Hi, My apologies if you’ve already seen this, but I’m giving it as wide a distribution as I can and hope that you will do the same.
This link is to a petition urging the Prime Minister to delay the introduction of carbon tax legislation until after an election:
http://www.epetitions.comeonaustralia.com/petition/sign/pid/9
Please sign the petition if you agree with its terms. Thanks, Case Smit
“THE Gillard government’s chief promoter of the climate change debate has admitted even a global effort to cut carbon emissions would not lower temperatures for up to 1000 years…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/no-fast-result-in-cuts-flannery/story-e6frg6xf-1226028366173
“JULIA Gillard has told Labor MPs to warn voters that a failure to back a carbon tax will lead to more bushfires and droughts as well as coastal inundation and shorter skiing seasons. MPs have also been instructed to warn constituents that unchecked climate change would lead to people in northern NSW experiencing a climate like that of Cairns, in far north Queensland…
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/mps-told-to-warn-of-climate-mayhem/story-fn59niix-1226028368404
“UNTIL now, the Productivity Commission has been excluded from Australia’s climate change debate. Now he has been let in, Gary Banks has thrown a hand grenade into Julia Gillard’s rush to bed down a carbon tax by mid next year.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/productivity-commission-chief-turns-up-the-heat-on-carbon-tax-debate/story-e6frg9p6-1226028337294
Consider this an open thread. Let other readers of this blog know what you are watching, listening to, and reading, this week by way of a comment.
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Cartoon via Bishop Hill
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/3/25/more-flannel-josh-88.html
Tonight, in the Australian state of New South Wales, Barry O’Farrell has swept 16 years of Labor government into history with a landslide victory. The magnitude of his 17 per cent swing has surprised many. Labor is likely to end up with as few as 20 seats in the 93-seat parliament.
During the election campaign, while Mr O’Farrell could have played it safe and stuck to state issues, he choose to also campaigned on the federal issue of the carbon tax. Remarkably, Mr O’Farrell also mentioned the carbon tax and the need to “fight the carbon tax” in his victory speech.
According to Samantha Maiden writing in the Herald Sun: While the outcome was regarded as a foregone conclusion, Labor MPs at a state and federal level complained the Prime Minister’s decision to announce a carbon tax hurt the campaign.
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 campaign against the Carbon Tax and the Prime Minister’s broken promise is gaining momentum. Our petition is collecting thousands of signatures and comments. But we need many, many more, so please tell as many people as you can to sign.
Two recent polls show that a clear majority of Australians oppose this tax, but the Government is ignoring you.
That means we need to redouble our efforts to show that the government is operating on a broken promise and in clear defiance of the Australian people.
The Prime Minister should take this tax to an election to seek a mandate (or otherwise let the Australian people defeat it at the ballot box).
[Read more…] about No Carbon Tax: A Note from ComeonAustralia.com
THE Australian government relies on various science experts to argue its case in favour of anthropogenic global warming [AGW]; people like Will Steffen, David Karoly and the ubiquitous Tim Flannery supply the scientific credentials for the government’s belief in AGW.
The economic gravitas to the government’s proposed economics measures to solve AGW are provided by their go-to man, Professor Ross Garnaut. Garnaut does come with some impressive economic academic credentials from ANU and the University of Melbourne. Garnaut also has considerable experience in private industry and is chairman of Lihir Gold, the New Guinea based gold-mining company.
In 2008 former PM Rudd engaged Garnaut to prepare an Interim Report to support the then Rudd government’s intention to introduce an ETS to solve AGW. With Rudd no longer PM, the current government under PM Gillard has commissioned Garnaut to provide updates to his 2008 Interim Report to justify the Gillard government’s intention to introduce a carbon tax to solve AGW; make of that what you will.
This article looks at Garnaut’s second update [there is a link to a critique of Garnaut’s first update below]. Garnaut’s second update looks at the science supporting AGW. This science shows warming over the recent period. That much can be agreed with, but just about everything else Garnaut’s science says, how much warming and particularly what has caused that warming, is problematic and subject to strong contrary scientific evidence. So, when Garnaut boasts in the press “I was right about climate change” that is a hollow boast.
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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