The U.S. Department of Agriculture has named over 1,000 counties in 26 states as disaster areas -- the largest declaration in history -- as a result of the recent drought, wildfires and other extreme weather events threatening agriculture and many other industries across the entire country. As scientists have told us, this is what the climate crisis looks like.
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The Earth's climate is now clearly out of balance and is warming. Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons—are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century…
In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change—an additional global mean warming of 1°C above the last decade—is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it. Warming greater than 2°C above 19th century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity, and—if sustained over centuries—melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea level of several meters. If this 2°C warming is to be avoided, then our net annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century.
http://www.agu.org/sci_pol/positions/climate_change2008.shtml
Al Gore (whom I once voted for) advocates a false solution that makes him wealthy, while pushing the poorest people, with the smallest foot prints off the cliff of subsistence. Carbon tax applied to the cost of things, food, water, utilities, fuel, medicine with over 3.5 billion people living on less, LESS than $2/day, we can expect mass suffering, and starvation.
While robbing from the poor, and servicing the rich, and more centralized banking, Cap and Trade allows the biggest, wealthiest polluters to go on polluting, by buying their way out of it with carbon speculation swaps. This is called the “selling of indulgences”.
Carbon tax is indeed a tax added to the price of EVERYTING, and we are being taxed by the United Nations, a non-democratic governance, that appoints its members out of corporate sponsored Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s). That’s institutionalized revolving door politics, the very definition of fascism. This is taxation without representation.
Back before he became U.S. President Obama served on the board of directors for the Joyce Foundation when it gave CCX nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”
Essentially Obama helped fund the profiteers of the carbon taxation program that he then steered it through Congress.
Those who used the average amount of carbon would neither gain nor lose. Those who used a lot would pay more in taxes than they get back. Those who used less than average would get more money back than they paid in taxes.
This would be extremely simple to implement and arguably quite fair (we would simply be reimbursing people for damage done to the environment they use). But it would penalize the rich and reward the poor, so CONSERVATIVES pushed the notion of cap-and-trade that addresses the same problem in a much less direct and efficient way, but puts less of a hit on the rich.
Any scheme of taxation that does not exempt the essentials of survival must NOT be implemented. The UN’s own report concedes that their scheme would place a disproportionate burden on the poor. That’s putting it lightly.
It’s not about paying taxes, and getting returns. It’s a scheme that simply adds cost to the price of things, unlike sales tax that is honestly labeled, and exempts food and water. This scheme would be easy to implement, but in no way fair. Where does this back end reward to the poor manifest? Will they be able to feed their families while they wait? I’m still waiting for my stimulus package check.
Finally, the program is to be implemented by unaccountable governance WITHOUT checks and balances. If you read their treaties they don’t propose REAL solutions, their agenda has only dealt with 1) Taxation 2)Enforcement Powers 3)Private ownership of forests, savanna’s, and water bodies in the name of carbon sinks.
My slim hope for the future resides in the fact that the millennial generation never talks in the antiquated paradigm of left wing, right wing. They know it’s us (99%) verses them (1%). Globalism is the new word for imperialism, and the UN serves the 1% percent by design, notice their calling for a 90% population reduction. The 99% minus 90%, Carbon
We have so much water that it is too bad we can't share with the mid west.
We use this classification way too much now, the only reason it's done is so that localities can get some free money . . .
We had a tornado here in my city and it wiped out about 10-12 homes . . . we were a disaster area.
frankly, I find it completely retarded,
to say that you live on a planet in a chaotic universe,
a planet,
which you also say was,
subject to very catastrophic chaotic events,
in both religion and science,
and to say that it is changing is like some bizarre new discovery,
and that human is doing it?
There is no doubt we have an effect on our environment but it has way more to do with plant life and natural forces than anything else,
this planet will change with or without you,
you seem to have no concept of time,
nor have the capacity to understand it.
Mississippi and West Virginia and some of the dust bowl states are the only red states that managed to miss the major effects of climate change. Maybe the dust bowl already affected the minds of residents of those states during the original man-made environmental disaster.
then you owe them the food you ate,
maybe you shouldn't get any now?