The use of tools, weapons and fire is the feature that most distinguishes the human race from other species. It is the key to human survival in a changing and often adverse environment. Carbon products are the essential ingredients of these tools. The history of coal and oil explains the creation of the modern world. For a majority of the world’s population, carbon fuels and the tools they create are all that stands between us and hunger or starvation.

Complete article: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coal-and-oil.pdf [PDF, 624 KB]

Coal and oil are the key ingredients that have lifted much of mankind from a Stone Age existence to a world of comfort and plenty never before seen.

The Greens would have us close every coal mine and coal power station and their policies would also close most of our oil and metal refineries. And they will subsidise and mandate stupid alternative energy schemes whose main effect will be to boost backup gas consumption, increase electricity charges and increase network instability.

We should be careful what we wish for. Not long ago we were using wooden ploughs and all energy came from biofuels. Labour was cheap but food was scarce and expensive. Is this the green future?

More in this newsletter:

• Crocodile Tears about Cropping Land
• Oil Spills – Myths and Reality
• Cosmic rays control clouds control earth temperature
• The Election

Download here: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/learning-from-history.pdf [PDF, 83 KB]

The Queensland State Government has announced a plan to create a new category of restricted land called “Strategic Cropping Land” which bans mining or development. This could blight 4% of Queensland, representing an area more than twice the size of Holland and including many areas likely to contain the mineral and energy resources for tomorrow.

Farmers should not celebrate this cynical move by an anti-farming state government to pepper Queensland with more restrictions on their land titles.
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Extreme conservation policies are sterilising so much of Australia’s resources that it is becoming a threat to our national security.

Most wars are about land and resources.

In the colonial era, aggressive Europeans swarmed into Africa, the Americas and Australia attracted by underused land, minerals and timber. More recently, Hitler invaded Eastern Europe and Russia in the search for “living space” and access to Black Sea oil and Japan went to war attracted by the resources of South East Asia and Australia.

Australia is the odd man of Asia – a huge land mass with a small population.

Our populous and rapidly developing northern neighbours need the primary products that Australia has in abundance – food, fibres, minerals and energy. So they note with disbelief the way in which Australia is sterilising these valuable resources.

More: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/resources-and-security.pdf [PDF, 47KB]

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to wasteful spending on attempts to change the climate by taxing and rationing carbon.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that man will never control climate.

“Noah did not blame cooking fires for the flood – he built a boat before the rain came”.

Forbes explained:

“It’s time to stop wasting money trying to control the climate – this will be no more successful than slaughtering sacrificial goats, even if tax payers and electricity consumers are to be the goats.

“Man will never control the climate. Wealthy societies can and do improve their local environments of air, land and water. But to think that trading carbon credits, taxing carbon, or subsidising carbon geo-sequestration, wind towers or ethanol production will improve our climate is delusionary…”

More items in this newsletter:

• Greens aim at a black future for all Australians
• Making Things still Matters
• Bio-Bug – the Car for Canberra has been invented
• Bed Bugs for Breakfast?
• Finally, the Voltswagen

Read in full: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/be-prepared.pdf [PDF, 46 KB]

This chart shows the relationship between past temperatures and CO2 concentrations.

A high resolution (2388×1657) version of the image is available here (246 KB):
http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/antarctica-temp-co2-l.png

Suddenly we are in the real battle against a Big New Carbon Tax. We must also expect that more silly de-carbonisation initiatives will come from the cocksure coalition of Greens and Union Leaders now controlling Australia. Worse still, they will be supported by some misguided leaders in Big Business such as BHP and Origin Energy, and some in the Liberal Party.

For more comment on the latest proposal by BHP for a carbon tax see:

http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/stop-the-carbon-tax.pdf [PDF, 116 KB]

The Queensland Government is proposing to create a new category of restricted land use called “Strategic Cropping Land”, which is reserved for “cropping” and closed to almost every other type of land development. This would create No-Go zones covering as much as 4% of Queensland, representing an area more than twice the size of Holland and including many areas likely to contain the mineral and energy resources for tomorrow.

This proposal will affect every landowner and every rural industry in some way, almost all negatively, but its most immediate effect will be on landowners and coal explorers.

Read the submission from Carbon Sense: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coal-or-crops.pdf [PDF, 581 KB]

Today, 27th October 2010, is Climate Fools Day.

For the last 20 years politicians, jet-setting bureaucrats and vested interests have been plotting how to make Climate Fools of the western world, taxing industry and consumers to fund green schemes, carbon speculators and international wealth redistribution.

The fightback by sceptical scientists and public was greatly boosted on the first Climate Fools Day when, in October 2008, British politicians passed with little dissent “The Climate Change Bill” a piece of legislation that future generations will come to accept was “the most absurd Bill that this Parliament has ever had to examine”.

Since then, sceptics all over the world have exposed the lack of evidence, the manipulation of data, the misuse of scientific process, the corruption of vested interests and the powerful influence of natural factors in climate cycles.

Despite the now discredited projections of dangerous global warming, the globe itself has continued its normal weather defining cycles such as El Nino, La Nina, the Pacific Oscillations, the powerful solar cycles and the massive ebb and flow of oceans and atmosphere. On a longer time scale there is no evidence that the globe’s long history of recurrent ice ages and violent episodes of volcanic and earthquake activity have suddenly ceased.

Unfortunately, a whole generation of Climate Fools will have to be rooted out of our parliaments before Climate Sense reigns again. We will then see the massive flood of community resources currently being wasted on windmills, solar toys, alarmist junkets, silly subsidies and climate bureaucracy more sensibly directed towards preparation for coping with the real natural cycles of heat and cold, floods and droughts, cyclones and earthquakes, vulcanism and ice ages. We will then regret the destruction of industry and wastage of real energy opportunities now taking place.

Climate Fools Day will be celebrated today by organised meetings of sceptics in Westminster and Brisbane.

Brisbane: King George Square 12 noon. More info contact Tim Wells:  timobrienwells@yahoo.co.uk

PS for more information on Climate Fools Day see:
http://climatefoolsday.com/

And on the activities in Westminster:

Cabal of climate sceptics to descend on UK parliament: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/oct/25/climate-fools-day-sceptics-parliament

The Carbon Sense Coalition said today that to introduce a carbon tax would be to wage war on consumers for the benefit of vested interests.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, also accused Australian PM Gillard of deceptive advertising in her support of a carbon tax.

“When our PM says “we need a price on carbon”, she is just sprouting another misleading Wongism like “we must reduce carbon pollution”.

“Most forms of carbon already have a price – coal, oil, gas, petrol, diesel, beef, bread, butter, diamonds and whiskey – all have a price (which usually includes a few taxes).

“What Ms Gillard wants, but dares not say, is another tax on our usage of many carbon products.

“Who wants a tax on carbon?”

Read the full article for more: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/who-wants-carbon-tax.pdf [PDF, 105KB]

Also these topics are covered:

• Climate Fools Day
• Coal – Australia’s Industrial Heart
• A Few Facts about Wind Turbines