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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The Danes are leading the CarbonCare movement in many ways:
RichardJ (07:07:28) : Richard (23:27:49) : Happy to oblige..
Many thanks RichardJ
Chris Schoneveld (10:02:32) : I suggest you both put your proper surname on the blog to avoid confusion
I use it on Nature sometime (Dawson) but I am known as just Richard here. Would be more confusing now if I changed it.
Talking about nature, I made a number of comments here:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091202/full/462551a.html
But I have grave doubts they will be published
One of them in reply to:
Eric Rignot, University of California, Irvine
“Given the overwhelming scientific evidence for climate change, we should deal less and less with climate sceptics. Otherwise we should also deal with folks who think Elvis Presley is still alive, that Earth is less than 6,000 years old and that we cannot possibly have descended from monkeys.”
From memory:
“I thank you Eric Rignot for clubbing me those that believe the Earth is less than 6,000 years old. I couldnt care less about beliefs about Elvis Presley, which seems to greatly concern you. But if you had even the rudimentary knowledge about evolution, you would know that we are NOT descended from monkeys. (I resisted the temptation to say I couldnt vouch for him). We are descended from a common ancestor to monkeys far back in history and even further back to crocodiles.
I am NOT a sceptic of climate change. Climate change was invented by mother nature long before Al Gore invented the AGW hypothesis.”
In a previous one I strongly objected to the editor of Nature using the ad hominem label of “Denier” to people who did not believe that the AGW hypothesis was gospel, here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html