“Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable…”

Milton Friedman

We have to do something about Sunset Change.

For some time scientists have observed that sunsets have been occurring earlier each evening. If this is allowed to go on unchecked, we will soon be left in total darkness. We must act now.

We must throw huge amounts of money down a well.

But wait! Latest observations show that sunsets have started to occur later.

You see how well our plan is working.

Throw in more money.

John Billingsley
Toowoomba, Queensland.

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]

According to David Bellamy of The Conservation Foundation, London, “if we took all of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, the temperature might fall by about 1.0C, but we wouldn’t be here to worry, because there would be no green plants to feed us.”

The Geelong Advertiser, 22/5/10, page 28.

“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower quotation – Farewell Address to Nation – 17th January 1961

If it is freezing cold – “That is just an extreme weather event”.

But if it is a heat wave – “That is more evidence of global warming”.

Viv Forbes, Rosevale, Qld, Australia.

ETS is about changing behaviour.
We should plant more trees, drive trucks less and stop raising so many farm animals.
Big Nanny said so.
She forgot to say “stop exhaling”!

Gary Kerkin
New Zealand

“Man-made CO2 is only 0.001152% part of the atmosphere!! It should be clear to everybody that such a futile quantity can NEVER be cause of global warming.”

F. Eckenhuijsen Smit (Dutch national, living in Spain since 1968)

“We can do without coal, and we can do without coal seam gas…”

Bob Brown, Leader of the Greens, Australia, on ABC 29 June 2010, audio
link on http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201006/s2939707.htm

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]