Fairfax is on form today, with yet more hypocritical nonsense in the Sydney Morning Herald about “polluters” under the triumphant headline “REVEALED: polluters’ fear tactics on climate”:
BIG greenhouse polluting companies around the world, employing thousands of lobbyists, are exerting heavy pressure on governments to weaken climate change laws at home and slow progress on an international climate agreement in Copenhagen, a global investigation reveals.
In Australia, 20 companies who have already won the most concessions from the Rudd Government’s emissions trading scheme employ 28 lobbying firms with well over 100 staff, many of them former politicians, political advisers or government officials.
The reality, which appears to escape the journos in question, is that billions and billions of dollars is spent by the real climate fearmongers, i.e. the catastrophists, every year in order to brainwash the public into believing that there is a climate crisis. But that’s all OK of course, because we’re saving the planet, right? But when corporates, who are likely to be hit hard by emissions trading schemes around the world, try to redress the balance a bit, it’s shock horror and outrage!
Then we discover where this investigation comes from, and suddenly it all makes sense:
The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists examined the climate lobby in eight countries including the US, Canada, Australia, India, Japan, China, Belgium and Brazil. It relied on more than 200 interviews, lobbying registers and political donation records. The Herald collaborated in the investigation for Australia.
Read it here.
Australian Climate Madness 
I can guarantee you the last thing they are doing is slowing progress on an ETS – these lobbyists are there to make sure it DOES happen and that their clients get the right concessions. Can you imagine if you ran a business with competitors but a captive market of customers who need your product, and someone offered a scheme where you would be given vouchers worth billions of dollars to protect your business, but any new competitors would be denied those billions, but you were also given the go-ahead to pass on any costs to your hapless customers… These “polluting” (ha!) companies are the ones footing the bill to keep this nonsense in the news because they stand to make billions at our expense. (Trillions worldwide, so no wonder the lobbyists are everywhere).
Hmm
And the staff number at the CSIRO is?