According to a delusional study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the price of carbon needs to be $59 per ton in order to cripple the economy to the point where carbon emissions drop to the goal of the Copenhagen accord. Given that the average family of four is responsible for 211,680 lbs or 96 metric tons of CO2 per year, at the "required" $59/ton, the carbon tax cost for the average family would have to be $5664/yr to avoid the fictitious problem of AGW. Note: carbon offsets are trading today at 10 cents per metric ton on the Chicago Climate Exchange.So why ten cents a ton, rather than $59 a ton? Because the politicians don't care a bit about global warming, they care about power and money. Ten or fifteen cents is a good start for them. It'll take 20 or 30 years for the overhead of graft to build by a factor of 600.
But hey, anything to save the
Wow, extinct in 50 years! Quick, everybody, send in your $5600 today!Global Warming could make Humans EXTINCT within 50 years
Kill mechanisms list
Global Warming could make the human race EXTINCT. The #1 kill mechanism is famine. See “The Long Summer” by Brian Fagan and “Collapse” by Jared Diamond. Shifting winds and warmer oceans have already created a weird moving checkerboard of drought and flood that has interfered with agriculture here and elsewhere.
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It seems like a small price to pay so we can all joined hands walking back into the dark/stone ages.
Of course thinking as a optimist, that extinction clause could have some serious ramifications for your blog Borepatch...
By the way, you did not post an address of where we can send in our $5600 dollars out of civic duty and for the good of all humanity: so just sent it directly to me "Stan" care of my blog and I will make sure it's put to good use right up until that pesky extinction hits......lol
"Within 50 years we'll be extinct! Because we overpopulated and starved to death -- no, DDT'd all wildlife -- no, froze to death -- no, heated to death -- no, CHANGED to death -- eh, whatever. Give us money!!"
I wonder if they will set up an installment plan? Then again, an easy payment plan over the internet. That way, Zero won't be too quick to hit the kill switch.
MikeH.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-H. L. Mencken
Famine due to warming, riiiggghhht. These fruitcakes forget that previous warm periods were hugely beneficial. Imagine Siberia, 6 degrees warmer. Breadbasket of the universe.
Some mild warming would be a good thing. Shame we aren't getting any. In fact, it seems likely that we will soon be back were we were in the 1970's, worrying about global cooling.
Come, now. Do you really think that it's possible for us to kill ourselves all the way off? We have the ability to make the environment suit ourselves (think: Heaters, A/C, coats and jackets, and stirling engine-powered fans, not to mention any super fantastical ideas like Biodome III).
Fundamentals of debate. Don't remember the number, but one of the top 10 rules:
The weaker the argument, the more strident the rhetoric.
Confidentially, someone needs to tell these morons, CO2 is fertilizer.
For amusement, go check out the canonical list of everything caused by global warming, at Number Watch
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