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

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?

40 pages of claims with no evidence.

The ACF and ACTU wants to increase the cost of Electricity for every Australian, the cost of fuel for every driver, make many industries no longer internationally competitive, and this will somehow magically result in more green jobs???

I wonder what some of the ACTU’s members in the Brown Coal Industry, and the Aluminium industry will make of this? You can read about the report (” A New National Report” – funded by the ACF and ACTU – how unbiased is that) here.

The ACTU call it a “Green Gold Rush”. Is it a gold rush for members of the ACTU, or for the economic modellers that make this stuff up.