“When you see that trading is done, not by consent but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.”

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part Two, Chapter II.

Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Water, Penny Wong, today released the report, “Climate Change Risks to Australia’s Coast” which estimates, by 2100, “a sea-level rise scenario of 1.1m”. (http://www.climatechange.gov.au/publications/coastline/climate-change-risks-to-australias-coasts.aspx)

In the past, Ms Wong and Kevin Rudd have said they rely on the IPCC reports for their policy decisions. They also criticise those who disagree with the IPCC.

However, the IPCC report (2007) gives a high and low scenario for sea level rises. The high of the high scenario is a rise of 59cm for the 21st century. That is far less than the 110cm in this new report.

So is Ms Wong now saying that the IPCC is wrong? If so, why won’t she listen to the large number of sceptics who also disagree with the IPCC?

Interestingly, the report also says (p. 6), “Over the geological past this dynamism has been even more pronounced, with sea levels up to 4-6 metres higher than today and the shoreline in some places more than 500 kilometres inland.”

Clearly, those increases could not have been caused by humans, but I don’t expect the media, or Wong or Rudd, will make that point!

Bob Long

Climate Change, to say the least
makes us humans change some habits,
though the sun still chooses east
there is panic ‘mongst the rabbits.

Nerdy, idiosyncratic
motivation quite unknown,
quark and man made heavy static
new emperors to claim the throne.

Polar bears, so many starving
neither seals or tasty fish,
end up serving pups and carving
offspring as survival dish.

Icebergs melting raising oceans
though the physics are unclear,
grizzlies passing smaller motions
in the forests, so I hear.

Say the experts, it is gazzes
preference for C-O-Two,
emanating out of azzes
and the lowly Subaru.

Burning fossils is the trouble,
though we ought to, don’t you think?
And the atmospheric bubble
makes the solar system blink.

First it’s cooling then it’s warming,
records kept and falsified,
killer bees covertly swarming
turtles drowning in the tide.

Please dear reader, use some logic,
and recall your chemistry,
images so anagogic
for the biased mind to see.

They will plunge civilisation
into poverty and death
those who will commit their nation
to renounce their carbon breath.

All this is quite schizophrenic,
voices heard and faulty reason,
yet to say anthropogenic
is denial of the seasons.

Sun empowers living matter
sun has rhythm and design,
Gore the impotent mad hatter
claims his profit paradigm.

All in all, so many changes,
gone the cold Siberian East,
Santa carefully arranges
straw hats for his wildebeest.

©2009 Herbert Nehrlich

By Bob Brock

Dear Prime Minister

The Paris Climate Agreement.

• You ratified the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday 10 November 2016 without discussion with the Australian people and without revealing the implications or the cost.
• You did this despite protests from Liberal and LNP Branches in NSW and Queensland.

The Cap and Trade Emissions Trading Scheme.

• Mr Abbott handsomely won the 2013 election by committing to revoke Labor’s Carbon Tax.
• We didn’t know then that Mr Abbott had apparently made an unpublicised deal with Greg Hunt to support a Cap and Trade Emissions Trading Scheme.CamScanner for PC
• You broke faith with the Australian people by usurping Mr Abbot as leader in September.
• Then, on the last sitting day of Parliament in December 2015, you enacted Greg Hunt’s bill, supported by Labor and the Greens, for “The Emissions Reduction Fund Safeguard”.
• This bill was in effect a Cap and Trade Emissions Trading Scheme, not dissimilar to Ms Gillard’s Clean Energy Act 2011 which the people had previously rejected.
• We only learned of it when we read Alan Kohler’s article in The Australian on May 23, 2016.

Renewable Energy.

• Australia has an ambitious and scientifically unjustifiable target to reduce CO2 emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
• Subsidies for Renewable Energy are currently running at over $2.8bn a year.
• Estimates of the total cost to Australia of renewable energy are up to $60bn.
• There is a worldwide commercial failure of renewable energy projects,
• There are no foreseeable prospects of affordable bulk energy storage technology,
• There is a TOTAL lack of any scientific evidence justifying the closure of thermal power stations because of their CO2 emissions in favour of renewable energy plants,
• It is essential that we have the lowest cost electrical energy technically available, and
• Mr Trump and the Republicans have said they will wind back President Obama’s Climate Change policies. When they do, you and your policies will be left politically high and dry.

You have not been practicing Open Government Prime Minister, so now please tell us:

1. Why are you ratifying unexplained secretive Climate Change Agreements with the UN?

4. What is the cost to Australia of these Climate Change Agreements?

This week’s Newspoll and Mr Trump’s Presidential victory are clear warnings that if you don’t start acting like the leader of a true Right-of-Centre Political Party, we will all have three years of a Labor Government and you will be yet another failed Australian Prime Minister.

Yours faithfully,

Robert J Brock.
11/11/16

By Viv Forbes

Entrepreneur Barrie Rogers is planning to import and then manufacture electric aircraft in Australia which he says “. . . don’t rely on fossil fuels.” The Australian 21 Feb 2020.

Where will he get steel, aluminium, lithium, copper, nickel, graphite, cobalt, rare earths, plastics and lubricants for his motors, batteries, aircraft bodies and recharging stations without the hydro-carbons so necessary to mine, refine and manufacture them?

By Rocky Wood

Have you ever wondered if celebrities have a conscience? Whether they consider their impact of their words and deeds in much the way as the common man? Let’s investigate that matter in the context of the raging debate over climate change.

Did you tune into the Live Earth concerts promoted by Al Gore on the catchy date of 7/7/07? No? Well, you certainly heard of them, thanks to the free time given by the media. Concerts on seven continents, headlined by Madonna, Genesis and the Black Eyed Peas. Concerts designed to arouse awareness of the apparent threats of climate change and global warming.
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by Mark Imisides
December 7, 2009

Scarcely a day goes by without us being warned of coastal inundation by rising seas due to global warming.

Carbon dioxide, we are told, traps heat that has been irradiated by the oceans, and this warms the oceans and melts the polar ice caps. While this seems a plausible proposition at first glance, when one actually examines it closely a major flaw emerges.

In a nutshell, water takes a lot of energy to heat up, and air doesn’t contain much. In fact, on a volume/volume basis, the ratio of heat capacities is about 3300 to 1. This means that to heat 1 litre of water by 1˚C it would take 3300 litres of air that was 2˚C hotter, or 1 litre of air that was about 3300˚C hotter!

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. If you ran a cold bath and then tried to heat it by putting a dozen heaters in the room, does anyone believe that the water would ever get hot?
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By Ian Plimer

The 27th COP event is preceded by breathtakingly shrill predictions of forthcoming disasters from speculated catastrophic climate change. Here are a few cold hard facts:

No one has ever proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming. For more than two decades I have been asking scientists for this proof. If proven, it would also have to be shown that natural carbon dioxide emissions, 97% of the annual total, don’t drive global warming. This also has never been done. Furthermore, if had been proven that human emissions of carbon dioxide drive global warming, there would be endless citation of the dozen or so seminal scientific papers demonstrating this proof. Instead, there is obfuscation and deafening silence.
Continue reading at Quadrant: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/11/the-biggest-public-policy-disaster-in-a-lifetime/

By Bob Long

I notice someone running advertisements saying that as livestock are greenhouse emitters, we should all become vegetarians.

But this business about blaming livestock for greenhouse gas emissions is nonsense. It’s true that livestock do emit CO2 and/or methane (CH4) – but that’s only part of the story. From where does the carbon come that comprises that CO2 or CH4? From the food that the livestock eat. That is plants, which extract CO2 from the atmosphere. So animals don’t generate carbon products – they simply recycle them. In short, livestock are already carbon neutral. Likewise, so are humans (as far as our eating, burping and farting goes) – we eat either carbon neutral animals, or plants.

In fact if the vegetarians claim livestock are bad with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, then becoming vegetarian makes themselves no better than those animals, because livestock are vegetarians, too!

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