WUWT reader Chris M Writes in Tips and Notes to WUWT
Have you noticed that the Australian PM, Kevin Rudd has dumped his CTS until at least 2012. This was his key platform at the last election, when he described global warming as “the greatest moral imperative of our time”.
How the times have changed.
Anyway, his Minister for Climate Change, Penny Wong, is too busy cleaning up after his botched home insulation scheme to be able to devote any time to climate change.
I recommend Dennis Shanahan’s excellent comment in The Australian newspaper http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/pm-delays-emissions-trading-scheme-as-inconvenient-political-truth/story-e6frg75f-1225858920473
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A scheme indeed. Well said Chris. Andrew Bolt has more: The greatest reversal of dud policies in our lifetime
Add this to the collapse of the Kerry-Leiberman-Graham bill in the U.S. Senate this week, and all of the sudden it’s been a really bad week for alarmists.
Of course anybody with half a brain can see that carbon trading is flatlining here in the USA.
Carbon is waaayy down from the high of over seven dollars a ton to ten cents a ton and has been at that level for months. The data is from the Gore-Pachauri sponsored Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)
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Do I hear a nickel?
These are dishonest people. They call the legislation climate legislation. They are no more than economic regulations. restrictions and blantant taxation.
I do not see them causing trees in the sahara.
Merkel and Germany are also in rapid retreat.
I guess it will all trade out of Chicago courtesy of Goldman Sachs, Maurice Strong, and Al Gore with his Choo-choo medalist.
Now is the time to apply pressure to the US congress. Write your congressperson today and demand that they pay attention to your concerns.
Germany as well.
From Der Spiegel International – April 26, 2010
“Copenhagen Fallout”
Merkel Abandons Aim of Binding Climate Agreement
Frustrated by the climate change conference in December, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is quietly moving away from her goal of a binding agreement on limiting climate change to 2 degrees Celsius. She has also sent out signals at the EU level that she no longer supports the idea of Europe going it alone.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,691194,00.html
You’ve had a makeover. I like it.
I will be having a great nights sleep at last!suspect KRudd knows he got it wrong, the massive public and political opposition, has him finally realising he backed the wrong issues, and above all he wants re election..only stalled it till 2012, remember.
however a job in the UN appears to be his goal, so I guess he isnt that? worried..
he should be.
Peter Garrets been shown to be incompetant at his assigned tasks, and P Wrong is being a pr and damage controller, as is the Multi deparmented replacement for Garrets dept,Greg Combe.
?how many hats can one man wear?
it,s all falling over, and I for one am very glad! by 2012 the Lies will be even more ridiculous, and obviously lies as to warming.and they will create another means to gain the money from the sheeple If? they can sucker enough again.
will Gore et al refund the carbon credits paid already for no good reason..I bet they don’t!
Regarding Merkel and Germany see: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,691194,00.html
Anthony: Your site layout has changed in the last 2 hours! WATTS happened to the data on the left hand side? I feel lost; please reply ASAP. Regards, Bob.
I’ll try posting again.
Regarding Merkel and Germany see: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,691194,00.html
P.S. I meant RHS!!
I hope someone is feeding these developments to US congress/senate, plus all the retrograde developments on “climate change” since climategate.
Here’s another fun climate article from the same edition of
The Australian and the climate debate down under:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sunshine-claim-clouded-by-dispute/story-e6frgcjx-1225859043744
AGW may be the greatest moral imperative, but re-election is an even greater imperative.
There seem to be two things going on: political peril and some real skepticism about AGW, unvoiced, but creeping about.
Kevin Rudd is full of it, I couldn’t believe when he stood up election night and started to go on and on and on about how they won because of people wanting environmental changes when the truth was that people had had a gut full of the Liberal party (previous government) work choices policies designed to screw working people over as far as the employer wanted.
He didn’t give more than a foot notes worth of credit to winning due to work choices, I was utterly disgused at that point and things haven’t gotten any better since, besides the ETS you have Stephen Conroy on his little ego trip trying to “save the children” from themselves and filtering out every little thing he doesn’t like about everything, including some obscure denist’s website.
I just emailed this piece to my Sen. and HReps. along with:
PLM:
HA! Now I get it!!! Obama has seen the KGL bill failing, along with any CAP/FRAUD bill and is attempting to replace the failing CCX in Chicago with the NYC banking/deriviatives market by making it too difficult for NYC banking to transact these products instead of correcting SEC Porn/Ineffectiveness (increasing pay/standards)!!!!! Guess Watt? Not just the Carbon Exchanges are failing, AGW arguments have failed the KGL bill is failing, and hopefully the GOP will be able to remake the “Financial Reform” bill into something constructive and proper steps will be taken to improve the economy, while not adding $trillions more to the debt!!!!
Conspiracy theory? – never!
Commentary from the National Post:
“Lawrence Solomon: Australia won’t cap and trade”
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2010/04/27/lawrence-solomon-australia-won-t-cap-and-trade.aspx
I’m wondering who was left holding the bag? Someone made a fortune selling the credits.(Gore?) but someone had to end up with a bunch of them not worth ……..lol, well, not worth a dime. hahahahahaha
P.S. Anthony, a “home” button would be nice up top.
I’m quite sure that there are smiling salespeople out there all too happy to sell you Carbong Trading Shares at IPO prices when they can buy them for a buck a truckload.
Anyone care to corner the market, now’s your chance.
The paper alone might generate enough heat to keep you warm when the power goes out.
The final dumping: Jumping into a grave.
It appears the blog has been overheated and reached a tipping point. Kewl new software is in order.
krudd has made a goose of himself he though he was going to strut the world stage with AL Gore hand in hand .the only place he will strut is in his back yard with his side kick Penny Wong thay will make a good pair
I like the new look.
Kind of funny to watch Lindsey Graham stab his new friends in the back. I could have warned them that it’s kind of a habit with him.
This is a start, but the fight isn’t over; there’s too much money at stake. Watch for “stealth” implementation of carbon restrictions, e.g. through regulatory action or seemingly innocuous attachments to popular legislation. Government has innumerable ways to separate its citizens from their money and their freedom. The more power we give our government to “help” us, the more power we give it to [self-snip] us.