Australia dumps Carbon Trading Scheme

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.

Now is the time to apply pressure to the US congress. Write your congressperson today and demand that they pay attention to your concerns.

You’ve had a makeover. I like it.

I hope someone is feeding these developments to US congress/senate, plus all the retrograde developments on “climate change” since climategate.

AGW may be the greatest moral imperative, but re-election is an even greater imperative.

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.

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 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.

It appears the blog has been overheated and reached a tipping point. Kewl new software is in order.

I like the new look.

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.

Having failed Copenhagen, different strategies are tried now:
1. discredit sceptics as seen by the stupid HuPo piece and others
2. the PIK (Potsdam whatever Institute) proposes a per capita emission limit worldwide. It is unbelievable:
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/a-global-limit-on-emissions-equal-per-capita-emissions-rights-and-201cpeak-and-trade201d-emissions-trading-for-the-201c2b0max-climate-strategy201d
Each person gets an amount of emission assigned and has to deal with, can sell it to others who need more. It’s cap and trade on a personal level.
But let us not ignore the consequences. The PIK boss is chief climate advisor of the German government. And Obama has similar advisors. So despite all facts, this bandwagon goes on and on.

Actually its delayed until 2013 not 2012.
I suspect after reading Fieldings “due diligence report” by a number of experts debunking AGW
http://www.stevefielding.com.au/images/uploads/8_Carter-Evans-Franks-Kininmonth_DDR-v_4zzz_-_medium.pdf
as well other expos and no doubt nay sayers in his own party Rudd thankfully pulled the plug. Lets hope its permanent.

Politicians have to be pragmatic to survive, so good news that Oz, USA and now Germany are in retreat on carbon tax. Here’s hoping the rest of the EU see things the same way as Germany and also pull the plug.
The causes of this sea change are not hard to see:-
Global recession – less money to waste.
Dollar and Euro in massive trouble due to Trillions of bank bail-out debt.
Climategate.
IPCCgate.
CAGW in doubt and no longer urgent (“No statistically significant global warming for the last 15y.” -Dr. Phil Jones of the CRU)
W.U.W.T (and other less important CAGW sceptical Blogs).
Public turning their back on the scam.
Earth’s climate continues to fail to conform to IPCC doom-mongers predicted catastrophes and rubbish climate models.
Nothing to see here folks, please move on…

Merkel in Germany also stopped Germany’s push for their meaningful hoaxing bill.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,691194,00.html

Politicians have to be pragmatic to survive, so good news that Oz, USA and now Germany are in retreat on carbon tax. Here’s hoping the rest of the EU see things the same way as Germany and also pull the plug.
The causes of this sea change are not hard to see:-
Global recession – less money to waste.
Dollar and Euro in massive trouble due to Trillions of bank bail-out debt.
Climategate.
IPCCgate.
CAGW in doubt and no longer urgent (“No statistically significant global warming for the last 15y.” -Dr. Phil Jones-UEA CRU)
W.U.W.T (and other less important CAGW sceptical Blogs).
Public turning their back on the scam.
Earth’s climate continues to fail to conform to IPCC doom-mongers predicted catastrophes and rubbish climate models.
Nothing to see here folks, please move on…

Well there you go.
Since 24 months ago we were told we only had 18 months, and we did nothing, the tipping point is past. Since nothing we can now do will save the planet, it would be pointless to do anything. Right? Right.
I eagerly await the tipping. I can sorta feel us leaning a little now. After Guam tips right over, the other landmasses will follow. Why, just in the last few days I’ve noticed that we are having weather, which is a symptom of climate. As everyone knows, before humans started messing with it, the planet was all a nice constant climate with no weather, as clearly described in the Garden of Eden.

Greece’s credit rating cut to junk status. Portugal also hit.
There will be considerable thought in at least certain EU countries as to whether it makes sense to keep throwing money into cap & trade and making themselves less competitive while they are but a handful of countries actively trying to do something to stop a crisis that refuses to materialize based on “scientific research” that they can see has been (ab)used for political purposes.
Saving the planet sure feels good. Having good food to eat and a comfortable place to live in feels better. Survival of the self trumps survival of the species.

I tipped this a bit before Chris, but won’t moan about it!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/27/2883282.htm
Looks like poor old New Zealand are the only saps with an ETS on the statute books. Ah, the price of having a “Clean, Green” slogan.

@ jaypan
This new approach by the PIK looks to me, like an attempt to regain influence.
In the paper the CO2 “allowance” per capita is supposed to be 5,1 MT p.a. So Brazil, India and China would (at the moment) benefit from it. Maybe this is an attempt to get them “into the boat” again. Anyway, when you watch what is going on at the moment in Germany, cap and trade seems to be “As dead as a Dodo”…
I wrote a comment on that paper here (in German, sorry).
BTW, Anthony, I like the new style. Maybe one suggestion. For WordPress there are tools available for HTML-Tags in comments, which insert a quicktag toolbar on the comment form. I use “Comment Form Quicktags” for my page and must say, I quite like it.

Australians are notorious for falling for popular themes they always have and have nearly always been wrong….Same goes for NZ by the way. It doesn’t really matter anyway, no one really cares what they think as they are miles away from anywhere LOL

“When the history of this Parliament, this nation and this century is written, 30 June 1999 will be recorded as a day of fundamental injustice – an injustice which is real, an injustice which is not simply conjured up by the fleeting rhetoric of politicians. It will be recorded as the day when the social compact that has governed this nation for the last 100 years was torn up.”
Kevin Rudd, Hansard, June 30, 1999 on the Goods and Services Tax, upon which States could not now survive.
When the history of this Parliament, this nation and this century is written, if 30 Jun 1999 was recorded as Fundamental Injustice Day then 27 April 2010 will be known as Fundamental Justice Day when the biggest scam ever conjured up by the fleeting rhetoric of politicians was torn up and the social compact that has governed this nation for hundreds of years was saved.

“The Australian”.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/mps-fear-kevin-rudd-losing-control/story-e6frgczf-1225859077497
The price we were going to pay and the lies and spin that were served up to justify the carbon reduction scam by KRudd, Wong and Co.
“The Prime Minister’s decision to delay the ETS will save billions in the May 11 federal budget, while the NSW government immediately said the predicted massive electricity price rises under the scheme would by much smaller.
NSW Energy Minister John Robertson said energy price increases would be significantly smalled over the next three years in NSW because of the delay of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Integral Energy price increases would now be about 20 per cent, compared with 46 per cent under the CPRS, and EnergyAustralia’s increases would be 36 per cent compared with 60 per cent.
Country Energy electricity prices would rise 42 per cent rather than 44 per cent.
Mr Robertson’s comments came despite Climate Change Minister Penny Wong saying last month: “Claims that the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is driving electricity price rises in NSW from July this year are simply wrong.”

Just to give a little background missing here.
The main (sole) reason the ETS has been dumped is that they couldn’t get it through the Senate. The Labor party which is in government in Australia doesn’t have the numbers to pass anything in the Senate, so they need the help of various independent Senators plus the Green party senators, and possibly one or two defectors from the main opposition Liberal party (liberal as in personal liberty, not as in democrat liberal). Ironically the Green party did not support the bill because it did not go far enough, but when push came to shove they were willing to sign anything that got the show on the road – the screws coudl be turned up later.
This was all going well with the leader of the Liberal party agreeing with Kevin Rudd and cutting a deal to pass the legislation. But members of the Liberal party started grumbling as their inboxes started to fill up with email after email from the Australian public, imploring them to drop support for the scheme. The party started to fracture down the middle with the warmists vs skeptics. In the end a leadership vote was called, and the existing leader (Malcolm Turnbull) was dumped, and a new leader was elected (Tony Abbott). This happened in November, in the runup to Copenhagen and right about the time the climategate emails were revealed. The leadership ballot was won by a single vote.
With a new leader in place, the Liberal party dumped it’s support for the ETS immediately and tore up any agreements with the government about passing the legislation. The bill was blocked in the Senate and Kevin Rudd went to Copenhagen without any legislation in place. Copenhagen turned out to be a farce anyway and solidified the opposition parties, well, opposition to the ETS. They also surged ahead in opinion polls, which showed that at least half the country was fed up with the Global Warming rhetoric and legislation. For their part, and to answer the critics, the opposition party put up a simple policy of basically planting more trees. This covers the ‘maybe something is wrong but we don’t want an ETS’ base of the electorate but is easily unfunded and removed as Government policy when climate change ceases to be an issue at all.
In the first 3 months of 2010, the Government has been embroiled in scandal after scandal, the worst of which was it’s disastrous climate-related scheme of giving out free insulation for houses in Australia under the twin guises of ‘job creation’ and ‘saving the planet’. All you had to do was organise an installer and sign a piece of paper. The criminals, shysters and hucksters couldn’t believe their luck as 2 billion dollars worth of government cash was up for grabs. 10 house fires and 4 insulation worker deaths later, the scheme was dropped amidst admissions of widespread fraud, and will cost the government another 1 billion dollars to repair all the damage caused to houses by poor quality installations.
So, in the background of all this, and in an election year, what was one the party centrepiece is now quietly dropped. Don’t believe the rhetoric about being pushed back to 2012 – this policy is dead and buried and, barring a major shift in public opinion, has the foul stench of political death about it.
The headline would make you think that it’s because the policymakers no longer believe in it, or perhaps that they changed their minds. The reality is that it was a very close run thing and there would be an ETS by now had one or two politicians not been swayed by the arguments of a well-informed public.

Re kwik says: April 27, 2010 at 12:16 pm
According to Gordon Brown we have only 14 months left before the tipping point is reached?
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His tipping point will hopefully be reached in less than 14 days. Although he and his useful idiots may then be consigned to the opposition, or unemployment it still leaves us the problem of the £18bn a year Climate Change Act, feed-in tariffs and other useless legislation.

BRC (above) – it was 100 house fires, not 10.
And thank god the crazy policy is not going to get up. The economy is already stuffed and the country is basically a huge great mine being dug up and shipped to China. The last thing we need is an incentive to kill whats left of other industries.

Harsh, Fitzy. harsh, but fair! Completely agree on the politics side you presented – very well put. Left vs Right is so last century now. Fingers crossed something new will appear to save us, but on balance of probability I won’t be holding my breath. I will, however, be writing regularly to my MP demanding information on why ETS is necessary, where the money will go and why NIWA continues to fudge it’s temperature figures. I urge you to do the same! Only local activism is any good at changing complacency.

As an Australian I see Kevin Rudd’s near perfect execution of the “Back flipping weasel” as both good and bad news. The judges seem to have given it a 9.5. I was greatly amused at the rage expressed on ABC television, both the evening news and the 7.30 Report dredged up all the old embarrassing footage, trashing Rudd, but at the same time accidentally trashing the AGW hoax. Lame Stream Media outrage was such that they forgot to use the new spin; CPRS (carbon pollution reduction scheme), and instead reverted to ETS (now widely referred to as the Enormous Tax Scam)
The good news is the damage done to Kevin Rudd’s little remaining credibility on climate issues. The announcement will also shake up those involved in green energy and green jobs scams. There should also be fallout for governments supporting the hoax overseas.
The bad news is that Rudd has slunk away from having his climate policies subjected to a democratic vote at the next election. Further bad news is that the ETS is only delayed. This is almost as economically damaging as introducing the huge new tax. Our industrial society depends on energy. A delay, rather than total abandonment and groveling apology, leaves the threat of capricious taxation hanging over the energy sectors head. This affects confidence in energy investment, a factor that is damaging to industrialized economies around the world.
I believe that letting politicians slink away from the AGW hoax as they do from other gross malfeasance is dangerous. Without a short sharp end to this hoax, confidence in energy investment will remain low, children will continue to be indoctrinated and the door will remain open to future Post Normal Science scams by the same fellow travelers.

El Gordo – the great delusion or the great green delusion. It will be called the age of the watermelons. I actually think the public is vehemently opposed to the green religion and that the ‘polls’ are quite tainted. I cannot find a person who supports it or labor and most of my friends are previous labor voters.

jeef says:
April 27, 2010 at 5:38 pm
“Only local activism is any good at changing complacency.”
Absolutely!
Ironic how the Gobal village turned back into a local village, its as if the unintended outcome of Globalism, was to make people value what they have at home all the more. Odd that transnationalism leads to greater Nationalism.
Konrad says:
April 27, 2010 at 5:50 pm
“I believe that letting politicians slink away from the AGW hoax as they do from other gross malfeasance is dangerous. ”
Exactly, this may be a case of hit em with the overt campaign, when they refuse that, pretend to drop it and sneak it in the back door.
I had enough of political back-door antics.

Don’y worry about the Carbon Trading tax being dropped until 2013, Rudd is clearing the decks for the next election, and he WILL get back in, as the average voter has the attention span of a gnat. Too many nuff nuffs suckling the public teat for him to fail.

Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 27, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Thanks Anthony for helping generate this great victory!
I’d like to second that.
Thank you Anthony, and Steve, and all the commenters here for your commitment to the principles and particulars of the scientific method, the sense of shared and open human-ness and conscience with which this was undertaken, and, perhaps especially, your sense of humour.
I know the back-down in Canberra is just a minor, albeit perhaps significant reprieve, but that it’s far from over.
Britain looks nice this time of year. Tally ho!

brc & others, it was a heavy-lifting excercise by many informed Australians that killed this “great big tax on everything,” assisted by excellent information from Anthony Watts, Andrew Bolt, Steve McIntyre, Monckton and the many others who delivered information about facts and lies.
I understand Australian politicians received an avalanche of more than 400,000 emails and letters written by individuals last Nov/Dec, and that the messages were individually written, not form letters or petitions, and that this is what shifted the Coalition’s position on the ETS.
I’m told by people within the Coalition that this is regarded as the most exceptional grassroots action in Australia’s political history.

Just a minor proviso on Rudd’s execution of the ‘back-flipping weasel’ and a brief glimpse into the murky netherworld of realpolitik
How the British came, saw and helped Rudd
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/how-the-british-came-saw-and-helped-rudd/2007/12/16/1197740090746.html
score cards at the ready and let’s see if Brown can execute the move.

Dead-enders says:
April 27, 2010 at 2:32 pm
Not like anyone here cares, but:
“a poll by the Lowy Institute showed most Australians wanted the government to act on climate change but were not personally prepared to pay for it. The poll found that while 72 per cent of Australians agreed that Australia should take action to reduce carbon emissions before a global agreement is reached, 33 per cent were not prepared to pay anything extra on their electricity bill and 25 per cent were only prepared to pay $10 or less extra per month.”
That expressly shows the value of polls and their ignorant phrasing of questions. And I agree with the results. Kind of like a poll on polar bear survival. I’d probably answer yes, I like polar bears. But no, I don’t want to personally contribute to their nutrition.

Aaah now they are saying dumped at least till 2013 if not after, depending on the rest of the world!. Sounds like this lead carbon tax balloon has sunk and Rudd will probably go down with it!