Why the Carbon Tax is not like the GST
Once the GST was passed by the Australian Parliament most people accepted the GST as a new tax, and a done deal. Many people may have whinged about its implementation, the dreaded BAS form, and all...
View ArticleGarnaut, if you disagree with me you are ignorant
Professor Ross Garnaut who is an economist, not a climate scientist, says that the debate on the carbon tax is a debate between science and ignorance. If you don’t agree with the Professor, you are...
View ArticleWhat is a Warmenist?
People who believe completely in the AGW (anthropomorphic Global Warming) view of the world have been in recent time referred to as “warmists”. While the anti AGW proponents are referred to as Climate...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Natural Gas
The Federal Government  Labor/Green alliance would like to close down all operating coal-fired power stations in Australia. The fact that these coal-fired power stations all work perfectly well, and...
View ArticleCarbon Price above $40 a tonne?
A Deloittes report commissioned by the Australian Federal Government states that the Carbon Tax price will have to be at least $40 per tonne to encourage the building of gas-fired power plants. Of...
View ArticleClimate Commission predicts the end of the world
The “independent” Climate Commission has released its first report. The “independent” Climate Commission was appointed by an Australian Federal Labor/Green alliance government that wants to introduce a...
View ArticleCanberra insiders still wishin and a hopin
Canberra insider Barrie Cassidy does not like Liberal opposition leader Tony Abbott and his continued opposition to the carbon tax. Barrie Cassidy has already written his low opinion of Federal Liberal...
View ArticleThrilled ABC pushes its pro-carbon tax agenda
The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) gets a chance, on a slow news day on Sunday, to push its pro-carbon tax line. The article (with no byline other than ABC/AAP) reports in excited terms about...
View ArticleClimate Change Commission increases the scare-mongering
The Climate Commission headed by Professor Tim Flannery is not making much headway with its support of its employers carbon tax, the Federal Government Labor/Green alliance. So today Tim Flannery is...
View ArticleLets close down Australia
The Greens have already said they want to close down the coal industry and stop the export of coal. They also want to close down the brown coal power stations in the Latrobe Valley effectively closing...
View ArticleCarbon Tax Video
Prime Minister Julia Gillard promising not to introduce a carbon tax 6 days before the 2011 election:
View ArticleAustralia the only country in the world with an economy-wide carbon tax
And the rest of the world does not care. Australia will be the first country in the world to have an economy wide carbon tax. Even though Australia produces 1.32% of the worlds carbon dioxide output,...
View ArticleWith a Carbon Tax Australia’s CO2 emissions still increase
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Greens leader Bob Brown don’t want to point this out, but under the Carbon Tax – according to the governments own treasury modelling -the amount of Carbon Dioxide...
View ArticleJulia Gillard confronted over Carbon Tax lie
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is confronted by a real voter who questions her on her lie before the election where she claimed ” There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead”. This...
View ArticleWhat percentage of global emissions will Australias carbon tax reduce?
Labor/Greens alliance Prime Minister Julia Gillard does not like to answer this question, because it is such a small number. The Carbon Tax aims to reduce Australia’s CO2 output by 160 million tonnes....
View ArticleThe carbon price will always be increasing
Treasury projection 2050 Carbon Price of $131 to $275 per tonne Prime Minister Julia Gillard likes to tell the Australia people that the carbon tax will have only a small impact on them. However its...
View ArticleNew Chinese coal mine wipes out the savings from Australian Carbon Tax
A new coal mine in China, in Xinjiang Uygur being developed by Peabody Energy will produce almost as much CO2 as the CO2 emissions saved by Australia’s Carbon Tax. Peabody Energy Corporation are to...
View ArticleFormer Prime Minister John Howard says Australia would be crazy to have a...
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has mentioned several times in the last week that former Prime Minister John Howard took an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to the 2007 election. Here John Howard...
View Article59% of economists support the carbon tax
Now we should be really worried Carbon Tax supporter Fairfax journalist Peter Martin tweets enthusiastically that 59 per cent of economists at the Economic Society support the carbon tax. We should be...
View ArticleNew Carbon Tax Ad
One of the new carbon tax ads, paid for by the Australian taxpayer to “educate” us. The start of the advertisement is about Hepburn Wind and there are two wind turbines in view. The two wind turbine...
View ArticleGeothermal energy the renewable that never delivers
The latest carbon ad, paid for again by the Australian taxpayer to further ‘educate’ us about renewable energy. This advertisement features Geodynamics, a renewable energy company that has spend the...
View ArticleCoal Mining decreases under the Carbon Tax
Treasury modelling shows coal production drops by 30% by 2020 Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan might keep saying that the coal industry has a bright future, but the Treasury...
View ArticleSea level rise slowing
You will not find the head of the Climate Commission Professor Tim Flannery mentioning this, because he prefers scaremongering high sea levels that are above the IPCC estimates. You will not hear...
View ArticleJust one Indian State will install more coal-fired power stations than all of...
The Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is in the process of installing 37 coal-powered power stations over the next few years. The capacity of these extra 37 coal-fired power stations is 56GW, which...
View ArticleCarbon Tax will cost Australia $1.35 Trillion dollars
According to the Australian Federal Government Treasury modelling the introduction of a carbon tax will reduce Australia’s National Income. How much will it be decreased by over the 38 years to 2050?...
View ArticleEngland has it coldest summer in 18 years
The carbon dioxide levels go up every year. The IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) forecasts show that the world should be warming more and more, yet observation does not match those computer...
View ArticleThe 18 Carbon Tax bills presented to the Australian Parliament
Thousands of extra public servants. New public servant bureaucracies. 1129 pages and 255,539 words of legislation. How much will it decrease the earth’s temperature? zero. Here are links to the...
View ArticleDo Australians really understand what this carbon tax is about?
I was struck by a comment in this Australian story about the carbon tax passing today through the House of Representatives. Its not the first time I have seen comments that completely show no...
View Article“we haven’t had snowfall like this in more than 140 years”
New York City has its earliest snowfall in 140 years. 2 million people are without power in the North Eastern United States. If this had been a long heat-wave the advocates of the AGW religion would be...
View ArticleGreenland has been warmer in the past
Greenland has been warmer that currently several times in the last 8000 years. That is Greenland has been warmer than today, with lower levels of Carbon Dioxide levels that today. Two studies have been...
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