Many Australians are celebrating the win of Tony Abbott and his coalition government as a vote by the populace against the much hated Carbon Tax ramrodded by former prime minister Julia Gillard.
David Elder of Australia, commenting on this event at WUWT, condensed what many of us feel about global warming and environmentalism into a single sentence.
A great victory over the radical green extreme. We here in Oz have found WUWT invaluable in this cause. There has got to be a better way of stewardship for the planet than by scaring the hell out of everyone.
Indeed.
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Well said.
Let’s start by scaring the hell out of the radical green extremists … oooH ! I can’t wait to see the defunding of the NGO’s, research funding directed to practical deserving endeavors, and the leftist MSM made to eat crow !! BRING IT ON !!
They don’t scare me!
Aus now open for business, Now onto the next step of following through and axing the tax. For the bloke trolling youtube who said “carbon tax is the way of the future” and that we “WILL pay it whether we like it or not” How do those words taste mate?
I caught a quote on TV about the Coalition’s planned overseas aid cuts.
“We will reduce funding to unaccountable international agencies.”
I hope that includes the IPCC.
Tony Abbott is entirely correct: The inconvenient truth is, AGW Catastrophism has precisely nothing to do with empirical scientific fact or even rational inquiry. Everything its sociopathic Green Gangsters do or say is one great big, fat lie.
My Take !
On its way down under>
“…the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” HL Mencken
ossqss said @ur momisugly September 7, 2013 at 9:39 pm
What a pity he didn’t bring his false teeth with him! I was almost as saddened to hear of his demise in April as I was that of Bill Putt (a mere one inch shorter) last month.
I concur with your sentiment, David. Awesome stuff.
Elections in NZ next year and hopefully the same result-Goodbye to Prime Minister John Key & the Greens
So Australia’s thermophobia appears to be in remission, while this debilitating progressive mental disease continues to afflict the U.S. and Europe unabated.
No idea what “Kiwi Guy” is on about, the current lot that we have in New Zealand is the best we’re gonna get. The Greens are NOT part of this government. The alternative to the present National government is a Labour-Green coalition and we do NOT want that.
There has got to be a better way of stewardship for the planet than by scaring the hell out of everyone.
No unelected stewards. No public funding of pseudoscience. No taxation without a vote. No signing of international climate treaties. No loss of freedom. No installation of unelected Ubergovernments. No IPCC. No EU. That’s the better way.
Oz and Canada… leading the way!!!
Canada backed out of the Kyoto Protocol officially June 29, 2012. And that was that.
Welcome to the land of reason Oz.
Regrettably some provinces are still in la la land and are punishing their citizens as if there was such a thing as carbon dioxide problem. Those provinces have leadership that use typewriters, pagers, and Volkswagen Westphalias (with flowers painted on the side)
To be honest whether you believe AGW to be true or not, the way that the Carbon Tax in Australia was implemented made it entirely ineffective in actually reducing emissions in the long run, hence it was not necessary to be a skeptic to vote liberal.
Well said, David – that’s something that should be heard around the world.
Thank you, Anthony, for making David’s comment a post. Cheers to all. 🙂
Ozzy! Ozzy! Oi, Oi. Oi!
Regards from Virginia, USA!
Philip Bradley says:
I caught a quote on TV about the Coalition’s planned overseas aid cuts.
“We will reduce funding to unaccountable international agencies.”
I hope that includes the IPCC.
That description would apply to the whole of the U.N. , should be interesting to watch.
Nice to see WUWT getting credit for providing information to the political process in Oz.
re. My Take !
That some impressive rhythm guitar work by Richie Haven. I’m sure it was all one chord but he turns the guitar into part of the percussion section.
I would like to be confident that the election win by the Liberal/National Coalition will bring some sanity to the (non-existent) climate change debate in Oz. Realistically however, ALL the scientists in the critical positions in the relevant government bodies/educational institutions are AGW (or even CAGW) true believers. And all of them owe their power, influence and incomes to perpetuation of the CAGW fear. When the incoming government asks them for “frank and fearless advice”, what do you think the new government is going to be told?
In addition there are large numbers of bureaucrats at all levels of government whose very positions are dependent upon there being some climate crisis that needs attention. How many of them are going to suggest to the new government that their own position is not really needed?
When academics and bureaucrats are so entrenched it will require a major effort to winkle them out. Not many politicians/governments can afford the time and emotional energy for this task and it is often less troublesome to apply gentle pressure only.
Each month and each year that goes by without a resumption of global warming will make the task a little easier – but I am not holding my breath.
Gaia is on our side. That and popcorn are all we need.
This woz one of the things wot dun it :- http://imgur.com/a/VxYDn .
Watts the big deal?
Randall_G – you missed out an Ozzy! But I understand exactly how you feel.
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