The Story of Cap and Trade

Here's a must-see short film.  It'll take only 10 minutes to view.  If you've heard of The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, this is her new piece.  As described by its producers, "The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you."  Lend an ear to this piece and let us know what you think.

Comments

[Steve]

Every time I hear someone suggest that global warming is a hoax or fraud, I get confused. I can't understand myself and why I have devoted my career to working on this issue. Please explain me to me. (More detail here):
bit.ly/7UiMMW

[Doug Welty]

Ayup, the big "global warming" party is falling flat in Copenhagen: http://is.gd/5oBz9. Let's all hope the folks in the County Office Building across the street are reading the newspapers.

[Doug Welty]

Wow, talk about changing the subject. Thanks for your free publicity and the link to my site.

In the meantime, the earth has gotten no warmer, and might even have cooled a spell. And even as I write, so-called climate scientists continue to deep-six their raw data, enabling them to continue their political campaign to run our lives whilst claiming "the dog ate my homework" when asked for proof of their wacky claims.

This is a tight year for Arlington County finances, and certainly time to lay greenie projects on the table for a year or so to avoid having to raise taxes during a recession. With any luck, once a couple of years more of debunking have gone by, such projects will never again be foisted upon the taxpayers.

[SaraP]

Who said global warming is debunked? I must have missed something. There is always going to be one or two scientist on the payroll of coal and oil companies that will say anything for a price. As for those climate emails, those are hardly notable compared to the mountains of data available.

As they say "It's the economy, stupid". Arlington taxpayer dollars are best spent reducing costs especially in hard times.

I think our government thinks long term, that is a key reason we have been successful as a community. As an estate planner Doug, you should know the value of long term planning. After all, who is going to inherit this planet after us? Even if no global warming, when you use power it comes from west virginia where they use mountain removal to get coal (http://www.ilovemountains.org/). Is that good estate planning for those that will live beyond us?

You lobby for the estate tax elimination and tout this on your website "Hurray for smaller victories! On our side of the Potomac, the 16% Virginia estate tax finally has been eliminated, and is not levied upon the estates of people dying on or after July 1, 2007. Kudos is due to Virginians for Death Tax Repeal, among others." I'm sure dead people everywhere are celebrating.

It seems to me that if you really wanted to do some real estate planning you should lobby for the cessation of mountain top removal or any number of other things?

Sir, there will be no probate for the earth for future generations like mine after those in your generation pass.

Mr. C. Douglas Welty II, thanks for letting our community know that you think climate change is a farce.

Corporate webpage: http://weltyblair.com/

Fascinating family history: http://www.charleswelty.com/family_history.htm

Sincerely, Sara Press

[Doug Welty]

Now that the bogus "science" behind "global warming" has been debunked, what's going to take the place of the "climate crisis"?

Might we be able to put Arlington taxpayers' dollars to better use in 2010?