WUWT reader “Conrad” submits this story:
The new Government is reversing alarmist climate policy and law.
The Australian Federal elections of September 7, 2013 saw the left-wing Green/Labor party coalition ejected from control of the Government in favor of a center-right National/Liberal party coalition. One of the immediate consequences: Federal cabinet has ruled that Australia will not sign up to any new contributions, taxes or charges at this week’s global summit on climate change ….
The post is http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/good_good_good/ on Tim Blair’s very skeptical, funny and insider blog about many inscrutable and scrutable things Australian.
Another policy plank of the new Government is repeal of the hated carbon tax. As with most Utopian comprehensive law, unwinding it will be difficult https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnational-affairs%2Fpolicy%2Fgenerator-to-be-hit-by-the-carbon-repeal%2Fstory-e6frg6xf-1226756949353&ei=a8h_UuvxHImPrQe8voCwCw&usg=AFQjCNEvdnNM71KNfc6sqSnrK8o68G75Zw&sig2=XLjk35RrcVSfZoly5aiZJQ&bvm=bv.56146854,d.cWc, but the repeal legislation will be introduced soon.
Tim’s blog is also very good at mocking http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/the_ego_of_david_suzuki/ those who have earned it.
Hopefully where Australia leads, others will follow.
Lead the way (Out of stupidity?)? Not a chance! Seriously! We have at least 3-4 “climate change” articles in the Aussie MSM, DAILY, literally blaming weather events on Abbotts threat to abolish the carbon tax.
The recent typhoon that struck the Philippines is being firmly blamed on AGW driven climate change here.
No mention in UK on Austrailian climate stance. Silence says it all
BBC reports its the lack of CFC’s causing the halt in temps. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24874060
Forced £145.50 a year to listen to a one sided opinion on environment
Never a mention of that big yellow orb in the sky
Can we get Abbot on a transfer please………..
The government’s document also says that Australia “will not support any measures which are socialism masquerading as environmentalism”.
The above is from Australia’s position document for the Warsaw UNFCCC conference as reported over at Jo Nova.
http://joannenova.com.au/2013/11/australia-says-no-to-un-wish-list-of-billions-will-not-support-socialism-masquerading-as-environmentalism/
Leading on from Black Pearl’s link about the research findings that it is the reduction in CFC’s which have caused the ‘standstill in warming’…
Noticed the point in the article that CFC’s have 10000 TIMES the ‘warming’ potential of CO2..
I thought ‘the science was settled’..?
It is important to alert Australians to stealth programs like the US and UK sponsored Belmont Challenge that commenced in 2009 with operating docs issued in 2010 that they are listed as cooperating with. Just not on the list of initiatives Gillard or career bureaucrats are likely to point out. Also the Future Earth Alliance that went operational in 2013 replacing the Earth System Partnership. All of this is taking place in Sweden in connection with the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
Also quite a bit of this socialism masquerading as environmentalism gets hidden as “systems science” and is an especially integral part of Australia’s new education reforms. Australians, Canadians, and Americans all need to be alert to what the OECD means by the term the Great Transition.
None of this is lying in the open but it all comes out of the UN’s Human Development emphasis and what is really meant by Education for Sustainability after the 2005 World Summit. Hardly anything not intended for transformation or Overlordship by the public sector and international bureaucrats.
I really think no one needs to worry too much. The younger generation that fell for the AGW are now growing up and probably most will realize the idiocy within 5 years at most I say. Their children will have no interest in the issue as temperatures will probably continue to fall well below any model and even flatlining.
Australia Says ‘No’ To $100 Billion Climate Fund
Funding Drought Threatens UN Climate Agreement
The federal cabinet has ruled that Australia will not sign up to any new contributions, taxes or charges at this week’s global summit on climate change, in a significant toughening of its stance as it plans to move within days to repeal the carbon tax. This rules out Australia playing any role in a wealth transfer from rich countries to developing nations to pay them to decrease their carbon emissions. The decision hardens the nation’s approach to the UN’s negotiations amid a renewed push from less-developed countries this week for $100 billion a year in finance to deal with climate change. –Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 11 November 2013
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/climate-tax-aid-and-fees-off-table-as-cabinet-toughens-stance/story-e6frg6xf-1226756955449#
BLACK PEARL/Sherlock1
And they conclude that Ozone levels had not been reduced, the world would be, wait for it, 0.1C warmer!
Much like concluding that one of the X million angels that could stand on a pin head would have to stand on one leg, and just as useful.
More money down the drain.
sorry- ….IF Ozone levels had not been reduced…
Lacking any empirical evidence that global warming is taking place (in fact, just the opposite) I find it preposterous that AGW has any standing at all after all these years. I guess I underestimated the stupidity of a large portion of the populace to believe this idiocy and definitely underestimated the greed and evil of the scientists and politicians to keep the gravy train rolling to the serious detriment of the people. I seriously doubt if I’ll see this nonsense come to an end within my lifetime. What an incredible and depressing waste this has been.
The man made global warming fraud thrives on lots and lots of money, take the money away and the fraud will start to die.
They now realise CO2’s inexorable rise has not caused any global warming over the past decade or two now. They desperately need to find a bogeyman. The only candidate is the molecule that affects UVB absorption.
So, they are basically saying the lack of UVB absorption causes the air to cool down. How odd, I cannot find any such empirical evidence for this, anywhere. UV hitting the ground, the sea or the atmosphere does not re-radiate (fluoresce) in the IR. That’s it. Game over.
They would be crap at playing chess. Cornered to play a bad hand, We just toppled the King. 🙂
I suggest reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion
Here we see how they attempt to fit in the theory but in providing a full story trip themselves up everywhere.
Or did the lack of UVB absorption heat the atmosphere up? This will preclude CO2 totally.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Min_ozone.jpg/777px-Min_ozone.jpg
In Canada a new poll released last week just in time for the summit claims 76% of Candians are in favor of signing up to a new climate treaty. I’m not sure how the polling thing works but I hope it’s not true!
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1210/1210.6844.pdf
At this link you can find the earlier paper by Q-B.Lu from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. where he proposed a link between cosmic rays and the greenhouse effect of CFC. He shows near perfect linear correlation between global temperatures and stratospheric CFC between 1970-2012. He proposed an mechanism for the effect and even makes a future temperature prediction: more cooling as CFC’s deplete. Worth a read.
@Tom Hope:
Since you’ve read the article, is this one of those deals where he looks at stratospheric gases to the neglect of the rest of the atmosphere? So, if could be something like temperature driving distribution of CFC’s and not the other way around?
The Abbot government will have a fairly torrid time, due to the entrenched and believing green technocrats that came straight out of University and into cushy jobs in the E.P.A. and other science jobs with C.S.I.R.O. and Bureau of Meteorology (B.O.M.) or straight back into University research places with the object of finding reasons to regulate social change imposed under a mantra of saving the planet.
As the science of CAGW was exposed as a sham, the immediate effect was to resort to claims that we who questioned were anti-science after all in their view no credible scientists existed that questioned and as we put up example of credible scientists, they were instantly smeared, linked to tobacco and big oil – anything to head off examination of scientific fact.
Now that those tactics are not working we have the rear guard with groups rigging the science to appear credible, but only if you don’t allow debate. there have been incredible political agenda to shut down any examination of the science.
The left wing dominated Australian Broadcasting Commission is staffed with cronyism and an absolute hate of the Abbot government any anyone that opposes the concept of dangerous climate change. Very Gore like, in claiming bushfires, floods, wind and rain as proof absolute of the Climate getting worse even though other media tries to highlight past natural events in our history.
The average Australian has seen through the ridiculous Flannery’s and some of the more strident voices pushing this wheelbarrow, but moves by the Abbot government to remove those from the government taxpayer funded teat, has sent the green element into a frenzy, they resent their loss of POWER and influence so now the whole meme is in frantic re-organisation to get back into a position of power, hence the stupid efforts of the Lewandowski’s, and the University based left wing so called intelligentsia.
So it won’t be easy for Abbot and his government, hopefully sanity will prevail, but already the shrill minority is baying at their heels, after all they have been the ones with their noses firmly in the favoured trough and enjoying the waste on doubtful projects, and they do not want to lose that.
Blaming the plateau (and the diminished / eliminated threat of future warming) on CFCs would be a face-saving way for warmists to climb down.
Tim Blair’s characterization of David Suzuki is so right on – the narcissism of Suzuki, Mann, Hansen, Lewandowski, and their ilk sticks out like a furuncle on their noses.
So also, for that matter, does der Fuehrer’s narcissism in matters of climate as well as everything else. Only, his badge ought to be the Charlie Chaplin mustache – when is he going to grow one?
@JDN
To quote Lu, he demonstrates (with a 0.96-97 correlation coefficient) “that halocarbons (mainly CFCs) alone could indeed result in the observed global surface temperature rise of about 0.6c in 1950-2002” (page 18 of the paper). After the signing of the Montreal Protocol (1987) CFCs in the atmosphere began to reduce post 1997/8 and although modulated by a cosmic ray effect (CRE) that he describes in detail he predicts continuing temperature declines as CFCs reduce. He believes that non CFCs GHG contributions (mainly CO2 ) have likely saturated. Read the paper, it is well written and digestible..
Monroe says:
November 11, 2013 at 9:17 am
Based on the source of the poll – I doubt it.
http://canada2020.ca/latestnews/new-poll-canadians-want-federal-leadership-on-climate-change/
Last credible poll was on Stephane Dion’s “Green (shaft) Shift’.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=34d8900c-a897-4b98-aa77-c3c138070428
@Robert Knights
Yes and we can thank Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher and Brian Mulroney for saving the planet by signing the Montreal Protocol!
KenB
You are probably right with comment that new Australian Govt. will have a hard time , but they have start somewhere and this is a brilliant start. For any Government to make the comment
“will not support any measures which are socialism masquerading as environmentalism”
is huge at this stage of the game.
The scam will not stop through winning a scientific argument , it will be because of politics and money.
Apparently, in an interview with Alan Jones, Mr Abbott also flagged the possible demise of the Renewable Energy Target.
Now that would be a REAL PLUS !!!