Good News, There's a Climate Bill -- Bad News, It Stinks

AlterNet by Daphne Wysham | May. 19, 2009 (Opinion)
Sparing the many odiferous details, here are three particularly bad aspects that have to be addressed.

1) It won't protect the poor from price-hikes as the price of carbon is slowly internalized into our energy bills, but will protect polluting industries by allowing them free pollution permits; 2) It opens the door to fraud and shell games instead of real climate action by setting up a huge carbon derivatives market; 3) It makes a mockery of our common understanding of "renewable energy," favoring dirty smokestacks over truly clean, renewable energy. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 19, 2009

Wysham tears into the sausage the congress has put together, and finds it not a healthy meal for the planet.

Give us a straightforward carbon tax.

it’s virtually impossible to verify whether carbon offsets represent real emissions reductions.

Do you think “renewable energy” means windmills or solar panels? Think again. The windmills and solar panels of our renewable energy dreams are being supplanted by the smokestacks of our nightmares. All it takes is a little imagination — and a high-paid lobbyist — to claim that just about anything is “renewable energy.”

At 385 parts per million CO2 and rising, our atmosphere is on a steady course to climate catastrophe unless these charlatans and their henchmen in Congress get real.

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