Petition Opposing Cap-and-Trade

WHEREAS recently obtained emails and documents from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit have revealed that some of the world's foremost climate researchers have engaged in a pattern of data manipulation, suppression of dissenting views, undermining of the peer review process, destruction of documents requested under Freedom of Information laws and outright fraud; and

WHEREAS the proposed United Nations Global Climate Treaty intends to establish an un-democratic world government which would undermine our national sovereignty; and

WHEREAS the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill (HR 2454) will essentially impose an 'energy tax' on all goods and services produced in the United States; and

WHEREAS gasoline and electricity prices will, in President Obama's own words, "necessarily skyrocket" under a cap-and-trade scheme; and

WHEREAS cap-and-trade schemes are projected to cost US taxpayers over $1 trillion per year; and

WHEREAS the adoption of cap-and-trade would result in millions of additional US job losses; and

WHEREAS cap-and-trade would disproportionately inflict economic damage on the poor and middle-class; and

WHEREAS the U.S. economy is already in deep recession and cap-and-trade schemes could result in an additional $7 trillion loss in our Gross Domestic Product; and

WHEREAS the claims of carbon-driven anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are unproven and are, in fact, contested by over 31,000 scientists (compared to fewer than 50 on the United Nation�s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who claim AGW is a serious and immediate problem); and

WHEREAS global temperatures have not risen since 2000 and data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration demonstrates that the earth has actually been cooling for the last 4 years; and

WHEREAS new research from MIT has dispelled one of the key underpinnings of anthropogenic global warming theory (the notion that more long-wave radiation is trapped in the earth's atmosphere when temperature rises); and

WHEREAS the touted, climate benefit of cap-and-trade schemes is that global surface temperatures will be one-tenth-of-one-degree cooler than currently projected in one hundred years, if one even accepted the contested claims of AGW.

THEREFORE I do hereby petition Congress to immediately cease all climate change legislation and instead conduct a formal investigation into the apparent fraud that has been perpetrated upon the American people.

I also demand that President Obama withdraw from the United Nations Copenhagen Treaty Summit and not sign any form of international climate agreement. I petition my US Senators to forcefully oppose ratification of any form of climate treaty.

Cap-and-trade schemes would benefit a select group of wealthy individuals on the backs of hard-working American families who will see absolutely no benefit from this policy, not even after having paid for a cap-and-trade scheme for 100 years.

Say "NO" to all cap-and-trade schemes.

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