Why is global warming such a cash cow for the government?

Because, let us take Ford Motor Company, for instance.

Period Ending: Trend 12/31/2014 12/31/2013 12/31/2012 12/31/2011

Total Revenue

$144,077,000 $146,917,000 $133,559,000 $135,605,000

Cost of Revenue

$126,215,000 $128,055,000 $116,154,000 $117,225,000

Gross Profit

$17,862,000 $18,862,000 $17,405,000 $18,380,000

Let us just take 2014, for example:

Ford made $17 Billion, but it took $128 Billion to make that $17 Billion. There was a lot of people who bought from Ford and got something in return, like a new car or truck. It employed thousands of workers who paid taxes, built homes, heated their homes, sent their kids to school, bought groceries and did many other things consummate with life. And it makes many lives better.

Now let us take Global Warming. Obama wants to give the UN $484 Billion. How much did that cost the UN to make that $484,000,000,000? Zip! Nada! Zero! Who benefits fro this $484,000,000,000? Don't even bother to ask for there is no accounting.

COP Page 87, #77

"A separate pool of funding to finance national coordinating bodies through a direct line item in the secretariat’s budget shall be established. Such support shall not be subject to measurement, reporting and verification."

The US taxpayer already pays the lion's share of the UN's operating expenses. So they get $484,000,000,000 free and clear. It costs them nothing to get that $484,000,000,000. Even a snake oil salesman has to have some out of pocket expenses for his petty scam. However the UN has none. The victim of the snake oil scam, at least gets some foul tasting or good tasting liquid and a bottle, coupled with a few minutes of hope. With the UN you get NOTHING!

With this kind of money laundering scheme, you can bankrupt nations. You can control people and their leaders.

Let us take for example, Al Gore. All he had to do for his money is hire an inept climate scientist with no scruples in the name of Jimmy Hansen at the cost of $1,000,000 for 'consulting fees', for credibility. Conjure up a lot of proven unscientific scaring factual lies and present them on a screen. Then foist this hideous corruption upon innocent children. Now all these little simpletons lose sleep at night, are afraid of their own shadow and scream at their parents who will eventually go along with this ideosity and willingly cough up dollars in the name of saving the planet.

"Fear is the most debilitating of all human emotions. A fearful person will do anything, say anything, accept anything, reject anything, if it makes him feel more secure for his own, his family's or his country's security and safety, whether it actually accomplishes it or not...."

"It works like a charm. A fearful people are the easiest to govern. Their freedom and liberty can be taken away, and they can be convinced to believe that it was done for their own good - to give them security. They can be convinced to give up their liberty - voluntarily."

—Gene E. Franchini, retired Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court

It is an old formula, one used by Stalin and Hitler, and it is effective, for Al Gore has become a Billionaire and he is not alone. Many people are on the bandwagon and in many ways.

It is a scam with very little investment and gigantic returns.

Well most people are basically cowards so playing on their mindless fear isn't really that hard.

That has been a standard political maneuver for centuries. Global Warming is just the latest implementation.

It isn't.....Yet! Some governments are attempting to lay the groundwork for massive taxes and control of one of our most critical needs....energy. Hundreds of $Billions have been and continue to be "invested" to this end by way of generous "research" grants and subsidies to entities willing to blame Man's CO2 for a Make-Believe problem. It is their hope to indoctrinate/brainwash citizens into ultimately accepting this false premise along with the economic sacrifices that they will have to make. The Warming Activists have specifically targeted innocent, impressionable school children with their lying crap!! The Warmers are planting their corrupt seed for their even more corrupt goals.

That pretty much covers it.

It's not.

The fossil fuel industry is spending millions trying to make people think it's just a money scam

because they are terrified that they won't continue to make billion dollar annual profits .

it's not

It's not. I don't know why you would that.

It's more if a burden

It is a cash cow for the fossil fuel industry and ignoramus anti-science dupes of that industry's long-since exposed deceptions.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Watts_(blogge...

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/How-GOP-bec...

It isn't--that's just one more lie told by deniers.

Money, ours!

it is not