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| By John Spooner |
27 Jun 11 - (Excerpts) "There is no need for a carbon tax
because dangerous global warming is not occurring," says Australian
geologist Bob Carter.
"The government's chosen climate communicators have failed to confront the real
climate change issue (which is natural climate hazard). And as opinion polls
clearly show, they have failed to convince the public that a global warming
crisis exists, or that a carbon dioxide tax will have any beneficial influence
on future climate."
"Climate Change Minister Greg Combet announced the government's solution on June
16. It is to spend $12 million on ''informing'' the electorate about the need
for a carbon dioxide tax. (In this case, "informing" is another word for
propaganda.)
Professor Carter then goes on to demolish the so-called "consensus" on global
warming.
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Fact 1. A mild warming of about 0.5 degrees Celsius (well within
previous natural temperature variations) occurred between 1979 and
1998, and has been followed by slight global cooling over the past
10 years. Ergo, dangerous global warming is not occurring.
Fact 2. Between 2001 and 2010 global average temperature decreased
by 0.05 degrees, over the same time that atmospheric carbon dioxide
levels increased by 5 per cent. Ergo, carbon dioxide emissions are
not driving dangerous warming.
Fact 3. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is beneficial. In increasing
quantity it causes mild though diminishing warming (useful at a time
of a quiet sun and likely near-future planetary cooling) and acts as
a valuable plant fertiliser. Extra carbon dioxide helps to shrink
the Sahara Desert, green the planet and feed the world. Ergo, carbon
dioxide is neither a pollutant nor dangerous, but an environmental
benefit.
Fact 4. Closing down the whole Australian industrial economy might
result in the prevention of about 0.02 degrees of warming. Reducing
emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 (the government's target) will avert
an even smaller warming of about 0.002 degrees. Ergo, cutting
Australian emissions will make no measurable difference to global
climate.
Fact 5. For an assumed tax rate of $25 a tonne of carbon dioxide,
the costs passed down to an average family of four will exceed $2000
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"So the cost-benefit equation is this," says Carter. ''Your family pays more
than $2000 a year in extra tax in return for a possible cooling of the globe by
two one-thousandths of a degree.''
"In the light of these facts, little wonder the government's four horsemen of
the climate apocalypse have been unable to convince the public of the
desirability of carbon dioxide taxation.
"In the meantime, watch out for those ads that Minister Combet is going to run
towards this end. After all, you're paying for them."
See entire article, entitled "An Inconvenient Fallacy"
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/an-inconvenient-fallacy-20110626-1glmu.html
Thanks to David Newton for this link
Professor Bob Carter is a geologist and the author of Climate: The Counter
Consensus.
He will be speaking at the
Sixth International Conference on Climate Change.
Link to streaming video of conference:
http://climateconference.heartland.org/watch-live/
If you think this couldn't happen in your country, look at where gasoline prices
are today as opposed to, say, three years ago. A dollar a gallon more? Two
dollars more?
That's what over regulation can do ... even before the extra taxes are
slapped on.
Now consider what those regulations will do to the cost of heating your home
and business. And the cost of electricity. And the cost of food. And the cost of
airline travel. The list goes on and on.
We'll be lucky if it comes out to "only" $2,000 per family. |
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