Whatever happened to acid rain and the new ice age? I remember all this stuff from the 70s and 80s but it seemed to fade away. I remember seeing all the graphs, Adirondack lake PH levels, dying trees, and SO2 migration maps. Lots of "settled science" there that vanished from the headlines of big media.
Some time ago senators Tim Wirth and John Heinz put up "Project 88" legislation, where the idea was to harness American market and economic forces to improve the environment. The theory being that if you could make money on them, environmental regulations would be easier to implement. Just who got the money of course was decided by the government. No less an altruistic CEO than Ken Lay of Enron lobbied Bill Clinton and Al Gore on carbon trading in 97 to get the ball rolling. As Enron had huge investments in natural gas pipelines, if you could force power generation off of coal by carbon trading, you could make a fortune by substituting Enron's gas. Goldman Sachs jumped on the idea of carbon trading and Chicago Climate Exchange, an American version of it's European counterpart, looked to make huge money as soon as it got off the ground. Alas Enron, turned out to be run by frauds, much like Solyndra in the future, and the recession of 2008 reminded Americans that the global warming boogieman wasn't as important as watching their investments collapse. We seem to go from one collapsing scam to another as an endless stream of government backed and big media promoted medicine shows fleece the American economy. The green fraud looks endless as it's cult of supporters never fades.
Some time ago senators Tim Wirth and John Heinz put up "Project 88" legislation, where the idea was to harness American market and economic forces to improve the environment. The theory being that if you could make money on them, environmental regulations would be easier to implement. Just who got the money of course was decided by the government. No less an altruistic CEO than Ken Lay of Enron lobbied Bill Clinton and Al Gore on carbon trading in 97 to get the ball rolling. As Enron had huge investments in natural gas pipelines, if you could force power generation off of coal by carbon trading, you could make a fortune by substituting Enron's gas. Goldman Sachs jumped on the idea of carbon trading and Chicago Climate Exchange, an American version of it's European counterpart, looked to make huge money as soon as it got off the ground. Alas Enron, turned out to be run by frauds, much like Solyndra in the future, and the recession of 2008 reminded Americans that the global warming boogieman wasn't as important as watching their investments collapse. We seem to go from one collapsing scam to another as an endless stream of government backed and big media promoted medicine shows fleece the American economy. The green fraud looks endless as it's cult of supporters never fades.