Al Gore got a “D” in science at Harvard, owns 4 huge energy-gobbling mansions, flies around in carbon-emitting jet planes, gropes hotel masseurs, and became a multimillionaire from his scams. But that hasn’t stopped him from being the guru of the Anthropogenic (manmade) Global Warming/Climate Change (AGW) conspiracy theorists.
The alarming claims of the world’s foremost AGW body — the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — about the Himalayan glaciers all melting by 2035 and the disappearance of 40% of the Amazon rainforest turn out to be bogus. Countless reputable scientists have come out against AGW. But all that hasn’t stopped the One-World Globalists, in their guise of caring “environmentalists”. They are hell-bent on a global wealth-redistribution and dissolving national boundaries and sovereignty.
Their latest is using the World Bank as their mouthpiece to advocate a “global tax” on jet and shipping fuel, which will be “internationally coordinated” but “nationally collected.” Already, the European Union confederation is leading the way with a plan, beginning January 2012, to “levy” tax the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe, regardless of airline. That will, of course, drive up airfare, which in turn will inflate the costs of other goods.
Gerard Wynn reports for Reuters, June 5, 2011:
BONN, Germany, June 5 (Reuters) – The World Bank will suggest a global levy on jet and shipping fuel in recommendations to G20 governments later this year on raising climate finance, a senior official said on Sunday.
Developed countries have already written off chances of agreement on a new binding deal at a U.N. conference in Durban this year, placing a new focus on piecemeal efforts including fund-raising. Binding targets under the Kyoto Protocol cap the greenhouse gas emissions of nearly 40 industrialised countries but expire in 2012 and now look unlikely to be extended in time.
Andrew Steer, World Bank's Special Envoy on Climate Change
The World Bank is focusing on a levy on shipping and jet fuels in a report to G20 finance minister in October, among other efforts to keep climate action on track. “We are looking at carbon emissions-based sources … including bunker (shipping) fuels and aviation fuels, that would be internationally coordinated albeit nationally collected,” said Andrew Steer, World Bank special envoy for climate change.
The Bank estimates the extra cost to help the developing world prepare for more droughts, floods and rising seas at $100 billion annually. Various sources put the extra cost of cutting carbon emissions at $200 billion or more annually.
Steer said … “let’s get on with delivering what is committed,” …referring to various voluntary emissions targets and measures including a target agreed two years ago for the world to raise $100 billion climate aid annually by 2020.
The U.N. talks are stalled on the future of Kyoto, which only caps rich country emissions.… Global shipping and aviation emissions are neither limited nor measured under Kyoto. As a result these sectors are coming under closer scrutiny and the European Union in particular is involved in an escalating spat with the global airline body.
The EU plans a levy on the emissions of most flights that land or depart from Europe from January 2012, regardless of airline, a measure the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Sunday called illegal.
In addition to a levy on transport fuels, the World Bank is investigating raising funds from the sale of emissions permits to countries and companies, as already happens under the EU carbon market, and soft loans from development banks to stimulate private sector cash, said Steer.
~Eowyn
You forgot the family mine in Tennessee. I believe it is a zinc mine and pollutes a nearby river.
Money and power.
The man is lie-driven to control.
May, are you referring to Al Gore ? ?
The global commies intend to use the AGW scam (along with other things) to bring the world’s economy to its knees in an effort to seize power from a beaten down global population.
That has been their plan all along.
-Dave
They just want all of us to become third-world countries. They want us all to cough up our money to redistribute.
Why aren’t they focused on improving technologies to reduce emissions instead of just taxing everything to death….sigh.
For one thing,I would like us to LOSE the word global,uni,world. I am not going into the current administrations New World Order. They can shove it in their ear. We have alot of work to do,to mend the United States of America. They have done enough damage. All of them need to resign,or face the wrath. I am sick of them.
A tax… er, “levy”… paid to the World Bank, of course. (Conflict of interest, methinks.)
The only way we really gonna “fix” the world mayor problems (hunger, pollution, poverty, wars, resources shortage) its with a truly unified nations, when people realize that we all live in a planet that no one can escape and everybody needs everybody and stop the pointless competions and subjugations.
But that NOT gonna happen, rest at ease, the human its too stupid to see what he really needs, the egos and nationalism are too big
Yes, let’s just spread failed communism all over the entire globe.
That way, there will be a handful of the ruling elite, and a planet-load of serfs (that would be us) to slavishly answer their every beck and call, just like there was in the former USSR and other failed commie and totalitarian sh*tholes since the beginning of recorded history.
Poverty and hunger are a result of corrupt government, and not because of the existence of America, as your Marxist instructors probably taught you.
As history has repeatedly shown, the only way to “fix” those problems is for the people to rise up and rebel against those governments, thus doing away with oppression and making it possible to pave their own way.
Freedom works. Slavery doesn’t – it never has, and it never will.
Expanding slavery to a global scale, as you clearly support, will only bring misery and despair to far more people, and with it a second Dark Age will arise not be far behind, and it will last until the next handful of those yearning for true freedom and liberty arises, just as it did in this country 235 ago.
But that might not come about for another thousand years, and if the Jihadists have their way, it may never come around again, period.
What a sh*tty existence you seek to leave for those who come after you.
-Dave.
We are ALL in dire straights,,The Bilderbergers are destroying “OUR BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY”!!!! WE as “AMERICANS” need to destroy the bilderberg,socialist,marxist,communist,idealist, regime….I don`t know if you`ve heard of them or not. Go to prisonplanet.com or infowars.com, check out Alex Jones on YouTube. He is a journalist who knows what`s going on in this world!!!! “AMERICA” is THE ONLY COUNTRY left to take over,,,,, & The bilderbergers will have total control of the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!