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Subject:
Opposition to all Climate Treaty and Cap and Trade Schemes
To:
Sen. John Rockefeller
November 2, 2009
Dear Senator Rockefeller,
WHEREAS the proposed United Nations Global Climate Treaty intends to establish an un-democratic world government which would override our United States Constitution and surrender our national sovereignty; and
WHEREAS the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill, also known as ACES (the American Clean Energy and Security Act - HR 2454), will essentially impose an 'energy tax' on all goods and services produced in the United States; and
WHEREAS gasoline and electricity prices will, in President Obama's own words, "necessarily skyrocket" under a cap-and-trade scheme; and
WHEREAS cap-and-trade schemes are projected to cost US taxpayers over $1 trillion per year; and
WHEREAS the adoption of cap-and-trade would result in millions of additional US job losses; and
WHEREAS cap-and-trade would disproportionately inflict economic damage on the poor and middle-class; and
WHEREAS the U.S. economy is already in deep recession and cap-and-trade schemes could result in an additional $7 trillion loss in our Gross Domestic Product; and
WHEREAS the claims of carbon-driven anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are unproven and are, in fact, contested by over 31,000 scientists (compared to fewer than 50 on the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who claim AGW is a serious and immediate problem); and
WHEREAS global temperatures have not risen since 2000 and data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration demonstrates that the earth has actually been cooling for the last 4 years; and
WHEREAS new research from MIT has dispelled one of the key underpinnings of anthropogenic global warming theory (the notion that more long-wave radiation is trapped in the earth's atmosphere when temperature rises); and
WHEREAS the touted, climate benefit of cap-and-trade schemes is that global surface temperatures will be one-tenth-of-one-degree cooler than currently projected in one hundred years, if one even accepted the contested claims of AGW.
THEREFORE I petition President Obama not to sign the United Nations Climate Treaty. I also petition my US Senators to forcefully oppose ratification of the treaty and Congress to oppose any legislation that would create a cap-and-trade scheme in United States law.
Cap-and-trade would benefit a select group of wealthy individuals on the backs of hard-working American families who will see absolutely no benefit, not even after paying for a cap-and-trade scheme for 100 years.
Say "NO" to all cap-and-trade schemes.
Harrisville , WV
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