Liberty and Tyranny-A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin

Author:Mark R. Levin
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-03-19T07:00:00+00:00

But the Enviro-Statist is not deterred. Dr. James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and an advisor to Al Gore, and whose early work was used to justify global cooling but who is now the most influential and bombastic high priest of the global warming movement, told Congress in 2008 that “CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.”68 Hansen, a master at spinning policy makers and the media, has been effectively challenged by certain of his critics. In 2007, he was forced to revise his figures that showed the hottest decade of the twentieth century was not the 1990s but the 1930s and correct a more recent blunder that showed October 2008 as the hottest on record (scores of temperatures were not based on October readings but on September’s numbers, which had been carried over).69

But the stampede continues. And the solution is the innocuous-sounding “cap and trade” proposal. For the Conservative, this is the most oppressive economic scheme yet to be advanced by the Statist. The way it would work is that the federal government would dictate greenhouse gas emission levels, with emphasis on carbon dioxide, from fossil fuel use. In a relatively short period of time, the government would mandate the steady reduction of the levels of emissions overall and for particular industries that would be legally permitted. Companies that emit less carbon dioxide (and other gases) than legally allowed could sell the excess allotments to companies that emit more. And the companies that emit more than their allotted amount would face stiff penalties and fines.

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