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A door is opened and if learning does not take place or it is less than factual, the door can be shut.
Cap = upper limit allowed for the creation of CO2.
Trade = permits those that are able to reduce their CO2 emissions to sell carbon credits.
America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA), ----(was)----a "cap and trade" bill introduced in Congress ......
All such climate change measures warrant careful scrutiny, as they would likely increase energy costs and do considerably more economic harm than environmental good.
A Costly Proposition
These measures would set a limit, or cap, on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use. The effect of such a cap would be to impose rationing of coal, oil, and natural gas on the American economy. Each covered utility, oil company, and manufacturing facility would be given allowances based on past emissions or some other formula. Those companies that emit less carbon dioxide than permitted by their allowances could sell the excess to those that do not; this is the trade part of cap and trade. Over time, the cap would be ratcheted down, requiring greater cuts in emissions.
European efforts have racked up significant costs while failing to reduce emissions.[5] Nearly every European country participating has higher emissions today than when the treaty was first signed in 1997. Further, despite ongoing criticism of the United States from Kyoto parties for failing to ratify the treaty, emissions in many of these nations are actually rising faster than in the United States.
The European experience also shows the problem of cap and trade fraud.[6] None other than Enron's Ken Lay was a strong supporter of carbon cap and trade when the idea was first floated in the 1990s, saying that it could "do more to promote Enron's business than almost any other regulatory initiative." These carbon allowances that will be bought and sold have a value estimated at $50 billion to $300 billion annually, and the trade in them would be a huge new business.[7] Enron may be gone, but others ready to take advantage of cap and trade--often at public expense--are not...................
Conclusion
Cap and trade bills are nothing short of a government re-engineering of the American economy. And S. 2191, with its aggressive targets to reduce emissions from fossil fuel use, would put the nation on a path of serious economic harm not justified by any benefits.
When I moved to Seattle in 1981. Seattle was having a record heat wave. Within about 3 years we were having extremely cold winters. While Seattle is again having a record heat wave, the over all average yearly temperatures are still well below average. But, not by much. Is a cold spell coming? Only Mother Nature knows when that might happen again.
Global Warming or cooling is simply not a direct result of human activities.
Climate change is a natural cyclic result of the activity or lack of active on the Sun.
The Sun seems not very active now. Yet, two plane crashes have been blamed on it.
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