SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Act on green taxes now or the world will pay terrible price
Scotsman.com
"A RAFT of new green taxes on flights, cars and wasteful household appliances is being considered by ministers.
In a leaked letter to the Chancellor, David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, has proposed a package of environmental taxes meant to encourage people to use public transport, buy smaller cars and fly less. These include charges on petrol-guzzling cars, road pricing, a £5 levy on airline travel in Europe and £10 for longer-haul flights, and higher charges for dumping waste in landfills.
The proposals emerged on the eve of the publication of a 700-page report by the economist Sir Nicholas Stern, setting out the devastating economic impact of climate change.
Mr Miliband said the Stern report would show the country could no longer continue to pump carbon into the atmosphere without calculating the costs. 'It has an environmental price and, as we are learning from Sir Nicholas Stern, it has an economic price as well,' he said. 'And for the future, we have to recognise that environmental and economic price of carbon emissions in the way we live and work.'
Sir Nicholas's report will warn that Britain's economy will experience suffering on the scale of the 1930s Depression if the world's developed nations continue to resist the realities of climate change." CONTINUE.
This is smoke and mirrors. And to what end, you ask? Create hysteria through junk science, create job security for climate "scientists" collecting huge dollars through federal funding (your tax dollars "hard at work") and ultimately to derive (witness the above story) at a place and time where we will have a global tax. The UN as our master. Am I crazy? Some may argue so. But I think not.
Scotsman.com
"A RAFT of new green taxes on flights, cars and wasteful household appliances is being considered by ministers.
In a leaked letter to the Chancellor, David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, has proposed a package of environmental taxes meant to encourage people to use public transport, buy smaller cars and fly less. These include charges on petrol-guzzling cars, road pricing, a £5 levy on airline travel in Europe and £10 for longer-haul flights, and higher charges for dumping waste in landfills.
The proposals emerged on the eve of the publication of a 700-page report by the economist Sir Nicholas Stern, setting out the devastating economic impact of climate change.
Mr Miliband said the Stern report would show the country could no longer continue to pump carbon into the atmosphere without calculating the costs. 'It has an environmental price and, as we are learning from Sir Nicholas Stern, it has an economic price as well,' he said. 'And for the future, we have to recognise that environmental and economic price of carbon emissions in the way we live and work.'
Sir Nicholas's report will warn that Britain's economy will experience suffering on the scale of the 1930s Depression if the world's developed nations continue to resist the realities of climate change." CONTINUE.
This is smoke and mirrors. And to what end, you ask? Create hysteria through junk science, create job security for climate "scientists" collecting huge dollars through federal funding (your tax dollars "hard at work") and ultimately to derive (witness the above story) at a place and time where we will have a global tax. The UN as our master. Am I crazy? Some may argue so. But I think not.
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