Coalition to vote down ETS, trigger election on climate change

2 December, 2009 by

Conservative roots

Conservative roots

This is precisely what we need – as has been said before, an election campaign is the only way in which the ETS can be exposed for what it is – a tax on everything based on flawed and exaggerated science.

TONY Abbott will steer the Liberal Party back to its conservative roots with a 2010 election campaign portraying Kevin Rudd as a Whitlamesque big spender whose climate change policies will smash Australian jobs.

The new Opposition Leader’s first act after ousting Malcolm Turnbull in a partyroom vote yesterday was to scrap his party’s support for Labor’s carbon emissions trading scheme, which he dismissed as “a great big tax”.

And Mr Abbott immediately moved to repair the Liberals’ shattered relations with the Nationals, embracing their contempt for the ETS after months of Mr Turnbull dismissing their views as irrelevant.

As Senate leader Barnaby Joyce rejoiced in a return of Coalition unity and pledged to pick apart Labor’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme “piece by piece”, the Labor Party released an advertisement warning that an Abbott government would take the nation backwards on climate change and industrial relations.

But Mr Abbott was unabashed, foreshadowing sharper policies on border protection and industrial relations to re-engage with his party’s conservative core.

“We have spent too much time arguing over whether we might look right-wing or that we might look like a return to the Howard government,” Mr Abbott told The Australian last night.

“What we need to do is to apply to problems common sense and forget about the tags.” (source)

Disappointingly, it looks like some Liberal senators will defy the new policy and vote with the government. Here’s the “name-and-shame” list:

  • Judith Troeth
  • Sue Boyce
  • Gary Humphries

Fortunately, these three will not be enough to let the bill through, so by lunchtime, we can say “farewell to the ETS” – for now at least.

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Phil Jones of CRU "to step down pending investigation"

2 December, 2009 by

Overstated case?

Overstated case?

Breaking news from AP (h/t Climate Depot):

LONDON — Britain’s University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.

The university says Phil Jones will relinquish his position until the completion of an independent review into allegations that he worked to alter the way in which global temperature data was presented.

The allegations were made after more than a decade of correspondence between leading British and U.S. scientists were posted to the Web following the security breach last month.

The e-mails were seized upon by some skeptics of man-made climate change as proof that scientists are manipulating the data about its extent.

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India "dismisses Danish climate proposal"

1 December, 2009 by

Non-event of 2009

Non-event of 2009

But, but, but… India and China are on board, surely? Surely Obama just went over there and charmed the pants off them all and everything in the garden was rosy, but now what’s happened? I really wish we’d voted Turnbull back in, because then Australia would turn up to Copenhagen with a shiny new ETS, and it would make all the difference!

Top Indian officials dismissed a draft climate change proposal by Denmark that expects developing economies to peak their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, news reports said Monday.

The draft document was circulated to a few countries ahead of the Dec. 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen, which is supposed to draw up an agreement for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases [which probably aren’t] causing global warming.

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said the Danish draft was “totally unacceptable,” The Economic Times reported.

“We are never going to take on a peaking year for absolute emissions. This is not on the horizon,” Ramesh told the Danes, according to the newspaper.

So China’s cut of 40% isn’t a cut at all (it’s an increase), India isn’t interested either, the US isn’t going to pass any legislation anytime soon (if at all). Copenhagen is shaping up to be a complete non-event.

Read it here.

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Lefty heads pop at Sydney Morning Herald

1 December, 2009 by

What's that popping sound?

What's that popping sound?

But, but, but… we wanted an ETS, they stutter. Their little lefty heads are popping at the sight of Tony Abbott as the Liberal leader – makes my day! It’s only taken a few hours for the knives to come out for Abbott of course, in a sign of what we can expect over the following weeks and months:

A leading climate-change sceptic [1] seized [2] control of Australia’s opposition on Tuesday, vowing to kill carbon trading legislation [3] ahead of key UN talks.

Right-wing [4] maverick [5] Tony Abbott ousted [6] Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull by just one vote, 42-41, in a result that should doom marathon attempts to pass emissions laws.

[1]: Guilty as charged

[2]: “Elected” is the usual word

[3]: Guilty as charged

[4]: When is anyone ever accused of being “left-wing” in the Moonbat Herald?

[5]: That’s right, portray the guy as a loony from the start

[6]: Again, “elected” is what I thought happened

Here’s looking forward to some more Moonbat Herald madness!

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Abbott comes out fighting

1 December, 2009 by

Victorious

Victorious

At last, a leader that proper Liberals can believe in, not some pale imitation of Kevin Rudd:

New Liberal leader Tony Abbott has promised to take the fight to the Government over emissions trading after wresting the leadership from Malcolm Turnbull by just one vote today.

Mr Abbott confirmed that the Liberals would seek to send the emissions trading legislation to a Senate committee for more scrutiny but would try to block it in the Senate if the committee proposal was voted down.

And he warned Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that he was not frightened of fighting an election on the issue.

“As far as many many millions of Australians are concerned what the Rudd Government ETS looks like is a great big tax to create a great big slush fund to provide politicised handouts run by a giant bureaucracy,” he said.

Mr Abbott said the next election would be a tough fight, but that the Oppositon would fight hard.

“You cannot win an election without a fight,” he said. “The job of the Opposition is to be an alternative, not an echo.”

Well said indeed and many congratulations from Australian Climate Madness. Maybe we will now get some climate sense.

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Abbott is the leader

1 December, 2009 by

Tony Abbott wins – ETS will be voted down.

Celebrate this great day for Australia!

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The stark choice for the Liberals

1 December, 2009 by

The choice is simple…

The choice is simple…

The leadership election boils down to this:

  • Malcolm Turnbull – we will have an ETS by the end of the day on a policy vote
  • Joe Hockey – we will have an ETS by the end of the day on a conscience vote
  • Tony Abbott – we won’t have an ETS today

Come on guys – don’t let us down. There is only one choice.

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BBC was sent CRU emails over a month ago

30 November, 2009 by

Climate bias

But because the BBC is the “Biased Broadcasting Corporation” and has already made up its mind on climate change (it’s all our fault), for some strange reason it didn’t think the content of the CRU emails was newsworthy enough to broadcast!

A BBC weatherman has admitted he was sent the controversial emails about how to “spin” climate data – more than a month before they were made public.

It has raised questions about why the BBC did not report on the matter sooner, and will reignite the debate over whether the Corporation is “biased” on the issue of climate change. [It is. Next question – Ed]

Thousands of emails and documents allegedly stolen from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and posted online indicate that researchers massaged figures to mask the fact that world temperatures have been declining in recent years.

The emails sent between world’s leading scientists apparently show researchers discussing how to ‘spin’ climate data and how that information should be presented to the media.

Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, has disclosed he was sent the leaked emails, a month ago, and claims the documents are a direct result of an article he wrote.

In his BBC blog written last week , he said: “I was forwarded the chain of emails on the 12th October, which are comments from some of the world’s leading climate scientists written as a direct result of my article “Whatever Happened To Global Warming”.

“The emails released on the Internet as a result of CRU being hacked into are identical to the ones I was forwarded and read at the time and so, as far as I can see, they are authentic,” he added.

The BBC has previously accused of failing to cover the climate change debate objectively. Earlier this year, Peter Sisson, the veteran newsreader, claimed it is now “effectively BBC policy” to stifle critics of the consensus view on global warming.

He said: “The Corporation’s most famous interrogators invariably begin by accepting that “the science is settled”, when there are countless reputable scientists and climatologists producing work that says it isn’t.

“But it is effectively BBC policy… that those views should not be heard.”

Goebbels really would have been proud.

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Abbott to stand in leadership vote

30 November, 2009 by

Just in:

Liberal Tony Abbott says he will throw his hat into the ring against Malcolm Turnbull tomorrow whether or not Joe Hockey is a contender for the liberal leadership.

Mr Abbott said after a day of discussions with Mr Hockey, who is in favour of a free vote on the emissions trading scheme, he had decided he needed to challenge whoever may be standing at the Liberal party room meeting.

The latest bombshell throws yet more confusion into the leadership debacle.

Mr Abbott had always said he would stand aside if Mr Hockey contested the leadership, but that position has changed because the shadow treasurer isn’t willing to adopt the hard line on the ETS.

Mr Abbott addressed reporters at Parliament House.‘‘I respect Joe’s position, I think that if Joe wants to run for leader on the basis of a free vote he is entitled to do so,’’ Mr Abbott said.

“But …it is just not possible for a credible party to have a free vote.”

Mr Turnbull is refusing to step aside as federal Liberal leader, saying he will contest a leadership contest if a spill vote is passed.

“I will be standing tomorrow,” he told reporters in Canberra.

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Rudd's climate clichés

30 November, 2009 by

climate_clicheKevin Rudd has delusions of grandeur (or should we say, delusions of adequacy) thanks to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, and thinks that he can dispense wisdom from on high towards the bottom dwellers back home in Australia. Unfortunately, all he can dispense is vacuous platitudes and climate clichés that are just, like, so last year:

“When it comes to the future of climate change in Australia, further delay on climate change equals denial on climate change,” Rudd said when questioned about the Liberal Party revolt.

“I understand Mr Turnbull, the leader of the opposition, has said something similar in the last 24 hours. [But he’s a fruit loop like you, Kevin – Ed]

“Our view is very simple. [In fact, I am very simple too – Ed]

“The time for delay on climate change action has well and truly passed.

“In Australia we have more than 10 years of delay on climate change action and after 10 years of delay on climate change action, continued delay is nothing less than climate change denial.”

Like a child, he believes everything the IPCC says, and won’t listen to anything else. And the only reason he wants the ETS through parliament is for his own selfish vanity.

I think we all know who the real deniers are.

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