How A Coal Baron Fooled Al Gore And The Greens
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun, 26 June 2014
What the hell was Al Gore doing at Palmer’s press conference? Why did the great global warming guru help to sanctify a press conference called by a coal baron to announce the destruction of Australia’s climate change policies?
AUSTRALIA will be left without a major scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions after Clive Palmer last night backed the repeal of the carbon tax without supporting any concrete alternative…
Mr Palmer said the PUP would propose an emissions trading scheme to put a price on carbon but said it would only start when other nations did the same, an unlikely prospect in the short term.
He also vowed to vote against Tony Abbott’s alternative policy, the $2.8 billion Direct Action spending program, in a move that appears to kill off the scheme given it is also opposed by Labor, the Greens and minor parties.
But Fairfax newspapers buy the spin added by the introduction of warmist guru Al Gore to Palmer’s ludicrous press conference:
Clive Palmer has thrown into chaos Tony Abbott’s plan to abolish the carbon tax, demanding the Prime Minister instead create an emissions trading scheme that would swing into action when Australia’s major trading partners adopt similar measures.
That spin – that Palmer is demanding the carbon tax be scrapped in favour of an emissions trading scheme – is exploded just a few paragraphs later in the very same story:
Mr Palmer made clear that repeal of the carbon tax … would not be contingent on the other measures Mr Palmer proposed on Wednesday night, such as the proposed emissions trading legislation.
UPDATE
CLIVE PALMER: Repeal of the carbon tax is contingent upon the Government bringing into law a system where the energy producers will refund the benefit to their consumers…
TONY JONES: So – but you won’t make your repeal of the carbon tax contingent on any of these other things you want to see happen? That’s a critical question to answer tonight.
CLIVE PALMER: That’s right, yeah.
TONY JONES: So Tony Abbott, when he negotiates you with tomorrow, going on what Greg Hunt is saying today, will be able to offer you fairly easily the kind of agreement that you’ve asked for. Does that mean you’re now convinced you’ll vote the carbon tax out of existence?
CLIVE PALMER: If that’s the case, it is…
It is bad that Palmer will keep the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and (probably) the Climate Change Authority, and it’s alarming that he wants at least the framework created for an emissions trading scheme.
But it is very good that the emissions trading scheme won’t actually get off the ground under the conditions Palmer proposes.
And it is beautiful that Palmer is against Tony Abbott’s direct action policies as well, as are Labor and the Greens.
This means we could end up with a sceptics’ paradise: no carbon tax, no prospect of emissions trading and not even Abbott’s $2.5 billion direct action schemes. That is a huge win.
Thanks, Clive.
Al Gore has heavily invested in Green Energy, and anyone who remembers the ETS was scrapped by Kevin Rudd. The carbon tax was supposed to be the first stage of introducing a Emissions Trading Scheme, and without a carbon tax, it can’t happen. He spoke with forked tongue with Gore, and loves the media limelight. He would like the clean energy commission to remain or rather the bank, and of course Gore was interested in keeping that! Anyway the carbon tax repeal passed the lower house as well as the mining tax, now it is up to the senate to approve it with Clive Palmers Pups agreeing. As far as the direct action policy, I don’t think that will happen either.
Re: Follow the Money, June 26, 2014 at 6:08 pm
Does that mean that the phrase “colour* scheme” might be translated as some kind of racist plot! Are schematic diagrams and schemas also unheard of in the US? 😉
Yeah I agree, calling CO2 carbon, is like calling water rocket fuel (It does fuel the Space Shuttle).
Perhaps the old saying about diamonds should be altered to “Carbon is a girls best friend” given that diamond is just an allotrope (One physical form) of the element! 😉
* Color in North America
I cant stop smiling. and for once agree with Clive. kill the CT and forget about the silly salve for the greens. Easy to get the state forestry departments to ship seedlings to the right people at the right time and place and they can do it themselves, no need to blow $2.8B!! $200m ought to do it..
‘It is bad that Palmer will keep the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and (probably) the Climate Change Authority, ‘
They can be merged and starved of funds.
Eugene WR Gallun says:
June 26, 2014 at 8:20 am
THE POLITICS OF IT
Maybe Palmer has a green heart.
Ah . A lettuce.
BTW The Australian Tax Office does not look kindly on ‘schemes’
@RogerKnight
At least the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in now under the control of the conservatives. I have no more faith that the conservatives can pick winners in business than the lefties, but at least it’s no longer a slush fund bribe for the Greens and their mates, to get them to support the previous left wing government.
As to the comment (elsewhere) that coal-baron Clive might have a “green heart”, well – when I see any evidence that Clive is interested in anything other than Clive’s interests, then I’ll listen to him. The delightful irony is that this person is probably going to be pivotal in dismantling Australia’s climate change policies.
My favourite story about the nature of the world we live in is in regards to Australia’s most remote territory – the Heard & Macdouglas Islands, which are Volcanic. About 7 years ago one erupted and totally destroyed everything on the island – there was nothing but molten rock and ash over the entire island – it was effectively killed off by nature herself. 5 years later the island has completely regrown, is covered with vegetation and once again home to a myriad of wildlife. Nature saved herself as well. Lessons can be learnt from that.
Don’t come to Hervey Bay thanks Al. With yr icey touch embracing Australia’s southern states, should you decide to come to Qld there’s a good chance you’ll strand our our winter visitors incl our famous whale Migaloo.
On that note, ive just eaten an absolutely delicious Bombay Fish Curry dinner using a freshly caught Golden Trevally. Perfect fish for that dish & if the bay freezes over then that tropical fish will be lost to our waters.
Yes, another possible climate change refugee.
Why would Al Gore want a carbon tax anyway? All it would do is raise the cost of energy and reduce co2 emissions somewhat. But an ETS – that’s another matter. Shed loads of bucks to be made out of that .
Eugene WR Gallun says:
June 26, 2014 at 8:20 am
THE POLITICS OF IT
At first to make sense out of this is hard — until you realize something that everyone already knows — Palmer is a coal baron.
With that “stigma” everything he does environment-wise is already perceived by the left as being done for personal financial reasons. When he supports Abbott, environmentalists will use him to smear Abbott’s policies. He will be pinned up as the poster boy for a government run by big business for the benefit of big business.
But suddenly Al Gore is on stage with Palmer. Huh? Maybe Palmer is a coal baron with a green conscious. Maybe Palmer has a green heart.
Suddenly any poster of Palmer will have Al gore standing beside him. Palmer is now the “green coal baron” endorsed by Al Gore himself. Palmer can’t be used to smear Abbott’s policies.
A major arrow in the green quiver has just been removed. Abbott can’t be stigmatized by his association with the coal baron Palmer because Al Gore himself endorses Palmer.
The best thing about this is that Al Gore comes off looking like a fool. Palmer used Al Gore to cover both his and Abbott’s ass.
Eugene WR Gallun
Great insight – and wonderfully funny!
What is Gore doing in Australia? He should be home, looking on his internet for evidence of the moon landings or downloading photos of the union label on a hanging chad. While Gore luxuriates down under, we’re in real danger of being devastated by a counterrotating category 7 hurricane. My newly designed Goreometer™ shows 23 inches of mercury, an all time record low. Please Al, come home and save us from ourselves.
Mr Clive Palmer was a servant of Queensland Joh who “daily fed the chooks”, that is, the media. This is a PR stunt. Abbott gets his “Carbon Tax” abolished/ Clive gets the rid of his “denier” label, therefore would make him get stacks of votes when the DD comes.
Hehe
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/how_did_palmer_fool_so_many_journalists_while_saving_himself_a_motza/
Google – Palmer’s big hoax creates a climate of uncertainty – to read the paywalled “The Australian” article.
Tanya better mention that those volcanic islands are not on the mainland, they are in Australian antarctic territory. I don’t know if there are any pics of Herd island?
“bushbunny says:
June 27, 2014 at 9:34 pm”
You may have already seen this;
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/three-new-volcanoes-found-in-victorias-southwest-20140626-zsmr7.html
Brilliant Palmer has completely fooled all of them and basiocally destroyed the whole AGW in Australia foreever we hope. What a laugh! It the biggest S#### that Gore ever got.
“Eliza says:
June 28, 2014 at 5:32 am”
I disagree simply BECAUSE of his position. He “wants” and ETS…because he will make more money. This man, no disrespect in terms of “making money out of dirt “he” dug out of the land”, he can can make more on keeping it there! Aussie Al Gore anyone?
Time will tell.I reckon he’s misled all of them (the warmists) hahahaha
Patrick I knew about these, even in Aboriginal dream time stories there is a reflection on an eruption in SW Australia. They are considered hot spots nowadays. But one last eruption was 5,000 years ago, so it is not considered extinct as yet. Let’s hope it don’t blow again.