(an ETS, eventually) WILL slow AGW: It will help change technology; it will change attitudes; it will stop environmental devastation! Bring it on - the earlier, the better! Billy Bob Hall : 22 Jul 2011 1:43:20pm The Government's Pollution Reduction Scheme (Tax) WILL not affect AGW and no such change will be detectable: It will not change technology unlike for example Project Apollo; it has already change attitudes (fortunately against futile 'feel good' gesture of rampant tax grabs); it will not stop environmental devastation (the only point of agreement)! Forget about carbon(dioxide) nonsense - There are far more other important things worry about ! In what could represent a major boost to the global carbon market, China's official state news agency yesterday reported that the country's government is poised to introduce a carbon trading pilot scheme as part of a package of measures designed to curb emissions from energy-intensive industries. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has today yesterday announced he is to donate $50m to a Sierra Club campaign calling for the closure of coal power plants and the accelerated development of alternative energy technologies. GC : 22 Jul 2011 11:53:55am And Treasury's model is that we reduce our "emissions" to 80% buying huge amounts of our carbon credits offshore. Why on earth would any government apparatchiks in Treasury even think that is an option? And then, where would the money, your money, go to? To the central carbon exchange managed by Bob Brown's global government! It becomes the global