“The newest game by the banks is carbon emissions trading. The plan is to manufacture emission credit certificates out of thin air, trade them between big financial companies, and compel the rest of us pay for them by producing real goods and services. The new financial slavery.

“Carbon emission permits are the latest paper currency, brought to you by the same crowd who profited from the world’s largest financial bubble. Same structure, same modus operandi, same beneficiaries, same exaggerations, half-truths, and tricky government statistics.” [P. 2]

“Emissions trading by the finance industry was $120 billion in 2008. This will grow to over $1 trillion by 2012, and carbon emission permit trading will be the largest “commodity” market in the world—larger than oil, steel, rice, or wheat. Typically the finance industry will pocket 1% – 5% of that turnover. So even now their financial interest matches the alarmist spending, and soon will vastly exceed it.” [P. 30]

Dr David Evans 2009, Manufacturing Money and Global Warming, SPPI, Haymarket, VA, USA. www.scienceandpublicpolicy.org

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair

“I’ll be lucky to get today right, let alone next week”.

Forecaster from Australian Bureau of Meteorology, on ABC radio 1/11/07

“IPCC computer models are the only places where CO2 is causing warming or climate change.”

And:

“If you create false problems, you’re obliged to find unnecessary and usually false solutions”.

Dr. Tim Ball, Environmental consultant and former Professor of Climatology at the University of Winnipeg

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part Two, Chapter II.