Gosh, who could have predicting this? Oh, wait, haven’t we we heard this same thing months before in Britain? See this WUWT story.
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Scams in many countries are subject to investigation by authorities
Authorities in several countries investigate VAT tax fraud stemming from the Danish CO2 quota register
Denmark is the centre of a comprehensive tax scam involving CO2 quotas, in which the cheats exploit a so-called ‘VAT carrousel’, reports Ekstra Bladet newspaper.
Police and authorities in several European countries are investigating scams worth billions of kroner, which all originate in the Danish quota register. The CO2 quotas are traded in other EU countries.
Denmark’s quota register, which the Energy Agency within the Climate and Energy Ministry administers, is the largest in the world in terms of personal quota registrations. It is much easier to register here than in other countries, where it can take up to three months to be approved.
Ekstra Bladet reporters have found examples of people using false addresses and companies that are in liquidation, which haven’t been removed from the register.
One of the cases, which stems from the Danish register, involves fraud of more than 8 billion kroner. This case, in which nine people have been arrested, is being investigated in England.
The market for CO2 trade has exploded in recent years and is worth an estimated 675 billion kroner globally.
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Thanks Bill, I just emailed this to Michael Ashley, cc the UNSW comms office
“Dear Prof Ashley,
Sorry to add to what must have been a bad week.
I just reread your insufferably pompous and, as the CRU emails show, utterly worthless review of Ian Plimer’s book. When I read the review I formed a poor view of Plimer’s work. It now turns out that you and your “peers” have vilified him and his like, you have stifled good science, given nourishment to bad science, and should now hang your heads in shame – at least send the man an apology, for God’s sake. Or would that be to concede some ground that you may later need in court?
Sincerely,
T.S.Forrester-Paton
Cc
WattsupWithThat
Andrew Bolt
And many more
“
Now we only need to have us some MediaGate and expose their involvement in the hype.
This from today’s Wall Street Journal
“….Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative think tanks that have offered dissenting views on what until recently was called—without irony—the climate change “consensus.”
To read some of the press accounts of these gifts—amounting to about 0.0027% of Exxon’s 2008 profits of $45 billion—you might think you’d hit upon the scandal of the age. But thanks to what now goes by the name of climategate, it turns out the real scandal lies elsewhere.
Climategate, as readers of these pages know, concerns some of the world’s leading climate scientists working in tandem to block freedom of information requests, blackball dissenting scientists, manipulate the peer-review process, and obscure, destroy or massage inconvenient temperature data—facts that were laid bare by last week’s disclosure of thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, or CRU.
But the deeper question is why the scientists behaved this way to begin with, especially since the science behind man-made global warming is said to be firmly settled. To answer the question, it helps to turn the alarmists’ follow-the-money methods right back at them.
Consider the case of Phil Jones, the director of the CRU and the man at the heart of climategate. According to one of the documents leaked from his center, between 2000 and 2006 Mr. Jones was the recipient (or co-recipient) of some $19 million worth of research grants, a sixfold increase over what he’d been awarded in the 1990s.
Why did the money pour in so quickly? Because the climate alarm kept ringing so loudly: The louder the alarm, the greater the sums. And who better to ring it than people like Mr. Jones, one of its likeliest beneficiaries?
Thus, the European Commission’s most recent appropriation for climate research comes to nearly $3 billion, and that’s not counting funds from the EU’s member governments. In the U.S., the House intends to spend $1.3 billion on NASA’s climate efforts, $400 million on NOAA’s, and another $300 million for the National Science Foundation. American states also have a piece of the action, with California—apparently not feeling bankrupt enough—devoting $600 million to their own climate initiative. In Australia, alarmists have their own Department of Climate Change at their funding disposal…”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB40001424052748703939404574566124250205490.html
Climate change is not a scam, anthropogenic climate change however is a scam.
Please distinguish between the two when talking.
Climate change is not a scam, anthropogenic climate change however is a scam.
Please distinguish between the two when talking.
Be careful Jones has not gone he’s just been suspended ( probably on full pay) whilst Climategate is investigated. I don’t see the University of East Anglia admitting the fraud so it’s possible that Jones would be reinstated if there’s a white wash.
Easy: The more rules the more corruption. The more individual freedom the less corruption.
I’m shocked, shocked! I tell you.
The pace at which this scam is unraveling is simply amazing. People are finally starting to realize what this perversion of science is really about, money.
Anthony, you deserve a world of thanks for your efforts.
Moonbot is over the top with his attacks on Canada and Australia. This is what you get when you don’t agree with the Moombot!. Go suck on an banger Moonbot. Do you some good to swallow some more pork!
Richard (23:27:49) : Happy to oblige – if a bit late. 🙂
Mann made global warming. It is going to 20 degrees tonight. I could use some heat.
Also one reason Big Oil seems to go with the flow is because they pass the taxes to the customer. It doesn’t lower their profit.
Well I never would have believed that some heavy-handed, intrusive government regulation would encourage illegal activity. Next thing we know, somebody will allege bureaucratic corruption!
I thought all government employees and people concerned about the environment were as pure as angels. Next thing we know, somebody will allege that scientists altered their findings in order to further an activist agenda.
It’s as if all you deniers think politicians, bureaucrats and scientists are no better than anybody else.
Have anybody seen this?:
America Creates Serfdom Through Cap and Trade
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/02-12-2009/110900-america_serfdom-0
OT … This is for Spenc BC …
Moonbot and National Geo tell us Alberta’s tar sands are a travesty … here they are compared to the world’s large cities…see here.
http://ocl3.shawwebspace.ca/
Short version is thus: Alberta’s tar sand are so huge (not) .. they don’t even stretch as far as downtown LA to Disneyland. ☺ Anyway…see the website I made a few months ago. Or one slide here:
http://photoshare.shaw.ca/image/9/b/9/176482/tarssandsoverlaat101-0.jpg?rev=0
Yeah there are other eco factors too, but in perspective, Moonbot’s trashing and National Geographic’s trashing are really unwarranted.
And yes, Lizzie is an extreme eco-weenie lawyer who probably cannot get elected in Canada’s greenest riding. L is for Lizzie. ☺
Cheers!
Clive
Tonyb2 (05:51:31) :
“Be careful Jones has not gone he’s just been suspended ( probably on full pay) whilst Climategate is investigated. I don’t see the University of East Anglia admitting the fraud so it’s possible that Jones would be reinstated if there’s a white wash.”
Tonyb2, 5 will get you 10 there will be! I’m sure of it. Whats the betting that Jones et al will come up smelling of roses, & I expect they will be found to have “done nothing wrong” etc, which we have all heard before here in the UK of late. If Lord Rees is going to be the investigator that would be like putting an MP in charge of assessing the MP’s expenses fiasco! Remember when Noo Labour investigated the “blame/compensation culture” allegedly initiated by lawers looking for a fast buck in the UK, when first in power, they put ex-lawyers in charge of it. They found no evidence of a blamecompensation culture existed, that’s why we have had all those ambulance chasing adverts on tv ever since. “Have you had an accident & it wasn’t your fault? Well, you may be eligable for compensation!” Cut to picture of someone writnig a cheque with lots of noughts after the primary figure. “We here at Dooum, Screwum & Fleeceum can help!”. If I importuned for work like that I would be struck off! Of course the longer they leave such an investigation the more time they get to concoct a storyline to explain all those emails. Plausible deniability folks, Hide the decline. 🙂
Just a thought, should we all start & end our posts with that little gem as I suggested it might become a standing joke before too long, I think I will in any case! There is nothing like rubbing a little salt into a wound.
Dave Johnson (22:19:00) :
Just when you think it can’t get any better! And there is a headline on the CRU fraud in a major UK paper today http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/143573
HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > UK NEWS > Climate change ‘fraud’
This is the directory path of the Express story printed today. Hmmm. All the world’s a stage, or just this artifact-filled corner that is s’posed to be ours?? Itza virtual confusion. Hi Ma!
woodfortrees (Paul Clark) (02:50:49) : We’ve been here before:
As I said then, this is about VAT fraud on easily-cross-border-tradeable goods, nothing to do with the value or probity of commodity being traded.
HI Paul – I wrote to you (replied) here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/23/monbiot-issues-an-unprecedented-apology/
about temperatures. Grateful if you could have a look. Thanks
Regards – Richard
Dave Johnson (22:19:00) :
Just when you think it can’t get any better! And there is a headline on the CRU fraud in a major UK paper today http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/143573
HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > UK NEWS > Climate change ‘fraud’
Again. Note the directory path of the Express story. Hmmm.
“Richard (23:27:49) :
Richard (22:39:42) : Please distinguish yourself from me. Methinks since you are the newcomer put an initial after your name to distinguish yourself. 🙂 – Richard”
I suggest you both put your proper surname on the blog to avoid confusion.
JonesII (07:53:59) :
Have anybody seen this?:
America Creates Serfdom Through Cap and Trade
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/02-12-2009/110900-america_serfdom-0
– lol in all my days I would never have guessed that the Pravda would be the one to point at the USA as a communist country. OMG what a world we live in, is this the end times? Beam me up Scotty!
Leon (22:55:13) :
Why is it these articles always show an exhaust stack or cooling tower emitting a big plume? CO2 is invisible. The caption for the photo should correctly identify the plume of greenhouse gas being emitted as … Wait for it … Water vapor 🙂
Everyone knows CO2 is colorless and at all but very high concentrations, is odorless… Or do they?
Not to belittle the report, but Ekstra Bladet is a tabloid rag. So take it with a grain of salt.
bill (04:09:26) : Even more of a horror story http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/story-e6frg8no-1225710387147
I dont place much faith in Plimer. And that he quotes a paper that claims the Sun is similar in composition to a meteorite, as alleged, is appalling.
But Michael Ashley’s conclusions (that AGW is not an unproven hypothesis) do not follow from his criticisms of Plimer.
That AGW is an unproven hypothesis can be concluded from the evidence provided in its favour (and the lack of it), and the reasons and logic it uses to argue its case. Well summed up here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/30/the-climate-science-isnt-settled/
Vincent (02:54:12) :
Daphne,
“Since we don’t use VAT (value added tax) in the U.S., ”
Indeed you don’t. And I believe that is the reason why the US authorities cannot record how much of a US built automobile was made outside the US – so they assume that is is all made in the US. Because the whole value is assumed to be US domestic product, the GDP figures are artificially skewed upwards.
Ummm no. On the Expenditure side measurement of GDP we have:
GDP = C + I + G + (X – M)
C = Consumption expenditure (households)
I = Investment Expenditure (businesses)
G = Government expenditure (self explanatory)
(X – M) = eXports less iMports
So yes, the last part of the equation subtracts imports from the GDP measure. That’s not to say the data isn’t “value-added” of course… and there is always the discrepancy issue between different measures of GDP (income-side versus expenditure-side, for example).