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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (60220)	2/9/2005 4:10:32 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Huge scam on the making. <The scheme is the market mechanism of the Kyoto protocol, which comes into force on February 16 and aims to reduce the emission of so-called greenhouse gases linked to global warming.> I've seen 3G spectrum auctions. I've Y2K. I've seen the oil "crisis" of 1973 This is going to be big. Potentially, the biggest scam ever! Watch it develop. It has the hallmark of a potential scam. A scam that even a Nigerian would look to it in awe! 1) Fear created to make ignorant masses pliable and soft to be useful to be fleeced. 2) Fuzzy unobjective ways of measure. 3) Loopholes the size of Chilean copper mine for the cunning to use. Huge potential for South Africa in EU emission trade February 9, 2005 By Ed Stoddard Johannesburg - South Africa had huge potential to sell carbon credits to European industries under the EU's international carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme, a conference heard yesterday. The scheme is the market mechanism of the Kyoto protocol, which comes into force on February 16 and aims to reduce the emission of so-called greenhouse gases linked to global warming. Under the scheme, industrial sites have been set limits on the carbon dioxide they can emit. If they exceed them, they must pay a fine or buy allowances from firms that undershoot their targets. Companies and industries have no set Kyoto targets for emission reductions in South Africa, which is classed as a developing country. Under the clean development mechanism, they can still sell carbon credits to European companies that exceed their caps - provided they demonstrate that they have reduced their own emissions under an approved and verified project. And as the world's 14th-biggest polluter, with a heavy dependency on coal but the technical expertise to clean up its act, South Africa could become a major player in this emerging field. "South Africa is particularly attractive for the clean development mechanism because the emissions are so high," Randall Spalding-Fecher, director of ECON analysis, an energy and environmental consultancy, told the conference, called Carbon Emissions: A Financial Markets Perspective. The market is still very much in its infancy. While South Africa is ripe for it, few have taken the plunge. Spalding-Fecher said only a few projects in South Africa were at the feasability study stage. "The potential for South Africa in this regard is huge," Valli Moosa, South Africa's former environment minister, said on the sidelines of the conference. "Kyoto is really a work of beauty. South African companies can cut their emissions, sell the credits to Germany, and bring foreign investment into the country," he said. busrep.co.za

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (60220)	2/9/2005 5:32:53 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

How I do my research. Discovering bias: Get some piece of news stating some fact that I think s being used to fool the ignorant mass. For example: news.google.com "Snow, where'd you go? Europeans wonder what happened to winter" Where are the articles?? They've been removed! Why? Easy answered: Temperatures have jumped up a bit, global warming crowd said: "See the proof!" see one article that hasn't been removed, with the crowd seeing the 'proof': casperstartribune.net Now the news after that fact denies what has been publiched. It is snowing in Greece and Lebanon. That's why the articles have been removed. Low temperatures are killing people of hypotermia in the Balkans. Central Europe is frozen with record low temperatures. I've But wait! There's more to it. Try finding news about the record low temperatures. No where to be seen. I only got it in Portuguese only: See translation in bold Frio recorde na Europa Central causa várias vítimas PARIS, 8 fev (AFP) - Um frio polar está sendo registrado há vários dias no centro da Europa, com recordes de temperaturas abaixo de zero que vêm causando várias mortes. No centro da Croácia, onde as temperaturas chegaram a até 20 graus negativos, uma senhora de pelo menos 80 anos foi encontrada morta de frio perto de sua casa na aldeia de Kapljuh. No norte da vizinha Bósnia, perto de Banja Luka, o termômetro baixou até 30 graus negativos e dois homens de cerca de 40 anos morreram de hipotermia em suas casas, nos povoados de Knezevo e de Piskavica. No norte e no leste da Bulgária, onde o frio glacial e a neve espessa impedem qualquer atividade, a imprensa registrou dois casos desde sexta-feira de pessoas doentes mortas em suas casas, uma vez que as ambulâncias não conseguiram abrir caminho para lhes dar assistência. Na Romênia, uma temperatura recorde de 35,8 graus negativos foi registrada na madrugada da terça-feira, em Intorsura Buzaului (centro). É a temperatura mais baixa registrada no mês de fevereiro neste país nos últimos 70 anos, anunciou o Instituto de Meteorologia. O gelo bloqueou por cinco horas em pleno campo dois trens entre Bucareste e Timisoara (oeste). Romenia, lowest teperatures in 70 years. A onda de frio foi registrada dias depois das tempestades de neve que paralisaram o sudeste do país e causaram a morte de pelo menos duas pessoas na semana passada. Dois recordes de frio foram igualmente registrados nestes últimos dias na República Tcheca, em Ostrava (nordeste), com -19,2°C no domingo e -21,6°C na segunda-feira. Ostrava Czech Republic -19,2°C Sunday -21,6°C MOnday Na Polônia, a temperatura desceu a -32°C na noite da segunda-feira em Stuposiany, na região montanhosa de Bieszczady (sudeste), ainda que sem atingir o recorde de frio para esta região (-37°C). Poland, -32°C some mountainous places reached (-37°C). Os países bálticos também foram castigados pela onda de frio, com temperaturas de -24°C na Lituânia. No Mar Báltico, as viagens entre Tallin, a capital da Estônia, e Helsinque foram suspensas, devido ao gelo que bloqueia o porto da capital da Finlândia. Baltic countries, -24C in Lithuania. Baltic Sea, Finland harbor blocked by ice. O frio e a neve chegaram à Grécia, onde sopraram violentos ventos sobre o Mar Egeu. No Mar Negro, sobre a costa da Turquia, dois marinheiros de um cargueiro de bandeira norte-coreana, surpreendidos por uma tempestade de neve, estão desaparecidos. Dois helicópteros do Exército turco conseguiram salvar outros nove marinheiros do "Adnan 1", um navio que transportava materiais de construção da Rússia para a Síria. Western Siberia, TUva Region -50 the lowest temperature in the last 10 years. Mais ao leste, na Sibéria ocidental (Rússia), a região de Tuva registrou temperaturas próximas aos -50°C, as mais baixas dos últimos dez anos.