Add this to the United State’s Senate failure to even address the cap and trade issue, and it appears that carbon trading is losing the financial and political luster it once had. Now Australia’s ETS scheme is delayed in their senate with little hope of revival.
This says it pretty well at ABC News:
Senate kills off emissions trade laws
The Associated Press says:
Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill
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.
…
The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government’s bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.
From the Australian:
KEVIN Rudd has lost his bid to deliver an emissions trading scheme in Australia before talks in Copenhagen but won an early election trigger after the Senate formally rejected the laws again today.
Just two Liberal senators broke ranks with a clear mandate among Coalition MPs to delay an ETS and voted with Labor on an emissions trading scheme
Deputy Senate leader Eric Abetz declared: “The CPRS is dead. And no amount of CPR can revive it”
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt writes:
Rudd’s great tax on everything is defeated
How close was that bullet? A mad new tax is voted down, thanks only to Tony Abbott’s one-vote win over Malcolm Turnbull yesterday…
Maybe it had something to do with this:
“We have heard from the Independent Pricing Regulator in NSW just yesterday that this ETS would add 30 per cent to the people of NSW’s power bills …
And as Bolt points out to WUWT a couple of days ago, Climategate figured in as well:
Rudd’s belief that man is heating the world is based almost entirely on the reports of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
But thousands of emails uncovered in this month’s Climategate scandal show that the scientists most responsible for those reports did not just doctor data, destroy awkward evidence, and censor sceptical scientists.
They also show some of them privately admitting that the world seems not to be heating as they (and Rudd) predicted.
“Where the heck is global warming?” raged Kevin Trenberth, an IPCC lead author, to another Climategate scientist: “The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
Fair Dinkum.
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I was listening to the senate and Sen Troeth actually quoted that the MWP was localised and it was cold in other parts of the world.
I assume she was convinced by Micheal Mann’s lastest paper.
Bonzer!
O’Reilly’s a jackass. “So it’s all just a con?”
Stossell (sp?): “Not all of it” (just 90%).
Maybe it had something to do with this:
is that 404 error deliberate and subtle irony?
REPLY: Fixed thanks -A
Thank GOD FOR DEMOCRACY in Australia, I thought the Nazi party was in charge!!!
Well, the idea that the medieval warm period only happened where people were taking notes is something found all through the AGW camp. All the interesting bits seem to happen where or when nobody happens to be looking.
It’s the old “refrigerator door light” version of science and history.
The tide has turned, the point has tipped.
“Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the Government would not give up on the ETS and accused the Coalition of trying to spook voters.
‘When you cannot fight the argument you run a scare campaign’, she said.”
BWAHAHAHAHA! Now that is what I call bizarre!
404 errors are usually caused by a router that has overheated due to anthropogenic global warming. I’d provide a graph linking CO2 levels and 404 errors, which should certainly correlate, but unfortunately my new hard drive didn’t have as much space for raw data as my old hard drive (because I’m moving backwards through time, like the UEA), so I threw it away.
By the way, does anyone else thing UEA will come to stand for “Undermining Environmental Alarmism?”
Whoohoo! Well done the Aussies on WUWT for your letter campaign to your MPs. I hope this has some effect in Canada too – a glimmer of hope for all of us in the ROTW! Please everybody shower your reps, senators and MPs with intelligent letters about what’s going on!
Note on Australian Politics,
In Australia the Liberal Party is a conservative right-wing party (though more libertarian on social issues) and the Australian Labor Party is their socialist left-wing party (now currently in control with the majority).
An excellent libertarian institution in Australia (think Cato) is the [url=http://www.ipa.org.au/]Institute of Public Affairs[/url].
I live in NSW… we’ve dodged a bullet… for now.
This issue needs to be examined properly, with open science and frank discussion, before any policies are based on it.
Note on Australian Politics,
In Australia the Liberal Party is a conservative right-wing party (though more libertarian on social issues) and the Australian Labor Party is their socialist left-wing party (now currently in control with the majority).
An excellent libertarian institution in Australia (think Cato) is the Institute of Public Affairs.
[snip sorry way off topic]
Stossell: No smoking gun…
Mr. Stossel’s attention should be called to the Read_me_Harry code comments.
Australia leading the way!
I really wish we had another few weeks to let things really snowball.
There has been some debate about the influence of Climategate in the gathering momentum of the sceptics in the Australian Liberal/National opposition coalition. Indeed, climategate has been discussed by the members (as Bolt reports), mentioned in parliament (question to Wong by Joyce) and discussed in the media by Minchin (Liberal leader in the senate where the leg was just defeated). Surely, the news emboldened the push. Anyway, whatever the machievellian motives of the politicians, scepticism of the science was certainly there in the background (Bob Carter helped with that).
As the dust settles on the political upheaval, over the next few days it will be interesting to see whether any journalists attempt to make a serious investigation of the scientific controversy. If they do indulge a little in the scandal of climategate…and in the context of Copenhagen…well, we will be in for quite a ride over the next few days.
2 battles won, more to come. Be nice when we get to the point they can sleep at night without being confronted by the climate bogeyman everytime they turn on the MSM.
Be interesting to see if an election is called early or not. Word on the ground is Rudd is running scared. I would say politicians all over the world should take notice – a tidal wave is about to hit!
Once again Australia is the lucky country & have dodged a tax bullet for now. Pity they passed a regressive ETS in New Zealand last week. And the right are supposed to be in charge in NZ.
I’m gonna chug a couple Fosters tonight in solute to my Aussie brothers & sisters….
good on ya mates!
someone should point Stossel to
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/rss/from:1997/trend
He needs some tutoring. The graphs on this site do not seem to be in dispute and come out right.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…Oy! Oy! Oy!
Climategate’s “Harry Read Me” File — Efforts On Climate Change
Harry Read Me — As researchers around the world report on their findings in the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain you often hear references to the infamous “Harry Read Me” file.
The entire file, 247 pages long, is an encyclopedia chronicling the absolute mess that temperature records, upon which much global warming theory is based, are in.
The file describes the efforts of a climatologist/programmer at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia to update a huge statistical database (11,000 files) of important climate data between 2006 and 2009.
The computer coding, along with the programmer’s apparently unsuccessful efforts to complete the project, involve data that are the foundation of the study of climate change — recordings from hundreds of weather stations around the world of temperature and precipitation measurements from 1901 to 2006, sun/cloud computer simulations, and the like.
READ ME for Harry’s work on the CRU TS2.1/3.0 datasets, 2006-2009!
http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/HARRY_READ_ME.txt
Using 1997 as a starting point is kind of cherry-picking, but at least it is not scary-picking!
If you use Surface from 1940 to 1979 then switch to satellites until 1998 there is almost no warming whatsoever!
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1979/to:2009/mean:6/plot/uah/from:1998/to:2009/trend/plot/uah/from:1979/to:1997/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1938/to:1979/mean:6/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1938/to:1979/trend
Whatever happened to our temps, happened all at one time with El Nino in 1998, it was quick step up, but lucky for our wallets things have leveled off.
It is the ocean and sun stupid that control out climate.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/uah/from:1979/to:2009/mean:6/plot/uah/from:1998/to:2009/trend/plot/uah/from:1979/to:1997/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1938/to:1979/mean:6/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1938/to:1979/trend
I tried to find Stossels email but couldn’t. he should also look here for all the temperature data, so he doesn’t sound like a dope, not having looked at the data. (the falsified data that is)
http://www.climate4you.com/
Sorry for OT but Stossel was just on O’Reilly and did a fair job.
I’d watch for another effect of this scandal, which may be closely related to the Australian vote. Many pro-AGW people, even former hard-core AGWers like Monbiot, who suddenly realize they’ve been duped and are pretty angry about it, will certainly look upon any politician who continues to parrot the pro-AGW talking points as a fellow-dupe who hasn’t wised up yet.
One of the tribal human behaviors of mankind is not following a leader whose statements flag him as clueless about current events, and one who has obviously shoved his head in the sand.
Depending on their skills and that of their political advisors, many politicians may see the wisdom in jumping ship and calling for investigations and audits, lest it look like they too were happily in bed with crooks and liars.
Combine that with the abhorance of the rest of the scientific community to be portrayed publically as crooks and liars, and both scientists and politicians can find cover together by turning on the new evildoers and their nefarious scheme.
That’s the emotional response with political overtones, but it’s foundation is the insistence on integrity, a thing the public demands, science depends on, and politicians crave.