The previous article dealt with the resignation of Harold Lewis from the American Physical Society due to the Society's support of the false science involved in global warming. Not everyone has the intellectual honesty to admit that man-made global warming is not proven science.
Reuters reported yesterday that the European Union has reached a deal with the airlines that will allow the EU to charge the airlines an emissions fee.
According to the article:
"The EU agreed in 2008 that airlines should be included in its emissions trading scheme (ETS), which forces industry to pay for permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit into the atmosphere.
"The ETS is the EU's main tool for combating climate change and it wants to see the system adopted worldwide. Aviation is responsible for some 2 percent of the world's carbon emissions.
"Some U.S. airlines had challenged the EU's right to include their flights into and out of Europe within the ETS.
Does anyone believe that putting a tax (that's what this is) on airllines is going to combat global warming? Is is time to get out my business card that allows people to pay me $5 for not taking a shower on one day? Man-made global warming is not science. It is a scheme to transfer money from successful businesses into the hands of a few powerful people who have set up carbon transfer companies. If you want to see how this works, look at the stockholders of the American carbon exchange companies and see how many Congressmen you find who are supporting 'cap and trade' legislation (that will make them richer!). All this charge is going to do is make airplane tickets more expensive for the consumer. It will have very little impact on anything else!
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