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Sarkozy Pushes Carbon Tax On Trade
Crippling industry and holding back prosperity in the
name of saving the planet helps bureaucrats line their
pockets
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed the creation of
a carbon import tax to be levied against those countries who buy
from nations that do not conform to European imposed greenhouse
gas emission limits.
"In this scheme, nations importing products
from these polluter countries would be forced to pay a tariff
on the goods or be obligated to purchase emission permits."
reports the German press agency DPA.
Later this month Europe will propose new laws that
will force EU industries to cut down carbon emissions, a move
that will inevitably lead to a shift in production facilities
to countries that do not have such laws.
To offset this Sarkozy, a staunch
globalist who takes over the European Union's rotating
six-month presidency in July, is proposing a carbon tax on relevant
products from those countries.
Under such a scheme the standards of living within
the industrialized world will diminish through the loss of industry
and production while the developing world also fails to benefit
as it has to cope with crippling taxes driving up the prices of
its exports.
Trade lawyers have been divided over the legality
of a carbon tax, with some saying it would run counter to international
trade rules.
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At the same time carbon emissions from human activity,
which only account for a small percentage of overall climate change
anyway when compared to natural factors such as volcano emissions
and solar activity, are not reduced at all.
The only benefactors of a carbon tax will be the
power hungry bureaucrats who are pushing it.
The European carbon tax proposal mirrors that of
the UN, which has urged the adoption of “a global burden
sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to
all nations,” in other words a global carbon tax.
The bounty from this would amount to $40 billion dollars a year
and will go straight into the coffers of a UN controlled "Multilateral
Adaptation Fund".
As MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen warned
last year, "Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's
dream. If you control carbon, you control life."
Lindzen is one of over 100 prominent scientists who signed a
letter last month slamming the UN move as a futile bureaucratic
scheme, pointing out the results of a recent study in the International
Journal of Climatology which concludes that climate
change over the past thirty years is largely a result of solar
activity and that attempts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions
are irrelevant.
In comparison, half that number - just 52
scientists - participated in the IPCC Summary for
Policymakers meeting in April 2007, a report funded by the U.N.
itself.
In the letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon,
the scientists state, “Attempts to prevent global climate
change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a
tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on
humanity's real and pressing problems.”
"It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon
that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological,
oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges
posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature,
precipitation, winds and other climatic variables. We therefore
need to equip nations to become resilient to the full range of
these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth
generation."
"The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the
climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a
non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While
we understand the evidence that has led them to view CO2 emissions
as harmful, the IPCC's conclusions are quite inadequate as justification
for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity.
In particular, it is not established that it is possible to significantly
alter global climate through cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions.
On top of which, because attempts to cut emissions will slow development,
the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase
human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease
it."
The letter goes into detail about several conclusions of the
IPCC report that are completely contradicted by recent major scientific
studies.
Read the full letter here.
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