The nightmare continues...
Thanks to Labor, the hysterical eco-loony Greens and the witless independents, a price on carbon is virtually guaranteed, and probably within the lifetime of this parliament. All we can hope is that its life is so brief the moonbats won’t have a chance to do irreparable damage to our economy and our country. As the ABC reports:
Greens MP Adam Bandt and the independents who threw their lot in with Labor have made it clear they would like to see the Federal Government take action to address climate change.
In its negotiations to form government, Labor agreed to convene a climate change committee made up of MPs and experts [but no sceptics, of course, or anyone that could possibly cast doubt on the AGW hysteria propounded by the IPCC] that would work towards putting a price on carbon.
The Climate Institute says it is hopeful the new Government will act more promptly and decisively than the previous Labor government, but a mining industry body says it is reserving judgment.
The independents who sided with Labor and Mr Bandt made it clear shortly after polling day that they want something done about climate change. [Just like that! Easy! As if Australia legislating an ETS will make one iota of difference to the climate! It’s simply laughable.]
“I support the precautionary principle and whether it applies to a market or not, or is carbon tax or whatever else, but if the climate scientists are in fact right and we do nothing, what have we done to future generations?” independent MP Tony Windsor said. [Yep, Windsor thinks that spending trillions of dollars to solve a non-problem is better than spending it on hospitals or schools. A bit like the NBN really…]
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John Connor from the Climate Institute says it is a big step forward. [Backward.]
“I think it is very possible that we will get a price tag and limit on pollution here in Australia in the next couple of years,” he said.
“I think it is in everyone’s interest if we get on with that and do that as early as we can in this Parliament so people can understand the world won’t end, and in fact opportunities will arise and come as a consequence of that action.” [In the fairy-tale land you inhabit, perhaps, but not in the real world.]
Mr Connor says the election outcome should serve as a warning to Labor and the Coalition that the electorate wants action. (source)
Which is utter nonsense. People voted Green as a protest against the incompetence of Labor – nothing to do with crippling our economy with a pointless ETS or carbon tax.
Australian Climate Madness 
It confounds me why these politicians are apparently totally ignorant of how such schemes have failed miserably everywhere, most being riddled with fraud, and ignorant of how the US have said no to such schemes.
This is all regardless of the “science”; it is truly madness.
@ Dave N: hence the blog title 😉
What irritates me the most about these twits supposedly speaking on our behalf (specifically the left leaning kind) is the constant pious declaration that “the public have spoken and they want decisive action on climate change”
What are they are basing this arrogant assumption on? Their deluded group think mentality. These fools believe the public want action because of their refusal to expose themselves to an opposing position.
Its sickening, frustrating and infuriating to listen to.
unfortunately its not about the science or fixing anything, they will throw any old crap at the argument to get us on board and signed up to a UN agreement,you know one step closer to world government,and of course its unfortunate that a great many people hold the UN in high regard,truth of the matter is they are socialist turds!
Any chance that Tony Abbott can be primed to say “absolute crap” publicly about this? Just imagine the fallout – then, ultimately, the respect – if he holds his job for long enough …
Maybe it’s time to start a Make Tony Abbott Tell The Truth And Lead On This Crap campaign.
Sign here. I’m first. Laurie Williams, Kensington Gardens, SA. There. Done. Next!
They are desperate to get a carbon exchange as temperatures are now noticeably declining. This totally ineffectual but economically damaging mechanism can then be pointed to and considered successful, thereby reinforcing the message that a carbon price is good. I doubt they’ll introduce a carbon price, at least not until after July next year. By then the buffoonery will be so great, that labor and the greens will be openly hostile, that labor will refuse to introduce she enabling legislation. The greens will ask for too much and end up with nothing.
One good thing might come of this:
If Australia goes ahead and cripples its economy with Oxygen taxes (I say Oxygen taxes since CO2 is 72% Oxygen by weight – so it’s more accurate to call CO2 ‘Oxygen’ than ‘Carbon’) it will provide a great lesson to the rest of the World – once the huge economic damage is quantified and the massive amounts of fraud and corruption revealed.
Thanks Aussies. You first.
‘Over my cold, dead body!’ Charlton Heston, National Rifle Association 😉
All good points folk. Well said. However, the point that caught my attention specifically was Keiths.
“thereby reinforcing the message that a carbon price is good.” Another example of the positive re-reinforcement of their groupthink.
That’s the genius of this outright FRAUD. They can never be wrong.
Keith I hope you’re right. Similar comment to one I made recently, re wondering whether the lower house green may being tempted to make the government wait until July next year, to get more extreme junk through.
Re the genius of this fraud, yes as I have said before it’s about as close as possible to the perfect hoax, because it’s sustaining itself well, and when it eventually crumbles the blame game will be very easy and relatively safe for almost all participants, because of the origins and support mechanisms of the misinformation being used