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SAFETY NOTE: Please don’t use this image to frighten children, oh wait, that happens in schools everyday when AIT is shown, nevermind…
From The West Australian newspaper
Climate change could haunt humanity forever: Garnaut
30th September 2008, 14:00 WST
Failure to deal with climate change now will “haunt humanity” forever, the nation’s top greenhouse adviser has warned as he issued a rallying cry for action.
Professor Ross Garnaut has warmed to the idea of a deep, fast cut to Australia’s emissions in his final report, released today.
After infuriating green groups earlier this month by calling for a 10 per cent cut in Australia’s emissions by 2020, he’s now more open to a deeper 25 per cent cut.
Prof Garnaut issued a blunt assessment of the dangers of climate change as he launched the 620-page report.
“If we fail, on a balance of probabilities, the failure of our generation will haunt humanity until the end of time,” he told reporters in Canberra.
“We are entering territory here that humanity has not been in before.
“We will delude ourselves if we think that uncertainty about the climate change science… is a cause for delay.”
And Australia would probably be “the biggest loser” among developed countries from climate change, he said.
Prof Garnaut has recommended Australia push for a strong global climate pact, which would mean a 25 per cent cut in emissions by 2020.
“Strong mitigation, with Australia playing its proportionate part, is in Australia’s interests,” the report says.
This ambitious target would be in the context of a global deal to keep atmospheric carbon concentration to 450 parts per million (ppm).
However, Prof Garnaut is pessimistic about the possibility of the world agreeing to this “strong mitigation” deal.
If his scepticism proves correct, Prof Garnaut wants the nation to push for a global atmospheric carbon concentration of 550 ppm, which means Australia cutting emissions by 10 per cent by 2020.
And if no climate deal is forged out of the United Nations process, Australia should cut emissions by five per cent, Prof Garnaut says.
“There’s no point in hiding from reality,” he said about the possibility of a strong global climate pact.
He wants Australia to start emissions trading in 2010, and warned consumers would pay more.
“Consumers will wear the majority of the cost of an emissions trading scheme, paying more for a range of goods and services as businesses pass on the emissions price,” he said.
Electricity would cop the biggest price rise, rising by 37 per cent by 2020 if a deep emissions cut was made, and by 21 per cent if a more modest cut was made.
Other prices would rise too, although the impact would be less than the GST had been.
“Petrol and food prices, general prices, will increase to some extent as a result of the ETS.”
Prof Garnaut wants Australia to spend $2.7 billion a year on research on low-emissions technology.
He wants emissions trading to start in 2010, with a fixed, rising carbon permit price until 2012.
Less than 30 per cent of the permits should be given to trade-exposed, emissions-intensive companies. Coal-based electricity generators would not get free permits or compensation.
Prof Garnaut thinks half the revenue from emissions trading should go to households, 30 per cent to businesses, and 20 per cent to research.
Householders would be able to access a “green credit” arrangement to install energy-smart appliances.
Prof Garnaut said the global financial crisis, which worsened overnight, was no excuse to delay acting on climate change.
“Financial crises are short-term phenomena … climate change is a long-term structural issue.”
He also lashed out at various business groups and industries which have warned they will have to shut plants, cut jobs and move offshore due to emissions trading.
“Why would you expect public policy advice in the national interest from the chief executive of a business who’s responsible to his board and shareholders for maximising the profit of that business?” Prof Garnaut asked.
“I think you are just looking at the world through the wrong end of the telescope if you think that that’s where you go to for objective public policy advice.”
AAP
Alexjc38 you say you don’t think we are in for a treat this winter but that depends on how you look at it .I for one look foward to a cold in snowy winter .Living in western N.C. it’s been a few years since we’ve had a good snowfall .
That has got to be one of the scariest masks I’ve ever seen. Let’s cancel Halloween this year.
Noting the power elite’s concerns for all the recent crises, whether financial, climate, or whatever, it seems it’s a crisis that doesn’t affect you or me; we always seem to muddle through quite nicely, thank you very much. Rather, it’s a crisis that impacts the elite’s comfortable and established way of conducting their affairs. So when they declare a crisis, ever notice how that declaration is immediately followed by a call for sacrifices? Not sacrifices by them; no, they’ll be the collectors of the sacrifices that you and I are being called upon to make. And then, after their way of life is smoothed over, ever notice how proud these elite are in announcing how they saved us from disaster? And in the coming decades, as the climate cools, these folk are going to lighten our wallets and save us — to the point of extinction.
Hmmmmm – that mask, coupled with this damp and chilly morning, must have brought out the cynic in me. Guess I need to slap an old Meg Ryan romantic comedy in the DVD player to lighten the mood…
Excelsior!!
As has often been pointed out on this forum, anything that would actually reduce CO2 in any significant way would destroy the economies of the world, resulting in mass starvation and conflict. I’ve described this as “killing half the world and enslaving the remaining half.”
It is important to realize that AGW enthusiasts like Mr. Gore understand this. They expect failure — and even desire failure. By creating crises that continue to build, one on top of another, disaster after disaster, they can get more and more power to destroy the status quo and re-mold the world into their vision. You must destroy the old to build the new.
AGW is just a tool in this overall strategy that even has a name, “The Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis”. Google it. Its basic tenent is to add stress to governmental and economic systems until they collapse. An important step is to create a problem, then convince people that only the government can solve the problem. As the government and the economy become more and more overextended, failures arise that demand even further action and additional powers.
AGW is a perfect example of Cloward-Piven. Only governments can solve the problem, the problem cannot actually be solved, an organized grassroots effort demands a solution, people see their standard of living fall as controls are implemented, and thus more governmental power becomes necessary, which sets the stage for the next crisis.
Our current economic crisis, generated by US government actions in the 1990s to make owning a home available to everyone, qualified or not, is another example. The bailout will be the proximate cause of the next crisis in the chain.
Scott
Greenie watchers will note that the word “warming” does not appear in this news article. With plunging temperatures “climate change” is the operative word.
“We are entering territory here that humanity has not been in before.
I agree. The combination of Obama, Pelosi and Reed will subject the American economy to risk never before seen.
Looks like another case of “Climate Change Delusion”
“Man stores garbage in his basement for year to reduce eco-footprint…”
http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=865466
GeoS:
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I often quip to myself that the AGW are probably right about global warming: just think of those poor folks in coastal settlements who saw their homes wiped out–about 12,000 BCE. My oh, my, but for global warming.
I have a book by an ivory tower professor Norman Cohn about the earliest known religions called – ‘Cosmos and Chaos’ The point is that the subtitle is: ‘The Ancient Origins of Apocalyptic Faith’.
Not much has changed then?
Tom in Florida (04:43:35) :
“2.What percent of the atmospheric CO2 is man made?”
A table published by the DOE, October, 2000, gave the answer to that question. http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
A link to the origin of the table http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/pns/current_ghg.html no longer gives the proportion of natural to man-made CO2. This leaves the impression that all the 2.14 ppm yearly increase of atmospheric CO2 is man-made, although the IPCC report says that natural emissions of CO2 are 30 times that of man-made CO2. The rational is that natural CO2 is in balance with Nature and that man-made CO2 is not compensated for by natural processes.
To a living plant that requires Carbon, C12 is C12, no matter the source.
“We are entering territory here that humanity has not been in before.”
Umm yes… we started doing that about 100,000 years ago and never stopped.
I hope Anthony finds a new subject to post really soon… I’m getting nightmares with Algore’s creepy face front and center… LOL
A bit O/T, but still scary.
Hang onto your wallets. After reading this story at Newsbusters:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-vadum/2008/10/02/green-alert-hidden-carbon-tax-provision-paulson-s-bailout-2-0
I downloaded the pdf file with the bill that passed the Senate last night — all 451 pages! Looks like it has something for everyone, even the ‘greenies’. On page 175, there are details for establishing tax credits for carbon dioxide sequestration. Further on, at page 180, it looks like they’re laying the foundations for taxing CO2 emissions, by having the National Academy of Sciences undertake a two year study of the subject. And then it goes on to address biofuels.
Some rescue!
Of course you don’t need a scary mask for Halloween.
Just ring the doorbell and say, “Gimme candy or I’ll start reading the list of everything caused by global warming.”
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
There was a company set up to profit out of AGW believers with two directors called Gore and Blood. The Universe could have hardly named it better.
Well we’re already on snow watch in the UK already, barely into October and we already have -30c uppers, incredible for the time of year it took until February (!) last year to get that sort of cold. Looking not too good for W Europe this winter if this continues. Neutral ENSO is connected with v cold Euro winters. GW alarmism might get thrown to the pit of public ridicule if we do get another 1963
Emissions not making rivers run dry
Stewart Franks | September 12, 2008
IS the ongoing drought in the Murray-Darling Basin affected by climate change? The simple answer is that there is no evidence that CO2 has had any significant role. Like it or not, that is the science.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24331854-7583,00.html
Stewart Franks is a hydroclimatologist and an associate professor at the University of Newcastle School of Engineering. He is president-elect of the International Commission on the Coupled Land – Atmosphere System.
EEEEEK !!!
Record South Pole Ozone Hole Predicted
By Dennis Avery Wednesday, October 1, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5296
A Canadian scientist says the largest known hole in the ozone will occur over the South Pole in the next week. If that happens, it will help us understand global warming.
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If the South Pole gets an ozone-hole maximum in the coming weeks, it will strengthen the case for cosmic rays, and endorse a Modern Warming driven by solar variations rather than human-emitted CO2. The solar model is already endorsed by oxygen isotopes in ice cores from both Greenland and the Antarctic, by microfossils in the sediments of nine oceans and hundreds of lakes worldwide, and by cave stalagmites from every continent plus New Zealand.
The case for a solar-driven climate is also strengthened by a drop in global temperatures over the past 18 months: The temperature decline had been forecast by the sunspot index since 2000, but was not predicted by the global climate models.
Dennis T. Avery, is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute in Washington. Dennis is the Director for Global Food Issues ([url=http://www.cgfi.org]http://www.cgfi.org[/url]). He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State.
Dennis can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com
Having read it all I can say is….wow, just wow. The combination of stupidity and arrogance is…well, if he were an Olympic diver he’d get 10s for degree of difficulty. But, I will say this. He is honest about his position. Consumers will have to pay through the nose, even while there is uncertainty about the climate science. Apparently there is none for him. Do these guys get awards or maybe money from Al Gore for how incendiary and demagoguing their speeches are? I could do a breakdown on the dumb things he says in his speech, the over use of hyperbole, the claims not based on facts, the baseless assumptions…but, given that we actually have intelligent life on this blog, I seriously doubt it is warranted. No wonder the AGWers don’t want to debate with loons like this running around.
A couple of thoughts:
“We are entering territory here that humanity has not been in before.”
Yes, Professor G – it’s called THE FUTURE – coming soon to a theater near you.
“40 years ago another Australian Prime Minister famously quoted “All the way with LBJ” and then led Australia in participating in the Vietnam conflict.”
And as a US, in-country Vietnam Vet, I can say the Aussies kicked butt. To those Australian Vietnam Vets out there “Welcome home mate!”
Mike
Gore getting desperate proof public cooling on GW hoax
By Dr. Tim Ball Tuesday, July 22, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4072
Comments and reports about global warming are getting silly and even ridiculous. Al Gore says we have ten years left. We’re told cooling is due to warming. More rain and flooding and less rain and drought are both due to warming. More hurricanes are predicted while fewer occur. Global temperatures declined as much in the first few months of 2008 as they increased in the previous 100 plus years due to warming. Recently we were told global warming is causing an increase in kidney stones in a travesty of geographic correlation assuming cause and effect. One blogger who began recording, with tongue in cheek, all the events attributed to global warming was John Brignell.
Thanks Smokey, that works. Great (and frightening) paper…… G
Record South Pole Ozone Hole Predicted
By Dennis Avery Wednesday, October 1, 2008
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5296
A Canadian scientist says the largest known hole in the ozone will occur over the South Pole in the next week. If that happens, it will help us understand global warming.
——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
If the South Pole gets an ozone-hole maximum in the coming weeks, it will strengthen the case for cosmic rays, and endorse a Modern Warming driven by solar variations rather than human-emitted CO2. The solar model is already endorsed by oxygen isotopes in ice cores from both Greenland and the Antarctic, by microfossils in the sediments of nine oceans and hundreds of lakes worldwide, and by cave stalagmites from every continent plus New Zealand.
The case for a solar-driven climate is also strengthened by a drop in global temperatures over the past 18 months: The temperature decline had been forecast by the sunspot index since 2000, but was not predicted by the global climate models.
Dennis T. Avery, is a senior fellow with the Hudson Institute in Washington. Dennis is the Director for Global Food Issues ([url=http://www.cgfi.org]http://www.cgfi.org[/url]). He was formerly a senior analyst for the Department of State.
Dennis can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com