There is nothing unusual about current climate and today’s warming is not significantly different from past warming eras.

Earth and its oceans have be coping with prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide from volcanoes since the world began. Oceans are not threatened by carbon dioxide – they are very efficient at removing excess carbon dioxide into massive deposits of limestone and other carbonate rocks.

Earth has about 1,000 active volcanoes above the sea and far more beneath the sea. Most measuring stations for carbon dioxide on land are sited near volcanoes, which makes calculations of figures on average atmospheric content suspect. It is likely to be lower than reported.

Even earthquakes release large quantities of carbon dioxide, and all of this carbon dioxide is identical to the small amount generated by puny humans burning coal, oil and gas.

Because these volcanic and earthquake releases of CO2 are not monitored and are identical to carbon dioxide formed by burning of hydrocarbons, there is thus no basis for estimating the proportion of CO2 attributable to humans. It is likely to be far lower than the computer models have assumed.

For a summary of these matters by Professor Plimer see his presentation to the European Institute for Climate and Energy, December, 2010:

Watch an expert scientist and presenter look at temperature trends, solar
correlations, cosmic rays, clouds and the deficiencies of IPCC models.

A masterful presentation which shows that there is nothing unusual about
current temperatures or trends and the IPCC models neglect factors like
clouds, solar variations and cosmic rays which are all part of the complex
system that produces climate change on earth.

This presentation was made by Professor Dr Vincent Courtillot (Professor of Geophysics at the Paris Diderot University) to the European Institute for Climate and Energy, December, 2010.

Official Government Forecast, 2010: “There will be no Carbon Tax”.

“Carbon Sense” Forecast , 2009: “Carbon Tax – Saddled and Ready”. See:

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/carbon-tax-saddled.pdf [PDF, 17KB]

The No Carbon Tax Coalition is organising another Rally in Brisbane, on Saturday 7th May 11.30pm to 1.30pm outside The Queensland Parliament House, Brisbane.

Watch the video:

Spread the information around.

It seems that a self indulgent government has already spent much of the money it will raise with a tax on carbon dioxide – on promoting its own agenda.

Most recent is the Flannery “Climate Commission” soaking up $5.6 million. Then the Garnaut Review of the Garnaut report. Then the well staffed experts serving the Green/ALP coalition’s “multi party committee on climate change”.

Then all the juicy jaunts to the never ending international conferences in all the world’s best resorts.

As Alan Moran, says using tax payer funds to convince tax payers to part with more funds is the hallmark of the state where nanny knows best.

For Alan Moran’s report on the carbon tax and propaganda see:
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/carbon-taxes-and-propaganda.pdf [PDF, 21 KB]

See also:
http://carbon-sense.com/2010/02/16/green-jobs-galore/

Dr David Evans’ address to the Anti-Carbon-Tax rally, Perth Australia, 23 March 2011.

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen.

The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic. Watching this issue unfold has been amusing but, lately, worrying. This issue is tearing society apart, making fools and liars out of our politicians.

Let’s set a few things straight.

The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s. But the gravy train was too big, with too many jobs, industries, trading profits, political careers, and the possibility of world government and total control riding on the outcome. So rather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now cheat and lie outrageously to maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.

Let’s be perfectly clear. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and other things being equal, the more carbon dioxide in the air, the warmer the planet. Every bit of carbon dioxide that we emit warms the planet. But the issue is not whether carbon dioxide warms the planet, but how much.

Most scientists, on both sides, also agree on how much a given increase in the level of carbon dioxide raises the planet’s temperature, if just the extra carbon dioxide is considered. These calculations come from laboratory experiments; the basic physics have been well known for a century.
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By Ross McKitrick.

In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour. Here is my response.

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to provide safe indoor lighting for reading.
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Twenty two organisations representing thousands of Australians all over the country have signed a letter to Prime Minister Gillard opposing the carbon tax. These diverse organisations, representing widely varied interests, are united in opposition to imposing a tax on carbon dioxide that will have no effect whatsoever on global climate, little effect on the production of carbon dioxide but a large effect on the cost of living and job prospects for Australians. This is merely a wealth redistribution scheme where most of the wealth will be consumed on compliance, regulation, red tape and subsidies and exemptions for the Climate Change Industry and their supporters.

See the letter here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/coalition-to-stop-carbon-tax.pdf [PDF, 525 KB]

See also this leaflet: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/no-carbon-tax-rally-leaflet.pdf [PDF, 239 KB]

Viv Forbes
Chairman
The Carbon Sense Coalition

“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizens from falling into error; it is the function of the citizens to keep the government from falling into error.”

Justice Robert H Jackson, Chief Prosecutor, Nurnberg Trials.