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Carbon Tax, boon for Bankers no effect on Climate
by staff report via sam - AFP Friday, Oct 19 2012, 12:09am
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The reason CO2 emissions increase dramatically each year is simply because energy needs and other Corporate factors force nations to abandon pledges to reduce emissions in favour of other priorities. Make no mistake, designers of this Tax, Goldman Sachs and mega-corporations, have always known it would be ineffective in mitigating global warming. However, it provided and excellent 'green' excuse to implement a Carbon-based penalty economy for the monied elites.

Average people -- the MAJORITY -- under financial pressure are easily able to democratically eliminate this absurd and deceitful PENALTY tax if it is proven the tax does NOT affect climate, the premise upon which the tax was deceptively implemented.

Surely, after over a decade of failed and wasteful TARP and Quantitative Easing (QE) the global majority has had it it up to the eyeballs with Corporate/government LYING, cheating and brazen deception -- Oz PM, Juliar Gillard is the most inept offender/example!

Ending the artificially imposed burden of the Carbon Tax is simply a vote or mass protest away. Who do the monied elites think they're kidding?

Report from AFP follows:

World governments not on track to achieve temperature targets [and they never will be!]

Governments are “not on track” to achieve a target of keeping the average global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UN climate chief said Thursday.

Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told a forum in Singapore that the world was moving in the right direction, but not fast enough.

“Even if governments were to comply with all the mitigation pledges that are on the table, it will still only provide 60 percent of the effort that is necessary to keep global average temperature rise to under two degrees,” she said.

“It is also well known that governments have agreed to review this target to 1.5 degrees should the science demand more drastic action. Frankly… we are not on track.”

World leaders agreed in December 2009 to the Copenhagen Accord, which introduced a plan to cap the rise in temperatures to below two degrees to stave off the worst effects of climate change.

“We are clearly moving toward a low-carbon economy. What we’re not doing is we’re not moving with the speed and at the scale that the science demands,” Figueres said.

Her predecessor Yvo de Boer said in March that the target was already out of reach. It was set by a core group of countries in the final stormy hours at the Copenhagen Summit and became enshrined at Cancun, Mexico a year later.

More and more scientists are warning that the objective is slipping away without radical, early cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions.

© 2012 AFP

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