Follow the money - A big cash grab

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There is a lot of money being poured into the Man-Made Global Warming hype.

With the Democrats now in charge of Congress, it will only escalate from here.

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*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.

*The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=3a9bc8a4-802a-23ad-4065-7dc37ec39adf

If you don’t believe in Man-Made Global Warming, do not let your politics get in the way of you making an honest buck off of it.

If you are a believer in Man-Made Global Warming, do not let your enthusiasm for an environmental scheme or company sucker you into making a bad bet, or compel you to stick with a dog for too long. Make investments, not offerings.

The US has an aging population problem as well

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While the population of the US is aging, it is not in near as bad shape as is Europe. That is not to say that everything will be fine for the US, it won’t.

An aging population, especially in a nation with entitlement welfare programs like Social Ssecurity and Medicare, can put a terrible strain on the economy overall.

Fed Chairmen Bernanke recently warned congress that their continued failure to address the problems associated with the budgetary strains caused by an aging population can lead to serious economic harm to the nation.

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Left unchecked, the costs of so-called entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, are set to soar as increasing numbers of the baby boom generation retire.

"Dealing with the resulting fiscal strains will pose difficult choices for the Congress, the administration, and the American people," Bernanke said.

"However, if early and meaningful action is not taken, the U.S. economy could be seriously weakened, with future generations bearing much of the cost," he added.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/bs_nm/usa_fed_bernanke_dc_2

Looking at Demographics in Asia & Europe

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In the long term, demographics will determine a great deal.

In China, the gender disparity will very likely lead to some catastrophic problems.

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BEIJING (AP) -- China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women in less than 15 years as a gender imbalance resulting in part from the country's tough one-child policy becomes more pronounced, state media reported Friday. Traditional preferences for sons has led to the widespread - but illegal - practice of women aborting babies if an early term sonogram shows it is a girl.

The tens of millions of men who will not be able to find a wife could also lead to social instability problems, the China Daily said in a front-page report.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_GENDER_IMBALANCE?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-01-12-10-14-48

In Europe, the demographic disaster is of completely different type. Europe is dying. Its populations will shortly begin to collapse. For Europe, the party is over. All that is left for it is the estate sales.

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According to a recent report by the Rand Corporation, "Across Europe, birth rates are falling and family sizes are shrinking. The total fertility rate is now less than two children per woman in every member nation in the European Union."

Needless to say, demographers consider a birthrate of 2.1 children per family to be the replacement level at which a society's population size remains stable. Barring large-scale immigration, anything less means decline and dissolution.

A research study published last year in the International Journal of Andrology found a similar trend, concluding that, "Fertility rates have fallen and are now below replacement level in all European Union (EU) Member States. In the 20-year period since 1982," it noted, "most EU Member State countries have had total fertility rates continuously below replacement level."

At the bottom of the list are Spain, Italy and Greece, where birthrates hover around just 1.3 per couple, leading some forecasters to suggest, for example, that Italy's population could shrink by one-third by the middle of the century.

Others, such as Germany's 1.37, the UK's 1.74 and Sweden's 1.75, aren't all much better.

The figures are so bad that in many European countries, the total number of deaths each year has actually begun to exceed the number of births.

Indeed, the Council of Europe's 2004 Demographic Yearbook warned that, "for Europe as a whole, more people died in 2003 than were born." In 1990, said the yearbook, "three countries - Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary - had negative natural growth for the first time. By 2002, it was negative in fifteen countries."

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467696394&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Looking into the crystal ball

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The following article seems to make some sense. Read it with caution. Making predictions of this type is risky.

Al the same, it gives a good starting point for which to begin your homework.

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Anderson started by laying out some chilling world trends that keep him up at night. "I think about oil, cheap labor and money", he said, continuing to explain that "these are things which we have no control over."

Anderson sees virtually everything else in the world as "laying in a bed of lettuce" made out of oil from OPEC, cheap labor from Asia and elsewhere, and global liquidity and real cash, which are controlled by bankers, hedge funds and traders worldwide. Even worse, he went on, "I think that the Fed has lost control of the US economy", and their ability to "measure what we're doing in any meaningful way."

"I would call it Ben's dilemma (after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke)," Anderson said. "The tools don't work any more; he's the deer in the headlights."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2729442

(Hat tip to Wretchard’s Bellmont Club and poster Charles)

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