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All these years we’ve been told that pursuit of a cap-and-trade plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is necessary to address a global warming problem. But the climate part is often ignored in the regulation-loving Left’s arguments, and it’s seemed they want to reduce gases like carbon dioxide without an ultimate purpose (other than to kill the fossil fuel industries they hate).
Now the truth has been revealed, as state legislators debate a bill that would remove New Hampshire from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade agreement among the Northeastern states. According to an Associated Press report about a committee hearing over the bill:
State Rep. Andrew Manuse, a Derry Republican and bill co-sponsor, argued the law is hurting, not helping New Hampshire’s economy….Any benefit from New Hampshire’s emissions reductions is nullified by growing emissions in other countries, he said.
State Air Resources Director Robert Scott testified that the program was never intended to solve the climate change problem. When the program was established, the Legislature intended for it to be revisited to see if it was working, he said.
So there you have it: Even a top state air quality regulator admits that GHG programs do not exist to address global warming. If they do not solve a problem, then there is no reason to have them.
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Terri Jackson| 2.11.11 @ 10:20AM
Before the Cancun Climate conference Ottmar Edenhoffer a senior official in the IPCC said "one must say clearly that we redistribute defacto the worlds wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy any more" there you have it! the redistribution of wealth, a central doctrine of communism!
Consertive View| 2.12.11 @ 7:00AM
I argued with a young man the other day over global warming. He insisted that the world was going to die if we didn't stop carbon, clean the oceans, put an end to dihydrous oxide, etc. etc. etc. He quoted ice core samples, the falling of trees, the heat bubble in the artic. (heat bubble in the artic???) and so on. As we debated something became clear to me. The young man was a convert to a new cult, the cult of the dieing earth. The more I probed the more I realized why.
His father was a radical in the 60's. His father stood up against the "pigs", his mother burned her bra, all for freedom and an end to the war, and civil rights. What does he have? What does he have to show that he cares as much about his world as did his parents? Absolutely nothing. The hole in the ozone went bye bye. The war in Iraq is pretty much over. What's left but Polar Bears? His right of passage into the new world, his sense of self worth, is dependent on showing that the old world is harmful and he has risen up to fight the old world order, just like Dad.
You can't argue against such types. No amount of reason can convince them that they haven't a clue. Mention the Midieval warming period and they hit you over the head with a hockey stick.
Of course all the climate conferences have nothing to do with climate change/global warming/climate disruption. It is all a hoax, like Piltdown man. But don't expect the true believers to believe you when you tell them that. Of course it is all about the redistribution of wealth, and with that redistribution of wealth the redistribution of power It has nothing to do with carbon dioxide. So this young man is fighting against the old world order of democracy and capitalism while being led to believe Global Warming must be stopped, not realizing that what he is fighting for is an end to everything that his Dad and Mom fought so hard to gain. It's sad really, in its' own way. So very sad.
David Anderson| 2.12.11 @ 9:03AM
I was at Thursday's legislative hearing on HB 519 in Concord and can add some much needed perspective to what Paul Chesser has written here. What Mr. Scott was referring to is the fact that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was never meant to solve climate change ON ITS OWN. Greenhouse gas emissions come from all corners of the globe. The ten states that participate in RGGI are doing their part to address this critical problem. They can't do it alone.
mememine69 | 2.12.11 @ 9:45AM
Continued support of the CO2 mistake is dividing environmental efforts and hurting progressive reforms and has grouped scientists with politicians. And meanwhile, the UN had allowed carbon trading to trump 3rd world fresh water relief, starvation rescue and 3rd world education for just over 24 years of climate control instead of needed population control.