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On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age. Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)
Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference. Read more here. (2)
Not Evil Just Wrong
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Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time … Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)
Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness. Read more here. (1)
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Posted by jennifer, July 5th, 2009 - under Opinion.
“The largest corporate welfare program ever enacted in the history of the United States” according to Ronald Bailey, Reason magazine, commenting on the Waxman-Markey Bill.
Governments cannot do this on their own. They depend upon partnership with the corporate piggies they lure to the trough. Believe me, if there was no money in the trough, the piggies would not come.
The opportunities for fraud and political favouritism are massive, and the piggies will, of course, be blamed for whatever goes wrong.
Then after about 15 years, with the Joe Plumbers so much poorer, and many out of work through exported jobs, we will be told that it has all been worth it! Hey, look! We still have critters and plants! And people are still alive! Our sacrifices via carbon taxes must be working! But we need to do more! Much, much more …