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Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill
Three cheers for Australia's Senate!
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2 Dec 09 - "Australia's Parliament defeated legislation to set up a
greenhouse gas emissions trading system on Wednesday, throwing a central
plank of the government's plans to combat global warming into disarray,
says this article by AP writer Rohan Sullivan.
I don't call it a plan to
"combat global warming." I call it
a plan to control and
tax.
The Senate's 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party dramatically dumped its leader.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had wanted the so-called cap-and-trade legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue, said Sullivan.
Three cheers for Australia's Senate.
Opponents of the legislation say it amounts to a huge new tax that would
put a crimp on the economy and lead to higher prices for consumers. Such
costs would have no effect on the level of global greenhouse gas
emissions, they say.
I agree. The opponents are seeing clearly. Besides, CO2
does not cause global
warming.
See entire article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091202/ap_on_re_as/climate_australia
Thanks to Marc Morano for this link