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Over 100 Prominent Scientists Challenge UN Move For Global Carbon Tax
Experts dismiss agenda as "futile," bureaucratic scheme that will increase human suffering
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, December 14, 2007

The UN has officially announced what the fearmongering about man-made global warming has been designed to justify all along - a global carbon tax which will do nothing to reduce carbon emissions but everything to feed the trough of world government. Over one hundred prominent scientists signed a letter dismissing the move as a futile bureaucratic scheme which will diminish prosperity and increase human suffering.

Following a discussion entitled “A Global CO2 Tax," a UN panel yesterday urged the adoption of “a global burden sharing system, fair, with solidarity, and legally binding to all nations,” to impose a tax on plant food (CO2).

Othmar Schwank, one of the participants, said that the U.S. and other wealthy nations need to “contribute significantly more to this global fund." He also added, “It is very essential to tax coal.”

The bounty from this $40 billion dollars a year windfall will go straight into the coffers of a UN controlled "Multilateral Adaptation Fund".

What we see unfolding in Bali is one of the major final stepping stones on the road to a complete globalist stranglehold on reducing the living standards of everyone in the industrialized world, and a scheme to prevent the third world from ever lifting itself out of poverty.

Seven years ago former French President Jacques Chirac said the UN’s Kyoto Protocol represented "the first component of an authentic global governance." The imminent agreement arising out of the Bali summit will be one of the final nails in the coffin aimed at decimating the middle class and the right of free people to strive for prosperity and happiness without laboring under suffocating serfdom imposed by unelected elitists.

As MIT climate scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen warned earlier this year, "Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life."

Lindzen is one of over 100 prominent scientists who have signed a letter slamming the UN move as a futile bureaucratic scheme, pointing out the results of a recent study in the International Journal of Climatology which concludes that climate change over the past thirty years is largely a result of solar activity and that attempts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are irrelevant.

In comparison, half that number - just 52 scientists - participated in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers meeting in April 2007.

In the letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the scientists state, “Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.”

"It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables. We therefore need to equip nations to become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation."

"The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to view CO2 emissions as harmful, the IPCC's conclusions are quite inadequate as justification for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity. In particular, it is not established that it is possible to significantly alter global climate through cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions. On top of which, because attempts to cut emissions will slow development, the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it."

The letter goes into detail about several conclusions of the IPCC report that are completely contradicted by recent major scientific studies.

Read the full letter here.

Listed below are the names and credentials of the 100 scientists who signed the letter, again dispelling the myth that the man-made explanation behind global warming is an overwhelming"consensus" view.

Ian D. Clark, PhD, Professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Richard S. Courtney, PhD, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

Willem de Lange, PhD, Dept. of Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Science and Engineering, Waikato University, New Zealand

David Deming, PhD (Geophysics), Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oklahoma

Freeman J. Dyson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N.J.

Don J. Easterbrook, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Geology, Western Washington University

Lance Endersbee, Emeritus Professor, former dean of Engineering and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Monasy University, Australia

Hans Erren, Doctorandus, geophysicist and climate specialist, Sittard, The Netherlands

Robert H. Essenhigh, PhD, E.G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Christopher Essex, PhD, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Associate Director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario

David Evans, PhD, mathematician, carbon accountant, computer and electrical engineer and head of 'Science Speak,' Australia

William Evans, PhD, editor, American Midland Naturalist; Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame

Stewart Franks, PhD, Professor, Hydroclimatologist, University of Newcastle, Australia

R. W. Gauldie, PhD, Research Professor, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Lee C. Gerhard, PhD, Senior Scientist Emeritus, University of Kansas; former director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey

Gerhard Gerlich, Professor for Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Institut für Mathematische Physik der TU Braunschweig, Germany

Albrecht Glatzle, PhD, sc.agr., Agro-Biologist and Gerente ejecutivo, INTTAS, Paraguay

Fred Goldberg, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden

Vincent Gray, PhD, expert reviewer for the IPCC and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of 'Climate Change 2001, Wellington, New Zealand

William M. Gray, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University and Head of the Tropical Meteorology Project

Howard Hayden, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut

Louis Hissink MSc, M.A.I.G., editor, AIG News, and consulting geologist, Perth, Western Australia

Craig D. Idso, PhD, Chairman, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Arizona

Sherwood B. Idso, PhD, President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, AZ, USA

Andrei Illarionov, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity; founder and director of the Institute of Economic Analysis

Zbigniew Jaworowski, PhD, physicist, Chairman - Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland

Jon Jenkins, PhD, MD, computer modelling - virology, NSW, Australia

Wibjorn Karlen, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden

Olavi Kärner, Ph.D., Research Associate, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, Toravere, Estonia

Joel M. Kauffman, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

David Kear, PhD, FRSNZ, CMG, geologist, former Director-General of NZ Dept. of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Zealand

Madhav Khandekar, PhD, former research scientist, Environment Canada; editor, Climate Research (2003-05); editorial board member, Natural Hazards; IPCC expert reviewer 2007

William Kininmonth M.Sc., M.Admin., former head of Australia's National Climate Centre and a consultant to the World Meteorological organization's Commission for Climatology

Jan J.H. Kop, MSc Ceng FICE (Civil Engineer Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers), Emeritus Prof. of Public Health Engineering, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands

Prof. R.W.J. Kouffeld, Emeritus Professor, Energy Conversion, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Salomon Kroonenberg, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Geotechnology, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Hans H.J. Labohm, PhD, economist, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations), The Netherlands

The Rt. Hon. Lord Lawson of Blaby, economist; Chairman of the Central Europe Trust; former Chancellor of the Exchequer, U.K.

Douglas Leahey, PhD, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary

David R. Legates, PhD, Director, Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware

Marcel Leroux, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS

Bryan Leyland, International Climate Science Coalition, consultant and power engineer, Auckland, New Zealand

William Lindqvist, PhD, independent consulting geologist, Calif.

Richard S. Lindzen, PhD, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A.J. Tom van Loon, PhD, Professor of Geology (Quaternary Geology), Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; former President of the European Association of Science Editors

Anthony R. Lupo, PhD, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Dept. of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri-Columbia

Richard Mackey, PhD, Statistician, Australia

Horst Malberg, PhD, Professor for Meteorology and Climatology, Institut für Meteorologie, Berlin, Germany

John Maunder, PhD, Climatologist, former President of the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (89-97), New Zealand

Alister McFarquhar, PhD, international economy, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.

Ross McKitrick, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Economics, University of Guelph

John McLean, PhD, climate data analyst, computer scientist, Australia

Owen McShane, PhD, economist, head of the International Climate Science Coalition; Director, Centre for Resource Management Studies, New Zealand

Fred Michel, PhD, Director, Institute of Environmental Sciences and Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, Carleton University

Frank Milne, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Economics, Queen's University

Asmunn Moene, PhD, former head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway

Alan Moran, PhD, Energy Economist, Director of the IPA's Deregulation Unit, Australia

Nils-Axel Morner, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm University, Sweden

Lubos Motl, PhD, Physicist, former Harvard string theorist, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

John Nicol, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Physics, James Cook University, Australia

David Nowell, M.Sc., Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, former chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa

James J. O'Brien, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Meteorology and Oceanography, Florida State University

Cliff Ollier, PhD, Professor Emeritus (Geology), Research Fellow, University of Western Australia

Garth W. Paltridge, PhD, atmospheric physicist, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia

R. Timothy Patterson, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University

Al Pekarek, PhD, Associate Professor of Geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, Minnesota

Ian Plimer, PhD, Professor of Geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Brian Pratt, PhD, Professor of Geology, Sedimentology, University of Saskatchewan

Harry N.A. Priem, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Planetary Geology and Isotope Geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences

Alex Robson, PhD, Economics, Australian National University Colonel F.P.M. Rombouts, Branch Chief - Safety, Quality and Environment, Royal Netherland Air Force

R.G. Roper, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology

Arthur Rorsch, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Molecular Genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, B.C.

Tom V. Segalstad, PhD, (Geology/Geochemistry), Head of the Geological Museum and Associate Professor of Resource and Environmental Geology, University of Oslo, Norway

Gary D. Sharp, PhD, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, CA

S. Fred Singer, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia and former director Weather Satellite Service

L. Graham Smith, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario

Roy W. Spencer, PhD, climatologist, Principal Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center, The University of Alabama, Huntsville

Peter Stilbs, TeknD, Professor of Physical Chemistry, Research Leader, School of Chemical Science and Engineering, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden

Hendrik Tennekes, PhD, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Dick Thoenes, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Brian G Valentine, PhD, PE (Chem.), Technology Manager - Industrial Energy Efficiency, Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Maryland at College Park; Dept of Energy, Washington, DC

Gerrit J. van der Lingen, PhD, geologist and paleoclimatologist, climate change consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand

Len Walker, PhD, Power Engineering, Australia

Edward J. Wegman, PhD, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University, Virginia

Stephan Wilksch, PhD, Professor for Innovation and Technology Management, Production Management and Logistics, University of Technolgy and Economics Berlin, Germany

Boris Winterhalter, PhD, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland

David E. Wojick, PhD, P.Eng., energy consultant, Virginia

Raphael Wust, PhD, Lecturer, Marine Geology/Sedimentology, James Cook University, Australia

A. Zichichi, PhD, President of the World Federation of Scientists, Geneva, Switzerland; Emeritus Professor of Advanced Physics, University of Bologna, Italy
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Waterboarding by the CIA…and the Congress that Knew
December 12, 2007

So, we are going to go through a rather protracted public discussion of waterboarding this and waterboarding that, probably to the point that teen-agers will learn how to do it and add it to their repertoire of recess activity.

More ominously, is there now a terrorist alive who does not know that waterboarding is a physical/psychological trick and not the real thing, forcing the hard boys of interrogation to resort to burying the buggers alive as the required logical extension of effective technique?

Already, there have been more words written and uttered over what should be a clandestine activity, legal or not, moral or not, ethical or not, sanctioned or not, than the slaughter of innocents past and future by terrorists for whom death to all others is the watchword of their wretched, evil lives.

It is time to get a grip on reality, people. CIA operatives have, by the best public estimates available, waterboarded only three terrorists, producing useful intelligence and saving lives as a result thereof.

This week’s contrived liberal furor, seemingly intended to destroy whatever shred of effectiveness and morale the CIA may have left, turns on the reported 2005 CIA destruction of waterboarding interrogation tapes from 2002, principally of the captured al Qaeda henchman, Abu Zubaydah.

Congressional investigations and hyperbolic outrage sprang forth with the speed of light, although there is some indication that some members of Congress knew about the tape destruction since November 2006 or March 2007.

But wait. Aren’t Congressional Oversight Committees regularly briefed, in detail and in secret, on serious intelligence matters? Well, yes they are.

Here’s what Joby Warrick and Dan Eggan of the Washington Post reported just last Sunday:

“In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

“Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.

“’The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,’ said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.”

Speaker Pelosi has refused comment on her reaction to the specific information regarding waterboarding that she was provided – long before she and many of her colleagues decided that it was politically expedient to declare the technique to be about the worst thing imaginable.

CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that the tapes were destroyed to protect the agents involved from retaliation. If the escalating witchhunt regarding waterboarding is any indication, that decision was the prudent course, notwithstanding a murky legal contretemps over whether the tapes fell into a category of intelligence material ordered to be retained.

We have been critical of the CIA and will be again, for ineptitude, for factional efforts to publicly affect policy, for the politicized Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame debacle of both intelligence and justice. But not ever for trying to do the job that the CIA is thanklessly and dangerously assigned, which is to provide intelligence to protect this country and its people.

Whatever mistakes the CIA may have made, it deserves better than a public, political witchhunt that cannot possibly help the ongoing national security needs of this country, which far surpass the needs of elected officials for self-survival.

Can anyone think of a technique that might force the politicians to divulge what they knew and when they knew it? Yes, but that would be wrong.
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KAC takes fight against Dera to Sonia’s doorstep, memo tells Gandhi some home truths
Written by Ashok Sharma
Thursday, December 13, 2007

NEW DELHI: Lodging a protest right in front of the residence of UPA Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the Khalsa Action Committee brought into the national focus the blasphemous activities of the Sirsa Dera and its chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim and asked it to take immediate steps to assuage the hurt psyche and feelings of the Sikh people.
In a memorandum submitted on the occasion, the KAC leadership said the continuing support and patronisation of the Dera and its pseudo-saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim by the Congress has caused pain and anguish to the devout in Punjab. It particularly mentioned the utterances of the Punjab Congress chief Rajinder Kaur Bhattal and various Congress leaders in Haryana in this regard which have angered the Sikhs.

“Malafide interference in the activities of the church by the state is unwarranted and uncalled for. The history of Italy and the Vatican are testimony to the two working in their own domain and respecting each other. Nobody in India can understand more than your good self,” the KAC said, clearly keeping in mind the origins and background of Sonia Gandhi herself.
The Khalsa Action Committee (KAC) is an umbrella organisation of various social, religious, political and human rights organizations including Shiromani Akali Dal ( Amritsar), SAD (1920), Dal Khalsa, Damdami Taksal, Kendri Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Akhand Kirtani Jatha, International Human Rights Organisation, Punjab Human Rights Organisation.
It said, “Unfortunately, the history of Punjab is replete with many instances of the state meddling in the religious affairs of the minorit(ies)… all federating units and the Union government misuse discretionary funds to foist schismatic forums to weaken the ethos of religions of minority peoples.”
“This is precisely the case with the Sirsa dera. The avowed aim of this outfit is to underscore and attack the concept of Shabad Guru –a fundamental tenet of the Sikh religion.”
Recalling the events in the past, the memo said the ministry of home affairs “fired the first salvo against the Sikhs by sponsoring the pseudo-Nirankaris in the early fifties, till it became an uncontrollable Frankenstein Monster resulting in the killing of 13 devout Sikhs in Amritsar on 13 April 1978.” It said that this cult too is again raising its head and is seen on the streets of Punjab, taunting devout Sikhs.
“The Sirsa Dera chief is a melodramatic cultist leader like the ones which appeared in the United States in the early eighties. Such cultist leaders hold such a sinister sway over their followers that they can ultimately lead them to mass suicides. In the present case, matters have been made worse by state patronage. The Congress party in Haryana and Panjab has been fuelling this Dera, not only to achieve its premeditated aim of undermining the Sikh religion, but also to reap electoral benefits by influencing the Dera chief to issue diktats in its favour as was done in the last assembly elections in Punjab and Haryana. “
In a scathing statement, it added, “The role of the Congress party has been mysterious, its intentions, malafide and its machinations, Machiavellian.”
Explaining the circumstances, the memorandum said the act of the Sirsa Dera head of trying to imitate the Tenth Master Guru Gobind Singh and copying the concept of Amrit (the Khalsa baptism ceremony) “has caused deep and inconsolable hurt.”
“It is in the fitness of things to mention that this person, Gurmeet Ram Rahim has cases of rape and murder against him. The courts may have granted bail to him but the manner in which logistic support in the form of Z-plus security; bullet proof vehicles and 24-hour armed guards are provided to him, smacks of the state protecting its honoured guest! Had the pseudo-saint not indulged in open blasphemy, the CBI, which was postponing charging the baba, may have still not pursued the case. We believe that this too is the result of the closeness of the baba with the Congress party and respective governments in Haryana, Punjab and Delhi. The Indian judiciary was also quick to treat him differently. Sikh leaders having dissenting political opinion have cases foisted upon them many times over.”
“Despite Sikh protests, things have been allowed to come to a pass where the Dera head projects himself as a law unto himself. It is the general belief of Sikhs and other minorities that the judiciary is manoeuvred to suit the requirements of the ruling party. It has happened in this case too. While we would not like to serve a warning, we would like to point out that even in the case of the pseudo-Nirankaris, our wounds were allowed to fester and even in the present case, we have been pushed to the wall.”
Not mincing any words in saying that there has not been substantive improvement in the relations between the Sikhs and the Indian state, the memo said a large number of issues and concerns await redress: release of Sikh detainees languishing in various jails, withdrawal of black list, commutation of death sentence of Prof. Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, restoring to Punjab's right to its river waters, dismantling the SYL canal, providing corridor to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib, amendment to the Indian constitution, All India Gurdwara Act, enactment of enabling provisions under the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, et al.
“We seek your immediate indulgence to take effective measures against the Sirsa Dera and its chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim. All patronage and support to this baba and other such self-styled bigots must be stopped. Though the matter is subjudice, your government can still set-up a Special Fast Track Court to try the accused under various offences. The Congress party must be seen to be secular in Punjab in letter and spirit. Under your leadership, you should bury the hatchet put up by your predecessors and make serious attempts to normalise the polity in Punjab. All vicious propaganda against the Sikhs in the media must cease. You should issue strict guidelines for the Congress leadership in Punjab directing them to desist from interjecting in Sikh religious affairs.”
The memorandum was signed by Bhai Mohkam Singh Convenor, KAC, Daljit Singh, Co-convenor, KAC, Baba Harnam Singh Dhuma, Head, Damdami Taksal, Bhai Jasbir Singh, former Jathedar, Akal Takht, Kanwarpal Singh, Spokesperson, KAC & Dal Khalsa, Jagdish Singh Chhinda, Member, SGPC, Satnam Singh Paonta Sahib, President, Dal Khalsa, Advocate D. S. Gill, Chairman, IHRO, Kamikkar Singh, Presidium Member, Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), Gurdeep Singh Bhatinda, Secretary, Akali Dal (1920), Baba Resham Singh, Baba Gurmeet Singh Sirsa, Harpal Singh Cheema, Presidium Member, Shiromani Akali Dal (Armritsar), Darshan Singh Mand, Member, KAC, Balkharn Singh, Member, KAC.
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