Tony Abbott has picked up the point made here yesterday, that the ETS will simply redistribute wealth with no benefit to the climate: Speaking after the Government said Treasury modelling showed low-income households would get an average of $610 in… Read More ›
Archive for December 2009
Brazil legislates nearly 40% CO2 cuts by 2020
Oops! Somebody forgot to tell the Brazilian delegation that the Copenhagen Accord isn’t binding! Just as the world is moving away from carbon taxes and cap ‘n’ trade, the nutty Brazilians have followed through with their half-baked promises and actually… Read More ›
France's carbon tax ruled illegal
Nothing seems to be going right for the carbon taxers and cap-n-traders. Firstly, Australia dumps the ETS, then US democrats threaten to block the legislation in the Senate unless it is seriously watered down, and now the French courts have… Read More ›
Fantasy: ETS will make people better off!
Yes, that’s the line being spun by Peter Garrett, who claims that despite the ETS increasing living costs for everyone, nearly 3 million households will be better off thanks to the government’s compensation plan: Mr Garrett [Garrett? On climate? Where’s… Read More ›
US: Democrats' threat to cap and trade bill
Democrats in the US are “lining up” to argue against Obama’s Cap ‘n’ Trade bill in the wake of the non-existent outcome at Copenhagen. If the US bill is sunk, or watered down significantly, the whole face of global climate… Read More ›
Carbon Sense: Climate crusaders conned in Copenhagen
From Viv Forbes at the Carbon Sense Coalition: The Carbon Sense Coalition today called on the Australian Parliament to repudiate the Copenhagen giveaways promised by PM Rudd to the failed states of Africa and the welfare beggars of the islands…. Read More ›
Michael Asten: cautious on CO2 causation
Writing in The Australian, Michael Asten again questions the climate science orthodoxy in an excellent article (his earlier article was posted here). Here he addresses the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, a time when CO2 levels rose sharply and temperatures also rose,… Read More ›
Grocery industry "backs Coalition on ETS"
The grocery industry has rubbished the government’s forecasts on price increases, claiming that they will rise far more than predicted: THE grocery industry has sided with the Coalition’s claim the Rudd government’s emissions trading scheme will be a big tax…. Read More ›
Questions Pachauri still has to answer…
You will recall that Christopher Booker in the UK Telegraph wrote about IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri’s financial interests in the global warming scare (see here). Pachauri responded almost immediately, but now Booker has written a follow up, which is well… Read More ›
Terry McCrann – Let's face it: the ETS is dead
The only people who don’t know this already appear to be Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong, getting ready to re-introduce it to Parliament in February, despite the world having moved on. Copenhagen has shown that the desire to cripple economies… Read More ›
