Difficult questions ahead
Gary M comments in a previous thread:
What do we do about Turnbull and Rudd next week? The Liberals will sign up with Wong and Co. and Copenhagen will go ahead. I cannot believe that there are so few of us that our voices will make no difference. How do we make this ground-swell attract more momentum…what can we do??
It’s a very good question. What can we do? Malcolm Turnbull is a climate change believer and will try to negotiate an ETS through the Senate. The government are completely in thrall to whatever the IPCC says, and refuse to even consider the science may not be as 100% settled as they keep telling us it is. Unfortunately, so are a number of the Liberal senators.
Our only hope is those in the Senate like Nick Minchin and Tony Abbott, who are smart enough see through the spin and bluster of Rudd, Wong, the IPCC and all the dodgy scientists on the alarmist funding bandwagon. If they can persuade enough of the remaining Liberal senators to vote against the ETS, we are in with a chance. Alternatively, with time for debate reduced to two days, running out of time becomes a real option.
Write, email or call your Liberal senators (we know the Nats will vote it down) – contact list here (PDF). Direct them to materials (see here for example) that they should read and consider before voting on the ETS. If any of you actually know your senators personally, so much the better. Personal contact is far more effective than unsolicited correspondence.
Unfortunately, until the stranglehold of the alarmists is broken once and for all, no one will ever get the full story from the mainstream media. Hence the importance of the blogosphere in the climate debate.
Send links to this blog and other sceptic blogs (see the Blogroll) to your friends and colleagues – the more readers we and the other blogs can reach, the more chance of creating a groundswell of public opinion.
Above all, remain positive!! The truth will out – in the end.
If anyone has more suggestions, leave a comment!
Australian Climate Madness 
My understatnding is that there are 37 Liberal senators, of which 21 are against the ETS. If this is still the case I can’t see any option but the ETS being voted down – this was always the Liberals position – to wait until after Copenhagen.
What can Turnbull do, if he forces the ETS through his leadership is finished.
I think that this MSM ‘cone-of-silence’ is a two-edged sword that will work in our favour.
Firstly, since there is no hint of any of this in Pravda-on-the-Yarra or other MSM, the intellectually challenged members on the government benches may well not see this train coming – k.d. wong’s smug attitude on the TV today certainly would suggest that this is the case. I think we can assume that neither Rudd, k.d. wong, nor the galactically incompetent Combet read Andrew Bolt or other “sceptic” blogs (like this one). That being the case, who’s going to be the bearer of the bad news to the “Smartest Man in Australia”, I wonder? These three clowns are true deniers in every sense of the word.
On the other hand, Minchin has already put his stake in the ground – well before this latest news broke – and actually has the most to lose if the ETS is passed in the Senate. I think it’s fair to assume that people are bringing the good news to him – and that he is listening and will act accordingly.
I am reasonably optimistic that Minchin’s script is already written for the drama to be played out this week. He seems pretty intent on crushing both the ETS legislation – and Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership. We should wish him every possible success in both of these extremely worthwhile endeavours.