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Same with McCain:
http://www.gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm
-faz
"Global warming is real, there's no denying it, but lefties exaggerate, scare, and talk like they truly know what's going to happen, and that just isn't so."
I agree with this statement to some degree. I think that the Earth has been warming for a long time, however, I do not think that CO2 is the driver for that warming.
Have a look at this presentation on Youtube from an Australian scientist that gives a very compelling argument for the hypothesis that CO2 drives temperature.
Part 1:
No worries. I just hate seeing all this one sided bias regarding man made global warming. Drives me crazy. The hubris of the anthropogenic global warming believers is amazing if they think that we can intelligently alter the climate to meet what we consider "ideal."
The thing is...how do we know that the earth would not be better off with the climate 2 degrees warmer? Is there any sanity to the notion that even if we wanted to keep the earth's temperature at its current level, that insignificant humans could actually make that happen?
What's next? Should we begin to control the tides? I really hate it when high tide comes in and wipes out the castles I build in the sand when I go to the beach.
-faz
Global cooling may not be far off.
The Sun Also Sets
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a "stethoscope for the sun." But he and his colleagues need better equipment.
In Canada, where radio-telescopic monitoring of the sun has been conducted since the end of World War II, a new instrument, the next-generation solar flux monitor, could measure the sun's emissions more rapidly and accurately.
As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.
For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.
R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."
Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."
Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth."
"Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming "community" — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by "dramatic changes" in temperatures.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion.
---->Find the link here:http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3460191.html
"The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100," according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.
The study says that "try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures."
The study concludes that if you shut down all the world's power plants and factories, "there would not be much effect on temperatures."
But if the sun shuts down, we've got a problem. It is the sun, not the Earth, that's hanging in the balance.
-faz
An excellent proof (parody) that global warming is man made...pretty good laugh from this!
http://www.ultimateglobalwarmingchallenge.com/entries/A_Simple_Proof.pdf
-faz
Some good articles:
Sun's direct role in global warming may be underestimated, Duke physicists report
http://www.physorg.com/news6892.html
Correlation Between Temperatures and CO2
http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen/correlaEng.html
The Varying Sun & Climate Change
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/files/documents/The%20Varying%20Sun%20&%20Climate%20Change%20Soon%20&%20Baliunas.pdf
Sun to Blame for Global Warming
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA203.html
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Thanks for the link. I have been seeing advertisements for this show for about 2 weeks. I am interested to see the take on it, however, I definitely question the bias that you will see in the show.
National Geographic has been renowned for taking the side of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming for a couple of years now. I wonder if they are going to do a show about what would happen if the Earth cooled 6 degrees?
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.
Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.
Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a "stethoscope for the sun." But he and his colleagues need better equipment.
In Canada, where radio-telescopic monitoring of the sun has been conducted since the end of World War II, a new instrument, the next-generation solar flux monitor, could measure the sun's emissions more rapidly and accurately.
As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.
For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.
R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."
Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."
Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth."
"Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming "community" — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by "dramatic changes" in temperatures.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion.
---->Find the link here:http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3460191.html
"The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100," according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz.
The study says that "try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures."
The study concludes that if you shut down all the world's power plants and factories, "there would not be much effect on temperatures."
But if the sun shuts down, we've got a problem. It is the sun, not the Earth, that's hanging in the balance.
-faz
True North Energy Announces Beaufort Sea Project Update
Friday February 8, 4:33 pm ET
HOUSTON, TEXAS--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 8, 2008 -- True North Energy Corporation (OTC BB:TNEN.OB - News), an independent oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to provide an update on its participation in a Beaufort Sea project.
Effective January 23, 2008 we entered into an Acreage Contribution Contract the ("Contract") with Savant Alaska LLC ("Savant") pursuant to which we have agreed to conditionally assign to Savant part of our leasehold interest that was to be the subject of the Pooling Agreement between True North Energy and Savant (the "Lease Acreage") in exchange for Savant's drilling a test well within the Kupcake Prospect and allowing us to potentially earn a working interest of up to 2% in the future production unit if the test well is successful. The November 6, 2007 Pooling Agreement between True North Energy and Savant was terminated and we are continuing to move forward under the terms and conditions of the Acreage Contribution Contract.
The entire cost, expense, risk of drilling, production testing, plugging and abandoning the test well will be borne by Savant and its partners. If oil and gas is discovered in commercial quantities, all the parties will enter into an Operating Agreement governing the rights and obligations of the parties to the Contract in all Lease Acreage which Savant will earn from us effective from the date on which the drilling rig is released from the test well.
Savant is the operator of the project and has entered into a drilling contract with Kuukpik Drilling LLC for Kuukpik Rig No. 5. They are currently in the process of building an ice road and ice island and mobilizing the drilling rig. The drilling operation is scheduled to commence in early March 2008. The test well will be located in Section 29, T11N, R18E and is planned to be drilled to a depth of 11,000 feet in order to test the Kemik formation.
More detailed information concerning the termination of the Pooling Agreement and the terms of the Acreage Contribution Contract is available in the True North Energy Corporation Registration Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 2008.
The Kupcake prospect is located adjacent to the British Petroleum ("BP") Liberty Field, which has been estimated by BP to contain up to 130 million barrels recoverable reserves. True North Energy has 10,000 leasehold acres adjacent to the Kupcake prospect and is currently in the process of evaluating the acquisition of 3D seismic that covers approximately one third of the remaining True North Energy acreage.
"We are pleased to be able to continue to participate in this exciting project through this win-win arrangement. The Acreage Contribution Agreement provides us with access to the well data and a potential upside of the Kupcake prospect at no cost. This will allow us to focus our resources on our operated projects," stated John Folnovic, President and CEO of True North Energy Corp.
Good volume all of a sudden at the ask! one left at .65
I am in agreement. I don't think that KN is back on the table and that the full resources will be going into reducing the cost of producing gold at the Perseverance mines in Oz. Unless the First Nations complete give in, I don't see it happening at all. Heck, even if First Nations give in, I don't think they have the cash to make a run at it. What a great property to have in the back pocket if the gold price stays above $800 USD.
-faz
Yep,
I am taking a break from all the political BS for a while. All we are going to hear now is RA RA RA let's go McCain, he is the only one who can beat Hilary.
All I got to say is let them try to take our guns, then you will see what a real revolution is all about.
Maybe now is a good time to entertain going overseas to work.
-faz
It was an excellent speech. He will be missed.
-faz
Bummer...we now have two democrats running for President. So much for a two party system.
I will not be voting for McCain as I would rather see the country to go to hell on a Democratic watch rather than on a Democrat masquerading as a Republican.
What a joke presidential politics are.
Better start moving your money out of investments since Hilary will be raising taxes ASAP.
-faz
Romney camp accuses McCain, Huckabee of shady West Virginia deal
By Sam Youngman
Posted: 02/05/08 03:35 PM [ET]
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/romney-camp-accuses-mccain-huckabee-of-shady-w.-va.-deal-2008-02-05.html
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign accused Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee of “a backroom deal” that gave the early Super Tuesday win in West Virginia to Huckabee.
Romney, who addressed the state GOP convention in person Tuesday, comfortably led the first ballot at the convention, leading to a three-way second ballot contest between the three contenders.
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic reported Tuesday that, after the first ballot, McCain’s campaign called his supporters there and urged them to vote in favor of Huckabee.
“Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain’s inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney’s campaign of conservative change,” Beth Myers, Romney’s campaign manager, said in a statement.
Huckabee won the contest on the second ballot with 567 votes, or 51 percent, to Romney’s 521 votes, which put him at 47 percent. McCain finished the second ballot with 12 votes.
On the first ballot, McCain had 176 votes to Huckabee’s 375 and Romney’s 464 votes.
Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) received 118 votes on the first ballot, but because he failed to finish in the top three, he was not included on the second ballot.
By winning Tuesday’s state convention, Huckabee was awarded 18 of the state’s 30 delegates.
The McCain campaign did not immediately respond to comment for this story.
9 mil block just through!
HCPC volume exploding! News out today:
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Heritage Capital Credit Corporation (Pink Sheets: HCPC - News) today announced that it is arranging short-term financing of $170 million for a commercial revenue producing project. An independent third party lender has issued the letter of interest for financing and anticipates scheduling the closing upon completion of its due diligence. This financing is expected to ultimately roll into the BCLOC program.
On December 21, 2007, the Company announced that it had arranged a funding commitment through an independent third party lender for a $6 million commercial revenue producing project. This transaction is expected to close on or before February 25, 2008.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080205/latu116.html?.v=101
-faz
Still 3 left on the 2's?
184 Million!
140 million! Boom!
Good riddance!
Bring on the volume!
Nice sized blocks coming in!!!
-faz
Nice news...thanks WANG!
-faz
The EU's Faltering Cap-and-Trade System
January 29, 2007
http://roguepundit.typepad.com/roguepundit/2007/01/the_eus_collaps.html
The EU is really struggling to get its nations to make significant reductions in their GHG emissions. The Emissions-Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU's cap-and-trade system for GHG emissions from heavy industry (about half of all emissions), is faltering badly. The price of a credit continues to collapse, from its peak of €30.50/metric ton last April to its closing price Friday of €3.05/mt. There are several reasons for this, including...
- In the first phase of the ETS, most nations issued too many credits to many of their polluters. This guts the financial incentive to reduce emissions. Some corporations took advantage by quickly selling their excess credits while pricing was strong...several power companies made hundreds of millions that way. This is the basis for some environmental groups speculating that if airlines were included in the ETS, they could make similar windfall profits.
- No EU nations have offered to make significant cuts in their allowances during the second phase of the ETS (2008-2012). In fact, several requested increases.
- When the EU set the second phase caps for some of its nations (others are pending), it only proposed a 7 percent decrease in total emissions as compared to 2005 data. Despite this, the EU is running into staunch resistance in getting several of its members to accept the new caps.
In most EU nations, there's considerable trepidation that achieving the caps will be so expensive that it will hurt their economies. For instance, Germany is fighting a modest proposed 4.4 percent cut in its cap--in stark contrast to its recent verbal support of a 30 percent worldwide cut in GHG emissions. Talk is cheap. Meanwhile, Eastern Europe's GHG emissions have declined 36.4 percent since 1990 (previous blog here) because of deindustrialization since the break-up of the Soviet Union. So, several of these nations are battling for more cap growth to allow for modernization.
A case in point is Slovakia, whose GHG emissions are 40 percent lower per capita than Germany's. Its phase 1 cap was set far too high, 21 percent above what the actual emissions have been. However to satisfy a condition of joining the EU, Slovakia recently shut down two units of an aging nuclear power plant, making the nation more dependent upon electricity generated from fossil fuels. To accommodate the increased emissions and some economic growth, Slovakia proposed a 12 percent cap increase for phase 2 of the ETS. The EU offered just a 1.3 percent cap increase. So...
Slovakia will file a lawsuit against the European Commission (EC) over its demand the EU member cut its annual carbon dioxide emissions from 2008-2012, Slovak government officials said on Wednesday.
Environment Minister Jaroslav Izak told reporters the carbon dioxide (CO2) cap for 2008-2012, which the European Commission had ruled in November, was insufficient and the process of setting the quota was inappropriate.
"The government decided at today's meeting to file a lawsuit against the decision by the European Commission on CO2 allocations for Slovakia for the years 2008-2012," he said.
...
"The reason for the lawsuit is mainly an economic one," Fico told journalists after a government meeting at which ministers agreed to file the motion.
"Such a significant reduction (in emissions) would cause serious troubles for the economy," he said.
The claim of a cut in the cap is political posturing...but Slovakia certainly isn't alone in that rhetorical dishonesty. For instance, France trumpeted a proposed 4.2 percent decrease in its phase 2 cap, ignoring the fact that this would provide for an increase over its actual emissions during phase 1.
Since November several states have tried to persuade the Commission to soften its stance. Other countries have also threatened legal action.
The issue has split Germany's government, with the Economy Ministry saying on Tuesday it was considering a complaint against the Commission while the Environment Ministry rejected the idea.
By creating an economic incentive to get polluters to invest in cleaner operations--or at least buy credits from others that do, cap-and-trade systems increase costs for some businesses. They're paying for the right to pollute beyond a certain amount. Most businesses and government agencies have no choice but to bear such costs and try to pass them along to consumers, taxpayers, etc.
However, the resulting higher costs can hurt businesses that compete in the global marketplace. A few employers will find it easier to cut costs by relocating elsewhere...like to developing nations with fewer environmental regulations and no obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.
In other words, a downside of cap-and-trade systems is that they can help drive outsourcing, offshoring, and the like. When that happens, at least the same amount of carbon still goes into the atmosphere while the jobs and revenues go elsewhere. This is why so many EU nations are fighting for more cap room. And, a similar concern is part of the reason why the U.S. hasn't signed the Kyoto Protocol.
California has been dealing with the don't-cut-and-run business strategy as well. I've blogged previously about California's increasing dependence upon electricity from coal-fired power plants built outside of the state and thus beyond the reach of its tougher environmental regulations. The state has just closed part of that loophole by banning its three major investor-owned utilities "from entering into long-term contracts with sources that emit more carbon dioxide than a modern natural gas plant." Municipal utilities are next.
It will be interesting to see how Governor Kulongoski fleshes out his recent proposal for Oregon to have a cap-and-trade system and possibly participate in a regional system. Can he come up with something which will truly reduce carbon emissions without significantly raising the costs of living and doing business here? Let's at least hope he can learn from others' successes and failures.
Europe's Problems Color U.S. Plans to Curb Carbon Gases
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800758_pf.html
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 9, 2007; A01
Wout Kusters, director of a manufacturing plant in the Dutch lowlands, knows something the U.S. Congress needs to know. So does Gervais Pruvost, a laborer in a small cement plant in northern France. So does just about every German homeowner.
When you're trying to slow down global warming, beware of unintended consequences.
As U.S. lawmakers work on the details of their greenhouse-gas legislation, they are looking carefully at Europe's experience. Five Senate proposals all use the same basic approach, known as "cap and trade," that Europe has used for the past two years. But what the snappy name "cap and trade" means is that the market will put a price on something that's always been free: the right of a factory to emit carbon gases. That could affect the cost of everything from windowpanes to airline tickets to electricity.
Europe has already hit a few bumps with its program. There's the Dutch silicon carbide maker that calls itself the greenest such plant in the world, but now can't afford to run full-time; the French cement workers who fear they're going to lose jobs to Morocco, which doesn't have to meet the European guidelines; and the German homeowners who pay 25 percent more for electricity than they did before -- even as their utility companies earn record profits.
In some ways, Europe's program has been a success. It covers 45 percent of the continent's emissions, 10,000 companies and 27 European Union countries. It has built registries that list carbon dioxide emissions for every major plant.
In other ways, the approach has been a bureaucratic morass with a host of unexpected and costly side effects and a much smaller effect on carbon emissions than planned. And many companies complain that it is unfair.
Consider the plight of Kollo Holding's factory in the Netherlands, which makes silicon carbide, a material used as an industrial abrasive and lining for high-temperature furnaces and kilns. Its managers like to think of their plant as an ecological standout: They use waste gases to generate energy and have installed the latest pollution-control equipment.
But Europe's program has driven electricity prices so high that the facility routinely shuts down for part of the day to save money on power. Although demand for its products is strong, the plant has laid off 40 of its 130 employees and trimmed production. Two customers have turned to cheaper imports from China, which is not covered by Europe's costly regulations.
"It's crazy," said Kusters, the plant director, as he stood among steaming black mounds of petroleum coke and sand in northern Holland. "We not only have the most energy-efficient plant in the world but also the most environmentally friendly."
A few hundred miles away, in northern France, Pruvost took to the streets with 400 other cement workers from the region last December to protest a license for a rival company that plans to take advantage of Europe's system for controlling greenhouse gases by circumventing it. The rival wants to import material from Morocco, where factories don't have to pay to emit carbon gas.
Pruvost, 54, has worked for 30 years at a cement plant in the tiny town of Dannes in the gentle bluffs near the English Channel, as his father did before him. Looking for another job, Pruvost mused as he stood above a noisy giant mixing machine, would be "unimaginable." Though the potential rival factory has a permit, it has not started building the grinding facility it will need for the cheap imports.
Of all the effects of the new rules, the rise in the price of power has aroused the most outrage. Much of the anger of consumers and industries has been aimed at the continent's utility companies. Like other firms, the utilities were given slightly fewer allowances than they needed. But instead of charging customers for the cost of buying allowances to cover the shortfall, utilities in much of Europe charged customers for 100 percent of the tradable allowances they were given -- even though the government handed them out free. Electricity rates soared.
The chief executive of one utility, Vattenfall, which owns a coal plant that is one of the continent's biggest carbon emitters, defended the decision. Lars G. Josefsson, who is also an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said higher electricity prices are "the intent of the whole exercise. . . . If there were no effects, why should you have a cap-and-trade system?"
But consumers ask why four big utilities that dominate the German market got to keep the money.
McCain on Climate Change.
http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.00280:
S.280
Title: A bill to provide for a program to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, to support the deployment of new climate change-related technologies, and to ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] (introduced 1/12/2007) Cosponsors (11)
Related Bills: H.R.620, H.R.4226
Latest Major Action: 7/24/2007 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. Hearings held.SUMMARY AS OF:
1/12/2007--Introduced.
Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish and maintain the National Greenhouse Gas Database to collect, verify, and analyze information on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Establishes a program for market-driven reduction of GHGs through the use of tradeable allowances. Requires certain covered entities that own or control a source of GHG emissions in the electric power, industrial, and commercial sectors of the U.S. economy to submit to the Administrator, beginning in 2012, one tradeable allowance for every metric ton of GHGs emitted. Requires the Administrator to establish a declining cap on tradeable allowances to reduce GHG emissions over time. Allows tradeable allowances to be sold, exchanged, purchased, retired, borrowed, offset, or otherwise used as permitted by this Act.
Requires the Administrator to establish a program to allow covered entities to earn tradable allowances from developing countries' activities that result in certified emission reductions.
Establishes the Climate Change Credit Corporation to manage tradeable allowances.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Technology Financing Board; (2) study technology transfer barriers, best practices, and technology transfer activities at federal laboratories related to the licensing and commercialization of technologies that result in reduced GHG emissions, increased ability to adapt to climate change impacts, or increased sequestration of GHGs; (3) analyze business opportunities available for climate change technologies; (4) establish a nonprofit government sponsored enterprise for providing investment in private sector technologies that show promise for climate change adaptation and mitigation applications; (5) create a program of public-private partnerships for climate innovation; (6) establish a national program to ensure that lessons learned and best practices concerning energy efficiency and GHG emission reductions are available to the public; (7) carry out a program of scientific research on potential abrupt climate change; (8) carry out a Climate Technology Challenge Program to award funding to stimulate innovation in technologies for reducing GHG emissions; (9) establish a program to reduce GHG emissions through deployment of energy efficiency measures by large commercial customers by providing for energy audits; (10) establish, operate, and report on a research and development program focused on advanced once-through fuel cycles, a Nuclear System Modeling project to evaluate the cost, safety, waste management, and proliferation avoidance and resistance of fuel cycles, and an Advanced Diversified Waste-Disposal Research Program; (11) establish a demonstration program to reduce the first-time regulatory costs of the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing process incurred by the first applicant using an advanced reactor design; (12) establish a program to demonstrate the effectiveness of retooling an existing vehicle or component manufacturing facility to reduce vehicle GHG emissions and of increasing competitiveness of advanced technology vehicle production facilities; (13) establish guidelines for setting project baselines for reductions of GHG emissions and GHG storage in geological formations; (14) submit a climate change adaptation plan for the United States; and (15) conduct research on the impact of climate change on low-income populations everywhere in the world.
Requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to: (1) implement a plan to increase and establish priorities for funding research in the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; and (2) establish a climate change science and technology enhancement program for math and science teachers.
Establishes a National Medal of Climate Stewardship Innovation.
Requires the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to determine the extent to which changes to the patent system are necessary to increase the flow of climate change-related technologies.
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a research program on global climate change standards and processes to provide knowledge on the reduction of GHGs.
Provides for establishment of a joint competitive, merit-based research program to fund low- or zero-emissions transportation proposals.
Requires the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to: (1) establish an interagency panel to establish standards for measurement of sequestered carbon; (2) establish a program on adaptation technologies and assess the climate change technological needs of various regions of the country; (3) perform one national and six regional infrastructure cost assessments to provide estimates of the range of costs anticipated for adaptation to the impacts of climate change.
This seems to me to be the worst way to stimulate an economy. I thought that McCain was supposed to be a conservative? One who thought that government bureaucracy is what weighs on the American dream?
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Awesome...love it. Amazing rifle. You an owner too?
-faz
Nice...Elephant Boy...now that's hillaryous...errr...hilarious!
-faz
Vote your conscience in the primary but vote is what's best for the country in the general election.
If that means voting for McCain in the general if he gets the nod, it will be tough, but I would do it.
-faz
trkyhntr,
I couldn't agree with you more. You are spot on. The religious right has been able to highjack the Republican party through the abortion issue. What drive me up the wall is that the President will not change things regarding abortion in this country, the courts will. As long as we have strict, constructionist judges appointed to the supreme court, then Roe v. Wade will have a chance of being seen for what it is...bad law. That is all assuming that the court would even hear the case, which I doubt they would unless their was huge ground swell of support from Americans.
I like your definition of conservative and would add to it, smaller government.
Somewhere during the Great Society programs Americans lost their way and started to believe that government was the solution to their problems rather than the liberty given to us by our forefathers.
Thanks for the post!!
-faz
The Flat Tax is a pipe dream right now. Remember, to get the flat tax out in, you would need to get rid of the IRS and repeal the 16th amendment. That is something congress will have to do, not the President. The Dems and Repubs in congress won't allow that as the current tax code is how they line their own pockets.
Anyone who votes for Huckabee because of the flat tax is deluding themselves.
Anyone who votes for McCain thinking he knows anything about the economy, especially tax cuts, is deluding themselves even more. McCain's record speaks clearly. He is a big government guy who is all about pandering to the illegal immigrants. If the economy is an issue for you, then why on earth would you not vote for a Governor who was a successful business man, but rather vote for a congressman (for 24 years) who has a proven track record of know nothing on the economy and spending out of his ass?
Also, if you think that McCain would be better at managing the war on terrorism than Romney is making a huge stretch. What makes him more qualified?
I am not a big Romney guy, I didn't vote for him, however, I do know very well who McCain is and that he is not a conservative. If it comes down to it, I would rather vote for Mitt and take my chances on trusting him on a few flip-flops than to vote for a RINO who has pushed a liberal agenda for the past 8 years.
Just my opinions.
-faz
That would mean we would be voting for a liberal on the Democratic ticket...and...voting for a liberal on the Republican ticket.
-faz
That would make sense to me. Crist had a big hand in giving McCain that final push to take Florida. We are all in trouble if McCain gets the nod.
-faz
Who knows. With any kind of luck, we go to a brokered convention and let them duke it out there.
-faz
Nice Einstein reset. Very true. Nice comparison.
-faz
Ouch...
Updated 1 minute ago
McCain 337,492 34% 0 Romney 317,552 32% 0
Giuliani 153,507 16% 0
Huckabee 132,663 13% 0
Paul 30,587 3% 0
Thompson 13,984 2% 0
Hunter 1,496 0% 0
http://www.politico.com/flprimaries/
-faz
That would be my guess, or you just live in an area where everyone is smart, grounded in reality, and believe that liberty, not government, is the solution to the human condition.
-faz
Well if Romney supports a nationwide, federal ban on so called "assault" weapons, then Romney will have to come and get these from my cold, dead hands:
Rock River Arms AR-15
Springfield XD-45 ACP
-faz
Because a lot of people don't think that it is fair. That is why most countries have a many party government system that is always a mess.
There are few things I do know for sure.
1. Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent.
2. Liberalism is a mental disorder...it is standing on your head and telling the rest of the world it's are upside down.
3. When the government has my guns, you can be certain that faz is dead.
4. Government never solves problems, it manages them. If the government solved problems, then there would be no need for government, therefore, they must manage them to ensure government's survival. (see U.N)
5. Government and common sense are mutually exclusive. Any politician that tells you they will bring common sense to government is flat out lying.
Anyway, I am not sure where our country is heading with the current field of candidates. I really wish that someone like Fred Thompson was 20 years younger and could inspire the hell out of us. Until we get a president that can inspire the country that government is the mill stone around their necks and that they need to work their ass off to get their dreams, we are just going to be slipping further and further away from what America truly is.
-faz
xbootie,
Actually, Obama did not get sworn in with a Koran, but rather it was Keith Ellison from Minnesota.
-faz
Because in the end, he is a globalist. That has always been one of my least favorite things about this President.
Also, when he talks about democracy, it is something that everyone around the world can understand I would venture. Many people from other countries don't know what a constitutional republic is.
Things that Bush pisses me off on:
Immigration [ERRRRRR!!!]
- Not securing the boarders
- Not pardoning the boarder guards
- Not supporting tough sanctions on employers
- Not supporting identification to vote.
- Trying to ram amnesty through.
Spending
Economic Stimulus package just announced
What he has done right:
Supreme Court judges
The War in the beginning and now the surge. Middle art, not so much, though he had the resolve to stay with it.
Protecting the country from attacks
Millennium Challenge Account
In the end, I think that Bush will be judged favorably in history, however, he could have done a lot better.
-faz