The Concept is Similar to a Gambling Casino Based on Hot Air

ABA Chairman, Brad Bellinger said, “The ABA Board had met last week and decided to oppose any form of Emissions Trading. He said that the Australian Government will be acting like speculative fools, if it goes down a path of trading something that cannot be accurately measured.”
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Every time there is a flood, drought or cyclone, some politician or lobbyist immediately cites
it as evidence of “Climate Change” and uses the occasion to promote the Emissions Trading
religion.

People need to get a sense of history and a sense of perspective. There is nothing new
about climate change. Climate change and “extreme” weather are permanent features of life
on earth. Temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide content of the air, as well as winds and
cloudiness, are all liable to rise or fall from hour to hour, day to day, season to season and
from one climate era to the next.

Global climate is not a still life, it is a moving picture. Weather and climate (average weather
over 30 years) are always changing, but mankind has little to do with it and can do nothing to
change it. Life has always been threatened by natural disasters such as cyclones, droughts,
floods, blizzards, hail storms, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. Sensible people accept
that and try to be prepared for what seems most likely to occur. Right now, global cooling
seems more likely to occur than global warming, but we should be prepared for either.

Read the full document here [PDF, 670KB].

by Allan Taylor
From
http://www.helium.com/items/1270584-is-solar-energy-solution-to-us-oil-dependence

No, solar energy is not the solution to reducing US oil dependency.

Considerable progress has been made in the development and use of solar energy world wide over the last decade. This is a good thing and no doubt will continue. But where does solar energy fit into the overall energy crisis problem?
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Congratulations to Paul Howes of the AWU for fingering the vested interests of the banks in promoting Emissions Trading.

But don’t forget the lawyers, accountants, auditors, regulators, bureaucrats, merchant banks, stock brokers, option traders, climate modellers, wind promoters and cynical politicians, all lined up to benefit from grovelling to green extremists and creating a new sub-prime market trading in hot air.

But we need to look further than that. Not only will carbon taxes decimate real industry, they are also completely unnecessary.

There is no scientific or empirical evidence to support the view that carbon dioxide controls climate. Just computer models like those that failed to forecast the market meltdowns.

Climate change is always occurring, and is controlled by factors far bigger than man’s activities. We are faced with an economic recession, and soon will face a food crisis caused by natural climate change and stupid policies like mandating the use of grains for car fuel instead of for food.

Australia should make ZERO offerings to the religious revival meeting in Poznan.

Stay home, reduce our flying footprint and look after real jobs producing real things not spruikers, spivs and speculators seeking to create a new financial house of credits.

Viv Forbes

Everyone is relieved that we are only getting a 5% carbon tax penalty with lots of refunds, exemptions and electoral bribes.

This is the worst possible outcome.

Better they stayed at 25% tax, which would have provoked such a revolt that even the Liberals would have objected. The whole thing would then have been abandoned at the first opportunity.

But this sneaky Fabian tax will get onto the books and we will all be trained to submit annual returns to the Greenhouse office. Then later, exemptions will be abandoned, the tax will become a permanent feature of the mess called the Australian Tax “System”, and 5% will creep to 10%, to 20%, where they wanted it in the first place.

Meanwhile, climate change will continue regardless.

And those looking forward to their Green subsidies and handouts need to remember:

“The benefit you get from Canberra is the tax you sent to Canberra, less bureaucratic charges both ways”.

Viv Forbes

By Lance Endersbee
23 October 2008

In the western nations there is a strong popular belief that mankind is causing global warming, and that natural climate change has ceased. We are told that man-made climate change will determine our future, with warmer climates, increased droughts, and rising sea levels. The media have become advocates in support of this view, and contrary debate is suppressed. Western governments now plan to “stop” climate change, an arrogant idea that has already caused enormous costs. In my view it is all a scientific scandal, a political farce, and a financial calamity. Meanwhile, certain other nations are profiting by the popular delusion in the west, notably Russia, and China.
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The Australian government has produced a draft document by the Department of Climate Change on Australian Climate Change Science – A National Framework. The Carbon Sense Coalition responds:

“The Exposure Draft on Australian Climate Change Science is planned as a justification
for a massive new investment of public funds in a lot of very speculative ventures. It is
produced entirely by the people who are seeking the funds. The authors are anonymous
but obviously have a big vested interest in the result. The guiding principles are taken, not
from science, but from political manifestos.” Continue reading the full document [PDF, 66 KB].

For years David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.

Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.

His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.

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The New Zealand government has set a target of 90% of electricity to be generated by renewable energy by 2050. This submission by a New Zealand Engineer, Bryan Leyland, documents the abysmal performance of wind power projects and  shows there is no chance that this target will be achieved. He also documents the failure of IPCC computer forecasts of global temperature, and the correlation between cosmic rays and temperature. He concludes that the sun drives earth’s climate and National Energy Policy is unnecessary and unachievable. Full submission is here [PDF, 731 KB].