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.
@ur momisugly Clipe, I took that poll and I am surprised that pollsters did not come up with a 100 %. the way the questions were framed. They ID-ed themselves as ” Canadians concerned about Climate”. I guess I fell into the trap, thanks for posting! (BTW 2020 is a PROGRESSIVE think-tank (last Paragraph of the article).
Tom Hope says:
November 11, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Yes and we can thank Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher and Brian Mulroney for saving the planet by signing the Montreal Protocol!
But the Montreal Protocol was more smoke and mirrors, lab experiments extrapolated to natural phenomena.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/10/29/ozone-hole-slightly-smaller-than-average-this-year-according-to-nasa?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily
“There was a lot of Antarctic ozone depletion in 2013, but because of above average temperatures in the Antarctic lower stratosphere, the ozone hole was a bit below average compared to ozone holes observed since 1990,” said Paul Newman, an atmospheric scientist and ozone expert at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.”
So natural variation plays a large part but is rarely acknowledged and they cannot identify how much, very similar to AGW. In August 2006, the WMO issued this statement:
Antarctic ozone forecasted to recover in 2065.
“A new scientific assessment, released Friday by the World Meteorological Organization, WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that the stratospheric ozone layer that protects life on Earth from excessive solar radiation will recover five to15 years later than previously expected.”
So is it “healing” or not? Has the planet been saved? Perhaps it wasn’t really in danger after all. It is emphatically claimed by the EPA and repeated in all discourse on the issue, that there are no natural sources of CFC’s. This is untrue but is rarely challenged, although it is here: http://cfc.geologist-1011.net/
Also check this out for the background on how Chinese and Indian companies were paid for destroying CFC’s under the UN CDM, which they had deliberately produced so they could destroy them and claim the credits.
“Another Day Another Dollar – CFC’s And The UN”
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/another_day_another_dollar.html
tobias says:
November 11, 2013 at 1:13 pm
More here.
http://hro001.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/the-canada-some-people-want-and-stats-for-the-statistically-challenged/
Tony Abbott is off to a good start by refusing to have anything to do with the Warsaw BS fest. It is time people start smelling a rat with the UN’s proposed 100 billion dollar a year climate fund. Hello, the UN are the very ones plugging the CAGW line. Conflict of interest? Smell a rat?
Abbot has the razor out and has just finished stropping it to a super fine edge. The Australian Climate Commission was axed, CSIRO has been warned it will also get sliced, diced and julienned to get it back to it’s core business which is science not political debating, the quangos in the form of think tanks and policy groups are going the way of the Dodo Bird, Australian Institute of Marine Science likewise is under the microscope, (funny how when it is time for the next round of budgets they come up with a new ‘disaster’ endangering the Great Barrier Reef – Crown of Thorns Starfish plague caused by – yes you guessed it cAGW) and 12000+ public service jobs are also set to be cut away. Next will be RET’s (Renewable Energy Targets) so it will be goodbye and good riddance to all our wind farms. I can’t say that I am all that upset about the RET’s being abandoned as they have caused huge increases in power prices and this old wombat is a pensioner who can ill afford them.
BBC reports its the lack of CFC’s causing the halt in temps. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24874060
My reading is that they seeem to be implying that 0.1 deg C of warming in the 20th century was caused by CFC emissions not CO2. So sounds like another reason to reduce climate sensitivity to CO2 and adjust the models appropriately.
In Germany, Handelsblatl writes: “Australia declares war on science”
http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/klimawandel-als-tabuthema-australien-erklaert-der-wissenschaft-den-krieg/9056508.html
Handelsblatt is the leading economic daily magazine, owned by the Holtzbrinck group.
Hotzbrinck also owns Nature and Scientific American.
Nature probably most known for its disturbing role in the Hockey Stick controversy and its failure to publish and correct errors or even retract singularly influential but false papers.
Recently, Nature waved through the regional hockey stick paper without proper peer review and on the very last day for consideration in the recent IPCC report, despite the same paper had previously been rejected by Science.
KenB has summed it up very well. This is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It is not even the end of the beginning. It is going to be harder for Tony Abbott than it was for Sir Winston in London in 1940 before he can parade through the halls of the Australian Parliament with his right fingers raised in the victory sign.
Neither is Tony Abbott a Churchillian statesman with the talent and skill to sway the emotion of the masses with the power of the spoke word. He is a man of action, much happier riding his bike through the tree lined avenues of the capital or leading his local rural fire service team fighting a bush fire in the Blue Mountains. And his Environment Minister Greg Hunt has as much power of persuasion as his lookalike Mickey Rooney arguing the case for vows of marriage.
And then there is the opposition on the Left. They may have lost the House of Representatives holding only 55 seats to the Coalition’s 90 but until July 2014, with the help of the Greens they still hold the power in the Senate. And taking away the control of taxing CO2 (which they have cleverly redefined as “carbon pollution”) will be like taking a bone away from a dingo.
The new parliament opens to-day with the ceremonials but tomorrow the action will begin that will set the tone of the war. Tony Abbott’s top priority is the repeal the carbon tax bill and this will be the first item on the agenda. Bill Shorten, the new Labor Leader has said he will not support the repeal of carbon tax unless it is replaced by an emissions trading scheme. I don’t think that Tony Abbott will impose a double dissolution election on the vote weary public to get around this impasse so may have to wait for the new Senate next July.
Even then the result will not be certain as Abbott does not have the outright numbers and will depend on an unpredictable octet of unaligned senators made up of one pure independent and a handful of fringe parties including, would you believe it, the Australian Motor Enthusiast Party. As it stands at present the Coalition has 33 seats, Labor 26, Greens 9 and Others 8 for the new Senate starting July 01 2014.
On top of this, because the vote was close for the 6 Senate seats from Western Australia, when a recount was held it was discovered that 1370 votes were lost. If a WA Senate re-election is decided, everybody would want to throw their hat into the ring and anything could happen – which may turn out bad or good for Tony Abbott. Whatever the outcome of this, he is still going to have to negotiate in the Senate and judging by some of the attitudes of new senators he may have a bigger fight on his hands as prime minister than he did as opposition leader to show us the way.
As far as carbon tax goes, much will decide on what the rest of the world does. I am sure that by not following Europe’s ETS, the USA has had a great influence on the vote of the Australian public and Abbott’s attitude to climate change. Churchill also said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing – after they have tried everything else. I hope he was wrong about the latter.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/11/why-does-the-global-warming-hoax-persist.php
Never mind the wind turbines coming down, never mind! Now tell me, just how hard are the Victorian champagne socialists weeping into their mushroom omelets? 😉 😀
Zeke of the mushroom omelets:
How hard are the champagne socialists weeping into them? That depends. What kind of mushroom?
What kind of mushrooms to Victorian Fabians eat? Probably organic, fed on free range horse—-, kept in the dark with power from worthless wind turbines, and most of all, flown in from France! Why?
Climate change spruikers religious zealots: Howard.
The Australian, November 06, 201312:00AM
“JOHN Howard has hailed climate change advocates as religious zealots who try to intimidate policymakers and says the world’s politicians should follow Tony Abbott’s example in rejecting climate warming scaremongering.”
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What I find most encouraging is that when a country that went farther than any other to sacrifice itself on the alter of climate idiocy can change to spearhead a return to common sense with an election, there is hope, even for the EU which I believed to be terminally lost. Even Mother Nature has had enough.
reckon even double dissolution would be good,
suspect we could oust a few more of the greenlabor scum than we already did!
Robin says:
November 11, 2013 at 5:47 am
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.
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Mate cant thank you enough for that tipoff!!
CSIRO are in it up to their devious necks!
widely circulated now, and their pages have a fascinating pdf on how they plan to use social sciences ie control n money to achieve their inane and imaginary goals in regard to the fiction of warmist disasters abounding.
Given the number of articles in the MSM here in Australia, on a daily basis maybe 3 to 4, I reckon Abbott has a snowballs chance in hell repealing the carbon tax, even if there is a double dissolution vote. What happened in WA is a worry, ~1400 ballots go “missing”? Suspicious at best. However, having dealt with the Australian Electoral Commission recently, to me it seemed the left hand had no idea what the right hand is doing because both were numb!
The Typhoon in the Philippines is being squarely blamed on AGW here in Aus.
PS. I am sure this is nothing to do with WUWT and mods, more wordpress I guess, but is there a reason why I cannot use “Patrick” rather than “Pat” as a name in my posts?
In politics, stating an intention to repeal a law and actually doing it are very different things.
Politicians ( front men for the business interests of who ever pays them the most ) are just as likely to be trying to appease the masses only with hollow words rather than law changes.
” We’re pulling our troops out of Iraq ” – George and Tony 2003. Still in there in 2013.
I’ll believe the Australian government is going to nullify the carbon tax only after its been done, not before.
The old saying “you can’t cheat an honest man” has roots in basic human nature.
Honest people always tell the truth, and are very uncomfortable with lies.
These people are more likely to be able to tell when they are being lied to, and have little patience with liars.
When these people run out of patience, politicians and other professional liars should beware.
Has PM Tony Abbott repealed the law prohibiting businesses from posting signs communicating how much prices have risen because of the Carbon Tax? Or perhaps he could change the fine from $1.1 million dollars to $1?
“The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been directed to enforce accurate business promotions with a $1.1m dollar fine, and team of 23 “carbon cops”, to stop Australian businesses from posting any signs telling the public how much extra they are paying due to the Carbon Tax, or having a “Pretax sale”. Imagine the travesty of transparently letting customers see a breakdown of their invoice, or of warning customers of price rises to come?” Jonova
Price of Australian carbon tax expressed in klingon darseks-
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/artwork/not-the-carbon-tax-campaign/carbon-tax-klingon.gif