In selling his carbon tax compensation plan last week, Greg Combet told the ABC1’s Lateline: “Australia is not acting alone. We’re not out ahead of the rest of the world. Other countries are taking important steps as well.”
So, it’s a good time to see how the big polluting nations are faring in the battle to price carbon. So far, not so good. Australia in the cold on global warming
The article from ABC continues, the US president has given up hope taxing carbon through conventional means and has resorted to extra-constitutional controls through pollution regulation which has been thwarted by the senate (probably to the president’s relief) Labour unions in the US and Australia are now heavily against carbon taxes which means the anti-global warming alarmists are beginning to dominate both the left and right of politics leaving a rather limp green salad of greens and trendy intellectuals in the middle. Polls no longer show any kind of enthusiasm amongst the public, China is all in favour of carbon taxing – so long as it continues to destroy the Western industries it is eagerly welcoming into its own new industrial empire.
Then there is the 27-member European Union: simply put, carbon pricing has been a disaster. … Add to this Japan and South Korea’s shelving of the ETS, Russia’s massive carbon-fuelled economic plans, the refusal of Japan, Canada and Russia to sign any successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol which expires next year, the dwindling prospects for a legally binding, enforceable and verifiable global deal at the next round of UN climate talks in South Africa later this year, and it is clear Australia would be out of step with the world under Labor’s carbon tax proposal.
The other top headlines don’t bode any better:
- Urgency lacking on climate policy
- A climate of apathy
- Fish carried up a mountain on backs of llamas to escape global warming
- Marijuana causes global warming
- Seminar on ‘Plastic Technology, Global Warming’
Unfortunately I missed the fish carried up the mountain as I was on holiday, but the fact a week old story about lamas and fish is still in the top leader board tells you just what people are reading these days. And I had to have a closer at that last one: “seminar on plastic technology” … how on earth do they link that with global warming?
LAHORE: A seminar titled “Oxo-biodegradable Plastic Technology and Global Warming” was held at Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) on Thursday.
Convener LCCI Standing Committee on Environment Agha Saiddain spoke on Global Warming and Environmental Challenges for Sustainable Industrial Growth. He called for introduction of cleaner industrial technologies as pollution load could cause multifaceted damages. He said that nothing could be able to strengthen Pakistan economically, if we failed to take care of delicacies attached with environment. He said that a recent international study has revealed that average temperature in Pakistan has risen by two degrees in only two years and if the trend goes on unchecked, it could cause natural disasters besides having climatic change and economic impact. (Seminar on ‘Plastic Technology, Global Warming’)
So there we have it. Global warming could cause “multifaceted damages” all proven because the “climate” one year in Pakistan was 2C warmer than 2 years before. Which bucks about the whole global warming climate (i.e. 10 years) trend since 2001 since when temperature has not gone up (i.e. it got marginally colder), but don’t let a small thing like that stop some cheap plastic salesman from using the global warming scare to sell petrol chemicals. The only trend that is going unchecked is the worldwide slump in support for this kind of nonsense!
WUWT has a 10% decline in traffic over the past three months and is according to http://www.alexa.com “Based on internet averages, wattsupwiththat.com is visited more frequently by males who are over 65 years old, are graduate school educated and browse this site from home ….” Oops – that’s me “… and are more than usually inclined to produce feeble puns.” So maybe the heat is going out of the AGW debate?
I’m surprised it has kept so high! I was looking at the BBC website and they’ve had next to no stories on global warming since January and I’d guess they’ve dropped their global warming coverage by >90% in the last three months.
I tried to look for any other trends, particularly subjects with increasing stories on warming and obviously the “fraud/court + global- warming” seemed an obvious line to pursue. But whilst these stories now form a larger percentage of all stories, they haven’t increased recently and strangely the peak year for such stories was 2007.
No! Just a little rheumatism. We have this kind’a reaction in our joints about this time every year ya’ know. Spring climate change is almost as bad as fall. Especially a quick fall that doesn’t give you time to change your intestinal bacteria as fast as the weather changes and the changes in diet that old age demands. It’s a bummer Sonny! It’s a real bummer!
We also been a little more worried about the financial climate than the weather climate. Things ain’t lookin’ too good in that area and the longterm outlook is pretty grim. My nose is nearly dead and gone but I do smell a Depression in the wind. Folks in charge of countries today remind me of those in charge in the 1930’s. Like they are clones, and just as stupid.
The armchair climate alarmists who still bother to write on the internet are the true believers, intent on making sceptics feel guilty about a dire future for their grandchildren.
I find them to be quite pathetic individuals, with no sense of realism, unable to understand that we’re not in control of anything that could save the human race from disaster.
When those at the top who’re pushing this hoax decide to lead by example and cut their emissions, I might make an attempt to reduce mine more than I already have.
And I was so hopeful. My tomatoes are doing much better, what with the warmer weather now than during the earlier decades. Now it’s kind of leveled off and I’m just hoping for a continuation of the current warmth rather than a reversal, and — heaven forbid — a cooling which would spell doom for my Bozeman, Montana gardening efforts.