs. Furthermore, those countrys that are not charging a carbon fee will see a significant increase in their tourism. Maybe it is time to disconnect from Europe. They love to hate us anyway, so what is the big deal. Maybe it is time to promote domestic tourism more: shorter flights, no customs, same currency, same language (for the most part) and we could use some more dollars changing hands within the US, instead of giving it to those egocentric Euro socialists. But what do I care, it's not like I would plan a vacation to Europe these days, maybe like 10 years ago, but now..forget it. Europe wants to hate us and still have us spend our money there, the heck with them.

Pzkfw| 10.10.11 @ 3:16PM

As a born German, I find he EU a disaster. Germany is the adult in the room, while the toddlers and teens do whatever they want, knowing the adult will save they day when they screw up.

Hopefully the next generation of Germans will finally jetisson the undeserved guilt of WWII and concentrate on maintaining the success of he strongest economy in Europe.

Quartermaster| 10.10.11 @ 5:09PM

Panzer, mein lieber freund, Germany isn't acting adult enough to save the country. Your country has been in decline since Kurt Kiesinger was elected Chancellor in 1969 (right after I left the country). Socialism hasn't been good for Germany. Ever.

Pzkfw| 10.10.11 @ 11:57PM

Good point....I have to agree..I can only hope that Germany (and the U.S.) finally votes in someone with a backbone and both countries move in the right direction.

rendite| 10.10.11 @ 11:57PM

I have to second what is stated above. Germany is on the rails to ruin. Sure, world class companies like BASF, Bayer, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and Adidas make the downfall slower. But it is a sure thing.

Every time in the last 15 months that I see Angela Merkel stepping to the microphone to announce the new "Schnurpaket" (package/plan) to save Greece (What are we on now already, Round VI for saving Greece?), I realize that there is no hope for Germany.

No, Germans are not the adults in the room. They bear every bit of guilt and then some. They were given every opportunity to succeed after being a thoroughly evil nation, a measure of grace never before extended in the history of the world.

Es ist vorbei. Alles war fuer nichts.

Skippy| 10.10.11 @ 4:19PM

Even Germany will not last long against Islam.

rendite| 10.11.11 @ 12:22AM

Yes, tis true, Skippy.

The new color in Germany is green.

No, not as in green jobs or the Greens party.

It is the hue of color one sees in the night sky out one's (yes, often more budget-like) hotel or pension window.

It is the color splashed against the low lying dark gray clouds in the even darker nights as the sun sets (if it ever even came up) by 4:15 p.m. in November days.

This color of green in Germany? What is it, you ask?

It is the glow from the gross neon-like lit minarets that now abound. Yes, they light them all night long.

It is an eerie color.

And the green color is the reminder: We are here. We are taking over. Just as surely as the Rhein River flows to the North Sea, so we will overflow and overtake. And we cannot be stopped.

PattyMor| 10.10.11 @ 4:53PM

they should land people in Monoco or Lichtenstein and tell the Euros to go to hell.

Quartermaster| 10.10.11 @ 5:29PM

This tax should be easily avoided. There are good train connections throughout Europe. Land at a hub like Zurich, or Geneva, or London, that does not charge the tax and hop a train for your final destination. I've been on German trains, and they are first class.

CalMark| 10.10.11 @ 5:36PM

A pity we don't have an American in the White House. Imagine someone trying this under Reagan. It's a pleasant fantasy, which is all we have right now.

Thom| 10.10.11 @ 6:28PM

As one poster noted this is just a “tax” if you land in one of the affected airports and one based on fuel use both inside one taxing authority and another and where not taxing authority exists at all. To make their “tax” scheme work as intended they would have to know exactly what amount of fuel was burned on the “flight”. The Airlines should give them a bill equal to the tax for having to maintain and provide that information. Beyond that any third rate trial lawyer could make the point that “taxing” an activity in another taxing authority and where none exists would be a violation of trade laws, treaties and in effect a tariff. Taxing aircraft using an airport is one thing but collecting a tax on the activities occurring where they have no jurisdiction and are in conflict with another taxing authority is another. Since no aircraft can be run by solar panels or wind mills it is also nothing but a tax since it cannot be avoided and still fly in an aircraft.

There are all sorts of ways the House as our body that writes tax codes can make this a mess for the Euros that force King Obama to either stand with taxing US aircraft flying from this country and look like a fool or against it. He wants to raise revenue thus triple the tax per gallon on Euro planes both coming here and leaving destination to destination.

This would have no life if we didn't have such a weakling in the White House.

Zilch in my Wallet| 10.11.11 @ 12:05AM

Hm, Thom, try this twist:

Venezuela decides to tax everybody who lifts off and ultimately lands in a commercial passenger aircraft. Nay, get the ones doing UPS and DHL parcel deliveries as well. All commerical aircraft are then taxed as they crisscross the skies on their flight plans.

Call it the Global Save the Rainforest Carbon Emssions Tax.

Did the plane start, refuel, or land in Venezuela? No. And that's not the issue.

The plane travelled the world's skies. And, that you see, is the jurisdiction of....all.

It must be taxed.

After all, this money will certainly go towards aiding the environment.

Oh yeah.

Dave| 10.10.11 @ 6:49PM

Yep.

Boycott the EU and let them cry about how much of our money they are no longer getting from tourism.

Then cut off all aid to them. Drop the gifts, the imbalanced trades.

Pertty soon they'll grovel for some American money and we'll be in the position to get fair trade out of them finally.

But while Osama is in charge - no. Punish America for it's economic strength while destroying as much of it as possible. Punish Americans for their pursuit of liberty and prosperity. Punish any so foolish to try to succeed without the government's control, oversight, and permission, or who won't take a handout and live as the new slave class to the elites.

Liberalism is killing America.

Martin Owens| 10.10.11 @ 8:31PM

Let's not leave our response at mere carbon!

Most of the problems of our foreign policy today are directly caused by the incompetence and chicanery of the various European foreign offices in times gone by- especially by dividing native peoples in Africa, Asia, and other places , along lines drawn for the mere convenience of the Imperial moment.

This has led to unlimited pain and suffering as the subjects of these draw-a-line-on-a-map experiments sort themselves out from the wreckage of the White Man abandoning his Burden wholesale.

Most of which, the former colonial masters expected the United States to make right and to pay for, under the rubric of NATO, anti-communism, and so forth

Are they indeed, so keen to invoice us for the wicked carbon we discharge on any airline flight, whatever, so long as it ends in Europe?

Then I say it's time for us to charge them, in the same spirit, for all the blood and treasure we incurred cleaning up their dirty nasty messes that they charged to us as they abandoned their former empires!

RND| 10.11.11 @ 12:14AM

Good idea. Let's start with former Yugoslavia. A nation cobbled together by the Eurocrats post WWI.

Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Also work in Macedonia and Montenegro. Bombing of Belgrad and then rebuilding projects. All the things we have done since '96.

So, let's see, bill for this since 1996....$427 billion.

Bill due: December 1, 2011.

bluecollarbytes| 10.10.11 @ 10:14PM

How is it possible to introduce corruption into going-green schemes? Going-green itself is a corrupt creation, with political hacks assigning dollar values to their assertions. There is no real underlying value to going-green. Money will change hands though, proving nothing but the size of the swindle.

Big Swede| 10.11.11 @ 6:27AM

I can see that your point in this article is based around the common expression, American freedom, it seems to me that most times when this phrase is used as an argument for this or that, the author fails to see the other end of ones actions.

I mean, you can sit in your office and have freedom to do whatever it is you do as much as you'd like, but if you go out shaking your fellow citizens hands afterwards without having washed your hands in between, well, you probably still would call it freedom, your friends would call it catching disease.

There is more to things than meets the eye.

POST American| 10.11.11 @ 9:33AM

---------------------------UH!------------------------------

As the carbon scam is NOW entirely dscredited,
except by the paid off and 'on board' shouldn't
we be aprehending and prosecuting the ikes
of Al Gore and the ROT-childs for
-----world USURY fronting FRAUD?

Marc Jeric| 10.12.11 @ 3:05PM

This global warming conspiracy needs to be put in perspective to be properly understood. This far-left attack by government-paid drones started in the 1970′s with the global cooling scam: we should disarm our nuclear bombers and fill them with soot to be spread over the poles and so prevent those new glaciers from descending south and crushing the New York skyscrapers to dust. When that did not work the same fakers invented the global warming hoax in the 1990′s; we should nationalize all industries and organize a UN-sponsored world socialist government based on “social justice” with the fakers in charge. What with 12 years of substantial cooling the fakers switched to the climate change flimflam in the 2000′s; so whatever happens we should…see above under the global warming hoax. And now we are faced with the cap & trade power grab – but the aim is the same as above. Our socialists, marxists, communists, Hollywood stars, university professors in social and political “sciences”, and environmentalists are all clamoring for action while spurring President Obama ("Tomorrow the oceans will stop rising and the planet will start healing") and his 35 czars/komissars to undertake immediate measures to save the planet – with the same aims as described above.
In the meantime our Mian Stream Media are unanimous in spreading this criminal propaganda daily; the ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, the NY Times, the Washington Post, etc. drive this drivel daily. What is totally ignored are the detailed descriptions of faked data, skewed computer programs, politically revised conclusions by the UN-sponsored far-left clique of biased scientists – all government-paid drones that no private enterprise would hire. Another thing ignored is the “Global Warming Petition” (see Internet) where 31,487 independent US scientists (including 9,029 of them with PhD degrees) dispute decisively the findings of the UN-sponsored panel; also ignored is the “Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change” (see also Internet) where a smaller number of competent world scientists, about 712, including 142 pure climatologists, state the same – i.e., that the man-caused catastrophic global warming is a farce. The books by Christopher Horner, Robert Carter, and AW Montford describing the lies, fakes, phony data, opposite conclusions, redacting by UN political hacks, reverse graphs, etc., have exposed this far-left propaganda in painful detail.
In the case of the above mentioned Petition, several "environmentalists" had submitted phony names with phony credentials in order to sabotage that effort. It took several years of painstaking and expensive effort (we contributed a lot of private money for that) to clean up the list from those saboteurs and verify all academic and professional data of the signatories.
To put this whole conspiracy in terms of numbers, let me say that the projected world-threatening increase of carbon dioxide of 100 ppm (parts per million) by the end of this century would increase the termal absorptivity of the atmosphere by one-eighth of one percent; that is the definition of something totally negligible. On the other hand the sun cycles of cooling and heating are thousands of times more powerful with regard to the carbon dioxide in the air; when the sun is cold the oceans absorb many millions of tons of it; and when the sun heats up the oceans release the carbon dioxide in quantities thousands of times bigger than anything the mankind could produce. To illustrate this point in more accessible terms to somebody who who is not a climatologist or a scientist or an engineer; the argument of catastrophic anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming issued by our panic driven socialist/marxist government-paid hacks is like saying that a burp of a lonely wolf in Alaska will transform Florida into a Sahara-like desert - immediately!
As for that bloviating gasbag Al Gore and for Dr. Mann who inverted cause and effect in his "studies" - they should be brought to the The International Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity.
Marc Jeric (signatory of both documents referenced above; MS, PhD)

Concrete Cowboy| 10.13.11 @ 12:33PM

Even if the airlines pay the tax, does anyone think they will absorb the cost? No. It will be passed on to the consumer. Stupid EU. There are endless places that people can vacation. Besides, once we've seen your old crappy buildings, what else have you got? Wine? We can buy that in all 50 States. EU can go jump in a lake. By the way, how much pollution did the EU receive from the semi-recent eruption in Iceland and what was the ecological ramifications of that? How much are you going to charge Iceland for that? We all saw the news stories about the flight cancellations because of the smog created from the eruption. Still think global warming is man-made? Anyone who does should re-think their position before imposing taxes on other countries' sovereign soil or airspace.