As I have mention many times in the past in this space, global warming is a fantasy of those seeking ways to do less for more money - global warming is and has been a fraud and, as I have written here, is the related 'carbon credit' program that seeks as well to fleece the unsuspected of dollars in gross amounts to save the planet.
Al Gore is laughing all the way to the bank as he owns much of the carbon credit banks and is, of course, the prime proponent of this scam. It is a win, win situation for him at our expense. How can the people of this country fall for such nonsense??
I live in the country and have been approach by these con men to sell my 'carbon credit' related to the land that I own - ? in return I have to not till my land for five years - what in the good name of God are they about? This unbelievable!
Sigh - we must fight this kind of environmental crime at every turn - keep the faith, the battle is joined!
(The following is by John Calborne)
At the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York March 2-4, I became aware of Wolfgang Kasper’s eloquent explanation of the politics and economics of the current climate change swindle. Dr Kasper’s chapter in the _Civil Society Report on Climate Change _is very readable and easy to understand. The explanation for so many scientists “selling out” when they know their claims are weak, can be summarized in terms of “rent seeking” and political ideology.
What we are seeing is an attempt by those who believe in centralized government to control our lives and restrict freedom by making energy very expensive. This is absolutely the wrong direction.
...Rent Seeking and Freedom (an excerpt)
By: Wolfgang Kasper -
Widespread rent seeking also explains the public’s cynicism about democratic government. An increasingly better-informed public knows instinctively that interventionism boils down to a gross violation of their fundamental freedoms, in particular their property rights and the freedom to use their assets as they see fit, as long as others are not harmed.
Pervasive rent seeking is counterproductive in economic terms, as well as profoundly unjust. To the extent that arguments about global warming are detected as just a new excuse for rent seeking, they will be treated with disdain and contempt – regardless of their scientific merit.
For a long time, it was assumed that scientists are above such political selfishness, interested only in finding and testing the truth about natural phenomena. They have developed a strong professional ethic and relied on accepted scientific methods – an image, which the scientific community has of course cultivated.
Now, we observe that not only politicians but also the practitioners of science are not above the opportunistic pursuit of advantage by political manipulation. In science, for example, political ends seem to justify shortcuts with accepted scientific methods, thereby skewing the published findings. The competition for research funding, much of which comes nowadays from politically manipulated budget resources, all too frequently acts as an inducement to rent seeking by means of not-quite-objective research. Scientific establishments are nowadays typically led by savvy political operators, who are more interested in promoting their organisations than the scientific truth.
Alas, scientists are, after all, as opportunistic as everyone else, if they can get away with it.
Such aspersions are of course greeted by scientists with dismay. When this was bluntly stated on the recent television programme /The Great Global Warming Swindle /(Durkin, 2007), it lead to widespread moral outrage among some climate scientists, but produced no substantive refutation. Meanwhile, the scientists interviewed in the programme treated the debate as purely scientific. Unfortunately, they too missed the public-choice point, namely that political demand for global warming theories is expressed by copious research funding and produces a ready supply of such theories by eager scientists.
A critical look at the current climate debate easily reveals particular self-interest and robust rent seeking. Scientists, who must rival with many other pressure groups for scarce tax dollars, often realise that nothing is a better attention-grabber than the announcement of a potential danger which their research can fix, if only it is funded generously. Some of the brightest scientific minds have cooperated to convince the public and politicians that more climate research is the way to save the world.
The vehemence and impatience with which the global-warming protagonists now try to railroad the public and politicians into accepting the need for massive and costly action seems in itself an indication of rent seeking. As so often is the case, subsidy seekers find willing rent- and subsidy-creators in politicians and bureaucrats, who see career opportunities and greater power in adopting the new cause. Political action mobilises financial resources for those scientists who help to convince the public that political subsidies and …
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