Congratulations to all those who attended the rally in Canberra, and other capital cities, against the carbon tax. And especially to the organisers … you got enough people there to be noticed and vilified. Well done.
I understand the Prime Minister was invited but declined. And thanks to 2UE for the cartoon…
In Australia, the public is not in favour of a proposed carbon tax, but the mainstream media, particularly the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, keep pushing the proposal along with the idea we face inevitable catastrophic climate change unless we change our ways. The host of one commercial radio station, Alan Jones, has been putting the alternative perspective and is now being reprimanded… interestingly on the science.
Activist group, GetUp, claim Alan Jones is wrong to have broadcast that only 0.001 per cent of the carbon dioxide in the air if from human sources and claims the correct figure is 28 percent. I thought the official figure was something like 3 per cent.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
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