European Carbon Credit Trading System Plagued by Fraud

The European Union’s flagship cap-and-trade carbon credit trading system is plagued by massive fraud and is effectively under the control of organized crime, according to a December 9 statement issued by European police. Europol, an EU-wide criminal intelligence agency similar to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, says bogus trading at the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) has exceeded €5 billion (U.S.$7 billion) over the past 18 months alone. Europol says that in some EU countries, up to 90 percent of the entire market volume is fraudulent.

…my tears started before anyone said a word. As the service started, dozens choristers from around the world carried three things down the aisle and to the altar: pieces of dead coral bleached by hot ocean temperatures; stones uncovered by retreating glaciers; and small, shriveled ears of corn from drought-stricken parts of Africa.

They are not using their omorphoria as badges of liberation from sin but as shackles for those whose souls they must give an account.

An excellent and incisive quote. The EP really is the Poverty Patriarch. He is condemning the poor to an endless cycle of poverty.

This does not mean that it is going to quickly run out of fuel. Also, I have doubts about the current intellectual liberty…

“Big Bang” and monkey-to-man “evolution” are nothing but junk theories that have truly retarded science. Heliocentrism (or the current A-centrism) replaced Geocentrism but it was never proved to be the correct model or the only model. It is presented as fact in Universities and lower schools everywhere. We have assumed that science has proven that the earth goes around the sun. At list I did assume… until I found out that there are passages in the Bible explicitely indicating that the sun, or stars move AROUND the earth.

Prevailing theories held that ether formed an absolute reference frame with respect to which the rest of the universe was stationary. Heliocentrism used to assume that Earth was orbiting the Sun in a stationary ether. It would therefore follow that the ether would blow past us like a wind in an east-west direction. Michelson and Morley (1887) experiment was designed to measure the speed of light in different directions (east-west and north-south) in order to measure the speed of the ether relative to Earth. The experiment failed to measure any difference in speed. The experiment was repeated later many times and the same result was found.

Rather than admitting the possibility that the earth was stationary with respect to the ether,
scientists dispensed the ether. Michelson-Morley experiment showed that the earth was stationary (or
at lest this is a posibility). In order to avoid having to adopt this results Einstein comes up with
the postulate: “speed of light is constant in all reference frames”. Special Relativity claims that
the speed of light is the only constant in the universe, whereas mass, length, distance, and time became relative. What we have is a system of mathematical formulae which doesn’t explain much of
how things work BUT because of Relativity (its postulates), no one can prove whether the sun goes around the earth or the earth goes around the sun.

“Socialism comes to Greece…again.”

Is the trusty GOA internet/press department asleep at the wheel?

The hot air itself that is being generated will raise temperatures at least two degrees.

Eastern Orthodox Christians are also concerned about climate change. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has convened a series of international symposia to study environmental problems generally and climate change specifically. His findings have led him to declare that climate change is “a profoundly moral and spiritual problem.” “We paternally urge every person to realise their responsibility and to do whatever they can to avert the increase of the earth’s temperature.”

Following the lead of Patriarch Bartholomew, the Rev. John Chryssavgis, from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, says that there is no longer room for negotiating with nature. “At the Copenhagen Summit, we must assume courageous initiatives in our attitudes to and treatment of the earth’s resources and assume generous leadership in supporting the burden of the poor.”

This blogger in Copenhagen says the “Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church” is on the scene:

When Tutu finished speaking, we slowly wandered over to the cathedral, were an ecumenical service was to start. We didn’t make it into the church itself, but the university building across the road had opened its doors to people who wanted to watch the service projected onto screens.

Once again, I was blown away. Rowan Williams’ sermon was one of the best I’ve ever heard. One of our group said that it might be the most significant sermon since the reformation. This, said Williams, is first and foremost a question of choosing Love over fear. This is a crossroads. We (the churches) can continue to stumble around aimlessly as we have been for a few hundred years, or we can revolutionise the way we think about justice, peace and morality. Present at the service was the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Desmond Tutu, a group of Franciscans brothers and sisters, the queen and prime minister of Denmark, and doubtlessly other important people that I didn’t recognise. But more striking than any of these people were the presence of a dead coral plant, iceberg stones which should be buried under hundreds of feet of ice, and dried maize. These are the effects of global warming, and they are being felt first and foremost by the poor. It is time to change. It is time for the churches, as one body, to chant louder; ‘Yes, we can’, to put away our ridiculous prosperity gospels and focus on an invisible after life and to be the forerunners in the movements of social and climate justice.

Delegates, journalists, activists and observers from almost 200 countries have gathered at the Dec 7-18 summit and their travel and work will create 46,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide, most of it from their flights.

This would fill nearly 10,000 Olympic swimming pools, and is the same amount produced each year by 2,300 Americans or 660,000 Ethiopians — the vast difference is due to the huge gap in consumption patterns in the two countries — according to U.S. government statistics about per person emissions in 2006.

Religious Left is ‘Not Really Up’ on the Climategate Controversy

I’ve been searching, in vain, for comments on the Climategate controversy from vocal members of the religious Left. Although there have been hundreds of news stories on the leaked emails and documents from the Climatic Research Unit—and scores of millions of references on the Internet—religious environmental activists are acting as if nothing has happened. So far, we’re just getting giddy reports from or about Copenhagen (See here, here, here, here, and here, for examples.)

In an article about environmentalism and the Christian Left, however, Cliff Kincaid was able to get a comment from Walter Grazer. Grazer was director of the environmental justice program for the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1993 to 2007 and is currently interim executive director of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. Here’s what Grazer said: “I am really not up on that issue at all.”

I find that hard to believe, but perhaps the run-up to Copenhagen has not given Grazer and others any time to investigate the crumbling foundation of the UN’s power grab. When they get some downtime, though, they might start by reading this first-rate piece of investigative journalism in the UK Daily Mail (ignore its misdirecting title). It’s becoming increasingly untenable for religious leaders who say they want to bring moral reasoning to the environmental debate to ignore the pattern of misrepresentation and distortion by leading climate scientists.