By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The Gore Effect has struck again. Al Baby recently visited Canberra accompanied by his usual blizzard to try to convince the tiny band of eccentrics that held the balance of power in the Senate to vote to keep the “carbon” tax that has been pointlessly crippling the Australian economy.
He failed. The Senate upheld the vote in the House to bring the doomed CO2 tax to a timely end. The Australian Labor Party, which had unwisely introduced the hated tax for the sake of clinging on to office for a few more months with the support of the now-decimated Greens, is belatedly trying to whip up support from a skeptical nation for a repeal of the repeal.
Bob Carter, whose measured, eloquent and authoritative lectures all over Australia putting the minuscule global warming of the 20th century into the calming perspective of geological time helped to see off the tax, sends me the following image that the ALP are desperately circulating to their fanatical but dismayed supporters.
The propaganda graphic was accompanied by the usual mawkishly syrupy message from the Labor loonies to useful idiots everywhere:
“Just hours ago, Tony Abbott made Australia the only country in the world to reverse action on climate change.
“Not satisfied with hurting Australians through his cruel Budget, he’s now hurting future generations.
“Labor fought hard to put a price on carbon, and Labor fought hard to move to an emissions trading scheme. Through our climate action policies, investments in renewable energy topped $18 billion and 24,000 jobs in the sector were created. Houses with rooftop solar increased to 2.1 million, and wind-generated energy tripled.
“The Abbott Government and the crossbench in the Senate have taken a wrecking ball to Labor’s action on climate change.
“Let’s show Tony Abbott that we won’t stand for this. We will not give up the fight to securing a clean energy future for our children.”
The Prime Minister’s supporters have not been slow to respond. In no time, they were circulating the following take on the message.
Meanwhile, the tourist postcard industry has not been slow to sense the opportunity for combining celebration of the demise of the tax with some hearty Australian humor. Enjoy!
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Please send the repeal formula to British Columbia.
Proud Aussie right here. <—-
I love the auzzie humour.
There are a lot of folks celebrating over at Joanne Nova’s. But of course a couple of wet blankets, unaffected by the tax, are whining about its demise. Notably the butcher of Wiki.
HEY you looney twits!
CANADA BAILED ON KYOTO. So WE get bragging rights, NOT YOU.
Nice to see a lordly pat on the back to Bob Carter. He’s put in a lot of time and taken a lot of abuse over the last few years.
“Just hours ago, Tony Abbott made Australia the only country in the world to reverse action on climate change.”
That’s funny, I seem to remember a few other countries who have recently ‘reversed action on climate change’, usually by ending government support for renewables, closing nuclear power plants in favor of coal ones, abandoning Emission cap plans, and that kind of thing.
Maybe I just imagined it?
I’ve been feeling we’re winning now for a while.
Now I KNOW we’re starting to prevail. 🙂
The first major nation repeals the Carbon ? idiocy. 🙂
Good on Ya Cobbers !!
My cup runneth over, my cold tube definitely doth not 🙂
Thanks for that, Lord Monckton, and Bob Carter, Joanne Nova, and Australian skeptics deserve much of the credit.
Hilariously, I find this:
Best to all,
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@Willis Eschenbach – I will put that one down as myth. Rainbows require a steep sun angle, and they repealed it around 11am local time. Makes for a good story though.
Congratulations to Jo Nova and her supporters
The enemies of mankind lose again. How much more punishment can they take? Let them cry their crocodile tears.
I haven’t stopped grinning since the news came in. I look forward to reading the comments over at Jo Nova’s. I like to wait until the comments have fattened up over there (they are tiered), so I don’t miss any. I quite enjoy the bun-fights.
By the way, it’s snowing here in New South Wales.
Thank you for this article, Lord Monckton, it’s great to see Aussie humour so quickly out there, and great to see you show it to the world. Cheers, mate! 😀
I’m not (yet) fully convinced that the government in the lower house (House of Representatives) will accept the upper house (Senate) amendments. They might yet reject them and keep it as a double-dissolution election trigger. I’ll believe the Carbon Tax is gone when they pry it from the cold, dead hand of the Greens and Labor and my electricity bill falls.
Accountability and responsibility….. who takes that for such lunacy to implement a carbon tax. Price hike on everything without achieving a thing to reduce the CO2 ‘problem.’ You should hear the carry on of the greens and the left in our land of no carbon tax. They don’t live in the same place as I do, they can’t!
Now that folks in the Land of Oz have awoken,
will the rest of the world listen?
Regardless, to rational Aussies, “good on ya”.
Wonder if you could send some of your rational thinking to the powers that be here in Obamaland.
There were several comments by knowledgeable non-skeptical people on ClimateEtc recently Taken together they illustrate a carbon tax problem (and other “climate science” problems) beautifully . I’ll paraphrase what they wrote; text in parentheses is what they omitted.
(We got a Nobel prize, partly for a popular graph that turns out not to be very kosher.) The skeptics are trying to keep the Hockey Stick alive. (Let bygones be bygones).
That is a dream of a successful bank robber. No apology, no admission of guilt. No wonder that people don’t trust them. This dream is difficult to share.
If only we had spent the billions on roads, hospitals and proper stuff. What a waste! (of my money). Good on you Tony. Keep up the decent work and thanks to all the campaigners for their dedication, honest discussion and perseverance, and Anthony for this wonderful site..
Has anyone contacted Chris Turney for comment?
On an entirely different matter. You should get your thyroid attended to before it causes you physical problems.
But in any case, keep up the good fight. We need science in this field, not religion and superstition that have combined into an escathological cargo cult of the CAGW.
Congratulations Australia and a sincere thank you for your courage and leadership.
Has Al Baby called for a recount of just Dade County? 😎
Now we have to make sure that an ETS isn’t bought in via the back door.
This would be the obvious aim of Al Gore and his meeting with Palmer.
There is money to be scalped from the Australian public, and you can bet Gore and Palmer want some of it. !
Labor didn’t fight hard to put a price on CO/2 (carbon).
The labor government under Gillard deceitfully introduced it after explicitly denying they would on national television just days before the election.
That they had “purchased” both houses of our parliament with financial promises to key independants and its coalition partners, the greens.
Gauranted there would be no “fight”.
I really do hope this is a lesson to America and the rest of the world that the people will hit back at governments lies and deceit to the majority.
In America you really do have serious problems with Obama’s “scorched earth” policys in relation to global warming.
Like Gillard and her “purchased” government, he is introducing his policys against the will of the majority by way of his executive powers.
He will condem so many to abject poverty just by way of increased utility prices.
For what.
Look closely America at what your “leader” is doing.
WE DID!
If Al Gore tried to directly interfere in Indian politics would he be arrested and immediately deported?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/19/crackdown-india-curbs-greenpeace-funding/
Very fine day when parliament finally stopped defying the voters of Australia.Election after election they have voted against the tax only to be stymied by the Greens tail wagging Labor’s dog. Labor is controlled by unions and they see global warming as a means to fill their pockets with renewable energy contracts.
The Greens openly admitted they wanted a One World Government, where their “wisdom” would be dropped like gentle rain on the rest of us new cave dwellers.