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]

The Australian government has gone one tax too far, with Rudd’s Super Tax on the resource industry. Either this tax, or the government, will go. This was a desperate grab for money to fund all the silly stimulus packages and the continuing handouts to the Climate Change Industry. It is also a grab to centralise more control of resources in Canberra.

While the Super Tax would slash mining jobs and the value of super funds, it is minor compared to the large, insidious and long term damage that is already being done, and could still become far worse in the misguided war on carbon.

More: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/war-on-carbon.pdf [PDF, 71KB]

Carbon is the most valuable and amazing element on our living planet.

It is the building block of all life on earth, and has provided the food, clothing and most of the energy for every human for all of our history.

Yet carbon is being subjected to an unprecedented campaign of demonization focussed on man’s production of carbon dioxide. The main aim of this campaign is to cripple or eliminate the coal industry because combustion of coal produces carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide the key link in the cycle of life on earth.

Most people understand the biological carbon cycle – plants using solar energy extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, converting it to sugars and proteins, and returning oxygen to the atmosphere. Plant material, directly or indirectly, provides food for all animals. In the process of digesting carbon food, animals extract oxygen from the atmosphere to digest their carbon foods, producing carbon dioxide which is then returned to the atmosphere. More carbon dioxide means more plant growth. This is a sustainable self regulating process.

But there is an even bigger, Grand Carbon Cycle, also involving carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere by volcanoes, natural and man-made combustion of carbon fuels such as wood, coal and oil, and out-gassing from oceans during warm climatic eras. This carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere by biological and chemical extractions into the oceans to form corals, shell fish and massive deposits of limestone, dolomite and magnesite on the ocean floor. In some eras, large quantities of plant material are also locked away in enormous deposits of lignite and coal. During cool climate eras, oceans also take up huge quantities of carbon dioxide into solution.

Vulcanism and combustion are helpful processes returning valuable carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Without them, earth’s precious carbon supplies would slowly become interred and locked away in massive buried deposits of carbon bearing materials such as limestone and coal.

The products of combustion of all carbon fuels are normal and natural components of the atmosphere, and essential nutrients for all life.

This paper looks at the compositions of solid carbon fuels, the process of coal combustion, the exhaust products produced, and the benefits and pollution potential of those exhaust products.

The complete article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/coal-combustion.pdf [PDF, 791KB]

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]

“We think that, by 2020, the cost of electricity will be threefold what it is today, given the current policy of large amounts of renewables being forced into the system, un-costed charges for those renewables given the current policy settings and a substantial increase in transmission and distribution costs.”

Grant King, CEO Origin Energy

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/energy-prices-to-triple-says-origin-chief/story-e6frg8zx-1225853385647

Dr Howard Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Connecticut has studied the 19 or so Global Circulation Models relied on by the IPCC to forecast world temperatures for the century ahead.

To date, not of them has got a forecast right, and they do not agree with one another. As Dr Hayden says:

“I have Just One Question: Which one of these models settled the science so that we can discard the rest and quit funding them?”

See Dr Hayden’s comparisons: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/science-is-settled.pdf [PDF, 3.6 MB]

By Sandy McClintock & Rick Dean

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has presented data for Echuca Aerodrome that shows no change in temperature for 100 years. However the widely promoted Australian “high-quality climate data set” shows an apparent increase in temperature of 1.2 degree centigrade per century for exactly the same location. How can this be explained?

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/echuca-temperature.pdf [PDF, 97 KB]

It is often said that there is “consensus” among scientists regarding anthropogenic global warming. This report lists 700 scientists who dissent from that view.

Download the report (updated March 2009): http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/us-senate-minority-report.pdf [PDF, 1.4 MB]

Source: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.WelcomeMessage

Howard C. Hayden, Professor Emeritus of Physics, UConn, has written a submission to the US EPA.

His conclusion:

“To put it fairly but bluntly, the global-warming alarmists have relied on a pathetic version of science in which computer models take precedence over data, and numerical averages of computer outputs are believed to be able to predict the future climate.

“It would be a travesty if the EPA were to countenance such nonsense.”

Read the submission: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/hayden-submission-epa.pdf [PDF, 65 KB]

1. Time to go on the Offensive.

Like the British Eighth Army in North Africa in the 1940’s, climate realists have been in continual retreat since the Climate War started.

Led by Al Gore’s trained regiments using Nobel prize gunpowder, backed by academic and government snipers using manipulated temperature data, financed by endless conveys carrying tax payer funds, reinforced by a steady barrage of scare forecasts from the media and legislative carpet bombing from pliant politicians, the Green Army looked invincible.

But suddenly the tide turned…

2. Rudd – Promising Poverty or Blowing Hot Air?

The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that Australian PM Rudd was either promising poverty for his grandkids or blowing hot air.

Read the full newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/on-the-offensive.pdf [PDF, 500 KB]