The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers (CTF) has issued a new report on global carbon taxes, showing most countries have frozen or rolled back carbon taxes, but US climate scientist James Hansen is pushing for a $210/t carbon tax in Canada by 2030.
Hansen’s argument is that the tax has to be high enough that people will buy into the carbon dividend (rebate to lower-income households) – effectively making Canadians into carbon serfs and a carbon welfare society.
CTF reports:
“About half of the emissions covered by carbon taxes are priced below US$10/tCO2e, according to the World Bank’s most recent State and Trends of Carbon Pricing (2019).”
Canada has more than 600 greenhouse gas reduction/incentive measures on the books, which have never been audited for effectiveness.
This begs the question of “what is a climate scientist doing dabbling in Canada’s domestic affairs on carbon taxes, pushing a carbon tax that is 21 times that of the world,” says Friends of Science Society.
As revealed by Lawrence Solomon in the 2009 article “Enron’s Other Secret”:
“James Hansen, the scientist who more than any other is responsible for bringing the possibility of climate-change catastrophe to the public, was among the scientists Enron commissioned.”
Enron had profited from cap and trade, but the company collapsed into a pile of ashes in 2001 due to off-book accounting and financial fraud.
None-the-less, a group of green billionaires took up the global cap-and-trade challenge, apparently working from the Enron carbon/cap-and-trade scheme model, as reported by Nisbet in 2018.
Like Enron, they have funded local and global environmental groups to agitate for policies in countries around the world, favorable to their proposed global cap and trade plan.
The plans require a price on carbon with the intention of funding their trillions into vested interests in renewables.
Many of these groups are associated with the Tar Sands Campaign that has falsely created “Fear and Loathing” of the Alberta oil sands and driven a downturn in the economy.
Michael Moore’s recent movie “Planet of the Humans” revealed how this green crony capitalism is destroying the planet for no climate benefit.
Canadians now face an onslaught of Carbonbaggers – the number one being Mark Carney, now UN Climate Czar and former Bank of England and Bank of Canada governor.
Carney threatens firms with bankruptcy if they do not comply with his demands to report on climate risk and abandon fossil fuel investments.
As Robert Lyman’s new report shows: “Broken Promises: Why Renewables Offer No Resilient Recovery”, Carney is misleading the public and investors on global oil consumption and demand.
Both oil production and consumption have risen by more than one million barrels per day per year since 2012.
• Oil demand is at its highest level in history.
• In absolute terms, oil demand is growing twice as fast as renewables.
• Global oil reserves have risen throughout the period, from 1141 billion barrels in 1998 to 1730 billion barrels in 2018; peak oil is nowhere in sight. That is a 10 million barrel per day increase over the nine years.
• In absolute terms, natural gas is experiencing the fastest rate of growth of all energy sources, almost three times as fast as renewables.
• Natural gas demand is at its highest level in history.
Friends of Science Society says carbon dioxide from human industry is a nominal influence on climate change, known since the 2013 IPCC AR5 report.
The fact that financial ‘experts’ like Mark Carney are still pushing the climate-carbon dioxide catastrophe theme constitutes a violation of securities regulations related to ‘material change’.
Furthermore, as Roger Pielke, Jr. reports, climate catastrophe scenarios are the product of green billionaires pushing the ‘climate hysteria’ scenario, which is far from reality or business-as-usual.
“Green” groups in Canada are demanding that the new Canadian Infrastructure Bank be used to finance their green crony-capitalist schemes.
Friends of Science Society issued a request for an ethics investigation into the development of the Canadian Infrastructure Bank in Nov. 2017. The Conflict of Interest concerns expressed there are still valid in their opinion.
Evidence from Norway to Zimbabwe shows that carbon taxes have no discernible impact on emissions reduction and are simply oppressive to taxpayers and industry.
Friends of Science Society says Carbonbaggers should not be using carbon taxes as a means of creating a Canadian climate welfare state, especially not driven by foreign influences, street theatre, and deception.
Read more at CFACT
My bad! I thought Hansen had already shoved off to the great COP 666 conference in the great beyond.
Sorry about the duplicated paragraph…..
Back in the 1970’s a researcher named Schneider was looking at the effects of aerosols on earths weather/climate. He asked his maths wizard associate to calculated what would happen with a fourfold increase in aerosols. “The reduction in sunlight reaching the surface would result in an ice age.” That wiz-kid – Jimmy Hansen.
It’s called mono-mania. Cooling or heating, Jim is right there. The earth is doomed unless his edicts are followed.
From Wikipedia – Stephan Schneider: In 1971, Schneider was second author on a Science paper with S. Ichtiaque Rasool titled “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate” (Science 173, 138–141). This paper used a one-dimensional radiative transfer model to examine the competing effects of cooling from aerosols and warming from CO2. The paper concluded that:
[I]t is projected that man’s potential to pollute will increase six- to eightfold in the next 50 years. If this increased rate of injection of particulate matter in the atmosphere should raise the present background opacity by a factor of 4, our calculations suggest a decrease in global temperature by as much as 3.5 °K. Such a large decrease in the average temperature of Earth, sustained over a period of few years, is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age. However, by that time, nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production.[6]
In 1971, Schneider was second author on a Science paper with S. Ichtiaque Rasool titled “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate” (Science 173, 138–141). This paper used a one-dimensional radiative transfer model to examine the competing effects of cooling from aerosols and warming from CO2. The paper concluded that:
[I]t is projected that man’s potential to pollute will increase six- to eightfold in the next 50 years. If this increased rate of injection of particulate matter in the atmosphere should raise the present background opacity by a factor of 4, our calculations suggest a decrease in global temperature by as much as 3.5 °K. Such a large decrease in the average temperature of Earth, sustained over a period of few years, is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age. However, by that time, nuclear power may have largely replaced fossil fuels as a means of energy production.[6]
{6]^ Rasool SI, Schneider SH (July 1971). “Atmospheric carbon dioxide and aerosols: effects of large increases on global climate”. Science. 173 (3992): 138–41. Bibcode:1971Sci…173..138R. doi:10.1126/science.173.3992.138. PMID 17739641.
I once read that this screwball claimed Global Warming/Climate Change was responsible for a big amount of Snow What a moron anyone who listens to this nutcase and beleives all his poppycock needs t have their head examened
Where is this climate person receiving his money from? Of course he wishes Canadian industry and everyone else, especially in Canada, to pay more in taxes and have higher expenses. This allows American and World oil producers to continue to produce their “dirty” oil products. Do not look at American and World producers and their oil development. Destroy Canadian production, because if you looked at American and other World producers you would see that they are light years behind the Canadian standards in producing oil products.