The Queensland Government has announced plans to create a new category of restricted land called “Strategic Cropping Land” which bans all mining or development.

The Carbon Sense Coalition has lodged a submission opposing the proposal. See: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coal-or-crops.pdf [PDF, 581 KB]

If Queensland’s politicians were really concerned about food security they would not have sterilised millions of acres of grazing land under scrub clearing bans, conservation zones, heritage areas, wild rivers, national parks and other anti-farming bans.

Nor would they have encouraged the diversion of cropping land from producing food for humans to producing ethanol for cars; or used false global warming dogma to justify covering food producing land with feral forests of carbon credit trees.

It seems that the Queensland government has a secret plan to destroy Queensland’s primary industries, all motivated by suicidal Green hostility to the production of carbon fuels and foods, mainly coal, cattle and sheep.

Queensland has always relied on both mining and farming. To undermine mining on the pretence of helping food production is false and destructive.

This is not about crops or food – it is just another chapter in the Green war on carbon fuels whose goal is to prevent development of new coal mines and power stations.

The hidden tragedy of this silly policy is that we will never know which protected paddock is underlain by a treasure house of coal or minerals.

With modern machinery and knowledge of soils and plants it would be very easy to replace the food lost in the tiny area of crop land likely to be disturbed by coal mining.

The choice is not “Coal or Crops”.

A sensible policy is “Coal AND Crops”.

More:

• The Rise of the Greenshirts
• More Green Aggression
• Don’t get Kloppered by the Carbon Tax
• Bob Carter and the ABC’s Science Show

Read the newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/coal-and-crops.pdf [PDF, 90 KB]

Coal and oil are the key ingredients that have lifted much of mankind from a Stone Age existence to a world of comfort and plenty never before seen.

The Greens would have us close every coal mine and coal power station and their policies would also close most of our oil and metal refineries. And they will subsidise and mandate stupid alternative energy schemes whose main effect will be to boost backup gas consumption, increase electricity charges and increase network instability.

We should be careful what we wish for. Not long ago we were using wooden ploughs and all energy came from biofuels. Labour was cheap but food was scarce and expensive. Is this the green future?

More in this newsletter:

• Crocodile Tears about Cropping Land
• Oil Spills – Myths and Reality
• Cosmic rays control clouds control earth temperature
• The Election

Download here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/learning-from-history.pdf [PDF, 83 KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to wasteful spending on attempts to change the climate by taxing and rationing carbon.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that man will never control climate.

“Noah did not blame cooking fires for the flood – he built a boat before the rain came”.

Forbes explained:

“It’s time to stop wasting money trying to control the climate – this will be no more successful than slaughtering sacrificial goats, even if tax payers and electricity consumers are to be the goats.

“Man will never control the climate. Wealthy societies can and do improve their local environments of air, land and water. But to think that trading carbon credits, taxing carbon, or subsidising carbon geo-sequestration, wind towers or ethanol production will improve our climate is delusionary…”

More items in this newsletter:

• Greens aim at a black future for all Australians
• Making Things still Matters
• Bio-Bug – the Car for Canberra has been invented
• Bed Bugs for Breakfast?
• Finally, the Voltswagen

Read in full: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/be-prepared.pdf [PDF, 46 KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies distorting all energy markets in the name of global warming.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that if Julia Gillard was honest in her support for a sustainable Australia, she should start dismantling the five unsustainable industries created by climate subsidies.

Forbes explained:

“Today’s buzz word is “sustainable”.

“A sustainable industry cannot rely on government subsidies, market mandates or special deals.

“Warmists and subsidy entrepreneurs have created five unsustainable industries in gullible and guilt stricken western economies – carbon sequestration, ethanol, solar/wind power, carbon forestry and the climate change industry…”

More items in this newsletter:

• Book: Green Hell: How Deep Greens Plan to Control your Life
• Zero Carbon Emissions by 2020 – prices for firewood and candles to boom
• Emissions Trading Scheme reverses Global Warming in New Zealand
• New Danger – Sunset Change
• NASA’s New Goal – better relations with the Muslim world

Read the full newsletter http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/subsidies-unsustainable.pdf [PDF, 57KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that government science bodies in Australia had become cowed and corrupted by politicians.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that following the lead of the climate alarmists infecting the government owned ABC, CSIRO, BOM and most state and federal science departments were now singing the government song on climate.

“It’s time to de-politicise the Australian government climate science industry.”

More items in this newsletter:

Skeptical books – the trickle becomes a flood

• Climate Change Lunacy
• Climate the Counter Consensus

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Hilarious

• Wind Power Explodes
• The Great Wall of Queensland
• Environmental Extremism turns a Young Family’s Dream into a Nightmare
• CCNet – regular news on Climate Policy
• The Last Word

Read the full article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/science-corrupted.pdf [PDF, 50 KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that the Henry Tax review, designed to provide Australia with a more efficient tax system, had completely failed in the carbon tax area, with three complex carbon taxes now and more being promoted by Climate alarmists.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that a philosophy of centralisation, a developing budget crisis, electoral considerations and climate alarmism were now driving tax policy…

Other items in this newsletter:

• Re-Paint the Silver Lining?
• Whitewash the Hills?
• Famous Forecasts that Failed.
• The Week That Was – News you will not see or hear on the ABC.

Read in full: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/more-carbon-taxes.pdf [PDF, 44 KB]

Nearly twelve months ago “Carbon Sense” predicted that the Ration-N-Tax Scheme was dead in the water, but there was real danger that it would be replaced by a carbon tax.

See: http://carbon-sense.com/2009/07/19/carbon-tax-saddled/

This looks more likely today. Those who seek total control over our lives and our assets will not rest, and a carbon tax will be supported by…

Read more: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/carbon-tax.pdf [PDF, 41 KB]

Our Challenge

Some people think that the global warming scam is finished, that the Ration-N-Tax Scheme is dead, and that there is no further threat to our jobs, our economy and our energy supplies. Unfortunately there is no reason to relax. Public opinion has changed but the politicians have not.

Britons recently had a chance to vote on the “Oh so Green” Labour Party of Gordon Brown. They entered the polling booths holding their noses, pleased to get rid of one lot, but with no enthusiasm for the other lot. The “Conservative” Coalition governing Britain is also deep green, and in love with the Climate Change agenda of green taxes, subsidies and mandates.

Read on: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/press-on.pdf [PDF, 284 KB]

1. Computer Models, Climate Forecasts and other Dice Games
2. The Ins and Outs of Coal Fired Power Generation
3. Watts Up with the Climate? Australian Tour
4. Global Warming? Nothing New

The full newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/dice-games.pdf [PDF, 333 KB]

1. Gambling our Future on Sunbeams and Sea Breezes
2. The Great Kyoto Land Grab
3. The Iceland Volcano and Climate Change
4. Oceans, Volcanic Heat and Ice
5. Emissions from Nature
6. No Time for Resting

The full newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunbeams-and-seabreezes.pdf [PDF, 111KB]