Quote of the day: Wall Street Journal on Nick Smith’s Emissions Trading Scam [update 2]

In the week that the Key Government is rushing to shackle New Zealand with its rushed-through Emissions Trading Scam, it’s worth recalling what the Wall Street Journal said of it back in September:

To the annals of global warming lunacy, add this gem from New Zealand: According to [the Key Government, Nick Smith and] a parliamentary committee, Kiwis should accept lower standards of living to protect the national image abroad.”
            - ‘Kiwi Carbon Haze,’ Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2009

UPDATE 1:  Here’s an excerpt from a new book in which the author warns “the political disaster we are creating far outstrips any human impact on the environment”:

...Among people who are in the position to create and enforce government policies . . . there is a consensus that human responsibility for global warming is a settled issue, and that the task now is to implement the laws required to atone for that responsibility.
    “This political consensus is a dangerous thing, because the remedies being proposed to mitigate the AGW predictions are breathtaking in their scope, and will have negative consequences for billions of people.
    “This conclusion is not a matter of hypothetical computer modeling, conjecture, or percentages on a graph. The governmental actions being planned now are on a scale commensurate with socialist planned economies, and would place the very heart of industrial society-the motive power that keeps its industry beating-under the control of a labyrinthine maze of all-powerful government bureaucracies.
    “Should these proposals be adopted, the people of the industrialized nations will be subjected to controls over minutiae of daily life on a level previously thought intolerable.
    “It behooves policy planners, scientists and citizens alike to grasp the consequences of such policies, while they consider the shaky, disputed scientific grounds on which the calls for action are based...”
                            - a short excerpt from "History, Politics, and Claims of Man-made Global
                              Warming" -- an article by Dr. John Lewis, Associate Professor, Philosophy,
                              Politics and Economics, Duke University and published in a new book
                              Natural Resources, the Environment, and Human Welfare, edited by Ellen
                              Fraenkel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr. and Jeffrey Paul (Cambridge, 2009)

UPDATE 2:  Another quote that goes straight to the heart,just like a knife between the ribs:

Our future is now being set in concrete. Race based politics and crooked science. Talk about a double whammy.”
                              - Lou Taylor at No Minister