Josh writes: it’s been a fun week.
First, there was a survey of 17 countries showing the British rank 15th in their concern over climate change. H/t GWPF
Then we had George Monbiot of the UK Guardian wrongly citing the IMF on an equally wrong definition of subsidies.
Finally, we had the post Paris realisation that since climate science is settled we don’t need any more climate scientists. Australia has jumped first with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to axe 300 of to 350 jobs.
Great stuff! I would happily toss a couple of carbon credit certificates in mann’s begging bowl. 😉
By the way, my WUWT/Josh calendar arrived in the mail a few days ago, and has a prominent place on my office wall. Thanks!
In the US, coal and natural gas provide most of the electricity.
Out of 17 countries where did the United States rank (I’m from Texas and we’re not really part of the US – just waiting for Obama to raise the price of oil so we can pick up some more profits)
How can we let the great faux Nobel Laureate lose his huge grants? No more paid visits to the “disappearing” polar bears, no more imaginary temperature increases, no more pretend disease spread, no more unpleasant twitter!! How will the world survive?
Enough to make a grown man cry.
Chain, chain, chain! Chain of fools!
That’s just ‘cuz the people haven’t been
indoctrinatedinoculated enough yet. As we speak, they are working on a powerful “truth serum” so that everyone will be on the same page wrt climate. They haven’t yet figured out how to shut down sites like this, but they are working on that, too. These things take time.Relatively few AGWers seem able to grasp the difference between “pays trillions in net taxes after billions in rebates and subsidies” and “pays billions in negative net taxes after billions in rebates and subsidies”
the “no job as science now settled” sign is just brilliant.
thanks
Here in Vancouver approximately 50% of the price of gasoline at the pump is tax. The provincial and federal governments collect billions of dollars each year in fuel taxes.
So the question is, how can governments afford to switch to renewable energy? Where will the money come from? It cannot come from renewables, because they have negative taxes. So who will pay?
For example, the BC government raised taxes on gasoline. People switched in large numbers to more fuel efficient cars. They were able to do this because the high cost of fuel combined with low interest rates on new cars made it cheaper on a monthly basis to buy a new car than stay with the old.
What the government had not counted on was the loss of revenue. The net result was a sharp reduction in government revenues from the tax hike. And this is the reality facing governments.
Revenue Neutral taxes are an illusion if you are replacing something that generates significant revenue with something that generates negative revenue. The difference must be made up somewhere. Ultimately that somewhere is you and me.
Unfortunately the jet set lifestyle of CAGW-politicians and NGO’s will continue few more decades as predicted in this fantastic episode of the Yes, Prime Minister:
Funny; however somehow I doubt that “settled science” = “no job.”
The crowd has moved on to new venues, like satanic prayer events.
Josh, if I may make so bold, I was hoping I could suggest something in support of Chris Monckton’s lovely composition in memory of Bob Carter. As I said, it was genuinely “a peal to authority”.
Beautiful ..
A few years ago at the world’s largest mining convention and conference, (PDAC in Toronto), I had a chat with a young graduate student from the US about what the potential was for an earth scientist (I hate the term – it replaced the venerable term geology with a social sciency name and now it is among the non sciences who feel the need to call their stuff science). I suggested some avenues for starting out but she advised me she was taking the environmental option! I told her that this would be a big mistake in my opinion. I said we are already in a recession so it’s tough enough getting a foothold, but environmental science is the most over subscribed of them all and by the time she got her degree, there would be not much work for her to go to.
In a comment on a thread some time later, I forecast that they would be working as bank tellers and insurance salespersons. An interesting study for Lewandowski would be to actually track what does happen to all these 100s of thousands of climate scientists. I’m also concerned that if the pause caused a flock of clinically depressed climate scientists, what will laying them off do? I think there may need to be a psychiatric interventionist team set up.
Mikey can always auction off his “Nobel Prize” for a few bucks.
Uh, shouldn’t the above read “to axe 300 TO 350 jobs”
or 300-350 jobs? GK
Watch this video clip that starts at 56:12s up through the scene that starts at 57:11s. It captures the meaning of the graphic of this post. How this hasn’t been investigated is way beyond me. It is clear fraud.
https://youtu.be/QowL2BiGK7o?t=56m12s
Exxon/Mobil Tax Bill:
1) Over the last five years, ExxonMobil’s U.S. taxes have totaled more than $55 billion – about $16 billion more than our U.S. operating earnings during that period.
2) For every dollar of net earnings in the U.S. between 2008 and 2012, ExxonMobil incurred more than $1.40 in taxes to federal, state and local governments.
3) On a dollar-for-dollar basis, our industry’s profits are generally in line with the average of all U.S. industry. In 2012, the U.S. oil and gas industry earned on average 6.2 cents per dollar of sales – below the average of 8.6 cents per dollar of sales for “All Manufacturers.”
4) From 2008 through 2012, ExxonMobil distributed $145 billion (and $26 billion in 2012) to our U.S. shareholders, representing a significant transfer of income from foreign resource development into the U.S. economy, including ultimately to the U.S. Treasury.
Tell me again, how many Tax Dollars did we collect from Solyndra or any other “Green” industry? How many tax dollars did Sierra Club, WWF, Green Peace pay?
If you look at the taxes on oil and oil derivatives one might say that It’s time to end the subsidies that big oil provides to government…
Regarding climatologists soon to be unemployed, January BLS numbers just announced 665,000 jobs lost in January; the worst since April 2009 during the darkest months of the sub-prime loan implosion….
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/what-jobs-bls-says-665000-job-losses/article/2582535
Many people will soon be unemployed, and Obama’s brilliant idea is to impose a 30% oil tax…
November can’t come soon enough…
Some politicos and climate scientists make me wonder if the Zica virus has been around longer that we know.
As ‘renewables’, esp. wind, get extra subsidies when they don’t produce electricity because it puts uncontrollable spikes into the Grid, I wrote to DECC asking what I could charge per megawatthour if I didn’t build a wind turbine and the didnn’t generate unwanted electricity. I await a reply (some months now!).
Brother, can you spare the equivalent of Al Gore’s utility bill?