China has already rejected the EU’s carbon blackmail, and now the Indian government has done the same. Not only is the EU in danger of starting a global trade war, but repercussions are widening, as China cancels a $14bn order… Read More ›
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Bankrupt EU still obsessed with 'tackling climate change'
You would have thought the EU had bigger fish to fry – like staying in the black, avoiding the collapse of the Euro zone, patching up relations with trading partners over the malicious airline tax, that kind of thing. But… Read More ›
Poland blocks EU's climate policy nightmare
Out of 27 countries, only Poland has the common sense and foresight to oppose the EU’s suicidal, and ultimately utterly pointless, emissions reduction policy, guaranteed to send the bloc back to the Dark Ages. Poland rightly considers that allowing its… Read More ›
Frozen Europe
The Big Freeze in Europe continues. This clearly has nothing to do with climate change, it’s just weather. However, it does demonstrate the damaging power of extreme cold. Now imagine what it would be like surviving in these extreme weather… Read More ›
Euro cold snap: The day the sea froze
From the Weather Isn’t Climate department. Just as warmer winters are blamed on “global warming” so are colder winters too! Which is it? Both? Yes, of course. It’s our old friend the unfalsifiable hypothesis. Ask “The Cause” what weather phenomenon… Read More ›
Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU carbon blackmail
As ACM reported last month, the EU is in danger of triggering a trade war with its demand that airlines pay an additional carbon tax when flying within its territory. Obviously thinking that opposition would crumble, the EU is standing… Read More ›
Carbon price – EU: $8 (and falling), Australia: $23 (and rising)
The EU carbon price has slumped to a new low, making Australia’s $23 a tonne carbon tax in mid-2012 nearly three times the price on the European market: European Union and U.N.-backed carbon prices plunged to new record lows on… Read More ›
EU carbon price tumbles to new low
As if the European financial crisis wasn’t bad enough. Not only is GFC Mark II just around the corner, courtesy of a US debt of over $15 trillion, the sound financial management of Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, etc etc,… Read More ›
G20 to Australia: "You're on your own" on carbon
“Courageous” is how the G20 describes Australia’s action on climate change! What a wonderful euphemism for bat-sh*t crazy. Yet Gillard and Combet will no doubt still argue that Australia is being “left behind” and that it’s all in the “national… Read More ›
Australia goes it alone… as EU back-pedals
The timing couldn’t be better (or should I say worse). Just as plucky little Australia, with 1.5% of global emissions, decides to unilaterally “save the planet” by possibly reducing global temperatures by a few thousandths of a degree Celsius, other,… Read More ›
