A press release from the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County:
Citizensʼ Climate Lobby Meeting – March 10
CRYSTAL LAKE – Report from the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County Education Committee:
- heavy storms
- wild winds
- droughts
- wild-fires
- floods
all indications of climate scientists foretelling of climate change effects.
This isn’t the future, of course, all these weather phenomena are happening in our world at the present time.
Climate change is not a future possibility; it’s a current presence around the world.
The bad news is itʼs only going to get worse, but the good news is we can still minimize how much worse it will get for future generations if we act promptly to reduce the fossil fuel emissions of heat-trapping gases that are indisputably warming the planet.
The education committee of Environmental Defenders of McHenry County is partnering with Citizensʼ Climate Lobby, a political non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization that supports thousands of volunteers to generate political will for a livable world.
Political will is what motivates elected officials to take action on an issue, and in our case, that issue is climate.
To reduce carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, CCL advocates for a steadily rising fee on carbon with revenue from that fee returned to households.
A study released in 2014 found that CCLʼs “Carbon Fee and Dividend” proposal would cut CO2 emissions 50% in 20 years while adding nearly 3 million jobs to the economy.
The education committee has been instrumental in starting a McHenry County Chapter of Citizensʼ Climate Lobby. The chapter meets monthly to connect with other CCL chapters and to take actions that will influence elected leaders in Washington.
Dr. James Hansen, our nationʼs foremost climatologist on global warming said this about CCL:
“If you want to join the fight to save the planet, to save creation for your grandchildren, there is no more effective step you could take than becoming an active member of this group.”
The next meeting of the McHenry County Chapter of Citizensʼ Climate Lobby is Tuesday, March 10, at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Ridgefield-Crystal Lake Presbyterian Church, 8505 Church Street, Ridgefield (Crystal Lake), 60012. Interested readers are invited to attend.
The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the environment. The group provides community residents with educational programs and volunteer action on pollution prevention, sustainable land use and energy and natural resource conservation. Donations are encouraged and are tax-deductible as charitable contributions. For more information, visit www.mcdef.org or call 815-338-0393.
Nonsense!
Let’s do a feasibility study!
Never waste a good crisis.
The sky is falling!
We’re in a mini ice age!
The planet is warming!
We only have a little over 120 years of solid climate data.
We have eons of geologic data.
The eons of data suggest weather is cyclical, not static.
To suggest the current warming is solely caused by human presence and interaction with our planet is the height of arrogance.
To suggest the planet is not capable of balancing itself just lacks any sort of reason or education.
Gore is the high priest of this current religion of saying the planet is warming due to humans and he is also the owner of the CO2 exchange which will handle all the financial transactions between nations based upon the framework of the Kyoto Accord.
This will make him a billionaire overnight and may make him the worlds first trillionaire should the major powers adopt any sort of internationalized CO2 exchange.
This entire “crisis” is manufactured to control the masses, create a new oligarchy and make one man and his investors very very rich.
To be clear, no one denies the climate data showing a slight rise in world temperatures.
To associate and attribute this to humans and their machinations alone is what is disputed.
Fifty years ago we were in a mini ice age.
Today we are slightly warmer.
Global warming “experts” sound very much like a four year old wanting the toy on tv now thinking their perspective on the world is the only one and the crisis of the moment is monumentally earth shattering.
Humans need to conserve.
Humans need to have a lighter touch on the earth and, through technology, have the ability to do so.
The destruction of the wildlife and plant life in third world nations is economic in nature and needs to be stopped because those are necessary pieces to the overall balance of the world.
How do we achieve this?
Be honest.
Educate.
Find an economic incentive to help these poor nations feed themselves by conserving their natural resources rather than destroying them.
The CO2 Exchange may be one of those tools but don’t lie to us and tell us the sky is falling.
A certain chicken did this and learned he had no credibility when it mattered.
Seriously? The Environmentalists have been repetitively wrong on the Climate.
Now the facts are: the Polar Ice Caps are expanding and earth’s temperature has been dropping since 1999.
It is laughable to even consider these people as genuine let alone to consider their “analysis” as scientific.
Eastern liberals have to suffer through a few snowstorms – ruining their personal jet aircraft travel to private Caribbean Islands – so they convince themselves that the Climate is changing to the ruin of the world.
Then they demand the regular folk to cut back on their emissions.
They don’t see their own foolishness as they live in a self-absorbed fantasy world.
It’s amazing.
Oh brother, lets try and lower taxes first.
You are right Skeptic.
This is baloney
And how many jobs would be lost as the result of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby Carbon Fee and Dividend Fee / Tax proposal.
Jobs lost from fees on / taxing the fossil fuel industries as the result of policies created from the proposal.
Lost opportunities (opportunity cost) of government tax breaks, grants, incentives, etc. for investing in green projects (windmill and solar farms, etc.) instead of other projects.
Notably, forecasting climate change involves complex math formulas and very powerful computers that leaves much open to interpretation, assumptions, and predictions.
Plus, carbon dioxide increases temperature yet sulfate aerosols reduce temperature.
So it’s far from conclusive what the best course of action is.
The Heartland Institute (Chicago) is skeptical about the dire warnings of man caused climate change.
http://www.heartland.org/issues/environment
The Heartland Institue is a right wing, Koch Bros who own oil fields, paid for political ad.
This is interesting premise: “paying dividend directly back to households’.
It’s a great idea to get people agitating for a play that actually ( in theory) pays them money.
So how much is the dividend expected to be per household, and most importantly, what percentage of the collected fees will accrue to the third party gatekeeper in the middle?
What may have bearing in this scheme is the Chicago Climate Exchenge.
Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) was set up for ( I’m pretty sure) about $25 million.
The seed money was supplied by a grant from some Dem political fund ( I seem to recall).
Then they went dark for lack of interested trading, then they were bought by ICE (intercontinental Exchange) for I believe $600 million.
The deal there was that aggregators would go around to American farmers , and women in rice paddies in undeveloped countries, and anybody who could conceivably “emit carbon”.
An aggregator had to bundle enough to create a ” carbon credit contract”. , was it 100 million tons CO2? Then the aggregator could sell that contract on CCX, and get the premium over and above what had to be paid to the “potential carbon emitters”.
But there were big players too.
A power plant for instance was in a position to sell carbon credits if it had sufficient production capacity and agreed to suppress that production.
Another power plant might have a lucrative occasion to sell peak power, and could buy a carbon credit enabling them to run additional production ( even in contravention of EPA regs and local zoning agreements!).
But it seemed to be working like Enron electric trading back in the day: traders were making money and that’s it.
The only noticeable impacts seemed to be deleterious for ordinary citizens.
And without concrete rules forcing the “carbon emitters” to participate, it petered out.
And then got bought out at a 20x multiple of initial investment!
In a recent Pew Research poll, 33% of Americans said that humans and other creatures have existed in their present form since the beginning of time, and thus they do not believe in evolution.
People do not often accept science they do not like and cannot “see” themselves.
Belief in gravity is easy, but processes that are complex and slow are harder to understand and accept.