Letter to the Editor
Watts Up With That?
11th March 2012
The Australian government’s plan to sell their un-saleable carbon tax has hit a snag – their pollsters have discovered that the word ”carbon” provokes anger in the electorate.
This is no surprise. Most decent people hate liars and the carbon tax campaign has been mired in lies from the start.
The first big lie was from Penny Wong who described carbon dioxide as a “pollutant”. But people soon learned that this colourless, non-toxic, natural atmospheric gas is the essential source of food for all life on earth.
The second big lie was graphic – government propaganda pictured a “dirty” coal power station belching black pollution. Three lies in one here – the power station pictured is closed, it is in England, and all carbon dioxide it ever released was invisible.
Their next mistake was to use paid academics to spread scare forecasts of searing heat and never ending drought, all caused by the demon carbon dioxide. The reality has been no global warming for twelve years, heavy snows in the Northern Hemisphere and heavy rains in Australia.
The fourth big lie was from the leader of the government, Julia Gillard: “There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”.
No amount of weasel words from government propagandists and apologists will erase our memory of these four big lies about carbon.
Their negative image problem is profound: Whenever the Australian people hear “Carbon” they think “Lies.”
Viv Forbes,
forbes@carbon-sense.com
I am happy for my email address to be published.
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Video:
Heh. Brings to mind the following:
“Pour encourager les autres.”
Also, the Russian Army’s “Vertical Stroke”:
Berényi Péter says:
March 11, 2012 at 9:31 am
There is absolutely no need to do it in the old fashioned, fairly transparent way any more. All gov’t officials have to do is to let CEOs of large corporations know (conceivably on the golf course, where chance of being bugged is low), if they happen to place too many ads in non-compliant media outlets, they may experience inexplicable difficulties gaining government contracts and/or bank guarantees. From that point on it is the job of marketing dept’s to inform editors in no uncertain terms about political preferences of their customer base, that’s all.
But even that may be unnecessary, as business leaders (and editors) already know that much.
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I think you have that backwards. The CEOs of large international corporations tell the politicians what they want done not the other way around. They liked the way the European Union experiment evolved. That is a totalitarian state masked as a democracy that they are in control of. (see http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865) So the new plan is to spread that worldwide via the World Trade Organization the UN aiming for “Global Governance” To do this they have to cripple nations and that is what we see being done. Pascal Lamy, director of the World Trade Organization, former European Commissioner for Trade, states it rather bluntly
“…”What we need is an international monetary system which facilitates international trade, cross border investment and a better allocation of capital across nations. What we need is a global monetary system which inspires confidence and offers stability. One which provides the means by which global imbalances that risk endangering stability can be addressed. Differently put, we need to do for international monetary relations what we already did for trade: move from the world of Hobbes towards the world of Kant.”…”
You are not going to get people to give up their sovereignty without making them uncomfortable so Environmentalism, Global Warming and more recently the economic crisis are used to “herd the sheeple”
Checkout
The National Intelligence Council is pleased to release Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture….. http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_home.html
http://theglobaljournal.net/article/view/56/
http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2009/11/wto-director-general-global-governance-based-on-the-eu-model/
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl194_e.htm
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl47_e.htm
My first impression when seeing the photograph of the PM at the start of the blog thread was that a baby kangaroo was sticking out of her blouse- iow some sort of photo-shopped parody.
When I clicked through to see it, it appears to be some sort of hideous scarf.
This is not significant except that the PM is not controlling her image very effectively.
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy)
A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Joe died and eventually fronted up to St Peter at the Pearly Gates. St Peter checks his list and Yep, you’re right Joe. Go right on in.
Joe wanders through the Pearly Gates and there’s Heaven as far as he can see.
Hey St Peter, am I allowed to look around.
Youv’e got eternity son. So go for it!
Joe wanders back to St Peter after a few aeons have passed and asks St Peter, what’s with all those clocks on that big wall you’ve got down there?
Ah,ha, says St Peter, everybody who has ever lived has their own clock and every time they tell a lie their clock ticks over one second.
Everybody? questions Joe.
Everybody,! says St Peter.
Joe wanders off for a few more aeons before he’s back pestering St Peter. Had a look at those clocks St Pete, says Joe and boy some of them are really ticking over.
There sure are some liars out there.
And then triumphantly. There’s a clock missing!
Impossible, say St Peter, we’re perfect up here. We don’t make mistakes around here.
You must have miscounted. Go back and have another look.
Joe wanders off for a few more aeons before he is back. I counted them again St Peter, says Joe. and there’s one definitely missing.
St Peter looks perplexed, Ok, well whose clock is missing?
Julia Gillard’s, the prime minister of Australia, says Joe.
St Peter slaps his forehead, Darn! I clean forgot about that one!
They’re using that Gillard clock in the kitchen as an exhaust fan.
TC says:
March 11, 2012 at 7:25 am
clipe says:
March 10, 2012 at 4:29 pm
In Canada it was to be called “Green Shift”.
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“Is this a typo? Is “shift” misspelt?”
Maybe, but really I don’t give a shift. ☺
Oh, it’s a scarf is it? I had assumed it was ectoplasm..
CARBON POLLUTION?
Just a bit of humor, but I remember years ago, a truck stopped at some traffic lights in South Hurstville (Sydney) near where I worked. Our real estate agency was set back from the road, with a small parking lot in front of it. Not parallel with the road like other shops. The truck was carrying carbon black, you remember the stuff they put on carbon paper to get copies of your typing? Well two sacks fell off, Whoosh! Anyone walking by turned black instantly, (They looked like the black ministrals show?) shops were inundated if they had their doors open. One person had an episode of breathing difficulties. One shop a butcher’s had to throw all the meat away, and a drapery shop’s material was ruined. Cars parked or travelling behind the truck changed color so did their drivers and passengers. That’s carbon pollution! And they worry about CO2 or Greenhouse gases. They had to bring in a fire truck to hose down the street and shop fronts, and thousands of dollars paid in compensation for those shops that lost goods and had to close to clean out their establishments. It was worse that when we have red dust storms or dust is wind carried from the interior and our cars and inside our houses are covered in a thin layer of red dust. “..It happens”.
Julia Gillard: “There will be no carbon tax under any government I lead”.
Well considering EVERYONE down here knows that in reality the Greens and the Independents are running the country, in a twisted way she isn’t lieing. (sarc)
And Lie Number 0 (Zero) is that carbon dioxide has any effect on climate.
The models will never be “right” because they wrongly assume radiation from the atmosphere transfers thermal energy to a warmer surface. All it can do is slow the radiative cooling rate, but not the rate of cooling due to evaporation, diffusion and other processes. These processes then tend to increase their transfer rates to compensate.
Nor do we see in the modles any mention of the upwelling backradiation of incident solar IR radiation captured by water vapour, carbon dioxide etc..
I have spent some 1,000 hours or more researching this and writing a comprehensive summary of a wide range of reasons why carbon dioxide has no warming effect and probably a slight net cooling effect.
At least six scientists have now read the 6,600 word paper, including three official reviewers. All are, frankly, somewhat excited about it I gather, and plan to translate it to German as well. It will be available within 30 hours at http://principia-scientific.org/
I am more than willing to discuss any matter raised therein, provided people discuss the physics, rather the personalities or whatever they may think or wish to imply in any effort to discredit the material on such grounds.
REPLY: This paper coming out is just repackaged “Slaying the Sky Dragon” rubbish. Cotton asked me to carry it and I’ve flat out refused. They created a “journal” to try to legitimze papers published there, which to me speaks of desperation.
Readers might want to revisit this story where Dr. Fred Singer talks about the issue:
“Climate Deniers” Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name
-Anthony
One would think that if one was responsible for spending massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, the least you would do is inform yourself whether proceeding with such measures would rectify or improve any perceived problem.
Not all politicians in Australia are charlatans, and I know that a number on both sides of the political fence are aware of where the ‘science’ is at. Their voices are silenced on the basis of perceived acceptance by the hood winked masses that “you don’t care for your children/grandchildren, etc” that has been trotted out by individuals, who are either in ignorance of the facts, or pathological liars.
Sadly both sides of politics in this country are prepared to squander billions in pursuit of the ‘alarmed’ voter.
We deserve better.
“There will be no carbon tax under a govt I lead” —– unless I need to do a backroom deal and then I will change my mind.
“I haven’t spoken to Bob Carr about the senate” —— unless I do a backroom deal and change my mind.
I feel embarassed that I am Australian – the rest of the world must think we are all liars.
Our bent PM! Update & re-cap but to a great beat – turn it up!
http://youtu.be/fyHhD0J1QGs