Petition Opposing Cap-and-Trade

WHEREAS Climategate has 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 proposed United Nations Global Climate Treaties intend to establish an un-democratic world government which would undermine our national sovereignty; and

WHEREAS the Cap-and-Trade legislation will 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 the United States withdraw from the United Nations Climate Treaty process.

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.