There are two ways to cope with climate change – you can try to control the climate and thus change the future, or you can be prepared to adapt to or cope with whatever the future brings. The choice is “Climate Control” or “Be Prepared”.

“Climate Control” has a number of problems.

Firstly, there is no evidence that man’s activities do indeed control global temperature – all we have are unproven theories and computer model forecasts. Therefore whatever we do may have no effect on climate…

Read the full document [PDF, 46KB] including the press release “Politicians are Creating an Un-Natural Disaster”.

I have read an interesting book, titled The Tyranny of the Group by psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Malcolm.

In that book he points out how group voodoo leaders from Haiti, to tribal witch doctors, to religious leaders of all denominations, to Joseph Goebbels conducting the Nuremberg rallies, mass-indoctrinate their audiences.

He drew attention to the Nuremberg rallies, which, he stated were masterpieces of the art of mass persuasion. They culminated in the mesmeric speeches of Adolf Hitler, with two hundred hundred thousand people simultaneously raising their right hands in a massive Seig Heil to the Fuhrer.

William Shirer in his Berlin Diary stated: “There in the floodlit night, jammed together like sardines in one mass formation, the little men of Germany who have made Nazism possible, achieved the highest state of being the Germanic man knows: the shedding of their individual souls and minds – with the personal responsibility and doubts and problems – until under the mystic lights and at the sounds of the magic words of the Austrian, they were merged completely in the Germanic herd.”

Dr. Malcolm points out that such scenes made crowds of people from the ancient Romans to modern Americans susceptible to such mass hypnosis.

Today such mass hypnosis, engineered by Al Gore, the IPCC, and Western political leaders in a convincing display of propaganda, is persuading the masses of their “sins” of allegedly endangering life on the planet, by contributing to the “dangerous” emissions of carbon dioxide.

Luckily, not all are susceptible to such propaganda.

Ronald Kitching

What a great headline in a weekend newspaper, The rush is on for sky money. The comparison between ETS and the cargo cultists of PNG couldn’t be more apt. Mani bilong skai is already attracting the shysters and get-rich-quick merchants, for the lie is big and the suckers are many (‘Would you like to trade this splendid piece of thin air for some of those old dollars?’). Those old dollars won’t be worth much if ETS becomes law.

Regards
John McRobert

By Peter Lang

This paper compares the capital cost of three electricity generation technologies based on a simple analysis. The comparison is on the basis that the technologies can supply the National Electricity Market (NEM) demand without fossil fuel back up…

The three technologies compared are:

1. Nuclear power;
2. Solar photo-voltaic with energy storage; and
3. Solar thermal with energy storage.

Full article here. [PDF, 52KB]

Here is the original article: Solar Power Realities

Viv Forbes

In a lifetime of observing and participating in politics, the world wide campaign by the international green movement (aided by the power-seeking UN bureaucracy) to monitor, control and tax every food, energy and transport business in the world is the most dangerous development I have ever seen. It has the potential to blight the lives and investments of the majority of Australians who are unable to find a safe place for themselves on the government payroll or in the protected Climate Change Industry.

Full article. [PDF, 87KB]

Viv Forbes

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction.

Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.

– Ludwig von Mises Socialism.

The above passage was written by the great economist and political philosopher, Ludwig von Mises, in German, in 1922. His massive book “Socialism” demolishes the whole idea that centrally planned economies can ever produce prosperity or freedom.

Read more. [PDF, 53KB]

The Government will probably reintroduce the Renewable Energy Targets Bill (The RENT Scheme) very soon. The Liberals are unlikely to stop it – they are too engrossed in considerations of survival, and too many are hostage to Green dreamers, Green Industry speculators and vested interests lined up to profit from suffering electricity consumers.

This bill has nothing to commend it.

Firstly, the whole idea of the Emissions Trading Systems beloved by the Lib-Lab party and the merchant banking speculators is that it allows the market to determine the cheapest way to reduce emissions. It is totally negated when politicians mandate or subsidise certain energy systems. Thus the Rent Scheme should be shelved until the fate of the Ration-N-Tax Scheme is finally decided.

Secondly, it would be foolish in the extreme to force Australian industry to pay elevated electricity costs before it is clear what is coming out of the IPCC talkfest in Copenhagen in December, and what our international competitors are doing.

Thirdly, there is no chance that a force fed program to force solar/wind to supply 20% of Australia’s power will succeed without the risk of disruptions to power supplies and rapidly escalating costs for electricity and gas (which will be needed to back up unreliable green power).

And finally, the environmental “benefits” are very doubtful. When the massive land dislocation, and the minerals, energy and emissions resulting from the manufacture and installation of thousands of wind towers and solar panels are fully accounted for, we may find that Green Power is not so green after all.

This bill should be postponed until a full sensible assessment is made.

Viv Forbes

PDF version of this article. [PDF, 29KB]

By A. E. McClintock BA, MSc, PhD

Temperature readings in isolated Australian locations show no increases for 100 years.

Weather observatories in Australia, dating back 100 years or more show cities getting hotter as they get bigger but country towns have generally NOT been warming up. Some have actually been cooling down.

Read the full document, with additional graphs here. [PDF, 796 KB]

The chimera of the “danger” of carbon dioxide is absolute nonsense.

Carbon dioxide is a harmless but essential gas on which all life on earth depends. It is only 385 parts per 1,000,000 of the atmosphere.

An increase to say 5,000 parts per 1,000,000, would do no harm whatsoever to all animal and fish life, but would be of great benefit to plant life.

Any increase over the present content of atmospheric CO2 enables plants to take greater advantage of photosynthesis and grow quicker using less water.

Who can imagine that Russia, Brazil, China and India are going to burden their economies and their people with the nonsense that both Rudd and Turnbull are proposing?

Who would think that all of the Central and South American nations are going to burden themselves with climate change trading schemes or taxes?

Who would think that any country in all of Africa is going to burden their industries and people with the ridiculous proposals of Rudd and Turnbull?

I have been observing politics and politicians long before most of our politicians were born.

The present crop are the worst we have ever had and need weeding out. They need to be replaced by sensible men and women.

Ronald Kitching

A statement by Mr Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, Australia.

The Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition, Mr Viv Forbes, today called for an audit by the Productivity Commission into PM Rudd’s Green Jobs Plan.

Forbes explains:

“Whenever politicians claim to create jobs, close examination usually finds that the jobs were created in another country and their policies have merely created more welfare recipients.

“Much of the tax funded subsidy money being thrown at “alternative energy” is creating jobs in China making the hardware. Then it employs a few short term people installing the stuff. In the end, the only real jobs created are repairing wind towers and cleaning dust off solar panels. Even these are not real jobs because the moment the government stops forcing electricity companies to use their expensive and unreliable green power, these jobs will also evaporate.

“Real jobs are those that produce unsubsidized goods or services that can be sold in open
markets at a profit.”

Read the full statement. [PDF, 267KB]