The Story of Cap & Trade (2009)

[ecotts]

Good upload

[99638527410logan]

do you want 6.00 gas prices just so you think you are saving the world when really other countries will increase pollution as companies go there because there is less regulations there for destroying thousands of jobs here

[99638527410logan]

do you want 6.00 gas prices just so you think you are saving the world when really other countries will increase pollution as companies go there because there is less regulations there for destroying thousands of jobs

[biker477]

You say "Go EPA" I work in the transportation field. The EPA has forced companies to integrate something in the big trucks called "ReGen" in the exhaust stacks. It is suppose to burn off carbon stored in the stacks and keep CO2 reduced. Sounds good until you find out that the ReGen system just shoots raw fuel into the exhaust stack to accomplish this. So to keep burning fuel from making CO2 we shoot more fuel into the system? That's the EPA solution.

[biker477]

I thought that CO2 feeds the plants of the world. If we stop the economies of the world by restricting production, due to no replacement for fossil fuels, we are back to little house on the prairie. As for the "Warming" look at the data, we have been cooling more the heating over the last 10 years. All the "Warming" from the last 50 years has been reversed is the last 10 because of the cooling. Ice in the north has lost feet, where ice in the south has gained miles. Look it up.

[TheThunderduck]

Except that scientists who prove that Global Warming is a hoax are ostrasized, ignored, bullied and threatened by left wing groups, and cannot find platforms for thier views and evidence. Watch the BBC documentary "The Global Warming Scam". When Patrick Moore, the founder of Greenpeace, says it's a political hoax, you gotta at least listen.

[gonzmay1]

Given the state of crisis we are in now, we must take aggressive but reasonable steps to develop and improve our use of existing fuels, while we develop and perfect in test markets, the alternatives. Offer incentives if needed, to use the alternatives, when it is ready to mass distribute. Since the US has massive reserves of fuel to use, there is no reason we have to rely on hostile and unstable governments to fuel our economy. We can grind to a halt, or we can hum and innovate.

[350orbust]

It's time to stop listening to the pro-pollution, anti-science crowd that denies what all of the Academies of Science in the world are saying - we are facing a climate crisis that is making our global climate increasingly unstable.

As Dr. Henry Pollock from the U of Michigan said recently:

“Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it changes from solid to liquid. It just melts.”

[350orbust]

Thanks, Ms. Leonard, for an intelligent and articulate summary of the Cap and Trade scam, brought to us by the bozos who are responsible for the housing crisis and the economic recession. Carbon Fee and Dividend is a much better answer to the urgent need to decrease our society's carbon pollution. For more, check out "Building a Green Economy - The Economics of Pricing Carbon and the Transition to Clean, Renewable Fuels" at Citizens Climate Lobby

[tutorialconr]

They should pay Millions of dollars per ton !

[gofindjeff]

Interesting, if you believe MAN-made global warming is to blame. However, there are a “few inconvenient” facts that leaves the “truth” of “MAN-made” global warming in absolute tatters. First, the polar ice caps of Mars and Pluto are shrinking the same way they are here on Earth. Look it up yourself: NASA / James M. Taylor (published in November of 2005). Maybe it’s all those Toyota and Ford SUVs on Pluto, or that little Rover on Mars doing it though, huh?

[gofindjeff]

Second, the sun’s coronal magnetic field has doubled in the last 100 years. Sunspot activity, solar flares and cosmic ray flux are not following predictable patterns now. “The Sun’s Strange Behavior Lately is Baffling Scientists.” Look it up yourself.

Third, any single MAJOR volcanic eruption releases more greenhouse pollutants into the air than the exhaust of ALL automobiles on earth since their invention COMBINED. We’re talking about CO2 - SO2 - H2S - CO – HCl – HF – & more.

[gofindjeff]

Fourth, sea levels used to be higher NORMALLY. Next time you visit the island of Oahu in Hawaii, take a ride on the old historic railway. You will see signs everywhere of the ancient coral reef bed that now makes up the entire Ewa Plain on the Southwest corner of the island. Look it up.

So we may be actually returning to “normal” conditions in both temperature and sea level. We just don’t want to admit it because it hasn’t been that way during modern man’s recent reign on earth.

[gofindjeff]

P.S. The isle of Oahu’s volcanoes are extinct. That means that Oahu is ABSOLUTELY NOT getting any higher or taller, in any way whatsoever.

The chain’s only landmass gaining altitude is the “Big Isle” of Hawaii (just a very tiny bit taller and wider on its southeastern edge). But it’s like adding layers of icing to a cake. If the same thing was to happen to the aforementioned ancient coral-beds on the Eva Plain, they would be buried under a younger layer of lava rock.

[globalfirm]

I got it.

[CrazyForLifee]

whenever i watch 1 of ur vids i got a feeling tht the worlds gonna end soon 0.0

[abbadabbadolittle]

I love these videos....Like social awareness for dummies.

[deskset24]

This woman is AWESOME! So articulate! So right!

The first video I saw from FreeRangeStudios - the Meatrix - is the fucking BEST THING ON THE INTERNET!

[deskset24]

GET EDUCATED PEOPLE! GO READ THE PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES BY THE IPCC - FIRST - BEFORE READING ANY OF THE BULLSHIT BLOGS & BOOKS AND SHIT ON THE INTERNET COMMENTING ABOUT THE IPCC.

THEN - **** AND ONLY THEN *** - MAKE UP YOUR MIND AGAINST GW,

IF YOU GOT A BETTER THEORY.

[thelyniezian]

@deskset24 Getting access to peer-reviewed scientific journals and papers is usually rather expensive and such articles probably don't make a huge amount of sense to laypersons.

Not everyone is an expert, but everyone is affected by the issue.

[deskset24]

Capitalism and free market works in theory but not in practice. Just ask the billions of animals needlessly murdered in factory farms. Or countries around the world that get poisoned by polluters from other countries.

And, no - America is NOT the only country to blame. Even the extreme nationalistic Chinese & Soviets (USSR) were big polluters and anti-environmental.

[deskset24]

ANY FORM OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT WITH CORPORATIONS & CAPITALISM WILL NEVER WORK! e.g. allowing permits to pollute, but merely reducing # of permits.

ONLY NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT & EXTREME PUNISHMENT AGAINST DELIBERATE POLLUTERS WORKS!

[PoohSan543]

I love these videos, but they all sneak around the real problem - Capitalism. Why doesn't anyone have the balls to call the system out? Cap 'n' Trade, consumer markets, fast food, industrial agriculture, all of these things are consequences of the free market.

The fact is, for real change, the people have to take this country back from the corporations. That's a system called Socialism, where we decide what our country does. Support Socialism today and end Capitalist control!

[deskset24]

@PoohSan543 That's because all the free-marketers are lying rightwing conservative extremists who preach they oppose "big government" but in reality (in "secret", though it's no secret) they LOVE big government supporting THEIR unjust laws that allow them to pollute and imprison people for using marijuana or solar power, and to suck up all the taxes for their corporate welfare.

It's because they've never done a day of hard work in their lives.

Lazy rightwing conservative parasites.

[carn333]

Well, she's right about one thing.Cap and Trade is a scam. The whole things is a scam.This reminds me of the hysteria in the late 70's early 80's about GLOBAL COOLING and we're all going to be buried under ice and DIE unless we act RIGHT NOW.Real climate change happens all the time and the only solution is for us to learn to regulate the sun, the sun's cycle and sunspots are what drives climate change. CO2 just fertilizes plants.Get away from the visual media and read some books on this subject.

[Spartanboy3000]

"Our Leaders?"

What happened to "Being a self leader?" Like we were taght as kids. STOP BEING BICAMERAL PEOPLE!

[scenethelite]

Pt.3 (see 1st vid&2nd Bottled Water 4 my 1st 2 comments)..So don't automatically believe everythg u see/read, b/c truly "unbiased" news reporting, documentaries, educational films like this, r now thing of the past! I'm educated on both sides as a journalism/psychology major. Subtle bias skewing"technically"correct facts,2support socialist agenda =sick! Open ur eyes or they'll make this happen in a BAD WAY! BEWARE! The Problem= REAL! This Solution= Not necessarily the best answer 2 settle on!

[scenethelite]

Pt. 3: (see 1st vid Story of Stuff & 2nd Bottled Water for my 1st 2 comments) So don't automatically believe everything u see/read anymore b/c truly "unbiased" news reporting, documentaries, educational films like this series, etc., are now a thing of the past! As a journalism/psychology major I'm highly educated on both aspects. This is sad so many pple are blindly buying it.

[jguillermop]

How do you guys make these videos?!?!?! I love it!!

[jamesrweber]

Well done. Your critics don't really understand climate change.

[TorturedSoulBoy]

Why doesn't this mention the negligible effect human activities have on greenhouse gas concentrations? Human emissions account for about 0.117% of the carbon dioxide production. The remaining 99.883 % comes from natural sources and cannot be controlled. So tell me, why should I care about this video? Future? What future?

[BadHabit202]

Global Warming is a joke.

[arabiafish]

Just great! Finally real people,thx God. Thank u so much.

[rane998]

I agree with you about "Cap And Trade", but sad to say there will never be a perfect climate solution

[grantsinmypants2]

9 out of 10 African farmers wouldn't have ever been born if it weren't for the big "party" being thrown by the 1st world.

[naiemk]

There is only one good thing for this carbon trade, and that is that I get $300 from the power plant for installing my $8,000 solar system on the roof.

-> The only real solution for now is to put a cap tax on Oil and make it less affordable. This will at least make alternative energies completable. You don't believe, the technology is there, but cheap carbon doesn't let it grow.

[ruanrew75]

Just disappear into the woods and return to the wild. Its the only way.

[r66dTesla]

People are so Unaware of how serious this problem is right now !!! it's the " oh ,let someone else do it " attitude that makes it fail. there are so many other ways to get FREE clean energy .

Nikola Tesla tried to showed us the way over 100 years ago!!! the world was not ready to hear it.

well........I bet they will listen now?

 ( or maybe not because " FREE " is a four letter word )

R66D

[destroytheNWO2d]

@r66dTesla I LIKE HOW YOU POINT OUT THE FOLLY & CORRUPTION OF THE CAP & TRADE SCAM. BUT WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THAT THEY ARE THE ONES WHO FLOODED THE MEDIA WITH "GLOBAL WARMING" & "CLIMATE CHANGE" PROPAGANDA IN THE FIRST PLACE, IN ORDER TO CAUSE WELL MEANING PEOPLE AS YOURSELF TO BECOME FALSELY ALARMED & GO ALONG WITH THERE DIABALICAL SCHEME OF "CAP & T" & "GLOBAL LAWS!"

[Spartanboy3000]

@destroytheNWO2d Thank you someone who reads David Icke books.

[destroytheNWO2d]

@Spartanboy3000 Not true, I just know how the world works & the masive deception that most people are under.

[Spartanboy3000]

@destroytheNWO2d Oh, wel, did you read them? I think they are pretty accurate.

[destroytheNWO2d]

@Spartanboy3000 i have not read any of David Ickes books. i don't dout that he has a lot of fastenating & accurate info but i prefer to learn by audio/video. i have watched a litte of him. The documentary "GLOBAL WARMING OR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE" sheds a lot of light on this topic. u can watch it on u-tube, just copy & paste the title i quoted into the search bar... info is power, God bless

[halang2x]

@r66dTesla only hwen it's already too late brother.... like they said "save your regrets for last"

[scenethelite]

@r66dTesla We ALL agree the problem IS REAL,but we DONT hav 2 agree w/their solution! Take a closer look. Using "technically correct" facts by skewing them to subtly lead people toward THEIR idea of a solution (which n this case has LOTS of socialist/communist philosophy!) Did u know communism looks real good on paper/n theory,but DOESNT WORK&DANGEROUS! That's what these vids r about. Can't u see that? Subtle bias is common dirty tactic they use. U think they're gonna just say "I'm commie?" NO!

[badpanda84]

The problem is stop climate change you need to get the big countries like china and indina to cooperate. - But its hypocritical to tell developing counties they cant pollute yet the US polluted alot went they were deveolping.( went it wasnt a problem)

[WildAnanas]

@badpanda84 it's not hypocritical. pollution affect everyone. by that logic we should discredit a smoker telling us not to smoke on the sole basis that they have also done it. to equate "environment friendly" with "economic downturn" is at least proof of shortsightedness.

[badpanda84]

@WildAnanas Of course its hypocritical. And you anology dosent work because smokered didnt benfit from smoking. Where as the US did benfit from being able to develop there industry without restriction.

[badpanda84]

@WildAnanas The fact is that for countries to develop they ineviatble will pollute more.

[badpanda84]

@WildAnanas ' it's not hypocritical. pollution affect everyone"

Exactly which was cause most by the US went it was developing. You cant have economic growth without an increase in pollution

[TheGiantRobot]

Carbon fees that go up exponentially the more you pollute.

And, lets extend that to all forms of pollution.

Problem solved.

Now we need a video on how to get our political power back from the corporate elite so we can actually get these things to happen.

[MrEnergyCzar]

Great video...I'm putting as a favorite on my channel....

[HLkiller2]

I am bursting with understanding.

HOLY SHIT!!! O_O

[InnerHealingCenter]

I fully agree with what you said and will now do something about it. Congratulations about doing this.

Thank you. You're right on.

[sexyfingers]

idiots climate change has been around way before humans ever stepped foot on this planet... if there is present climate change we have no power in stopping it.

[bobbeedigi]

@sexyfingers

I wish I could give this post 1,000,000,000 thumbs up

[adsicks]

Wow!!! Even the Greenpeacers are against Cap and Trade...

[CreationPhotography]

climate is allways changing thou fools

Truth is al gore flipped the truth actually graphs show first the earth worms then carbon follows the warming not

first carbon then warmth

[technochook]

thanks to tiger hoods

[technochook]

woods*

[technochook]

copenhagen didnt work! damn them

[CreationPhotography]

truth is

INFOWARS

[dinotad]

"The biggest crisis humanity has faced". ?

Well first off you'll have to believe global warming...I mean climate change exists. Second you to do all that she tells you may have to give up certain rights to the government.

I don't believe in Climate change and don't like the Gov.

I'm tried of the Tides foundation feeding us this junk just because they believe that whatever they say is the truth..

[Defcon555onEarth]

Get real indeed, CO2 is not the problem to start with... Climate Gate is!

[fallingtower]

Radical! This is way better than our silly star trek music video that we did!

[PhelanMenclStudios]

I'm afraid we are all mistaken here. recent weather reports show the the earth is cooling. also, i'm not sure why people such high regard for labels. someonce calls themselves a scientist, claims the earth will explode and everyone freaks out and slanders people who simply question the evidence. has it occured to anyone that this could be a gimic? politicians are undeniably crooked, how abouts we all just try this amazing and forgotten ancient art called critical thinking.

[funex4me2day]

I knew some Climate denialists were dumb but I didn't realise how dumb until I read the comment from Tiarnan76. Why would 90% of world scientists agree that Climate Change is a reality if people like Tiarnan 76 know best. Is there some logical reason that you can come up with Tiarnan76 or will you resort to profanity and insult as you usually do.

[zanshei]

Wow. the future of humanity at stake and we can't even agree that it's a problem on youtube.

[0chris69]

All of the plants are heating up From the sun Having a rage of Sunspot Activity As it goes throw it Cycles. David Rothschild said that The plants that where heating up where closer to the sun then us....Yes David...ever planet in the solar system is closer to the sun the sun then us...even tho there are 9 planets and we are 3rd....... (Slap a David)......I was not born yesterday. the sun is heating up in turn heating us and all the other planets.

[fabribek]

Correction .... it ain't coming from the Sun! The Sun is responding to the energies coming from the Galactic Center!

[0chris69]

No if the sun heats up so do we cause and effect...also if it was co2 the we could just have to grow trees and other plants to use the co2 to make oxygen a Set of taxes will not help anyone.

[sakopcantsitstill]

no one agrees on anything anymore,wake up guys

were never gonna fix this mess,

humans really suck,

[pixeloso]

Hi Guys

who dont belive we are the parasite in this planet ... u will eat you own shiit!

[fabribek]

Hi Guys

Many things to factor in here...

There are multiple technologies that can tap into "free energy ", Quantum energy, or whatever you want to call it.

There are also multiple technologies that would allow current engines to run cleaner and more economically, (GEET and other forms of water for fuel technologies).

Global Warming is a natural cycle as our Solar System nears the Galactic Plane! So all that drivel about Climate Change being caused by Humans is a lie. Educate Yourselves!

[GretnaBlast]

If human-caused climate change is a total lie, why bother mentioning clean running engines? Let's just pollute all we want because it has no effect on the environment whatsoever! Good times for all motherf****s!! I'm gonna go stick my head in the microwave...

[SubtUtiles]

I like all the points of this analysis, but I miss some reference to the notion of peak oil and the fact that, most likely, Climate Change has been pushed by the western world in order to implement Energy policy disguised as Environmental policy. By capping the growth of CO2 emissions you cap "the right to burn fossil fuels". Wealthy countries would see their oil supply plummet if oil producers started to sell their oil to developing nations as they become industrial.

[bleeder]

Organic no-meat diet is the answer.

UN 'Livestocks Long Shadow' 2006 report says livestock industry is reponsible for 18% of GHG. A 2009 updated Worldwatch report revises this figure up to 51%.

A 2009 report by Netherlands Envrionmental Assessment Agency shows how 80% of cost of mitigating climate change can be elimanted by switching to a non-meat diet.

Rodale Institute says switching to organic farming methods can absorb up to 40% of atmospheric carbon.

Stop eating meat now 2 save our lives

[deskset24]

@bleeder FINALLY! Someone with sense!

I am SICK of hearing from lunatics who believe

"humans cause global warming - but then supports nuclear energy" or

"bankers & CEOs are evil - but then blame Jews and Illuminati"

"aliens (UFOs) are real - but they are demons from hell"

i.e. they believe the things I do - then go off half-cocked with their bullshit epistemological explanations. Worst of all, they are so fucking CERTAIN of their explanations!

[bloodcry223]

I like the animations :D...that's why I watch this xD.

[johnnnyk]

This is bang on I love it.

The whole thing is a distraction. carbon isn't pollution

Global warming is a natural phenomenon.

it's the whole other mess of toxic gunk that is the real pollution. These tax and trade scam artists don't care about you, the earth, polar bears, or third world countries. Just capitalism and global control.

we need to lynch all these filthy con artists. starting with Al Gore.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!

[yaik7a]

They are as stupid as Tiarnan76.

[tiarnan76]

I should have known you were a communist cunt - you deserve to be locked away in a gulag till u rot

[scenethelite]

@johnnnyk We ALL agree the problem IS REAL,but we DON'T hav 2 agree w/their solution! Take a closer look. Using "technically correct" facts by skewing them to subtly lead people toward THEIR idea of a solution (which n this case has LOTS of socialist/communist philosophy!) Did u know communism looks real good on paper/in theory,but just DOESNT WORK&DANGEROUS! That's what these vids r about. Can't u see that? Subtle bias is common dirty tactic used. U think they're gonna just say "I'm commie?" No

[tiarnan76]

I stopped listening after 2 mins of this indoctrination bullshit, but I'll hazard a guess you dont cover the leaked emails in the Climategate controversy which has exposed all this bullshit.

[scenethelite]

@tiarnan76: (Pt.2) U are spot on w/what they're doing here. And a friend sent me this link saying they were USING THESE VIDS IN SCHOOLS NOW! SCARY! Raising OUR kids w/socialist values so @18 vote for THEIR agenda,w/o evn knowing! Restating a prob we all AGREE&skewing facts 2 support their idea of "solution" & using that old psych trick 2 get support. WE CAN DO BETTER&if ppl voted down more bills, they'd b FORCED to rewrite'em w/better deets & less shadiness,but ppl dont know how to judge anymore

[tiarnan76]

All serious scientists say we need to reduce our carbone emissions?? No, only scientists funded by the New World Order say that - humans account for only 5% of Carbon in the atmosphere - 95% is produced by the oceans - so what do you plan to do - remove the oceans?? CLIMATE CHANGES - ITS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE DAY ONE - THE EARTH IS IN FACT COOLING DOWN - OUR CLIMATE CHANGES WITH THE SUNS ACTIVITY - FUCK OFF WITH YOUR NEW WORLD OREDER VIDEOS AND LYING TO US.

[yaik7a]

Your pseudo-science does not scare me !

Also one more thing to shit your pants ,

cause of your stupid comments I can tell that

this will provoke you . There is not such thing as Jesus or God for that matter too.

[scenethelite]

@tiarnan76: Ur the ONLY person who can also c thru this commie crap. =) Kudos! @Others: Keep in mind that Skewing technically "correct" facts & stating a problem (that we ALL agree is there), just 2 use it 2 support an agenda like this is scary guys! Subtle bias is all over & rampant N these vids if ppl can take closer look. Don't b so foolish 2 support any ole cause,just cuz u agree w/their assessment of the problem! They lead u to THEIR OWN agenda this way. Bush did same w/war & O w/healthcare

[FREEAMERICANOW69]

i love this chick!

[BlondieCartoons]

a little to long for me...

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