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?
Vincent says:
“April 27, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Don’t worry, because the UK has taken up the fight. Leading the world with a panopoly of feed-in tariffs, carbon reduction commitments, renewal obligation certificates and now Brown’s “low carbon apprenticeships,” the UK is well on the way to cornering the market in green jobs.”
Totally agree, the only thing I can think of is if we can somehow jump on the green money train as it seems the rest of the world are catching on we’ll be left behind as usual so we might as well make a few bucks (£). If anyone in the UK has any good ideas how to make money i’m all ears, only thing i can think of is buying carbon credits and selling ’em to the UK guberment, when the rest of the world scrap the idea of taxing thin air i’m sure our guberment will still be signed up.
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.
Eric Dailey says:
April 27, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Is credit due to Lord Christopher Monkton?
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Of Course!
And to Anthony, Dr Spencer, Dr Lindzen, Dr Daly, Dr Ball, Dr. Christy, Dr Svensmark, Dr Robinson of the Oregon Institute, Steve McIntyre, and the list goes on and on. And even us little people who helped spread the word.
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.
Heh, heh, heh. Thanks to you, Anthony, and the vigilant Australians who post on this site (as well as the other common-sensical Australian citizens who aren’t as active but who know what is going on), PM Rudd has had to wake up from his utopian fantasy of ETS. We skeptical Americans tip our hats to you, and encourage you to stay vigilant. You are an example for our politicans here to wake up to.
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!
KRudd747 is being very slimy. Heaven forbid, it’s an election year. The ETS/CPRS bill will be passed. I have found Australian and New Zealand politicians to be the slimiest of them all. Yes, we will have an ETS, it will pass, in secret, just like politicnas guilt edged pension funds.
I’d imagine this will be stroked all the way to the election.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydney-has-fifth-warmest-april-in-151-years-20100430-ty17.html
Where I am it didn’t feel warm I can assure you.