Tim Blair links to a wonderful collection of tweets about the Carbon Tax rally, like this one:
Billion airs?
From billionaires to bogans: the Carbon Tax rally on Twitter
24 March, 2011 by
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Australian Climate Madness 
Thanks for that, mate. Fun! 🙂
Again, twitter proves to be full of twidiots
“When It Comes to the Environment, Education Affects Our Actions
The more highly educated are more likely to display their environmental credentials..”
ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2011)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110321093843.htm
Does one laugh – or cry?
You cry……some more bad news guys, the carbon (C02) tax will go ahead regardless of all our efforts to “educate” the masses (gullible, sheeple, whatever). I have been at a conference in Melbourne Monday and Tuesday with more than 400 delegates from all over Australia attending. Most of the industry sectors were present which included, mining (“nasty” coal, gold, uranium, iron ore, etc.), hydrocarbon industries (gas & petroleum), steel, food processing, electricity generators, pulp and paper, etc. To put things in perspective; these representatives were made up of engineers (chemical, mechanical, mining and others), maintenance & engineering managers, manufacturing/operations managers, senior government officials, etc. In other words influential senior management & specialists (higher echelons of society, brains trust, leaders, decision makers, etc.). And…….., yip, you have guessed right! What was one of the key issues they are going to address in their businesses? The challenges they have to reduce their carbon footprint, because it is the right thing to do/reduce green house gasses/make the planet safe for our children b/shit!
No one questioning/challenging the government (and displacing manufacturing abroad, job losses, decline in living standards, carbon trading fraud and the stupidity of it all) on this ridiculous carbon tax. All nodding their heads and applauding one speaker after the other. I was stunned, depressed, angry & argued with some speakers & delegates afterwards. I could not accept the unbelievable effective brainwashing that has taken place to date. It will take me weeks to get out of this carbon depressed state. I think we’ve got it wrong. The majority of Australians are brainwashed and believe that C02 is and will cause dangerous global warming.
Don’t get too depressed — it ain’t over yet.
I work in a place with a lot of these young Kool-Aid drinkers (mid 20’s, predominantly female – all of whom want to have Al Gore’s baby – and apparently went into this line of work because they weren’t smart enough to get into HR). If you want to do business at a corporate level these days, you need to have a “Sustainability” program. These young numb-nuts “manage” these “Sustainability” programs. Consequently, you spend literally hours a day wading through all the mind-numbing bullsh!t that they generate – Earth Hour participation, recording mileage for NGERS compliance, etc etc. (My favourite is to occasionally return one of these emails and ask “Has the use of the word ‘sustainability’ reached unsustainable levels?” They always go unanswered.)
We are also constantly getting bombarded to consider “green initiatives”, like bio-diesel, in projects – usually because the suppliers back-door us to these “Sustainability” numb-nuts. The good news is that when you document the case against bio-diesel factually and unemotionally, senior management supports you every time – but by then the “Sustainability” numb-nuts (who have the attention span of Nemo) are off chasing the next rainbow.
Oh … and the other thing that all these “Sustainability” numb-nuts are doing when they are not trying to make your life difficult? They’re all off at “Sustainability” junkets.
Tracey Spicer is quoted as tweeting “Breaking news: Thousands of dinosaurs discovered in Canberra”.
The comment: “Dinosaurs”! declares Newsy Spice … and if a TV station made the same call about over-40 female newsreaders?”
But it seems that Tracey believes in “The Science” and may therefore say whatever she likes.
The inability of most of those lefty tweeters to construct grammar or spell is a good indication of their intellect and worthiness of respect.
Was that one too mean? I thought twice about that snark, but given her recent travails at Channel 10 she seemed remarkably blithe about casting ageist aspersions.
“Back off man. I’m a scientist” – Ghostbusters.
Climate “science” is definitely the religion of choice for those whose capacity to read and absorb information is limited to 140 characters (or less). The other neat fit is that this diminished mental capacity lends itself to a technology which only requires the use of one or two thumbs.
I must be too retro to get such sophisticated humor.
Just wondering……….Do the Gillard_Brown Government Supporters understand that should the Climate Tax and eventually the ETRS go ahead, that it will in fact make way for industry to have a licence to pollute. It will eventually go to an international scale, so if a business buys the carbon permits then they can get as big as they damn well please. Manufacturing jobs unfortunately will the big losers here because frankly there is cheap labour overseas as well as less government regulation/red tape.
There is enough Federal, State and Local Government Regulation in Australia for all Citizens, Businesses and Industry to discharge their obligations of Environmental Due Diligence as well as managing the emissions for the benefit of all Australians and Australia itself.
Only a lunatic would believe that Australia’s ETRS and ultimately an international ETRS will save the world and change the ways of countries such as India and China; when they have billions of mouths to feed (hence why China is buying Australia prime agriculture land…….they are actually smart cookies).
The Carbon Tax is not the Australian way , The Carbon Tax is not In Australia’s Best Interest, and also a message to Henny Penny Gillard…..The Sky is not going to fall, should you not put your Carbon Tax in place on the 1 July 2012.