You knew our public school children were being indoctrinated in anti-capitalist dogma being passed off as “science,” right? Well, in case you didn’t, they are. For years public schools around the world have been showing Al Gore’s propaganda film “An Inconvenient Truth” and exposing impressionable children with other misleading information in order to fool them into believing evil capitalists, along with their SUVs and energy sources, are destroying our fragile planet. South Dakota Representative Don Kopp of District 35 is ready to do something about that. The Rapid City Journal reports he has pre-filed legislation for the upcoming legislative session which would require both sides of the debate to be presented in the classroom. Are the odds against the bill? Of course. Entrenched ignorance–especially when that ignorance is entrenched in elitist circles–is very difficult to uproot. Is it worth making the effort? Of course. We owe it to the children of our society to ensure they are not mindlessly indoctrinated by the “flavor of the day” liberal pap, especially when it’s passed off as “science.” Expect a lot of resistance from liberals in the education establishment and elsewhere. Even they understand deep down that their religion of anthropogenic global warming is a house of cards built on a tiny bit of genuine science and a great deal of supposition and conjecture. What’s more, there is a gargantuan amount of evidence against AGW. The vast majority of scientific and historical information points to natural and cyclic climate change which goes back thousands of years. We know that 1000 years ago, Greenland was warm enough for Vikings to colonize this now-cold area. The Vikings even grew vineyards, which is something you can’t do in cool climates, much less frigid ones. The Peruvian ice caps were also much warmer in the past, as was medieval Spain, Iceland, Sweden, Austria, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Pakistan, Japan, China, New Zealand, and more. Warmer periods than today extend even back to the Greek and Roman eras. Data shows that to solar activity (duh) has great influence over global temperatures on earth, and that temperature drives CO2 buildup, not the other way around. We even see other planets around our solar system such as Mars and Jupiter warming up–yet there are no SUVs or coal power plants there. Somehow we are supposed to believe that interplanetary global warming is natural while terrestrial global warming has been “settled” as definitely man-made. Sure. In fact, claims of “consensus” and “settled science” are themselves pure propaganda. A great number of scientific organizations such as the Polish Academy of Sciences and others are speaking out and telling the truth about this unscientific fraud. Over 31,000 scientists have signed one petition alone, disagreeing with the hypothesis of anthrop0genic global warming. Finally, ClimateGate–the exposure of emails, documents and computer code from the Climate Research Unit in England–as exposed the face of global warming fraud. This “research” center which provides global warming analysis for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others has been revealed doing “tricks” with data and “fudging” their computer models, destroying raw data and trying to hide their real information from the public. And they are not the only agency which has been up to deception and trickery. This sordid scandal reveals that science has gone to bed with advocacy, and the result is a massive hoax being perpetrated on the people to rob them of their prosperity and their liberty. It is quite clear, when one knows the players involved in pushing this nonsense, that it is nothing more than anti-capitalist propaganda intended to separate the common people from their freedom. A thinking people who want to remain free do not unquestioningly accept whatever they are told simply because a so-called professional tells them it is so. Scientists, educators and government officials should maintain a high degree of integrity, but the reality is that they are susceptible to the same biases and temptations to tell a self-serving whopper as the rest of us. Perhaps you are okay with being separated from your freedom and your heard-earned waged, but I am not. Perhaps you are okay with having your children indoctrinated with an unscientific hoax that threatens the integrity of the U.S. Constitution, our sovereignty, and our very way of life…but I am not. I’m grateful that Rep. Kopp has the courage to separate himself from the herd, to disregard juvenile peer pressure and insist on–if not full honesty about this fraud–at least equal time for the facts.Source
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SNOW CHAOS: AND THEY STILL CLAIM IT'S GLOBAL WARMING
FRONT PAGE COVER STORY
By Martyn Brown, Daily Express
AS one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is growing warmer.
With millions of Britons battling through snow and ice to get to work today, scientists claim that the cold conditions should not be used as evidence against man-made climate change.
Blizzards, ice and sub-zero temperatures that have gripped the UK for almost a month in a record deep freeze are not “robust” indicators of global weather patterns, they say.
Their claims come despite the fact that the rest of the northern hemisphere, from America to Europe and Asia, is suffering some of the worst winters in living memory.
Huge snowfalls are being witnessed from China and South Korea, across eastern, central and western Europe and to America where even Florida is struggling to record temperatures above freezing.
Last night critics of the global warming lobby said the public were no longer prepared to be conned into believing that man-made emissions were adding to the problem.
VIDEO: Al Gore has a Climategate nervous breakdown!
Exclusive footage of Climategate reactions.
Thoughts on Global Warming – Bring It On: Greenland Used to be Green
I’ve been a little obsessed lately with trying to get up to speed on the whole climate change issue. I’ve been ignoring up until now. Nevertheless, my quick review of the available information tells me two things: 1) The link between increased CO2 and increased global temperatures is greatly exaggerated, and 2) The proposed fixes for the U.S. are a 90% reduction in our production of CO2 – and absurdly drastic and unrealistic remedy. I think the more people study up on this the more outraged they will become.
A couple of quick points bear mentioning. First, the Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW)folks predicted that 2009 would be the hottest year ever and 2009 turned out to be an average year. Their prediction is based on the idea that increasing CO2 levels cause global warming. Since the world produces more CO2 each year, it would be shocking – from the point of view of their model – to see temperatures decline. The problem is that even their own data demonstrates that there is no causal relationship between these two factors. The cooler than predicted 2009 should cause grave doubts among the true believers who still think there is evidence of AGW. The video linked below will give you a nerdy look at the controversy going on behind the scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lt4vOp8QhY
Here’s another quick YouTube video that demonstrates the failure of the AGW hypothesis that I learned from John Stossel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7M4Hqwdbg
Take a look at Al Gore’s global warming chart in An Inconvenient Truth. You’ll see that increases in CO2 levels trail increases in temperatures. This is the EXACT opposite of what the ClimateGate folks’ beloved models are predicting will happen.
Apparently, this is why the folks at University of East Anglia were scrambling to “trick” up their models to match their theories…and looking for ways to discredit and cut out their critics. I guess their use of tree rings to measure past temperatures wasn’t so accurate looking into the past – during the Little Ice Age – or looking into the future – the last 20 years.
The reality is that climate change is a lot more complex than these folks suppose and they really don’t have a strong, predictive model in place yet. For example, as the folks at Powerline indicate, it maybe that the SO2/sulfate being generated by the rising emissions from China is having a cooling effect on the planet.
One of the reasons I’m an “award-winning” political scientist is that I’m not blinded by conventional wisdom. I look at the facts.
Among these facts is the truth that Greenland, in warmer – pre-industrial – times, used to be green, that is covered with grass. To a certain extent, there is evidence that mankind would be better off if the Earth was a little warmer because it would encourage plant growth and longer growing seasons.
At any rate, what is shocking is that so many political types, including Al Gore, have relied on this faulty, dishonest science to promote a political agenda which is destructive to individual freedom. (Al Gore, for example, was recently caught lying by suggesting that these controversial e-mails were all over ten years old.)
Nevertheless, I’ve seen this before during the welfare reform debates of the 1990s. I was personally attacked because I believed the evidence which showed that welfare programs created poverty. Just because liberals don’t have the evidence on their side never seems to keep them from thinking that they know best. Also, as a political scientist, I’m skeptical of scientists living off grants to study the AGW hypothesis. They are an interest group, pure and simple.
The Climategate e-mails are very helpful to all of us right now because they show how this modelling is completely dominated by politics – not hard science. I think anthropomorphic global warming is dead as a theory. It will take some time for the true believers to catch up to the reality that they’ve been had. As an ex-Marxist socialist myself, I feel their pain…
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.
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Global Warming? What Global Warming?
It may seem that if they could pass off FDR as a great president, Hitler as a conservative, the Tet Offensive as a grand victory for communism, and Barack Obama as qualified to run the country, there is absolutely no lie too preposterous for our liberal elite ruling class to ram down our throats. But even NBC ought to realize that it’s time to pull the plug on the global warming hoax. They can’t even totally suppress the ClimateGate emails that reveal the “crisis” as deliberate fraud; how are they going to hide this:
Britain
When Britain woke up on the first day of the New Year it was met with freezing cold temperatures, feet of snow in places and the promise of travel chaos. And now, three days into 2010, forecasters have warned to expect continued snowfall for the next 10 days…
Swiss Alps
A series of weekend avalanches in the Swiss Alps killed at least five people, including a rescue doctor swept up while searching for a group of buried skiers. …heavy snowfall in recent days have prompted officials to warn of a heightened avalanche risk in the Swiss Alps.
America
Freezing weather gripped large parts of the United States early this morning – with no relief in sight for the rest of the week. Wind chill took the temperatures in Minneapolis, Minnesota, down to -17C. While the upper Midwest is used to frigid weather, the sunshine state Florida is also suffering freezing temperatures. … Along with the dangerously cold temperatures, residents in Montana are braced for blizzard conditions with snowfall of 12 to 20 inches possible across parts of the state. … In the Northeast, the Weather Service warned that a large storm off the New England coast would continue to bring heavy snow to much of central New York state.
China
Snow storms today have caused chaos in China’s capital of Beijing, grinding aeroplanes to a halt and causing severe traffic delays. Around 90 per cent of all flights were either delayed or cancelled, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. … The snow shows no sign of stopping, however, and temperatures are expected to drop to -16C in Beijing on Monday and Tuesday, causing more problems for those attempting to returning to work after a three-day New Year holiday.
India
Not a country usually associated with snow, India has experienced severe problems since Saturday when snowfall and a dense blanket of fog began to cause chaos. More than 30 people died in cold-weather related incidents in Northern India over the past 24 hours, with 10 of those losing their lives in train accidents caused by the fog. … Meanwhile, 24 homeless people have also died in the Uttar Pradesh state since Saturday due to the severe drop in temperature. Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir were all hit with heavy snow, while Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi also recorded snowfall over the past 24 hours.
Russia
Russia saw temperature lows of a chilling -20C in Moscow today.
Germany
The snow caused more problems with flights in Germany, with one jet veering off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany.
Austria
While they are much more accustomed to dealing with snow, even native Austrians were struggling to cope with the freezing lows of -8C at night and -3C during the day.
Let me guess: the earth is getting chills from having a fever.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not forever when it comes to lying about the weather. Our rulers should have stuck with the Coming Ice Age scare they were hyping in the 70s.
Wishing you a "Not Evil" New Year!
Dear Friends,
2010 has arrived and our New Year’s resolution is to remain committed to bringing forward the truth about Global Warming hysteria.
During the new year this message must take root and we can accomplish this by having Not Evil Just Wrong shown in every school in America. Last week, a Rhinebeck High School sophomore named Michelle Drewkett stood up to her school board about the biased teaching of climate change. It is a story we hope to see repeated many, many times in 2010. We are in an ideal position to make this coming year a success thanks to your support in 2009. Over 400,000 of you participated in our premiere on October 18th and have continued to support our message discrediting environmental alarmism. Our message is being heard. This was especially evident during the Copenhagen Summit, when environmental alarmists reacted violently to our hard questions about climate change. The backlash to our questions started when an armed UN security guard threatened Phelim for asking Professor Schneider about climategate and continued with the subsequent questioning of Al Gore, who not only ignored questions about climategate, but had our mic killed while literally running away from us. The opposition’s violence reached its climax days later, when environmentalists pelted Phelim with vegetables during a live television interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel.
There is a genuine appetite for real questions and real journalism, asking the tough questions about Global Warming hysteria. Which is why we’ve planned a few surprises to expose the hypocrisy of powerful environmentalists in 2010. We can’t go into details (because we want to catch them in the act), but believe us you’ll want to stick around to see the truth about extreme environmentalists and environmentalism.
So far over 1 million people have watched our YouTube reports on the issue. This is an astonishing number and shows that people are rightfully skeptical of what they are being told about Global Warming and appreciate investigative journalism that asks difficult questions of those in power. These same hard questions need to continue to be asked in 2010, and what better place than in our schools? We will be publishing a new lesson plan in the new year to help students learn that climate change as definitive science is anything but settled, but we need your help to ensure it is shown in classrooms. Please persuade and even pressure school boards and teachers to restore some balance in the classroom. Contact us day or night if you want Not Evil Just Wrong shown in your local school in 2010 and let’s make sure the new year is a year when difficult questions continue to be asked.
Warm regards,
Phelim & Ann
Climategate: You should be steamed
Now that Copenhagen is past history, what is the next step in the man-made global warming controversy? Without question, there should be an immediate and thorough investigation of the scientific debauchery revealed by “Climategate.” If you have not heard, hackers penetrated the computers of the Climate Research Unit, or CRU, of the United Kingdom’s University of East Anglia, exposing thousands of e-mails and other documents. CRU is one of the top climate research centers in the world. Many of the exchanges were between top mainstream climate scientists in Britain and the U.S. who are closely associated with the authoritative (albeit controversial) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Among the more troubling revelations were data adjustments enhancing the perception that man is causing global warming through the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other atmospheric greenhouse gases. Particularly disturbing was the way the core IPCC scientists (the believers) marginalized the skeptics of the theory that man-made global warming is large and potentially catastrophic. The e-mails document that the attack on the skeptics was twofold. First, the believers gained control of the main climate-profession journals. This allowed them to block publication of papers written by the skeptics and prohibit unfriendly peer review of their own papers. Second, the skeptics were demonized through false labeling and false accusations.Climate alarmists would like you to believe the science has been settled and all respectable atmospheric scientists support their position. The believers also would like you to believe the skeptics are involved only because of the support of Big Oil and that they are few in number with minimal qualifications.But who are the skeptics? A few examples reveal that they are numerous and well-qualified. Several years ago two scientists at the University of Oregon became so concerned about the overemphasis on man-made global warming that they put a statement on their Web site and asked for people’s endorsement; 32,000 have signed the petition, including more than 9,000 Ph.Ds. More than 700 scientists have endorsed a 231-page Senate minority report that questions man-made global warming. The Heartland Institute has recently sponsored three international meetings for skeptics. More than 800 scientists heard 80 presentations in March. They endorsed an 881-page document, created by 40 authors with outstanding academic credentials, that challenges the most recent publication by the IPCC. The IPCC panel’s report strongly concludes that man is causing global warming through the release of carbon dioxide. Last year 60 German scientists sent a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to “strongly reconsider” her position supporting man-made global warming. Sixty scientists in Canada took similar action. Recently, when the American Physical Society published its support for man-made global warming, 200 of its members objected and demanded that the membership be polled to determine the APS’ true position.What do the skeptics believe? First, they concur with the believers that the Earth has been warming since the end of a Little Ice Age around 1850. The cause of this warming is the question. Believers think the warming is man-made, while the skeptics believe the warming is natural and contributions from man are minimal and certainly not potentially catastrophic à la Al Gore.Second, skeptics argue that CO2 is not a pollutant but vital for plant life. Numerous field experiments have confirmed that higher levels of CO2 are positive for agricultural productivity. Furthermore, carbon dioxide is a very minor greenhouse gas. More than 90 percent of the warming from greenhouse gases is caused by water vapor. If you are going to change the temperature of the globe, it must involve water vapor. Third, and most important, skeptics believe that climate models are grossly overpredicting future warming from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide. We are being told that numerical models that cannot make accurate 5- to 10-day forecasts can be simplified and run forward for 100 years with results so reliable you can impose an economic disaster on the U.S. and the world.The revelation of ClimateÂgate occurs at a time when the accuracy of the climate models is being seriously questioned. Over the last decade Earth’s temperature has not warmed, yet every model (there are many) predicted a significant increase in global temperatures for that time period. If the climate models cannot get it right for the past 10 years, why should we trust them for the next century?Climategate reveals how predetermined political agendas shaped science rather than the other way around. It is high time to question the true agenda of the scientists now on the hot seat and to bring skeptics back into the public debate. Neil Frank, who holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University in meteorology, was director of the National Hurricane Center (1974–87) and chief meteorologist at KHOU (Channel 11) until his retirement in 2008.Source by Neil Frank
Climategate: what do we do with a problem like Pachauri?
On New Year’s Day I had a very annoying lunch with a family friend who works for something grisly called the European Climate Foundation. We talked about the scandalous revelations concerning the head of the IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri. See if you can guess what my friend’s response was. Yes, that’s right. He wasn’t bothered in the slightest. “What you have to remember about the IPCC is that it has no power to implement policy. Governments are quite free to ignore its advice,” said my friend airily. He also took a very charitable view on the conflict-of-interest issues raised by Pachauri’s many and various business arrangements: “Well of course a man in a post as senior as that is bound to have acquired a few directorships over the years,” he said. This, my friends, is what we’re up against. So thank God for Richard North, for my money one of the most diligent, thorough and heroic bloggers on the planet. Once he’s got his teeth into something, he just won’t let go. And currently his jaws are clamped so firmly round Pachauri’s ankles I really see no escape for the jet-setting, troll-impersonating, cricket-loving, ice-and-meat-shunning millionaire beardie unless like some grubby poacher caught in a Victorian man trap Pachauri decides to get out his penknife and hack both his own legs off. There’s a good summary of North’s discoveries so far at Wolf Howling’s site. Alternatively, just go to North’s website and have a dip. Here’s one on Pachauri and Big Oil, and one on his potentially lucrative association with Deutsche Bank and Pachauri’s most agreeable home in one of the most expensive parts of New Delhi. But North is now largely concentrating his efforts on the activities of Pachauri’s main front organisation TERI (formerly Tata Energy Research Group, now The Energy Research Group). And one of the many shocking things North has unearthed is the extent to which Pachauri’s millionaire lifestyle (not to mention all that misleading “science”) is funded by the British taxpayer. He notes, for example, that:
earlier this year minister for International development Douglas Alexander launched a partnership with TERI-India, pledging up to £10 million to support the work of TERI over the next five years. Amongst other thing, the money would enable TERI “to focus on building its own institutional capacity, helping it to become an even stronger organisation than it is already.” Dr R K Pachauri was very pleased. And after he had offered his ritual comments about the “removal of poverty”, he no doubt retired to his multi-million dollar home at 160 Golf Links – further then to consider the plight of the poor.
Blogger Purple Scorpion is properly sceptical as to how these wodges of British taxpayer cash are going to be spent.
“Building institutional capacity” is an objective Sir Humphrey would be proud of. Impossible to quantify, too vague to be checkable, and all behind the scenes anyway. Nothing vulgarly visible that anyone could examine.
Yet as Purple Scorpion goes on to remind us, this is just the kind of vital and urgent foreign aid spending which Dave Cameron has promised to ring-fence, come what may, when he attains power. Is there anyone out there who still wonders why I’m so depressed about the prospects of a Conservative victory?Source by James Delingpole
Oceans love carbon dioxide too, say sea scientists
Now the doomsayers are telling you that the oceans are turning acid from all that nasty carbon dioxide being absorbed into the seas. How frightening! Or perhaps not? According to oceanographers there’s as much chance of the planet’s seas turning acid as there is of Al Gore admitting he lied. So it seems we can trust the ecofascists even less now they’ve started pontificating about other scientific disciplines. In response to the latest environmental hype oceanographers have come out to tell us what the facts actually are and its not good reading for Mr. Gore! It seems that sea life thrives on warmer water and increased carbon dioxide. On June 2nd, 2009 a groundbreaking new research paper was announced by zoologists that indicated that elevated water temperatures and heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) dramatically increases the growth rate of a keystone species of sea star and may well be beneficial to other sea crustaceans. Yes, that’s right–sea-dwelling creatures like a drop of acid in the drink. Crustaceans (e.g. shellfish and coral) survive by making carbonate structures and they do so by turning soluble bicarbonates in the water to carbonates. In basic terms, their way of life causes them to release CO2 into the water. It’s normal, not nasty, say the sea scientists. But hold on, here’s another little fact to debunk the “acid oceans” drivel being hyped by hippy seaweed-huggers. Oceanographers all concur that no amount of CO2 could ever turn the oceans to “acid.” The experts say that seawater acidity (or pH) is alkaline at 8.2. Neutral is 7 while the acidity (pH) of carbonic acid is around 6.5 at saturation STP, [one litre CO2 / litre water]. Not just that, but only about 10% of CO2 turns to acid, the rest is simply dissolved! Zoologists at the University of British Columbia (UBC) researched the impact of ocean acidification on marine invertebrates that don’t have a large calcified skeleton or external shell. What they have found debunks the global warmist doomsayers’ guesstimates about the potential impact of climate change on marine species. In the lab, UBC researchers, led by Rebecca Gooding, manipulated water temperatures and CO2 levels in seawater tanks containing juvenile Purple Ochre Sea Stars, a species found along much of North America’s Pacific Coast. An increase in temperature of just three degrees and doubling of CO2 concentrations enabled the sea stars to grow almost twice as fast as they normally would over a period of ten weeks. “This means the sea stars could potentially reach adulthood in about half the time it would typically take–and consume more mussels, their main diet, at much higher rates,” said Gooding, a PhD student in the Department of Zoology working under the supervision of UBC Assistant Professor Christopher Harley. Oh dear, seems like this could be another dead end for the doomsayers keen on finding ways to tax us all to death to save the planet. At the end of the period, sea stars reared in warmer, more acidic waters weighed 17 grams, compared to control sea stars that weighed an average of only 11 grams. In contrast, older less thorough studies once suggested that an increase in temperature and CO2 levels hindered growth in most species, but that seems to have been a premature conclusion. “This complicates current assumptions. It looks like increased CO2 may not have negative effects on all marine invertebrates, suggesting that predicting the impact of climate change should consider how different organisms respond to changing climatic variables,” said Harley. The Purple Ochre Sea Star is a cold-water species of sea star that can be found anywhere from Alaska to Baja California. It is most commonly found in the North Eastern Pacific. This variety of sea star is considered a keystone species that exerts a disproportionate effect on their ecosystem by preying on other animals. But over here at Climategate.com we always go the extra mile to give you the full story. We’ve found another oceanographic paper, from PNAS July 28, 2009 Vol 106 No:30, entitled “Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific” by John E. Dorea,1, Roger Lukas, Daniel W. Sadler, Matthew J. Church, and David M. Karl. In this paper the sea experts agree that ocean acidity (pH) is changing at a weazing asthmatic snail’s pace due to CO2. In science parlance that’s delta pH= -0.0019 per year. So you won’t be seeing shoals of floating dead fish in any millennium soon. Why, with such a wealth of sea science to debunk the climate scaries we fell over yet another little oceanographic gem to whet your sceptic appetite with the Spivack, Arthur J.; You, Chen Feng; Smith, H. Jesse paper published in the science journal, ‘Nature’ (London, United Kingdom) (1993), 363(6425), 149-51 CODEN: NATUAS; ISSN: 0028-0836. English. In this study the experts found that the pH of the surface ocean is a sensitive function of its alkalinity. With totally inorganic variables it thus can serve as a very accurate proxy for past ocean pH to yield information about variations in atmospheric CO2. So thanks to the oceanographers we have a new and far more reliable proxy of past climate than given to us by those dodgy tree-ring counters so badly discredited in the recent Climategate scandal. It appears that boron isotopic composition of foraminiferal tests depends on the pH of seawater, and thus serves as the essence of this new and reliable proxy. What the report tells us is that seawater isotopic composition has been constant during the past 21 million years. For most of that period surface ocean pH was only 7.4 ± 0.2, but it then increased to 8.2 ± 0.2 (approx. the present value) at 7.5 million years ago. The newly found numbers are telling us that the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide today is extremely low in broader historical terms. Or to put it another way, oceanographers are proving that the man made global warming theory just doesn’t hold water!
Source John O’Sullivan is a legal advocate and writer who for several years has litigated in government corruption and conspiracy cases in both the US and Britain. Visit his website.
Carbon Bribery and Corruption
The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the practice of governments trying to buy support for their failing Ration-N-Tax Scheme using tax money raised in an underhand fashion from the same people.
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense” Mr Viv Forbes, said that since the “Climate Scare-a-Day” campaign of 2009 has failed to spook the people, the New Year will see acceleration of the next ploy – “carbon bribery and corruption”.
“This dodge aims to buy supporters with promises of handouts, exemptions, subsidies, “research” grants and market privileges.
“Handouts and privileges cost money. This is why politicians will promote carbon taxes, both direct ones like that proposed recently by France, and underhand ones like the Australian Ration-N-Tax Scheme which relies on the sale of carbon emission permits.
“The political challenge for warmist politicians is to publicise the bribes and subsidies, but conceal the taxes needed to fund them.
“The Australian Government Treasury mandarins have already concocted figures to show how the government can use their carbon tax slush fund to bribe 2.9 million voters with handouts. But their paltry bribe, estimated at $190 per voter per year, will not compensate for the loss of their jobs to China and India.
“And the other 11 million Australian voters will be much worse off.
“The rejection of the corrupt French carbon tax scheme by their Constitutional Court is a warning to all politicians –
“Don’t bury carbon, bury carbon bribery and corruption”.
Viv Forbes is Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition which opposes waste of resources, opposes pollution, and promotes the rational and sustainable use of carbon energy and carbon food.