As always, a great read!
WWF – beyond disgusting
3 September, 2009 by
Check out the video on Watts Up With That to see the despicable depths to which WWF has sunk in order to promote its blinkered environmental agenda. From WUWT:
In my opinion, it boggles the mind that anyone or any organization could be so dense as to not predict the public reaction to such a print ad, much less a video. I don’t care how noble you think your cause is, this hijacking of an American tragedy for earth awareness, is not only callous and insulting to the thousands of families affected by this tragedy, but it probably the single most disgusting and stupid application of eco advertising I’ve ever witnessed.
My sentiments exactly.
India digs in against binding emissions cuts
3 September, 2009 by
Hands up those of you who are surprised by this. If you just put your hand up, go to the bottom of the class. India, sensibly, puts economic growth and the living standards of its population ahead of feel-good gestures to “tackle climate change”, which will cripple the economy and send its inhabitants back to the Dark Ages:
INDIA is digging in against legally binding caps on carbon emissions, ahead of December’s climate change talks with the US and Europe in Copenhagen.The Indian government yesterday released a report that showed the country’s per capita greenhouse-gas emissions – the cause behind global warming – will be lower over the next two decades than the global per capita emissions in 2005. These levels will also be lower than those of Western countries for about the same period, the report said.The findings aim to rebut concerns that India’s quest to become a global economic power will transform it into a leading emitter of greenhouse-gasses. Still largely agrarian and poor, India has bristled at suggestions from industrialised countries, such as the US, that it should do more to cap emissions even if it means curbing growth.
Read it here.
Climate alarmism in overdrive
3 September, 2009 by
Just some headlines this morning. All the usual hysteria, recycled and republished to brainwash the unsuspecting public, falling into the categories of (a) all happening faster, (b) all worse than we thought, (c) action required NOW, or (d) crazy alternative “solutions”. We’ve added a handy label to each, so you can choose which one to avoid:
- Glaciers ‘melting faster than ever’ (Ninemsn) – (a)
- Arctic heating up fast, report warns (ABC) – (a)(b)(c)
- Great Barrier Reef faces catastrophe (The Age) – (a)(b)
- Life may depend on giant sunshade (Sydney Morning Herald) – (d)
- No cuts, no glory in global warming battle (Sydney Morning Herald) – (a)(b)(c)
Read them at your peril.
Daily Bayonet – "The Powerless Green Future"
2 September, 2009 by
Australia should wake up pretty quickly to what is happening in the UK, and stop the madness before the lights go out:
The UK could be rationing electricity within 8 years because demand for power is forecast to outstrip supply.The British government committed the nation to its Low Carbon Transition Plan in July, an idea that hopes wind and solar can produce enough electricity to power the entire country. Renewable energy is a green dream that will turn into a nightmare for families facing sudden power cuts or scheduled brown-outs.In the 21st century, the idea that a nation cannot provide enough power for its people and industries should be unthinkable. There is no coal shortage, no oil shortage and no Uranium shortage. The only shortage is plants that convert these fuels into power. But why?Greens have played a key role in dePowering the UK, Greenpeace scofflaws at Kingsnorth illustrate the radical scaremongering that made the idea of building new generating capacity a political nightmare. Eco-radicals are proud of their drive to deprive people of affordable energy, witness the Sierra Club in the USA and how they brag about the 100 power stations they ‘prevented‘.The perfect storm of a spineless political class and a somnolent public faced with aggressive green lobby groups has brought the UK to a point where it is a country without an energy future. No one listens to voices of reason, preferring to pretend that renewable energy can fill the gap and ignoring that ‘green’ alternatives require the industrialization of the open countryside:… the land area occupied by wind farms would be nearly 10 percent of the country, or roughly the size of Wales. The area occupied by desert solar power stations — in the case of Britain, they would have to be connected by long-distance power lines — would be five times the size of London. The 50 nuclear power stations required would occupy a more modest 50 square kilometers.
Read it here.
Climate sense from Cory Bernardi
1 September, 2009 by
The South Australian Liberal Senator writes bluntly about the realities of the ETS in Quadrant Online:
Even the most devout anthropogenic climate change believer knows that Australia acting alone to reduce carbon emissions will not make a jot of difference to the climate. They also know that Australian industry and jobs will disappear overseas in the absence of a truly global agreement.Under Labor’s CPRS, prices for everyday goods will rise and every power point will be come a tax collection outlet for a rapacious Government with an insatiable appetite for interfering in our lives. Worse still, acting ahead of the rest of the world might actually mean that Australia is stuck with a scheme that won’t make any difference except to damage our domestic economy.It’s time for a reality check of the political action attached to the climate change debate.Labor’s CPRS is so flawed that it should not be reintroduced into the Parliament until after the global climate change talks in Copenhagen later this year. To pass this Bill, or any incarnation of it ahead of the Copenhagen talks, is sheer folly. To do so, when Labor’s scheme is not even scheduled to commence until 2011, would suggest that politics and politicians have taken leave of their senses.Any talk of accepting, amending, improving or adapting Labor’s scheme before then is to ignore our national interest.
Well said.
Read it here.
Australian heatwave just "natural variation" – BoM
1 September, 2009 by
It only took a few hours for the predictable, Pavlov’s-dog-like response of the slavering environmental journalists at The Age, linking the recent warm weather to “climate change”. But the Bureau of Meteorology seems to think differently (for once). AAP (as published in The Australian) can’t resist a bit of hysteria, though:
AUSTRALIA just sweated through its hottest August on record.But it’s not climate change, it’s just hot.The Bureau of Meteorology says August was almost 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than normal across the country.The bureau boffins described it as “most extraordinary” as temperatures crept above 38 degrees in some areas.And winter as a whole came within a whisker of being the warmest of record – it was just 0.01 of a degree cooler than the record-holder, 1996.Blair Trewin, a climate scientist with the bureau, said the warm weather was caused by a lack of large frontal systems sweeping up from the southern oceans, which would have brought cool air.Instead, persistent high pressure systems hung about the subtropics.Dr Trewin said the heatwaves were caused more by natural variability than by climate change.Climate change [as a result of natural warming after the Little Ice Age, since most of it occurred before 1940, before carbon dioxide emissions were significant – Ed] had pushed up temperatures by about 0.8 of a degree over the past century but August came in at more than two degrees above average.“The set-up we had this month would have given us an extremely warm month whether it happened 100 years ago or it happened now,” Dr Trewin said.“There’s a lot of natural variability but you’ve got a climate change signal on top of that.“And there’s no end in sight to the warm weather – the Bureau is forecasting a hot, dry spring.That’s because of warm conditions in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
What, not because of evil SUVs? Surely some mistake? An almost balanced article – ACM editor falls off chair in amazement.
Read it here.
US climate bill "in disarray"
1 September, 2009 by
After all the empty hype and rhetoric from President Hope ‘n’ Change himself, let’s hope this is a foretaste of what is to come in Australia. From Watts Up With That:
U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, today said that he was not surprised to learn that Senate Democrats were forced once again to delay introduction of their global warming cap-and-trade bill. Throughout hearing after hearing in the EPW Committee this summer, it became apparent that Democrats were a long way off from reaching the votes necessary in the Senate to pass the largest tax increase in American history.
“The news today-that Sen. Boxer and Sen. Kerry will delay introduction of their cap-and-trade bill-came as no surprise. The delay is emblematic of the division and disarray in the Democratic Party over cap-and-trade and health care legislation-both of which are big government schemes for which the public has expressed overwhelming opposition. With the climate change debate on Capitol Hill, it’s safe to report that bipartisanship is nowhere in evidence. Cap-and-trade has pitted Democrat against Democrat, or, put another way, it centers on those in the party supporting the largest tax increase in American history against those in the party who oppose it. As to just who will win this intra-party squabble, I put money down on those representing the vast majority of the American people, who are clear that cap-and-trade should be rationed out of existence.”
Read it here.
Nationals spread the word about the ETS
1 September, 2009 by
Warren Truss and Barnaby Joyce are on a mission to spread the truth about the ETS to regional New South Wales:
Motoring from Lismore to Maclean yesterday, Senator Joyce told the Herald the most common discovery thus far was ”people hate the ETS, they hate it with a passion”. ”Now they understand it, they don’t like it.”The Nationals are set to split from the Liberals on climate change because they do not share Malcolm Turnbull’s willingness to negotiate on Labor’s emissions trading scheme. Separately last night, but also on the east coast, Greg Combet, the Assistant Minister for Climate Change, was reassuring concerned citizens in his electorate and home of Newcastle about the ETS.In a sign the locals in this safe-Labor coal region are nervous, Mr Combet pointed out the average household power bill would rise by about $6 a week, for which low and middle income earners would be given substantial assistance.
Read it here.
Carbon Sense – Barnaby Joyce is now the real leader of the Opposition
31 August, 2009 by
Press release from the Carbon Sense Coalition:
The Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, today called for Liberals who oppose the ALP Ration-N-Tax Scheme Bill (the RATS Bill) to leave the Liberals and join the Nationals.
Forbes explains:
“Barnaby Joyce has become the real leader of the Opposition and deserves to be supported. Malcolm Turnbull no longer serves liberal values and actually promotes the interests of big business mates who aim to do very well out of trading carbon credits.
“The Liberal leadership has lost all idea of their philosophical base and are now the paralysed party of the extreme centre. They should have learnt from the history of Don Chipp’s Democrats and The Australia Party that parties of the extreme centre end up standing for nothing and are abandoned by their supporters.
“The Liberal Party is now on that dead-end road.
“Mr Turnbull should also ponder the philosophical goals of the deep green zealots who promote the Green Religion. He will find them consistent with the philosophies of Mao and Stalin, and totally opposed to the beliefs of freedom supporters such as Menzies, Thatcher and Regan.
“Once our Parliaments held people like Bert Kelly and John Hyde of the Liberals and Peter Walsh and Michael Costa of the ALP who supported the freedom philosophy for both business and workers. Today, liberty finds few friends in Parliament.
“Mr Turnbull determines his policies by “Business Feedback”. He should talk to more than organisations such as the Business Council of Australia, where 60% of the membership has no direct carbon tax liability and many of them expect to benefit greatly by participating in the new Bubble Business to be created from trading hot air certificates.
“Big banks, national law firms, transnational accounting firms, Wall Street traders and the merchant bank millionaires are not the real industry of Australia – they are the froth and bubble floating on the real rivers of productive industry.
“Since the days of the Wool Boom and the Gold Rush, Australian prosperity has always rested on the primary wealth created by its outback industries. Mr Turnbull needs to pull on his RM Williams boots, don a hard hat and venture out of the air conditioning to find the opinion of the real businesses of Australia. He should talk to farmers and graziers, fishermen and foresters, miners and explorers, those who process our minerals and food into things of real value, and those who run the trucks, trains and planes that keep the swarming cities functioning.
“Far from the genteel cocktail circuit of the Sydney-Melbourne Clubs, the Nationals have sensed the growing grassroots revolt against the Rudd road to carbon penury. They have done what every good politician does – find out where the people are heading and jump in front calling “Follow Me”. Many others will now join that revolt.
“Barnaby Joyce is right. The RATS Bill cannot be made acceptable – it must be destroyed in the Senate.”
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