Climate Change Denier

Australia goes it alone with a Carbon Tax

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:19:00 +0000

The Copenhagen Climate Change talks in 2010 failed to produce a binding Climate Change agreement. Durban in 2011 fails as well. The result in Durban was not a binding agreement to reduce carbon dioxide output, it was an agreement to negotiate an agreement sometime before 2015, and that hypothetical agreement will cut emissions starting in 2020 – maybe.

The Kyoto agreement emission requirements end on December 31st 2012.

So while Australia goes forward punishing its people and businesses with a Carbon Tax the Canadian Government has announced it is withdrawing from the Kyoto agreement.

The US Congress shows no sign of passing any carbon tax, the Canadians are antagonistic to any carbon tax, the EUs carbon trading scheme is barely working with the Carbon price at a new low.

However that’s all OK, because Australia is going to lead the world!

European Carbon Price collapses

Greenland has been warmer in the past

admin — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:27:48 +0000

Greenland has been warmer that currently several times in the last 8000 years. That is Greenland has been warmer than today, with lower levels of Carbon Dioxide levels that today. Two studies have been released over the past few weeks that show that there was less Artic Sea Ice than today, and higher temperatures.

The University of Copenhagen has a study which examined driftwood deposits over the last ten thousand years, and it showed that “For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current amounts.” . During a period between 8000 and 5000 years ago called the Holocene Climate Optimum there was half the level of sea ice than there is today. Yet the world did not tip into “runaway climate change” as the doom-sayers predict we will today, with a higher level of ice cover.

Another peer reviewed paper published by Takuro Kobashi and others shows that Greenland surface temperatures where higher than today several times over the last 4000 years. Of course you can be sure that none of these studies will be mentioned on the ABC or published in the Fairfax media.

Greenland temperatures over the last 4000 years

“we haven’t had snowfall like this in more than 140 years”

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:05:40 +0000

New York City has its earliest snowfall in 140 years. 2 million people are without power in the North Eastern United States.

If this had been a long heat-wave the advocates of the AGW religion would be telling us all how this was all caused by global warming. However when its the first significant snowfall in October since 1879, they all stay pretty quiet.

The earliest snow in 140 years in Central Park New York City

Do Australians really understand what this carbon tax is about?

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:40:28 +0000

I was struck by a comment in this Australian story about the carbon tax passing today through the House of Representatives. Its not the first time I have seen comments that completely show no understanding of the carbon tax.

“People with respiratory complaints will most certainly benefit with what will be cleaner air for them.” . Does Charles of NSW have any idea what the carbon tax is about? Carbon Dioxide is not know for causing respiratory complaints. If the Australia Federal Government removed 100% of the carbon dioxide from the air, there would be exactly the same number of people with respiratory complaints, but unfortunately with no carbon dioxide in the atmosphere there would be no plant growth worldwide, so people who had respiratory complaints would, along with everyone else, starve to death.

Eventually the real effects of the Carbon Tax will dawn on the minority of Australians that support the tax, and they may well join the majority that opposes it.

However on this very day that the Carbon Tax was passed through the Australian Federal Parliament here were the top ten read stories on news.com.au, as well as that pro climate change paper, The Age. Obviously Australians care little:

The 18 Carbon Tax bills presented to the Australian Parliament

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:42:46 +0000

Thousands of extra public servants. New public servant bureaucracies. 1129 pages and 255,539 words of legislation. How much will it decrease the earth’s temperature? zero.

Here are links to the carbon tax bills:

1. Clean Energy Bill 2011

2. Clean Energy (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2011

3. Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates Amendments) Bill 2011

4. Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Bill 2011

5. Clean Energy (Tax Laws Amendments) Bill 2011

6. Clean Energy (Fuel Tax Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011

7. Clean Energy (Customs Tariff Amendment) Bill 2011

8. Clean Energy (Excise Tariff Legislation Amendment) Bill 2011

9. Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2011

10. Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Manufacture Levy) Amendment Bill 2011

11. Clean Energy (Unit Shortfall Charge—General) Bill 2011

12. Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Auctions) Bill 2011

13. Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Fixed Charge) Bill 2011

14. Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Bill 2011

15. Clean Energy (Charges—Excise) Bill 2011

16. Clean Energy Regulator Bill 2011

17. Climate Change Authority Bill 2011

18. Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Bill 2011

England has it coldest summer in 18 years

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:40:32 +0000

The carbon dioxide levels go up every year. The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) forecasts show that the world should be warming more and more, yet observation does not match those computer models.

England has had its coldest summer since 1993, with an average temperature of 15C. The normal average is 17C. This is not just the odd cold day, this is a entire season. Last December was the coldest December in 120 years in the UK.

Is it just possible that the climate scientists have their computer models wrong? The latest CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) experiments at CERN show what some climate change sceptics have been saying for years, that Cosmic Rays effect cloud formation. This means that the existing computer models for cloud formation are wrong, and that the sun can have a bigger input on the earth’s atmosphere than previously thought.

However our Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the science is settled.

Just maybe this object 140 million kilometres away, may have more influence of the climate than man made carbon dioxide

Carbon Tax will cost Australia $1.35 Trillion dollars

admin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:42:56 +0000

According to the Australian Federal Government Treasury modelling the introduction of a carbon tax will reduce Australia’s National Income. How much will it be decreased by over the 38 years to 2050?

The Treasury modelling predicts that GDP (Gross Domestic Product) will be 2.8 per cent lower in 2050 than it would have been without a carbon tax. Doesn’t seem much, only 2.8%? Well try adding the reduction in GDP over the 38 years and you get $1.35 trillion dollars.

That is what it will cost Australians over the next 38 years more than one trillion dollars in lost income.

Imagine how many hospitals, roads and schools could be built over the next 38 years with that $1.38 trillion dollars?

Percentage GDP loss from the Carbon Tax

The next President of the United States, Rick Perry, climate change skeptic

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:21:26 +0000

It is expected that Governor of Texas Rick Perry will announce he will join the Presidential race this Saturday August 13th. As Rick Perry has been a successful Governor of Texas for 11 years, and current President Barack Obama has such low poll ratings, its a good chance that the next President of the United States will be Governor Rick Perry.

Governor Rick Perry is a climate change skeptic.

So how this this affect the Gillards Government proposed Carbon Tax?

The treasury modelling of the carbon tax assumes that the USA and all other developed countries will have a carbon trading scheme in place by 2016. If Governor Rick Perry gets elected in 2012 than means no carbon tax or trading scheme in the USA until well after 2016, and that assumes he is only a one term president. Even if President Barack Obama is re-elected in 2012 he is unlikely to have a majority in the House of Representatives, in fact the Democrats may not even hold a majority in the Senate. That means there is no chance of any legislation passing Congress until after 2014, and more likely nothing will pass unit after 2016.

So where is Australia going to trade for carbon credits? The rock solid reliable Euro-zone?

Australia will be going it alone, while the worlds second biggest emitter of Carbon Dioxide (after China) will have no carbon tax or trading scheme.

Presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry - Climate Change Skeptic

Just one Indian State will install more coal-fired power stations than all of Australia

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:52:14 +0000

The Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is in the process of installing 37 coal-powered power stations over the next few years. The capacity of these extra 37 coal-fired power stations is 56GW, which compares with Australia’s total installed electricity capacity of 57GW. As an example, just one coal-fired power station at Krishnapatnam is under construction which will have a capacity of 4000MW. This compares with Victoria’s Hazelwood coal-fired power station which supplies 25% of Victoria’s power and has a capacity of just 1600MW.

So the Federal Labor/Green alliance government is going to use hundreds of millions of dollars of Australian taxpayers money to close down Hazelwood power station. At the same time in India, just one (of many) Indian states is building a new coal-fired power station with twice the installed capacity of Hazelwood, as well as dozens more coal-fired power stations.

So closing down Hazelwood is going to stop Climate Change?

Hazelwood Power Station soon to be replaced by an even bigger coal fired power station in India

Sea level rise slowing

admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:26:16 +0000

You will not find the head of the Climate Commission Professor Tim Flannery mentioning this, because he prefers scaremongering high sea levels that are above the IPCC estimates. You will not hear Malcolm Turnbull mentioning this as he wants to respect the science and ignore “less reliable” scientists that do not fit in with his carefully self-selected science. You will not hear Prime Minister Julia Gllard mentioning this, because for her the science is settled.

However a recent paper shows that Australian sea-level rise has been slowing between 1940-2000. The difference with this research is that it uses real tide-gauges rather than computer models predicting sea level increases. Another study had previously shown that “Extending the sea level record back over the entire century suggests that the high variability in the rates of sea level change observed over the past 20 years were not particularly unusual”.

How will the doom-sayers cope?

This has all happened before

Coal Mining decreases under the Carbon Tax

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:12:01 +0000

Treasury modelling shows coal production drops by 30% by 2020

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan might keep saying that the coal industry has a bright future, but the Treasury economic modelling shows a different story.

Wayne Swan said only two days ago that “Australia was going to be exporting more coal”. That way the Chinese can burn it in their power stations instead of ours.

Perhaps Treasurer Swan should read some of his departments economic modelling. To quote from the Treasury modelling “In 2020, coal mining output is around 30 per cent lower than it would otherwise be” .

Looking at the attached graph it shows even greater variability, with a possible drop of up to 45% in coal production:

Geothermal energy the renewable that never delivers

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:53:27 +0000

The latest carbon ad, paid for again by the Australian taxpayer to further ‘educate’ us about renewable energy.

This advertisement features Geodynamics, a renewable energy company that has spend the last ten years trying to develop geothermal energy production near Innamincka in northern South Australia.

How many Megawatts has Geodynamics produced in electricity?

Zero.

Geodynamics has spent ten years spruiking its grand plans. This Greens/Labor Government ad states that 10 percent of Australia’s power could come from geothermal, yet in ten years with ten of millions of dollars of government subsidy Geodynamics has produced not one watt of power.

Geodynamics got its first $5 million government subsidy in 2005. In April 2007 Geodynamics chief executive Adrian Williams said that by 2010 they would be provide some power into the grid, so far zero. In November 2009 Geodynamics was awarded $150 from the Renewable Energy Demonstration Program (REDP), still no power.

In October 2008 Geodynamics announced it would provide a demonstration plant and provide power to the town of Innamincka, population 12, by early 2009. Now this is the company that this Labor Government advertisement is pushing as potentially providing ten percent of Australia’s base-load power. Have they managed to power the 12 people people in Innamincka in the following almost three years?

No.

New Carbon Tax Ad

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:01:32 +0000

One of the new carbon tax ads, paid for by the Australian taxpayer to “educate” us. The start of the advertisement is about Hepburn Wind and there are two wind turbines in view.

The two wind turbine shown are made by Vestas a Spanish company who manufacture their Wind turbines in Spain, China and the USA.

No high-tech green jobs for Australians. We will lose high paid coal-miners and replace them with low paid workers who can dig holes for the foundations for the wind turbines.

And maybe they will need someone to polish the blades?

59% of economists support the carbon tax

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:46:01 +0000

Now we should be really worried

Carbon Tax supporter Fairfax journalist Peter Martin tweets enthusiastically that 59 per cent of economists at the Economic Society support the carbon tax. We should be so relieved.

Are these the same economists that did not see the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) coming?

For example Peter Martin extolling the virtues of the Labor Government and how well it was doing, and how rosy the future looked in February 2008.

Or the Reserve Bank in March 2008 stating that inflation was the real problem, and Australia was just due for a bit of below par growth.

Of course there were those hundreds of economists in Treasury in January 2008 predicting an 18 billion dollar surplus for the Federal Government.

We should so trust economists. They are so good are predicting the future. How could they get a carbon tax wrong?

the GFC so well predicted by economists. We should be fine if they say the carbon tax is OK?

Former Prime Minister John Howard says Australia would be crazy to have a carbon tax

admin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:15:11 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has mentioned several times in the last week that former Prime Minister John Howard took an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to the 2007 election. Here John Howard is interviewed by ABC carbon tax supporter Barrie Cassidy , and refutes Julia Gillard. John Howard says Australia should not move ahead of the world with a carbon tax:

Followed by former Liberal Treasurer Peter Costello on the Bolt Report who argues that Australia should not throw away its natural advantages by legislating a carbon tax. Costello says “This is all about taking away a natural advantage of Australia” and “we’re paying someone else for the right to use our own coal”

New Chinese coal mine wipes out the savings from Australian Carbon Tax

admin — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:21:11 +0000

A new coal mine in China, in Xinjiang Uygur being developed by Peabody Energy will produce almost as much CO2 as the CO2 emissions saved by Australia’s Carbon Tax.

Peabody Energy Corporation are to develop an open cut coal mine that will produce 50 million tonnes per year of coal. This coal burnt in power stations (or anywhere else) could produce up to 142 million tonnes of CO2 annually. (the exact amount depends on the type of coal). Thats 142 million tonnes per year of extra CO2 from just one coal mine, versus the 160 million tonnes saved with an Australian Carbon Tax.

Of course the Greens want to close down Australian coal mines.

Just one coal mine in China wipes out the efforts in Australia costing billions of dollars and hurting millions of Australians.

142 million tonnes of CO2 per annum from just one coal mine in China

The carbon price will always be increasing

admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:36:55 +0000

Treasury projection 2050 Carbon Price of $131 to $275 per tonne

Prime Minister Julia Gillard likes to tell the Australia people that the carbon tax will have only a small impact on them. However its only the beginning.

The treasury projections for 2050 are in real terms (discounted for inflation) from a minimum of $131 per tonne to a maximum of $275 per tonne. Of course the carbon tax will be hidden as an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by then, but it will still be a tax on Australian industry and people.

Imagine if a $23 per tonne carbon tax causes a 10% increase in power prices (although the NSW government says it will be 20%), what will a $275 carbon tax, ten times larger do to electricity prices?

Imagine what a carbon price on petrol and diesel, which the greens want to introduce, will do to fuel prices at a carbon tax of $275 per tonne?

the carbon price ever increasing

What percentage of global emissions will Australias carbon tax reduce?

admin — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:41:44 +0000

Labor/Greens alliance Prime Minister Julia Gillard does not like to answer this question, because it is such a small number.

The Carbon Tax aims to reduce Australia’s CO2 output by 160 million tonnes. World CO2 emissions in 2008 were 29,888,121 million tonnes.

So that makes Australia’s CO2 reduction 0.00053533% . That is such a small number its hard to comprehend. Think of it as approximately 5/10,000 or 5 divided by ten thousand percent.

However that is based on 2008 CO2 output, and the 160 million tonnes saving is aimed to happen in 2020. What is the percentage saving of the worlds CO2 output by Australia in 2020?

Well its predicted that CO2 output will rise by 1.2% per annum. That means in 2020 world carbon dioxide emissions will be 34,487,742 million tonnes.

So Australia’s carbon tax saves 0.000463933% of the worlds CO2 output. Its even less than 5 divided by ten thousand percent.

Billions of dollars of taxes on Australia people and businesses. Extra federal government agencies with thousands more bureaucrats. Businesses closing and businesses moving off-shore.

All to save 0.000463933% of the worlds CO2 output.

Growth in Carbon Dioxide emissions in China

Julia Gillard confronted over Carbon Tax lie

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:33:10 +0000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is confronted by a real voter who questions her on her lie before the election where she claimed ” There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”. This lie gave the Labor Party the chance to slip into government. Julia Gillard still denies she lied in this exchange, she does not understand the anger:

“Why did you lie to us?”

“And why are you continuing to lie and say, ‘Well, I didn’t really mean to lie’?…”

“I’ve listened to you for months, I’ve watched Parliament – and you are still lying”…

“I heard you on Q and A. I heard you for over a year. The thing that sticks in my craw is that you stood up and said there will be no carbon tax. And a few months later.,. you’ve changed your mind.”

With a Carbon Tax Australia’s CO2 emissions still increase

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:41:21 +0000

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Greens leader Bob Brown don’t want to point this out, but under the Carbon Tax – according to the governments own treasury modelling -the amount of Carbon Dioxide “Pollution” emitted by Australia as a whole will increase by 2020.

Current Greenhouse gas emissions are at 578 million tonnes of CO2.

In 2020 even with a carbon tax they will be 621 million tonnes of CO2.

But then it gets better. In 2050 after 38 years of a carbon tax followed by an emissions trading scheme Australia’s CO2 emissions will be 545 million tonnes, just 5% less then what they are today.

If the Great Barrier Reef and Kakadu are under risk today because of dangerous climate change, how are they going to be better off in 38 years time with almost the same level of CO2 output?

Only 5% less carbon output after 38 years of carbon tax and ETS

Australia the only country in the world with an economy-wide carbon tax

admin — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:08:19 +0000

And the rest of the world does not care.

Australia will be the first country in the world to have an economy wide carbon tax. Even though Australia produces 1.32% of the worlds carbon dioxide output, we will be punishing our industry and people with a carbon tax.

And to meet the target of 160 Million tonnes of carbon dioxide, we will not be reducing our own emissions, we will achieve two thirds of it by sending $3.7 billion dollars per year overseas to buy permits.

So how does our 160 million tonnes reduction compare to China’s annual production of CO2? China produces 7,031 million tonnes of CO2 per annum. Thats 2.2 per cent of Chinas output. So if China increases it output by the same amount it did in 2010, by ten percent, the 160 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide saved by Australia will be replaced by China in 3 months.

Billions of dollars in extra burdens on Australian workers, industry and consumers to be replaced by China in three months.

Chines coal fired power station, replacing Australian carbon abatement

Norway an example of a carbon tax that does not work

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:35:41 +0000

Norway introduced a carbon tax in 1991. It was set at $US65 per tonne. The carbon tax was placed on fossil fuels, and applied to petrol and diesel. As a result of the carbon tax, Norway has the most expensive fuel in Europe. While the current price for unleaded petrol in Australia is $1.35 per litre, in Norway fuel is $2.45 per litre. Diesel is only slightly cheaper.

So what has a carbon tax done for Norway’s CO2 emissions over the twenty years it has had a carbon tax? CO2 emissions have gone up in Norway by !5% per capita.

All the economists in Australia who have lined up behind the Labor Federal governments carbon tax say it will cause real world changes in behaviour and reduce CO2 production. However as we know economists get it wrong most of the time, and Norway is an example of where, despite the introduction of a carbon tax, it has not changed behaviour, and not dropped the production of CO2.

Norway does not have to worry about a carbon tax on its electricity production, as 98% of its power comes from Hydro.

The Gillard Labor government has dropped fuel out of the carbon tax, so the burden of reducing emissions goes onto an even smaller number of industries, making the pain for those industries even more severe.

20 years of punishing themselves with a carbon tax and Norway produces even more CO2

Carbon Tax Video

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:07:44 +0000

Prime Minister Julia Gillard promising not to introduce a carbon tax 6 days before the 2011 election:

Lets close down Australia

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:04:32 +0000

The Greens have already said they want to close down the coal industry and stop the export of coal. They also want to close down the brown coal power stations in the Latrobe Valley effectively closing down the brown coal industry in Victoria.

The latest is that the Greens are happy for the Carbon Tax to result in One Steel in Whyalla closing down, a town where 4000 of its 22,000 people are employed by One Steel. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young wants Whyalla to magically become a high capacity wind generator manufacturer, which no one else does in Australia. In fact more and more of the manufacture of wind turbines happens in China. Senator Hansen-Young wants Eyre Peninsular covered in wind farms even through there is growing opposition to wind farms in South Australia.

The Greens solution to losing 4000 jobs in Whyalla because of the Carbon Tax

The end of sunspots?

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:17:23 +0000

While the Gillard Government and the multiparty committee on Climate Change plot to tax Australians with a Carbon Tax, the Sun is doing something completely different. The Federal Government and its trained Climate Change Commission like to deny any link between the suns activity and global temperatures. However the Maunder Minimum of low sunspot numbers between 1645 and 1715 coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age. This included the very cold winter of 1708-09 when hundreds of thousands of people died from famine and cold.

Three papers were released this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in New Mexico USA. “The solar cycle may be going into a hiatus,” Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory’s Solar Synoptic Network, he also said “If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we’ll see for a few decades, that would affect everything from space exploration to Earth’s climate.”

The Australian Federal Governments Climate Change Commission says all the science is settled. Really? When the solar physicists have no idea what these changes mean for the sun?

The Earth would be a frozen ball of ice without the sun.

Will we end up getting Climate Change refugees from a frozen Tasmania heading north to warmer climes?

Maunder Minimum, frozen river Thames 1683

Climate Change Commission increases the scare-mongering

admin — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:16:00 +0000

The Climate Commission headed by Professor Tim Flannery is not making much headway with its support of its employers carbon tax, the Federal Government Labor/Green alliance. So today Tim Flannery is spruiking the Department of Climate Change report Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coasts. It made the South Australian news as Tim Flannery and his Climate Commission are visiting the incredibility unpopular Premier Mike Rann, who is working hard to make sure South Australians pay even more for electricity.

The report is claiming 43,000 houses in South Australia will be under water before the end of the century.

The problem is the Australian public is not listening. So what to do? Lets fall back on what we have been doing for the last 20 years, lets scare-monger. Lets make the future even more horrible. Lets find the worst possible scenario and build on that. Its got to scare people into seeing sense, doesn’t it?.

Here is are example from the report on South Australia. The upper end of the IPCC projection for sea level change for 2100 is 79 cms. However it could be as low as 20cms. However that’s not very scary is it? How can we improve on that?

Well you make it even higher and project it up to 1.1 metres, and then do your damage assessment on that projection way past the highest sea level IPCC projection.

Now that’s sounds much scarier doesn’t it?

Its just the continuation of the last 20years. If people don’t think the way we want them to, lets just keep inventing even scarier scenarios….

Will the Adelaide CBD look like this projection of New York in 100 years?

Thrilled ABC pushes its pro-carbon tax agenda

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:56:28 +0000

The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) gets a chance, on a slow news day on Sunday, to push its pro-carbon tax line. The article (with no byline other than ABC/AAP) reports in excited terms about the pro-carbon tax rallys in Australia Capital cities. The ABC had no problems quoting Don Henry head of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) saying that because 10,000 rent-a-crowd protesters turned out in Melbourne (only 2000 in Brisbane) then that showed that the majority of people supported action on climate change. Really?

Its so disappointing for the ABC’s pro-carbon tax agenda when the next day the Daily Telegraph posts a story showing that 75% of people surveyed thought the carbon tax would do nothing to help the environment, and 64 percent of those surveyed wanted a new election, because they believed Prime Minister Julia Gillard had no mandate for a carbon tax. Especially when she promised before the election not to have a carbon tax.

A chance for the excited ABC to push its pro carbon tax agenda

Update: Fran Kelly on ABC Insiders 19th June says “I am firmly of the view that there should be a price on carbon”. Is there no surprise that the ABC pushes a pro-carbon tax line?

Canberra insiders still wishin and a hopin

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:38:04 +0000

Canberra insider Barrie Cassidy does not like Liberal opposition leader Tony Abbott and his continued opposition to the carbon tax. Barrie Cassidy has already written his low opinion of Federal Liberal Opposition leader Tony Abbott, and anyone watching ABC Insiders over the years knows he is committed to a carbon tax, and cannot understand why there is any opposition. Barrie Cassidy writes in his latest piece hoping that Tony Abbott will self destruct before the 2012 Federal Election. Barrie Cassidy is typical of the the Canberra Insiders, the Press Gallery, and the Canberra bureaucrats, who cannot understand why there is so much opposition to the Carbon Tax.

What the Canberra insiders think, is that once the Carbon Tax is legislated, and been operating for a year, everyone will be happy and used to it. However, as I have written before, the carbon tax is not like the GST. The Carbon Tax means unrelenting price increases. To get electricity prices to the level that makes renewable sources of power equal in price to cheap coal, will require a massive carbon tax.

The Canberra insiders think that once the pensioners have their increased pension, everything will be settled. However those pensioners will know that they have years of price rises to go. Tony Abbott just has to point out that they might have compensation now, but where will the extra compensation come from next year, and the year after that, as the carbon tax steadily increases.

When the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) comes in, a few years later, it will be even worse. The ETS will mean no-one will be able to predict the carbon price. The price of carbon will be up to the financial markets. Will we get manipulative schemes like the 2008 one which pushed up the price of oil? Who knows? Will we have a Lehman Brothers of ETS trading?

Every company that goes broke, will be blamed on the carbon tax. Every employee who is laid off will be blamed on the carbon tax. If a company moves off-shore, it will be because of the carbon tax, whether it is true or not.

Every price rise will be blamed on the carbon tax. Companies will be able to increase their prices knowing that the blame can be placed on the Federal Labor Government and its carbon tax.

The Federal Labor government may take Professor Ross Garnaut’s ideas and push responsibility to an independent government authority, a “Carbon Bank”. However that won’t help the Labor government. If interest rates go up, do people blame the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) or do they blame the government?. They blame the government. If the economy suffers from the carbon tax the voting public will sheet the blame back to where it belongs – the government.

Climate Commission predicts the end of the world

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:32:58 +0000

The “independent” Climate Commission has released its first report. The “independent” Climate Commission was appointed by an Australian Federal Labor/Green alliance government that wants to introduce a carbon tax. So the Federal Government appointed members to the Climate Commission that would endorse the Labor/Green alliance views. And surprise, surprise, it has produced a report that agrees with the Australian Government!

This is another example of the Federal Government paying for advice that will agree with its position. Firstly we have Economist Professor Ross Ganault who surveys the scientific literature he agrees with and makes pronouncements (paid for by the government) supporting the governments view. Now we have the Climate Commission who cherry picks the scientific papers to get a result that will be acceptable to their paymasters the Federal Government.

Of course, now that the Climate Commission has released its report, there is now no further need for debate. In fact not only is there no further need for debate, there should be no more debate. Professor Wil Steffan of the Climate Commission says “I don’t think we have the luxury anymore of climate denialism. We need to get beyond this fruitless phoney debate in the media,” . The head of the Climate Commission serial doom-sayer Tim Flannery , agrees, he says “You get all sorts of people posing as having some expertise in climate science, whether they be taxi drivers speaking to me or people in the media who don’t have the expertise.” Tim Flannery of course does not have the expertise, as he has a doctorate in Palaeontology. Perhaps he should be listening harder to the taxi drivers.

Climate Commissioners meet the Boss

Bob Brown wants you to forget what he said.

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 06:55:04 +0000

Australian Green Senator Bob Brown wants you to forget what he said in 2007. He wants you to forget that he said that he wanted the coal industry shut down. He was quite happy in 2007 to have tens of thousands of jobs lost, whole towns wiped out, support industries shut down.

He said in 2007 ” Last week, I called on whoever wins office at this year’s election to commit to a plan to phase out coal exports”. He was quite happy to retrench the 28,000 people that work in the coal industry plus the thousands of other workers who support the coal industry. He was quite happy for Australia to forgo the billions of dollars in export income from the coal industry.

However in 2011, Senator Bob Brown seems to have forgotten what he said. He now claims it was an invention of the evil Murdoch press. The transcript of a press conference he had:

INTERVIEWER: That $11 billion that you’re talking about is money that he would forego in the mining tax, and I noticed you started your budget and reply speech just there. How would you replace the $50 billion a year in export income which comes by way of coal – an industry that you’d shut down?

BROWN: Well, a lot of that money is bouncing straight back out to shareholders overseas. Now what we’re…

INTERVIEWER: A lot of that money is circulating in the economy. It’s creating job, Senator, it’s bouncing through to our cities.

BROWN: Yes, Chris, and what we would do is take the advice of the Treasury of this nation and recoup the $145 billion over the next 10 years through a super profits tax. Tony Abbott says…

INTERVIEWER: But you can’t recoup it if you shut the industry down.

BROWN: Treasury…

INTERVIEWER: If you shut the coal industry down there won’t be that money…

BROWN: I’m sorry…

INTERVIEWER: ..available to you.

BROWN: I’m sorry, Chris, Treasury has no intention to shut the industry down. it tends to- it tends…

INTERVIEWER: No, but you do.

BROWN: No, I’m not.

Another Climate Change evangelist also wants to shut the coal industry down, none other than Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery. Flannery said in 2007 that is was no longer socially acceptable for Australia to be exporting coal.

Senator Bob Brown