I believe in Global Climate Change, but follow the money....?

Question

If we implement all of Al Gore and the U.N.'s policies to stop Human contribution to global warming, who benefits the most off of it, monetarily and politically speaking? Who will be hurt the worst?

Answer 1

If we implement all of the changes,the ones that will benifit the most will be the Earthlings! We will be able to survive!

Answer 2

Third world counties are hurt the most because they will not be allowed to develop.

Answer 3

First, who will be hurt.

The fossil fuel industry will lose many billions.  There's a reason why there's a massive disinformation campaign against global warming science.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/32482

Companies dealing in alternative energy will be helped, and it's about time.

It really makes no difference to Al Gore.  He's a wealthy man who could make FAR more sitting on corporate boards and giving speeches on anything else.  To say he's in it for the money is laughable.

But here's the most important thing, dwarfing anything above.  We'll all be helped economically.

Unchecked global warming would cause an economic disaster of historic proportions.  The 1930s would look like good times.  From the business editor of the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096...

It's far cheaper to reduce global warming.  Here's the practical and affordable plan.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.h...

Answer 4

Do nothing and it will cost our grand children 11 trillion dollars, force half of the population of earth to move to new home sights, loose much of the worlds prime farm land, fill of many important species, and it is in our power to do things to stop GW. Follow the money. We must have new concentrating solar power plants, new small hydro power plants, atmospheric cleanup machines, composting, wind farms, geothermal power plants, methane capture systems, and much more. We can subsidize the pollution our add a pollution surcharge.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.

Answer 5

First the energy companies will not be hurt [much to wailing and gnashing of AGW cargo cultists] they have an infrastructure of political influence in virtually every government, plus they are investing in alternative energies. [because they have big bucks] Who will be hurt worst? Those evil American consumers (naturally we simply MUST be punished for our sins)

Who benefits? Third world dictatorships... they get a boost up in technology, looser restrictions on polluting the environment and eased trade regulations.

none of which matter because according to the Mayan calander, we're all gonna die in 2012 anyway. ;-)

Answer 6

The ones hurt the most are the regular people who will have to put up with enormous tax increases, higher energy costs and more control over their personal lives.

This won't hurt oil companies since they will just charge more for their products.  That's why when the government taxes gasoline more, the users are the ones who end up paying the extra money.

Note that all increase in corporate taxes trickle down to the consumers every time.

The elitists like Gore won't care because they already use 25 times the energy of the average person and won't have to decrease their usage.

People like him will also make more money off the oil companies they control, while paying indulgences in the form of "carbon credits" to themselves.  It's a win-win situation for the politicians and the very rich elitists.

The UN gains more control over the US, which will harm the economy even more for the middle class and poor.  Again the rich will be fine.  They won't have to restrict usage, so they're all for more control from the government.

Do you think Paris Hilton will have to quit using limos or private jets?  They like the global warming hype because it will leave more energy available for them while taking it away from the poor and middle class.

Follow the money and you'll see who gains from higher taxation and more control over the masses and all over a bunch of kooky theories, none of which can be proven.