Opposition budget ditches green tokenism

Spending on "green initiatives"

The Opposition will slash millions of dollars of pointless climate change spending promises by Labor if it regains power:

• $200 million off reducing emissions on coal-fired power stations (spend it instead on reducing emissions of toxins and particulates, which would actually achieve some environmental benefit, rather than removing, at vast expense, a harmless trace gas essential for life)
• $193 million off “climate aid” to poor countries (no global socialism here, thanks very much)
• $76 million off funds encouraging individuals to reduce emissions (pointless tokenism)
• $30 million ad campaign on climate change scrapped [BRAVO – Ed]
• $278 million off a plan to develop “greener cars” (no, we need more cars like the Prius…)
• $653 million off renewable energy schemes (which need massive government support to be even barely competitive)

All of these policies are predicated on CO2 being the primary and dominant driver of climate change, which $70 billion of research since 1990 has failed to establish. If it isn’t, every single one of them is completely, utterly, totally, and 100% pointless.

Read it here.