A zinc mining company called Nyrstar issued a response to the government’s proposed carbon tax scheme earlier this week, saying it could force their operation into bankruptcy. Assuming a $40 per ton carbon tax, the company would assume an annual tax of $70 million per year, which would wipe out profits from the Australian mining operation. So the next time a politician suggests that fixing the financial sector by fixing the environment first, remember this article. Entire companies could be wiped out of existence thanks to carbon …

While many expect the Obama administration to enact carbon taxes and cap-and-trade systems, it seems the President-Elect has the same problem that many global warming activists possess: the “do as I say, not as I do” attitude. You see, during his campaign, The One utilized a chartered 757 jet to fly across the country, hardly a carbon-neutral airplane. And now that he’s been elected, Obama recently flew from Chicago to Washington in the first class section of a Super MD-80 commercial jet. While that sounds great …

A rock very common in the Earth’s mantle may become part of the solution to global warming. Peridotite is unique because and carbon dioxide exposed to it becomes solid, like calcite. While the mining process to obtain it is prohibitively expensive (can it really be more expensive than carbon taxes??), the rock does appear at the surface on some parts of the globe. How long before this finding is shot down by the pro-tax crowd?
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Time now for the latest edition of The Daily Bayonet’s Global Warming Hoax Week-in-Review. In this week’s post, you can read about the following:
Is Al Gore an extortionist?
Tom Nelson ponders the question: why aren’t ocean levels a foot higher?
Two words: Alicia Silverstone. But she’s a little short of a picnic.
The WWF is calling for a second planet because we use too many resources on one.
China demands that the west pay for climate change measures. Like I need another tax.
Someone has developed carbon taxes …

It seemed for a while that the global warming activists had the upper hand on us over the summer.  Even after foot riots broke out across the country as the price of consumables jumped significantly and shortages popped up around the globe, the pressure was still on from environmentalists everywhere to invest in green technologies.  The price of oil didn’t help matters at all; I’m sure climate change advocates across the globe were salivating as they watched the price of oil climb to $140+ per barrel.  It certainly seemed that, …

Back when the news broke about rising food prices due, in part, to ethanol production to save the planet from global warming, I mentioned that the poor was the hardest hit.  Today, the MidKnight Review blog explores some other issues where the poor may be the hardest hit in the struggle to curtail global warming.  With many around the globe struggling just to feed themselves and their families each day, how can they react to the price of goods that are eco-friendly?  Green homes cost more than traditional homes.  Green …

This is just the kind of shifty tactic I can see a tax proponent using to manipulate polling numbers.  A true study on the human psyche.  If the recent elections in Canada were any indication, its citizens aren’t interested in a carbon tax.  However, this article from the Globe and Mail takes a different approach.  A poll was taken that rephrased the question to make the carbon tax seem, well, more like a basket of bunnies than a hungry leopard.  2000 people surveyed were asked if they supported a tax …

Former New Jersey governor and federal environmental chief Christine Todd Whitman is calling for an increase in nuclear energy in the United States saying, “…if you care about climate change and you care about air quality, nuclear power is really the only form of base power that doesn’t produce some of the regulated emissions and doesn’t contribute to global climate change.” Good point. However, those pushing the global warming hoax don’t see things as Ms. Whitman does. I wrote an article back in June on the climate …

In 1991, Norway enacted a punishing carbon tax - $65 per ton of greenhouse gas emitted.  The result?  Carbon emissions have risen 15% since that time.  The country blames the increase on growth but, with gasoline at or near $10 per gallon, it seems no price is too much to pay for personal transportation.  If you think this can’t happen in the United States, think again.  From the article:

Although the tax forced Norway’s oil and gas sector to become among the greenest in the world, soaring energy prices led to …

If you thought the defeat of the McCain-Warner-Lieberman energy plan meant no new carbon taxes, think again.  A regional initiative involving 10 states in the northeast United States is holding the first carbon allowance auction today beginning at 9:00 AM EDT.  In addition, some of the states involved in this regional effort will begin enforcing a cap-and-trade program on their electric power plants beginning next month.  What does this mean for consumers?  At a time of already high energy prices, Americans living in these states will be forced to pay …