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Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe
bratgitarre writes "A targeted phishing scam on companies trading with greenhouse gas emission certificates in Europe has reaped millions, Der Spiegel reports. By sending phishing e-mails to companies in Australia and New Zealand purporting to be from the German Ministry for Environmental Protection (German article, Google translation) the criminals obtained login credentials for companies owning polluting permissions. They then swiftly sold them to other polluters in various European countries. Damages are probably huge for a single incident, as 'one medium-sized German company alone had lost allowances worth €1.5 million ($2.1 million).' German federal officials, who can trace some of the transactions, claim that out of 2000 certificate sellers, seven responded to the scam."
or does anyone else think that the whole idea of trading emission allowances is a huge scam to begin with?
Er, how about taking it one step further and validating Al Gores Nobel Prize proving there's a reason for this to exist in the first place. Seems there's been a few emails floating around to question the whole damn thing. I'd research it myself, but powers out and I'm already running on battery power here due to the record-setting blizzard...I never knew global warming could be so fucking cold.
I never knew global warming could be so fucking cold.
It's global climate change now, you insensitive clod. That also covers gnats, frogs, locusts, blood, and other precipitation we're bound to see up to 2012. ;)
That doesn't change the fact that calling "cap and trade" a "free market solution" is a lie.
No, 'socialism' is the fact that I am paying for you to drive your F-350.
If you want to say "We need to resort to socialism to solve this problem," then say it. Don't spread FUD by claiming cap and trade is a free market solution to the problem when it isn't.
FUD stands for "Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt." The only person spreading FUD is the person claiming that cap and trade is 'socialism' without actually supporting his argument. That'd be you, buck-o.
Try again, Milton Friedman.
this is actually an interesting article, First of all there are some laughs in an intended speculative bubble being meta-scammed. Then recall the climategate crack. It seemed unusually timely to me. With this, it occurs to me that we may be getting some nicely self-counscious asymetrical warfare. Nothing I will ever know, but fifty years out, it might be generally knowable.
Looking at all the silly comments, it amusing that about everyone tries to discuss co2 as a pollutant. I guess plants do not get a vote yet, for which we can be thankful. Here is that latest, not just on awg, but just plain global warming.
New Report Shows 20th Century Global Warming Caused By Data Manipulation
February 2, 2010 (LPAC)—Instrumental temperature data from 1850-1980 have been so systematically tampered with as to bring into doubt whether there was any significant global warming in the 20th Century. This is the conclusion of a new 110-page report by meteorologists Joseph D'Aleo and Anthony Watts, published by Science & Public Policy Institute.
The claimed warming was the result of intentional statistical manipulation by the climate data centers at NOAA, NASA, and the Hadley Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Among the ruses employed:
* From 1989 to 1994, the number of temperature stations used in compiling the data was reduced from 12,000 to less than 6,000. Stations showing a temperature increase were favored, while stations reporting temperature decline were dropped from the record. According to D'Aleo and Watts: "It can be shown that they systematically and purposefully, country by country, removed higher latitude, higher-altitude and rural locations, all of which had a tendency to be cooler."
* The data centers employ corrected, not raw, temperature values in their calculations. But corrections were done in such a way as to systematically reduce the recorded temperatures from earlier periods so as to create an appearance of upward temperature in the recent two decades. Statistical filters were employed which masked the urban heat island effect, while claiming to account for it.
* Sea surface temperature data was also manipulated. Satellite input was removed by NOAA in 2009 after complaints of a cold bias in the Southern Hemisphere. The immediate result was an increase in reported global ocean surface temperatures of 0.24 degrees C, leading to the nonsensical claim that the 2000s was the warmest decade in a millennium.
While the new report provides an admirable debunking of the global warming fraud, an even more important question remains unanswered. Global average temperature is a mostly meaningless figure. Earth's biosphere over the past 2 million or more years has been characterized by the successive advance and retreat of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. The orbital parameters position us for another ice sheet advance at the present time, or at any time within the next several thousand years. A decrease in summer average temperature at high northern latitudes would be one of the warnings for an advance phase of the ice sheets. This would be especially important to know for northern Canada where the Laurentide ice sheet originates. However, as climatologist Timothy Ball notes in a case study appended to the D'Aleo and Watts report, there is only one thermometer north of latitude 65N in Canada. This is the Eureka station located at a particularly warm, protected spot on Ellesmere Island. Baffin Island, thought by some glaciologists to be the key originating point for ice sheet development, is devoid of weather stations, as are the Northwest and Yukon Territories.
There was no global warming. Will there be global cooling of a catastrophic sort some time soon? Leaving the genocidalists who organized and ran the global warm hoax in control will assure that we shall not find out. So let's get them out of there.