Howard C. Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Physics, UConn, has written a submission to the US EPA.

His conclusion:

“To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate.

“It would be a travesty if the EPA were to countenance such nonsense.”

Read the submission: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hayden-submission-epa.pdf [PDF, 65 KB]

An ALP politician, Nick Champion, has written a piece designed to scare the electorate. Rudd is concentrating on frightening little children.

Champion is quoting “National Security and the Threat of Climate Change” by General Gordon R Sullivan (Ret.) which paints a picture of “food and water scarcity, rising sea levels, increased threat of national disasters like hurricanes, storms and flooding, and a rise in infectious diseases. These threats could strike in Asia and the Pacific and could affect millions of people.”

He then goes on to talk about a ”threat multiplier” which includes every nightmare from failed states to resource scarcity all of which he sees as threatening our defences and our fault unless we introduce an ETS which would easily fix all the world’s problems.

He tries to blame us for all the natural disasters of the earth and would then deprive poor countries of modern coal fired power stations and confine them to dung and windmills in the name of responsible government and our national security.

Janet Barlow
Sydney, Australia

The Carbon Sense Coalition claimed today that those who vote for the Wong Ration-N-Tax Scheme are betraying every backbone industry in Australia, for no climate benefits whatsoever.

The Chairman of Carbon Sense, Mr Viv Forbes, said that there is no evidence that carbon dioxide drives temperature changes on earth.

He added:

“Even if the world did warm, there is no evidence that this would be harmful to life on earth. Ice ages cause mass extinctions; warm periods are always bountiful.

“Moreover, higher temperature must produce higher evaporation from the oceans and thus more rainfall. If this is combined with more abundant carbon dioxide, the aerial plant food, earth would have another green revolution.

“The war on carbon dioxide has been heavily promoted by European interests dependent on aging and costly nuclear power and unreliable Russian gas. Their goal is to hobble those competitors reliant on efficient and dependable coal power, chiefly the Anglo-American world and Australia’s major customers in China and India.

“Many foolish local politicians have thus become foreign agents.

“Any Ration-N-Tax Scheme will reduce Australian jobs in mining, farming, fishing, forestry, transport, travel, tourism and power generation, all of which are totally dependent on carbon fuels. It will benefit bankers, speculators, traders, lawyers, regulators and artificial industries dependent on subsidies.

“It will export jobs and assist all competitors who have no ETS shackles.

“The carbon killers in the Australian Parliament are thus assisting the world spread of nuclear power, encouraging the overuse of gas, promoting costly fantasies like wind power, assisting carbon speculators and destroying real Australian industry and jobs – all for no proven climate benefit whatsoever.”

Viv Forbes
Rosevale Qld 4340

For a commentary on how the Greens have promoted nuclear power and uranium mining see:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article7009629.ece

Jo Nova captures the mood in Australia: