Rudd to "try again for ETS tax"

Delusional about climate

At least the Daily Telegraph is calling it an ETS “tax” now!

Kevin Rudd, along with all the other world leaders at Copenhagen, believe they have the power to regulate the earth’s climate. They genuinely believe that it will bow to their superior power, and keep its temperature rise below whatever figure they deem to be the right one.

There is one word for this kind of belief: delusional.

And now Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan are continuing to press ahead with the ETS for the hopelessly pathetic reason of “business certainty”.

Treasurer Wayne Swan said the controversial emissions trading scheme that would push up the cost of electricity and power was “just as relevant now as it was before Copenhagen and we need to pass the bill for business certainty”. [Well done to the Tele for calling it as it is! – Ed]

The ETS was rejected by the Senate earlier this month and the Government planned to re-introduce the scheme for parliamentary approval in February next year even though other nations were refusing to agree to cut their own carbon emissions.

The Rudd Government said it still remained committed to cutting the nation’s greenhouse gas output by between five and 25 per cent.

It would set a more exact target in February next year when other nations made public the size of any greenhouse reductions they would be perpared to make.

Keep pushing, guys. The more you do, the more the public will see through this nonsense.

Read it here.