For an example of modern government propaganda, wait til you see this: Your Carbon Price (No really, go spend 30 seconds there to try to guess what this production would have cost.)
I’ve never seen a website so slickly designed, so smooth to the point of oozing graphic designer dollars with every rollover. As I watched it, I was seeing our national productivity being buried under Gucci-layers-of-gloss-red-tape. It kept asking me private questions “your name” etc as if the spelling of “Jane”, “Joe” or “John” makes any difference to my carbon footprint (my name is Noneof Yourbusiness). Bring out the sick-bag as Dellers would say.
If regulators tie up the people in enough paper chains they eventually become as strong as steel bindings. “YourCarbonPrice” takes our money to tell us we might “earn” $2 – $5 dollars a week to help the country clean up polluters while we take cold showers, sell the second fridge, and smile with delight at being a “good citizen”. What more could we ask for? A George Orwell fridge magnet?
And watch the sycophantic supporters rush to slap their logo on the propaganda tool. 
If I had a Choice mag subscription, I would write to protest today. They support this schmuck with a logo that says “Choice — the people’s watchdog”. Wait for it, now Choice have become expert Climate Analysts. They’ve road-tested exactly one theory offered by the monopolistic sellers, ignored the test results, the competitors, they’ve downplayed the costs, uprated the benefits, and they think this “serves” the public? Their brand name moniker should should read “Choice — the government’s lap-dog”.
Poor Choice mag editors. They still think that government science is uncorrupted.
Watch the propaganda turn the cost of $3000 per worker into 2 cents on a milk bottle
This only hits those nasty polluders …
…and even if they do pass on some of their costs, it is only cents!
Yet, for just cents, it will get rid of a whopping 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide!
(And how many degrees is that? Would that be zero °C, or no(!) lets be accurate 0.0°C?)
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Thanks to the power of Green-fairyland economics, look how much money this will generate!
You pay cents, and they get to spend $30 billion dollars. (Why don’t we double the carbon tax? Triple it? I’ve seen adverts for do-it-yourself get rich schemes which weren’t this ambitious.)
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Right here on the screen is $30b in expenditure, from 10 million workers, which is a cost of about $3000 per worker over some undisclosed time period. But remember it’s only 2 cents extra for that litre of milk.
Let’s do the cost-benefit analysis Choice don’t do:
Cost |
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Benefits |
| $3000 per worker | Global temperatures lowered by 0.0°C, sea levels changed by: 0 mm, animals saved from extinction: noneBut Julia gets to stay in power 😐 | |
So it cost Australian workers $3,000 a head for Julia to buy off the Greens? What would you rather have spent $3,000 on?
Ladies and Gentlemen, this government is not a group of Australians who are giving us the full story, it’s a group of con artists wasting our money, then stealing some more so they can help you feel good about being ripped off. Choice Mag should be running a mile. Actually, self respecting Labor members should be running a mile too. They are screwing the workers and scorning the voters.
PS: Alexa ranks their site as somewhere north of 7 millionth most popular, and it has all of 37 links in (38 now). Still that may have been good value for money as long as the site cost no more than, say, $30…
The Banana described it all Banana Republic a bit like NZ.
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Bananas don’t grow in NZ.
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New Zealand isn’t a republic.
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Bananas grow in Australia.
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Australia is a republic.
You can connect the dots …
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sophocles, actually Australia is not a republic in the same way that NZ is not.
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No we are a diktatorship
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I like the bit about $15 billion to help households with the rising prices. That’s interesting. Whence comes the $15 billion? From the $50 billion in taxes passed along as price increases, of course.
It’s a stinking and cynical grab for the cash of Australians riding on the back of scaremongering. Typical leftist government program: costs heaps, does nothing to further its stated goals, but enriches politicians and their cronies.
The truly astonishing thing is that there are some people to whom this makes sense.
The truly disheartening thing is that those same people vote.
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Gee hope not to many are like me or should I say like the person I created I get to pay $15/wk and get no compensation.Then again we were a dual income of 240,000 with two kids.
The thing I never see is the GST take. Now correct me if I am wrong but if the CO2 tax adds $300 to my power bill I will have to pay an extra $30 GST.So the CO2 tax has cost me $330.So for every $10 of CO2 tax I get taxed $1 GST.
Or to put it in their quaint way for every 2c I get 0.2c GST.
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So if $30 billion is passed on by the 500 ‘biggest polluters’, then that’s and extra $3 billion in GST revenue for the government. Or twice the 2012/13 budgets surplus forecast!
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Not only that, if you live in WA most of that GST goes to other states and territories. NT should get as much GST as WA next year in the carve up despite having about one tenth the population … how is that fair you may ask?
Then one thinks a bit longer on the issue and realises the NT is not a state, but as the name implies, a territory. Thus by redistributing the GST from states like WA to the NT, it eases the burden off the Fed Government which would otherwise have to support the NT in balancing its books. And by doing this children, uncle Swannie gets to achieve his precious surplus by milking the golden goose called WA.
That’s all for tonight kids, off to bed with you, and switch off the nightlight or the evil CO2 monster will get you in your sleep.
* Not sure why, but the tone of that post changed slightly as I was typing it… perhaps it has something to do with how sickeningly patronising the current Fed Government is?
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Upon further review it may well be that the Territory-Commonwealth fiscal relations don’t work as I have suggested, but I am completely at a loss to suggest why the current Commonwealth (Fed) Government is clinging to a system so obviously broken and putting WA at a major fiscal disadvantage. Your guess is as good as mine … perhaps it is mere political pragmatism in that the Labor-voting states and terirtories are the major net recipients of GST funds and the Lib states are the main donors /shrug. But any way you look at it, the system is SNAFU.
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Jo, what you didn’t get, it must be written proPAGANda cult.
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I thought it was illegal now in Australia to ascribe price-tag increases to the carbon tax?
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I hacked into the site and found Wayne Swan’s analysis result http://i.imgur.com/8brLL.jpg
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Ha ha ha ha! That was worth clicking on.
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YourCarbonSkim is registered to Craig Brady of http://www.prodigy.com.au/ and running their website reseller hosting through the vehicle http://www.virtuoso.net.au/ which, is odd, because his current LinkedIn status is:
No wonder they can’t help but ask questions. This is a data mining operation to figure out what demographics are interested in the carbon scam so that a political message can be tailored for them. Looks like Pillard is swapping favours with some of her old QLD public service mates. Welcome to the good ol’ boys club where the line between public servant and political party hack doesn’t exist.
I’m shocked. /sarc
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If you are concerned about data mining, I suggest you enter 2600 for the post code. That is the code for this building.
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Unlike the Europeans at least you call it a tax because no matter how you turn it that is what it is.
So they take the equivalent of 70 million cars off the road by whatever the year was, 2025 I think, how will you guys get around, there aren’t even that many cars in Australia.
Look , the good thing is that the government is not trying to make money on this, it is a re-distribution.
The big polluters pay to the government and they give it back to the people.
That is for the time being, subsidies of this nature are usually short lived. ( the tax will be like diamonds: forever)
I once listened to an environment minister who was introducing a similar type of thing saying: we are not making money on this it actually costs us.
What he was really saying was that the shortfall he alluded to will also need to be paid by you the taxpayer so we get you twice.
As Jo stated it won’t do anything to the temperature. But you should get a cleaner air for it with a bit of luck.
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Jake, if only it was that harmless – a simple redistribution of money, but it’s not. What about the companies which find the easiest way to reduce carbon emissions, and therefore the tax, is to simply shift production off shore to a country which doesn’t have a carbon tax? Maybe they’ll even pick up some carbon credits for closing their production in Australia which they can sell to a hapless Australian company and use those funds to set up the business overseas? So Australia looses jobs, it loses all tax revenue from that company’s production, and it increases our costs of imports and our welfare bill. Sure it’s a redistribution of money – from Australia to overseas!
But the problems don’t stop there, the government plans to increase the carbon tax from the initial $23 per tonne to $131 – $275 per tonne based on treasury modelling required to achieve the emissions reduction goals by 2050. The bulk of the Government’s redistribution by way of lump sums to pensioners and families through the welfare and tax systems are designed to only cover the starting price of the carbon tax, not where it will end up!
I know your comment was somewhat tongue in cheek, but this tax has a huge potential to damage our economy. We can’t afford to be laid back about it. And you can’t argue with Jo’s figures – the tax take equates to approximately $3,000 per worker – at the starting price!
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I am only half Australian, the other half is very proud not to be associated with this type of government propaganda.
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I note with amusement that their cartoon drawing of the clean green energy generator field shows no motion blur on the windmill blades and a solar panel that isn’t casting a shadow.
Now that’s green productivity you can take to the bank! (To use your country’s overdraft facility.)
I’m surprised Choice even bothered to review the “real product”. Couldn’t they just use the Treasury Modelling? 🙂 Oh wait, the carbon tax has not gone into effect which means… this *is* the treasury modelling. Next up, Choice reviews a computer model of a dog breed, a model of a stove, and a model of an air-conditioner… no just kidding, there’s no air-conditioning where you’re going, fellow aussies.
What trigger is it going to take to condense popular dissent beyond the critical mass point and into a democratic restoration? Why do people just not care about this enough to stop it?
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PS:Just added a thought to the post — Alexa ranks their site as somewhere north of 7 millionth most popular, and it has all of 37 links in (38 now). Still that may have been good value for money as long as the site cost no more than, say, $30…
Just an extra thought… given that the subscriber group of Choice mag is probably older independent and discerning thinkers (? Is it?), slapping their logo onto see-through government propaganda doesn’t strike me as the way to attract new customers.
Or am I wrong, and new Choice subscribers are inner city white university educated greenies, in which case, the logo placement makes some economic (if not rational) sense.
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Who says Choice didn’t get a Government grant to do their ‘analysis’ and add their logo?
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Jake, nice line there.
But if they take 70 million cars off the road, it won’t be Australian cars. It will be ones in China or India …
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Joanne,
This statement may be true in terms of Carbon Dioxide (but probably isnt) but it is a gross exaggeration in terms of the pollution people associate with cars (pollution in the form of Nox and unburnt hydrocarbons which stinks and has serious adverse health affects. Carbon Dioxide is perfectly harmless!
So really in terms of “pollution” the carbon tax is the equivalent of taking ZERO cars off the road!
It is no accident that they used “cars off the road” rather than “beers off the shelf” as a measure of the environmental impact.
Like everything about their new website and the entire carbon tax campaign – it is all misrepresentations and propaganda.
The whole experience felt like a ride – because it is. This government is taking us all for a ride!
Highly suggest reading George Orwell’s 1984. His prophecy was spot on just a bit early.
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“it’s a group of con artists wasting our money, then stealing some more so they can help you feel good about being ripped off.”
You’re not alone, Christopher Monckton did an analysis of the California Cap and Trade program, Why mitigating CO2 emissions is cost-ineffective
Its just disheartening — who elected fools who can’t find a better purpose for $41 billion a year?
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OT I’m afraid, but there’s a health and eco disaster issue here, that alarmingly few people know about.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/theres-a-killer-in-your-house-2/
Pointman
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That is frightening. The one thing I know for sure and certain is that I now have all three lights on in my study when I am working where the single wall light behind my desk used to suffice when I had the incandescent light bulbs. Any idea if using three lights cancels out the supposed savings?
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Jaymez,
This is for all people on here that need good light, go to a good hardware store and ask for fusible globes, in England they are called robust globes. These globes are not fragile in their operation and can be moved around for lead lights etc for working on cars and other uses.
Halogen lights do not like being bumped or moved when lit, much the same for the ghostly whites and if they do go bang in a confined space are toxic. Thus the rebranded fusible globes are your good old incandesants, happy lighting.
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I’m still waiting to learn who the 500 biggest polluters are? Does the Government know yet? I don’t think so.
So how can you work out how much carbon tax will be paid?
Just like the mining tax the Government really have no idea and are just crossing their fingers. If it doesn’t work out Wayne Swan will just blame a rapid decline in Government Revenues for the ever growing deficit – just like he has since 2007.
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http://barnabyisright.com/2011/07/25/the-500-biggest-polluters-exposed-everything-the-government-is-not-telling-you/
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From 15.1 Barnaby –
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Reading that link makes it look like the carbon tax will self destruct in a matter of minutes.
They have risen far beyond their level of incompetence!
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“I’m still waiting to learn who the 500 biggest polluters are? Does the Government know yet?”
Do the shareholders know yet?
I wonder about what the shareholders will do when they find out, knowing that this is just the starting tax-price, and not knowing how the compensation will work, how much it will be and how long it will last.
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I have not seen commenters pick up on the shifty attempt at finding out just who the truly gullible are for further exploitation. I would think that if they have your name and post code they have a very good idea of exactly who you are.
Let’s see, Joanne Nova 6150 and, voila, letter in the mail and, “Can we interest you in a bridge? We’ve got a nice one for sale.” Or screeds of Green propaganda in the mail.
Whatever, it is a bit scary, and reminds me of creepy people like the Stasi.
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FijiDave the thing is not to identify yourself.For instance Name Fred Post code Parliament house Canberra then unless they can identify you from your IP address.
Or if you wanted to have a laugh put yourself down as Santa Claus.
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rukidding? No, I put my name down as “HaveSexAndTravel”, and as I live in NZ now, I looked up the Whitepages and put in a Brisbane post code.
As for the IP address, well knowing I know that I know nothing much about that, then that is a probability. 🙁
Cheers
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I put my name down as “GetF#%^*ed”.
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Here are a few. Note that it is far more than electricity that will be costing more.
You will also see the “doubling up” effect. Not only does the Government charge the the electricity companies for emitting CO2, they charge the food producers for using the electricity, then the supermarkets for using electricity.
ALDI Stores (A Limited Partnership)
Alinta Energy Limited
Arnotts Biscuits Holdings Pty Ltd
Arrow Energy Ltd
Baiada Pty Limited
Bega Cheese Limited
Big Ben Holdings Pty. Limited
Cadbury Australia Limited
Coca-Cola Amatil Limited
CSIRO
Competitive Foods Australia Pty Ltd
David Jones Limited
Fairfax Media Limited
Food Investments P/L
Foster’s Group Limited
Goodman Fielder Limited
Graincorp Limited
Harvey Norman Holdings Limited
Healthscope Limited
Heinz Watties Pty Ltd
Hunter Water Corporation
Inghams Enterprises Pty Limited
Kimberly Clark Pacific Holdings Pty Ltd
Linfox Pty Ltd
Lion Nathan National Foods Pty Ltd
Mars Australia Pty Ltd
McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd
Metro Trains Melbourne Pty Ltd
Metropolitan Health Service
Monash University
Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited
Myer Holdings Limited
National Australia Bank Limited
Nestle Australia Ltd
New Zealand Milk (Australasia) Pty Ltd
Public Transport Authority of Western Australia
Queensland Electricity Transmission Corporation Limited
Ramsay Health Care Limited
South Australian Water Corporation
St Vincent’s Health Australia Ltd
State Transit Authority of NSW
SunWater
Sydney Water Corporation
Tabcorp Holdings Limited
Telstra Corporation Limited
The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q)
The University of Queensland
University of Melbourne
Westfield Holdings Limited
Westpac Banking Corporation
Woolworths Ltd
Try searching for NGER-greenhouse-energy-information-2009-10
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You forget to list wine and beer producers. Fermentation releases CO2.
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http://www.2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=90090
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http://www2.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=90090
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http://barnabyisright.com/
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Wouldn’t it make more sense if Australian alternative energy projects are paid off first?
In other words, like the US and Europe, Australia has paid some rediculous amount of money in subsidies for alternative energy projects. In your case to construct wind farms that partially power your desalination plants. Shouldn’t the Australian Carbon Credits go to Australian projects first so Carbon Tax can simply pass the cost on to industry thus eliminating any future burden on Australian taxpayers.
Government no longer needs to subsidize alternative energy projects. Probably the only silver lining to the entire carbon tax mess.
No one in Australia gives a hoot about the EU’s or the USA’s carbon efforts. Like the currency markets, carbon markets should be restricted to regions and international boundaries.
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I guess what I’m trying to say, Australia doesn’t need anyone else’s permission to print their own currency. Why do they need to buy permits from anyone? The permits are simply the vehicle which should be managed by each country.
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Of course all those 100s billions $ wasted on permits over decades and incalculable lost jobs and industries won’t change the climate or temp or weather or SLs by a jot.
This is the simplest of simple kindy maths yet these numbskull drongos can’t work it out.
http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=90&pid=44&aid=8&cid=CG6,CG5,&syid=1990&eyid=2009&unit=MMTCD
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You’ve out spaced yourself with these paste posts Kevin. Well done.
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Out-spaced or outer-spaced?
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The Choice Carbon Tax Website is as infantile as their grasp of the dcience, the reality and the motivation of this whole huge scam. This sort of money transfer is what really interests Rothschilds, the Investment Houses and Banks of Australia. They and the government are set to rake in billions all paid for by the workers for no benefit at all. CO2 is just feeding the plants and increasing agricultural output. Already temperatures are dropping, seas are falling, polar bears are thriving, ice area is increasing, storms are subsiding and people are prospering not perishing. Future generations will look back and guffaw at the stupidity.
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See novholas the CO2 tax is already working and we havn’t paid a cent yet just imagine how successful it is going to be when we do start paying. /sarc 🙂
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Some wonderfully evocative images there : “The George Orwell fridge Magnet” for example.
I can remember when a “carbon” was the duplicate copy produced by your typewriter when you used a sheet of “carbon paper”.
You could hold, touch and feel the “carbon paper” in a way that contrasts sharply with today’s “carbon pollution or carbon credits” which exist only in the online blogosphere or in ABC “science” programs or in the urgent sound bites of an ABC newsreader or various bits of Government Legislation.
Yes, we have been told about, informed, and briefed on this fantasy menace of carbon pollution but I really want to touch it, feel it and measure it, in the way of true science.
🙂
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The message I got from that slick piece of propaganda was really simple:
Don’t let your household become a middle to high income earning household because you will become one of the 500 derdy rotten polluters and you’re gonna get thumped (as if paying more in income tax wasn’t allready enough).
Of course, we are all aware that the really wealthy in this country normally have very low personal income. So this pricing scheme is clearly targeting the middle class of australia yet again.
Already I have started taking action to reduce our income – it’s not worth earning a middle class income unless you’re going to collect a cate blanchet type salary.
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ABC 24 hour News Radio is reporting this morning on Minister Combet being in China to check out the Emissions Trading Scheme they intend to introduce, along with Singapore and Korea and so importantly (the ABC’s description)for the Gillard government our biggest trading partner is joining with us in this. BTW, they carried a cut from an interview with Combet saying Australia has an ETS. I didn’t think we did? Can anyone here please enlighten?
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It didn’t need a name at all, simply klick past that one. But it did require a post code to continue.
For an information brochure, it asks a lot of personel questions. I couldn’t get past the post code part, so I got no information for their efforts.
As Waffle above says, its more of a demographics exersize.
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Greg as I said above all you need is a name lets say Fred and the post code of parliament house.
Have a bit of fun with it put in Mickey Mouse or the tooth fairy or the easter bunny.
The last thing you want to do is put in your real name and post code.
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By altering the income amount the “how much will it cost me” figure changes. When did this become an income tax ?
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Keith,
I have been saying this for months now. This has nothing to do with the environment. This is a command economy implementation which will give the faceless bureaucrats the perfect tax – a tax where they can target a specific industry or even business without people being able to have any hope of being able to accurately figure out how it will affect them until it has been implemented.
This government has rammed through a communist income distribution mechanism and hardly anyone can see it for what it is. It seems that hardly anyone has noticed the real implication of this tax.
If this was really about targeting the “derdy polluders”, there is no way that any part of the carbon tax would be income tested.
All the talk from this government about this being a “pollution reduction scheme” is just verbal Dhiarrea in my opinion.
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Keith it is not an income tax in the sense that it is not a tax on your income it is just using your income to determine what compensation you will get if any.
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Rukidding,
In otherwords, it’s not an income tax, it is a Wealth redistribution mechanism.
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Slicker than any crap advertising I have seen in a long while. Shirley this must have cost a bomb.
Unable to suspend disbelief after the enormous 375% (?) rise in banana price balloon. Bought some this week for $2.86/kg or thereabouts.
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It is worse than you thought Jo
The £30bn costs (4 years) do not match up with the CO2 savings (up to 1.1 billion over eight years). So instead of the minimum implied cost per tonne of CO2 saved being $27.27, it is $54.54.
What if firms cannot pass on all the costs? The supermarkets and the oil refineries will be able to, as will the power stations, but what about manufacturing that competes with foreign companies unhampered by this carbon price? These companies will absorb some of the cost, reducing their profits. Alright in the short term, but what about in the longer term impact on growth?
Let us assume that carbon policies knocks economic growth. This can get a bit complicated. Assume constant 2011 A$, 3% growth and GDP in 2011 of A$1100bn. If carbon policies knock 0.1% of growth, the cost is A$45bn over 8 years. A 0.5% reduction in economic growth would be A$225bn over the same period. Assuming that the CO2 reduction target is met, the opportunity costs of growth forgone are in the region of A$40 to A$200 per tonne.
Is this an exaggeration? Not if one accepts the UNIPCC / Greenpeace economic models. A report published last year projected that the wrong set of policies could cause the global growth per capita to -0.5% per year through to 2030, as against the baseline scenario. This is no slip of the pen. Lower economic growth means (for the poorest) less reductions in mortality rates. So by 2050 the wrong policies are forecast to result in 330 million less people by 2050. My analysis is here.
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It’s worse than you think Manic, that $30b number came from adding up the supposed beneficial money the government would give back. They actually have to take more than that from the public to cover all the admin, accounting, fraudulent cabcharges and other expenditure that they can’t brag about.
But I like your analysis of cost of CO2 idea. Good point.
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Manicbeancounter,
Question: What is 330 million less people by 2050?
UNIPCC Answer: A good start.
Correct Answer: A massive disaster on a scale that has never been experienced before.
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it’s a good day. Lovelock admitting it’s all over on MSNBC, and now this (only Business Spectator’s headline sticks to the raw facts, all other MSM i’ve seen are desperately attempting to SPIN:
24 April: China delays plans for carbon trading scheme
Further details on China’s plans for a carbon trading scheme undermine Labor’s contention that Australia’s carbon pricing plan was necessary because other countries, like China, are also taking tough action on climate change, according to a report by The Australian Financial Review.
The details suggest that China’s plan, which has been delayed, won’t see energy companies directly taxed under its carbon trading scheme.
Plans to launch a national emissions trading scheme in 2015 have instead been delayed until at least 2016, according to the project’s top official….
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-delays-plans-for-carbon-trading-scheme-pd20120423-TMQ7B?OpenDocument&src=hp6
let’s call the whole thing off.
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“This only hits those nasty polluters.” But what about the hidden tax – the 20% renewable energy target by 2020 that is forcing electricity companies to buy more and more high priced wind and solar power? This policy is pushing up electricity prices for everyone, and making Australia less and less competitive.
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Has anyone seen this?
http://www.unemg.org/MeetingsDocuments/IssueManagementGroups/GreenEconomy/GreenEconomyreport/tabid/79175/Default.aspx
Really scary stuff.! What’s the bet that Gillard surrenders Australian sovereignty and $billions more are sucked out of our economy?
Sink the slipper and let’s have an election now.
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Nice find, Patrick. When I start reading anything from the UN my eyes start to glaze over. I think they are counting on that to keep their nefarious plans “hidden in plain view”.
I started reading Part IV at Ch 9.6:
Yeah, no 5h!t, it’s called solving a problem that doesn’t exist.
Wouldn’t that mean a commie government acting in collusion with the big private investment banks to take your money and gain more power? But surely that’s just crazy conspiracy theory talk! They would never plan to…do…what… they just said in this document they recommend doing….hmmmm.
Ch 11.2:
See, those free market types are just misguided! The poor fools! They set their prices wrongly, so we just have correct them. We’re fixing their mistakes by controlling what, where, and when people buy, aren’t we helpful! Prices are the synapses of the market, so to convert a free market into a command economy we just need to tweak those prices until they are right….for the greater good.
How many lies, half-truths, spooky co-incidences, lethal ideologies, and hypocrisies can you find in that paragraph?
Getting very GRRR now….
NO! STOP!
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That web production makes me puke.
Similarly, I choke with anger every time my power bill turns up as the energy retailer keeps asserting that I have produced so much carbon emissions for the quarter. I tried, once, telling the ‘retailer’ that although I may use electricity to run my fridge, and other appliances, my actions do not produce any carbon (dioxide) emissions whatsoever. Rather, the retailer, should be checking on its supplier of my electricity to determine the real source of any alleged emissions. Needless to say the retailer never responded, probably because the minion reading my letter had no idea what I was on about, let alone know what to say in reply.
We, that is, those of us who still question the sense of imbecilic things, should all live in fear that we’ll end up like poor old Winston Smith, or ultimately, the lobotomized Randell Murphy, because we have failed to conform to the ‘controllers’ point of view.
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Apologies to all. New to this. Not sure how to go about moderating my post as requested so I’m trying again. ABC 24 hour News Radio is reporting this morning on Minister Combet being in China to check out the Emissions Trading Scheme they intend to introduce, along with Singapore and Korea and so importantly (the ABC’s description)for the Gillard government our biggest trading partner is joining with us in this. BTW, they carried a cut from an interview with Combet saying Australia has an ETS. I didn’t think we did? Can anyone here please enlighten?
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Carol we have passed the co2 legislation through both houses of parliament and it will be introduced on i-7-12.
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There are an awful lot of words that website will not accept as names.
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Judas seems to work
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I got Michael Moose through the filter
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That’s great! It will cost me $9 per week and I will receive $25 pw…..Gee, I’m convinced. SHOW ME THE MONEY, Great Green Gillard Government (GGGG)
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I just went through the process on the web site and the result was
How much will it cost me 0.00
How much will i get 0.00
How much can i save 0.00
Obviously it is too hard to calculate such is the complexity of a single income couple with children, we are doomed arent we.
The disclaimer is a hoot of course and it also provides another link to get a “more accurate” estimate of what it will cost me so i went there.
https://www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/helping-households/household-assistance-estimator/
And guess what this is the response
So does this mean i get nothing or are the government too stupid to figure it out.
If you combine the above with the reprisal of the role “King Kong” in their cartoon i am not feeling very comfortable with this situation. I hope Windsor and Oakshot put their country above personal gain and end this madness.
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Gee crakar I think you missed a sarc tag there.
Winsor and Oakshot would vote for Australia to be nuked if it ment they held their seats for another minute.
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I entered 3 children and a spouse with 150k income and got a cost of $600 a year obviously a tax on those who are successful in life.
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OK i give up, just for the record i have 3 kids all under 18, my wife does not work and i earn more than 80K however no matter what scenario i plug into the estimator i get the same result
I tried dual income below 80K and teh same result, i tried culling a kid and the same result.
Ok if i had no kids and earnt over 80K i get a result
If i am married with no kids and earnt over 80K single income i get a result
If married, one kid under 18 i get a result
If married, two kids under 18 ……………..
COULD THIS GOVERNMENT BE ANYMORE INEPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Crakar,
” i tried culling a kid”
Wow – the watermelons agenda in action already maybe?
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Mad Jack,
I meant that metaphorically although i should mention some think tank in Europe came up with the idea of retrospective abortions up to the age of 3. Yes i know that makes everyones skin crawl but some sad F(*(&^%^rs out there actually think this to be a good idea.
If we cant save the planet for ourselves then what is the point in saving it?
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What a sad little existance you must live in Jo. When, instead of re-examining your own beliefs and seeing whether it might actually be YOU who is in error, you go blandly labeling innocuous third parties as “buying the line” or “not seeing the conspiracy”. I can clearly see that your science degree was not of much benefit in educating you in a scientific mode of thought.
Just a question: what happens, in ten-fifteen years time, when climate changes continue to gather pace and force changes beyond our control and even YOU finally realize the error of your ways – what then? Will you apologize to all those you’ve mislead, make good on all the intellectual shallowness you’ve introduced to the discourse? Will you attempt to restitute the damage you’ve done? Are you a big enough person to do that Jo? What would be your reaction? (even if you KNOW that won’t happen, humour me and pretend it did – do you ever allow for the possibility that you’re not in possession of the fulll picture?) M
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REPLY: Matt, 1. re-examining my views? Constantly. Since I was a alarmist for 17 years, then switched, I’ve proved I’m rather good at it. I was in error. I admit it. I thought CO2 was a problem. 2. I have not said anything about buying lines or conspiracies, perhaps you could do a reading comprehension course? 3. If the climate becomes warmer in 15 years, I shall happily re-examine my views again, and yes, if it appears the models work, and the pattern of warming fits, I may even decide it appears to be CO2, though of course, it could be ocean currents, solar irradiance, solar-magnetic effects, geothermal, or anything else, and I’ll consider all possibles without prejudice. 4. Will I apologize for working unpaid to bring people logic reason and the best evidence available today — Why would I? — If you have some evidence, why don’t you post it? Jo
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What a sad little existance you must live in Jo…
woah what an entrance!? What do we have here? Another alarmist in the pay of government coming onto Jo’s site to troll?
Cute!
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Carol Kav –
see the China story linked above to see how Combet is actually spinning what is very bad news for our ETS, especially as China will NOT be including energy companies. go to google australian news page and u won’t even see mention of the China story, but u will see this:
24 April: ABC: Anna Vidot: Hopes for carbon trades between Australia and Europe
The Federal Government says a carbon trading network between Europe and Australia could be up and running by the end of this year.
The Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, Mark Dreyfus, has just returned from Rome, where he’s had further meetings with EU leaders about the possibility of linking the two carbon trading systems.
He says that would give Australian farmers the opportunity to get the best value for carbon credits they generate under the Carbon Farming Initiative.
“The president of the European Union came to Australia last year for talks with the Prime Minister and our Climate Change Minister, and agreed that we would have officials talking from then on,” he said.
“That’s been happening, and I’d be hoping that we can bring that to some kind of conclusin later this year.”
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201204/s3487705.htm
reminder – btw have we been signed up to who-knows-what that Barroso mentions in this:
5 Sept 2011: SMH: AAP: Australia, Europe consider linking carbon schemes
Ms Gillard met European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Canberra today and discussed climate change and a raft of other issues.
She said Europe was a pioneer in reducing carbon emissions, having established an ETS six years ago.
“Both Australia and the EU recognise that carbon markets are the most cost-effective way of reducing greenhouse gases and creating clean energy jobs,” Ms Gillard told reporters…
Mr Barroso praised Ms Gillard’s plan to price carbon.
“Australia’s decision to put a price on carbon emissions in our view is an important step,” he said.
He said a price on carbon was the “most cost effective way” to attack climate change and was a “great green business opportunity.”
Mr Barroso also said the European Commission had sought a mandate from its 27 member states to negotiate a co-operation framework treaty with Australia.
He said the mandate could be signed next month…
On climate change, Mr Barroso said it was also important to enlarge the global carbon market initially launched in Europe.
He said many nations were now moving in this direction, providing a clearer indication of how best to deal with climate change.
“The more like-minded partners working in this direction the better,” Mr Barroso said…
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/australia-europe-consider-linking-carbon-schemes-20110905-1jtcv.html
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You’re stretchng your credibility a bit there, Jo, I am afraid. The models can predict temperature changes to 2 decimal places in a century, so we are reliably lead to believe, so, if you were to follow suit, you should be able to justify 0.00° C, at the very least.
Shame!
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i firmly believe the Dreyfus piece above was put out simply to counteract the China story, because what little was written about the Rome Meeting was in the MSM by the 18th April, the day after the meeting ended. no wonder hardly any MSM picked up on what happened there!
18 April: Europolitics: EU aviation emissions plan slammed at major economies’ talks
Brian Beary in Washington
Non-EU major economies continue to vent their anger at the EU over its plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector. Meeting in Rome, on 17 April, for a Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, “two or three countries” gave “uniformly negative” opinions of the EU plan, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern told Europolitics. The EU policy, under which all flights departing from, or landing at, EU airports are bound by the EU’s Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) from 1 January 2012, was slammed as an inappropriate unilateral step affecting trade, he said. There is “a potential for a negative spill-over effect” from this dispute on the ongoing United Nations talks on a new climate treaty, he added…
The EU was represented by Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, along with officials from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. The other participating states were Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the US, while Singapore, Qatar, Colombia and New Zealand also sent delegates. Stern said there was a “good initial discussion” on a future UN climate treaty for the post-2020 era, on which countries aim to reach agreement by 2015. But commenting on China’s stance, he noted “nothing it said today broke new ground” in terms of Beijing being willing to make binding cuts in emissions.
http://www.europolitics.info/external-policies/eu-aviation-emissions-plan-slammed-at-major-economies-talks-art331887-44.html
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ATTENTION MattB
Perhaps you may be able to help all our readers here in your capacity as a member of your local Council.
Now that the CO2 Tax is in place, I feel sure your Council would already have had many discussions on its impact with respect to your Council.
I fully understand that this is classified as ‘Council In Confidence'(CIC), but perhaps you might be able to ballpark it for us and give us the general idea, and that being CIC provides you with a ready made excuse to not divulge any details, but perhaps just a general idea might be of assistance.
Understandably, as the local Council, you must do garbage collection, and because of that you must also have a local Waste Disposal ‘Tip’ where that rubbish is deposited.
Knowing that all waste disposal tips are now subject to this CO2 Tax, might you ballpark, perhaps in the form of a percentage perhaps how much your council will be putting up Rates to cover these increased costs.
It’s a relatively easy thing to calculate how much your Council will have to pay, as it’s all there in the Legislation with respect to waste disposal tips, as this Tax also covers those calculated Methane emissions, so just work it out for your Tip, then multiply the $23 per ton by the equivalence Multiplier of 20, and that gives you $460 per tonne for all your Methane emissions.
After you’ve done that, perhaps you might mention if your Council will be increasing the cost at the gate for residents to dump their own (non household) garbage.
Perhaps from that, the readers here might be able to gauge how much extra they will be paying on their yearly Rates Bill, and how much extra a ‘run to the tip’ might cost. Oh, I suppose you’ll need to also add the GST impact on top of that.
Then as large consumers of electricity, you might also add in that component as well.
Oh, and if you use Natural Gas for anything, might you also add that in as well, and that’s at the same $460 per tonne also.
Then I suppose you could also add in all your transport costs, like mowing etc, oh and the GST added on for that too.
Oh, and, naah, look, that’s enough for now.
Wow, it soon all adds up, doesn’t it.
I just thought that you’d be the best person to ask about this.
Tony.
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Tony
You ask some good questions, I admire your analytical mind. I have been pondering the following in relation to my own council.
You see my council Newcastle NSW, has one of the most modern waste disposal facilities ( as opposed to a recycling centre ) in Australia. To manage Methane they installed an incinerator at the high point of the original cell and burnt off the trapped gas.
They have since installed two generators utilising the methane to produce electricity. They have a sign on the fence around the generators that states,
What puzzles me is will Newcastle be exempt from paying the tax on methane produced in the land fill, somehow I doubt it. Wht you may be able to help me with is the claimed 24 million litres saving in lost water factual. While I know some water is lost by evaporation from the cooling towers wouldn’t most of the steam used in the generation process be reclaimed and recycled.
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Tony we actually have our 1st budget 2012/13 meeting next week (it was meant to be tonight but has been pushed back a week). I’ll see if I can find out for you, although our waste is handled by a regional council of which we are a member. Sorry I missed this, I’ve not even read this thread. fluff piece about Choice? despite evidence to the contrary I do actually ahve beter things to do:)
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Here’s a piece put together by the Australian Landfill Owners Association:
http://www.aloa.com.au/lgct2.pdf
suggests $35 per annum per household.
And here is a piece from a different regional council in Perth’s western suburbs.
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Sorry: http://www.wmrc.wa.gov.au/library/file/Publications/9_14_6A%20Carbon%20Price%20Implications.pdf
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[Snip…. Matt the mods explained + the email address you use doesn’t inspire credibility. Plus you are complaining about a few hours delay in responding to a complaint for a service you paid nothing for? — Jo]
Do you have an answer? Maybe Choice Australia is just as sensible an organization as all the world’s chief scientific bodies (not to mention companies too, like Shell, BP etc) and it can digest scientific literature like an adult….
[PS: Ever heard of argument from authority? – Jo ]
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I do hope commenters on here are wrong about adding 10% GST to the Carbon Tax.
It’s supposed to be a “Goods and Services” Tax. What “goods” or “service” did I get in exchange for paying a Carbon Tax?
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Greg,
take out your most recent electricity bill.
On it, and they are relatively standard, no matter who the provider is, in the list of headings, you will see the GST component.
The per unit cost of electricity is calculated in cents per KWH (excl GST).
That unit cost of electricity will be rising because of the imposition of the tax on CO2.
Multiply the Current bill KWH by that unit cost and then by the number of days and you get a total, and on top of that then add the GST at 10% and you end up with the amount you pay.
If the unit cost rises, then the GST also rises.
Also, with respect to those of you who use Natural Gas in your homes, the same applies here as well.
The Legislation provides for the gas distributors, be it ‘Town Gas’ or bottled gas, to be charged this new tax, only because it is Natural Gas (NG), that multiplier is 20, hence $460 per Tonne. That increase will also be passed on to consumers, in the rise of the unit cost of the NG, and then add on the GST to that as well.
Tony.
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Here is how simple it is Greg the service you are paying GST on is for the provision of electricity to your place. The fact that the cost of that service has gone up because of the CO2 tax is irrelevant.
And you know what the good part is you get to pay the GST increase for all the other organizations you deal with as well.
So in effect the CO2 tax has also created a 1% rise in the GST but that is not talked about.
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Hi Tony,
Not sure where you got your information, if it is indeed me you were addressing. Anyway, I’m more than happy to pay more tax if it is used properly and for a common benefit to all. I do think you’re a little mis-informed though, given that for most people, rebates will see that the tax is neutralized for most people.
At any rate, that’s got nothing to do with weather global warming due to CO2 emissions is a real and present threat – I assume you accept that, if you’re scientifically literate?
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Matt,
There is another commenter on this blog who uses the name “MattB”. Like you he is also unable to construct any argument that provides any actual data or source material. Like you he can also only argue from authority and never answers the question that is actually asked. Like you he is unable to accept any verifiable information that goes against his pre-conceived dogmatic beliefs. Since there are so many similarities, it is understandable why there is a possible confusion here.
As for your unsubstantiated claim …
please see Tony’s comment at 47.1
Also for you other unsubstantiated claim …
Please try these excellent publications. They are written using very clear and simple language so you should have no problem in understanding the content.
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Farbeit from me to even begin to mention B1 and B2
Tony.
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I have been reading the Melanie Phillips book “The world turned upside down”.
It helps explain to me how this insanity comes about.
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remember the carbon tax goes up each year, yet i have heard nothing to suggest the compensation goes up. it’s time persons of goodwill in the Parliament – who do not want the destruction of the Australian economy – to do whatever it takes, including resigning, to force a general election:
still making it up as they go along:
23 April: Reuters: UPDATE 1-EU may mull use of global carbon permits from 2020
Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska, with additional reporting by Charlie Dunmore in Brussels; writing by Nina Chestney; Editing by Anthony Barker
*Poland wants to use Kyoto credits in EU carbon trade scheme
* EU could be open to discussion ‘at later stage’
* Commission rules out inclusion before 2020 (Adds quote from European Commission climate spokesman)
So-called Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) are allocated under the U.N.’s climate pact, the Kyoto Protocol. EU countries cannot currently use them to meet their own domestic climate targets.
The Polish proposal faces opposition from some western EU nations as it is feared that if AAUs are used in the EU scheme, it could drive EU carbon prices further down. They are currently trading near record lows.
“Global AAU supply is estimated at 10-15 gigatonnes while the size of ETS is 2 gigatonnes. That means if you bring that into the market, the price would immediately go to zero,” Artur Runge-Metzger, the EU’s chief climate negotiator, said at a conference in Warsaw…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/eu-aau-idUSL5E8FNB5K20120423
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pat makes a good point here.
Notice that in this first year, the Government artfully says that they are (magnanimously) giving away more in
bribescompensation than they are actually taking in. This is a very clever subterfuge that gives the impression that they are supposedly giving back more than they are taking. This comes about because they are not selling the full amount of credits per tonne to thosederdy polludersemitters, and are easing it in to lessen the impact, by giving away some of those credits. What this effectively achieves is that it confirms the ‘give away greater than the take’ meme, but only for year one.During year two and year three, that selling of credits will ramp up to the full amount for emissions, as will the cost for those emissions, but the compensation remains the same, so that by the start of year three, the introduction of the ETS, then the full amount will be charged for those full emissions, and here, consider this. The full cost at the start of the ETS for the emissions just from electrical power generation will come in at close to $8 Billion.
Even so, with that compensation, that will be eaten up by bracket creep, inflation etc, so withing a short time, any compensation will be eaten up, and the full take will able to be garnered by Government.
Also keep in mind, that compensation is for the residential sector only, which is only for 38% of all power being consumed, and that compensation is only for part of that Residential sector.
Tony.
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24 April: Climate Spectator: Reuters: Gerard Wynn: Lumbering toward carbon price limbo
The European Commission is in favour of higher carbon prices to drive emissions cuts, but at least one EU member state, Poland, disagrees, and from there stems a skirmish which threatens the scheme…
On Thursday the commission’s head of climate action Connie Hedegaard proposed a short-term solution. The question is whether this will work – in raising prices – and whether a longer-term back-up is ready.
At present, there is no obvious reason why the short-term remedy of temporarily withholding permits should boost prices, as it simply holds these in reserve to swamp the market later.
Almost all analysts agree that the present carbon credit glut is sufficient to leave the market over-supplied throughout its third trading phase from 2013-2020…
Given that amending a directive takes more than a year, and the commission hasn’t kicked off that process yet, that leaves carbon prices potentially in limbo through 2015.
On Thursday, the Commission proposed, from next year, to limit the supply of EUAs under an amendment to an existing Auctioning Regulation, which is secondary legislation under the ETS Directive.
It drew a firm riposte from Poland’s environment minister: “We simply do not have a mandate for manipulation in the market mechanisms,” said Poland’s Environment Minister Marcin Korolec…
In the EU, amending a directive and a regulation are quite different: the first takes over a year and requires a decision by member state ministers and parliament; the other is a technical decision achievable in months, requiring majority approval by experts plus parliamentary scrutiny.
The Commission’s interim proposal hinges on successfully arguing that it is ‘non-essential’ to the carbon market, and so doesn’t need a re-opening of the directive.
However, even if successful, the commission then has to make the withholding of EUAs permanent.
That would certainly require a re-opening of the ETS Directive: if Poland loses the first round, it gets a re-match.
As well as being time-consuming, such a re-opening of the ETS Directive is fraught with danger…
Emissions trading could be put on ice, or killed off, if east European objectors successfully argued that cancelling EUAs manipulated the carbon price and so counted as a tax measure.
That threat is probably a major reason why the Commission is reluctant to back a carbon price floor, which would turn the scheme more into a tax.
A price floor would be the simplest solution to support EUAs. Proposed cap and trade schemes in California and Australia, expected in 2013 and 2015, both propose price floors.
But in Europe, that would have to be legislated retrospectively: and could be argued to be a tax measure…
Analysts favouring a floor price argue it could operate in another way, by setting an absolute price level.
This argument has a long way to run: supporters argue a floor price is the only way to give the market a transparent future. Detractors point to its legal hurdles as well as the problem deciding where the floor should be set, and the windfall it would hand traders if set far above present levels.
Meanwhile, waiting in the wings is Poland.
http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/lumbering-toward-carbon-price-limbo
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23 April: Europolitics: Anne Eckstein: (European) Commission guidelines not in line with ETS Directive – Eurometaux
“It is surprising that the Commission is proposing a scheme that will only serve to speed up the de-industrialisation of Europe, thereby increasing the EU’s dependency on imports of strategic metals and adding to higher unemployment. Once closed, these smelters will never come back to Europe,’’ says Robert Jeekel, director of energy and climate change policy at Eurometaux…
Eurometaux recalled that competitive power prices are critical for the survival of Europe’s non-ferrous metals industry, since it is prevented from passing on to its customers the price increases resulting from the EU’s CO 2 cost, with product prices globally set at the London Metal Exchange.
http://www.europolitics.info/business-competitiveness/commission-guidelines-not-in-line-with-ets-directive-eurometaux-art332418-5.html
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http://barnabyisright.com/2012/04/24/infographic-visualising-the-size-of-australias-carbon-derivatives-time-bomb/#comment-7059
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I have sent an email to Choice from the link Jo has provided above.
I would encourage people here to do the same.
I will be interested what reply, if any, I get.
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I have received an email back essentially saying they believe the CSIRO science.
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From the “who we are” section of the Choice website,
On this occasion they seem to have reversed their processes on this one. That last part would now read, Choice campaigns against all consumers to assist the introduction of unjust, unproductive, restrictive, just plain dumb policies and practices on behalf of the Government.
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Bob I gave them a rather large serve on what they are doing is against their stated aim, whether I get the same reply will be interesting. I did mention that pushing the propaganda of the government could make people a little wary that they push products for profit rather than being the best available. That they may loose customers for selling a product that is not tangible nor pluginable and is going to cost everybody wether they want to buy it or not.
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I dropped my subscription to Choice more than a decade ago. It was pretty obvious that their actual technical competence had dropped too far to be worth the money asked. The organization appeared at that time to be more focused on itself as an authority than the consumers it purports to serve; but blind to that at the same time.
Choice is not alone. Other organizations have festered into self-serving buraucracies which still pretend to serve their members’ interests. They can sleep tight in the belief that they are going good. And that breeds the worst kind of tyranny.
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[snip complaints about mods… ]
Jo, I ask again, what provisions have you made, whether physically or mentally, should it eventuate that you were wrong? It’s a very serious question. Where would you feel you stood with respect to all you followers here if you had to turn around one day and say you were wrong? Have you allowed for that contingency? All good scientists, Jo, should ever humbly be prepared to admit when they were in error – are you, on a day-to-day basis ever even cognizant of that possibility?
M
[Answered, been there, done that. Sleeping happily at night. You? — Jo]
PS: Do look up the word “patience”.
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Hi Tony,
You do realize, don’t you, that the whole idea of a carbon price is to make it more expensive to emit CO2? So I should hope the price continues to go up! Economics 101 says these determined price signals will shift behaviors and push research investments towards renewables and their subsidization. (Just like fossil fuels have NEVER been asked to pay for their full cost to society) So even if Jo miraculously turns out to be right and tens of thousands of scientists wrong, we’ll still be in a much better place, with less pollution, more energy independence and security and less disturbance of our agriculturally productive lands. A win-win! Surely you’d agree?
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[REPLY: Matt, can you name those “tens of Thousands of scientists” who support AGW or would that be a wild exaggeration? — Jo]
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Matt Bennett,
You are not the MattB who is a regular here, so my earlier question was not directed to you.
Had you bothered to catch up, by actually what has been written at this site for the last, well, ages really, you would realise that we are the ones who are coming from a point where we know what we are talking about.
We’re not going to go over ALL of that again just for your sake. Instead, we leave it up to you to check back through all the Posts and comments at this site to see that in fact, we know what we are talking about, and we also understand it.
You wrote six sentences in your comment, and each indicate that you understand very, very little of what is actually being done.
You need to read what has been written here, and that way, you’ll gain a better understanding.
Tony.
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Unless man was put on this earth to save the planet from C02 starvation… Do your research on long term C02 trends.
You should also investigate the fallacy of the precautionary principle. I mean, would our time not best be spent protecting the planet from a more certain form of doom as it materialises in the form of an asteroid? Or worse, the next mega volcano?
There are real environmental problems which are happening today which are being completely ignored by the politicians and the MSM. Would it not be a better use of our time solving proven environmental issues rather than tilting at every windmill that the globalists invent?
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I went to the Choice site & nominated them for their own ‘Thumbs down award’ with a note:
“The professed aim of this organisation is “to ensure the consumer voice is heard loudly and clearly. CHOICE empowers consumers to get the most out of all their purchasing decisions by providing a mix of advocacy and advice”. Yet by becoming the Government’s lapdog through a bodgey website called ‘Your Carbon Price’ it has put its name to three lies – 1. it is not mine, it was imposed by a government lie, 2. It is CO2, not carbon, 3. it is a tax, not a true price. Shame.”
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The petition if you haven’t already seen it.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/the-queen-to-disallow-carbontax-ets-legislation.html
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What an absolute disgrace. This mob has long been suspect as far as its ideological bias goes, but this rubbish completely dispels any doubts we may have had.
I for one will not bother consulting any of their publications again.
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There are so many layers of lies and absurdities associated with the carbon (dioxide) tax, it’s a challenge to comprehend them all simultaneously.
For instance, even if you accept the absurdity that it is designed to ‘save’ the GBR, KNP, snowfields etc., it won’t work if it doesn’t hurt — not the ‘big polluters’, not the top 10% income bracket, but hurt the vast majority of low to middle income bracket.
And for people to reduce their energy use, it’s got to hurt a lot
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And there endith the lesson.
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Why are Matts comments not appearing?
Anyway
Matt, I earn over 80K, single income and 3 kids under 18 and when i look on the estimator the stupid government cannot even tell me what this useless taxs mees to me financially oh by the way no it is not tax neutral for as i earn too much and i dont think 80K is all that much. This tax scheme is aimed at hitting all the socio economic tards that hang out at Lizbiff or Penriff as nothing more than a brazen vote grab so please refrain from saying this sort of stuff in the future
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Maybe it is the stupid government internet but i cannot see Matts comments
Author: Matt Bennett
Comment:
Normally in this situation a person asking such a question would preface it by stating their position if they had got it wrong. In other words how would Matt respond if he in fact has got it wrong, the mere fact that this possibility has never entered Matts mind shows how hubris he really is.
What if the world did dive into an ice age in the near future will Matt Bennet confess his sins? I think not.
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A Bit O/T
But if the folks here like they could slip over to this ABC site and have some fun with our old mate Stephan Lewandowsky.
Happy hunting. 🙂
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“…., given that for most people, rebates will see that the tax is neutralized for most people.”
“… global warming due to CO2 emissions is a real and present threat ”
“… I assume you accept that, if you’re scientifically literate?”
Where have I heard these before ?
We have to be literate to understand such propositions . We have to be innumerate to swallow them.
The economic concensus ( for what it’s worth) is against spending money to avert CO2’s influence on the climate , for what that’s worth.
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Propaganda lives. We do indeed live in frightening times. 🙁
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How wrong they are!
Bread (700g) One loaf
kgCO2 per Unit 1.04
Price B4 CO2 Tax $3.00
Price after CO2 Tax $3.03
Percentage Increase 0.83%
Only a 3 cent increase!!!!
This is from Tim Grant, Australia’s leading life-cycle analysis practitioner in Climate Spectator says 3 cents.
Yet this bunch say only 2 cents (above in Jo’s post)- WOW – only a difference of ONE cent!
But it is 50% increase on what is stated!
Lets look at bread making at home – below:
•450grams flour – $1.00
•1 tablespoon. salt – $0.01
•Yeast – $0.07
•Fuel – $0.50 (based on a 2000kw oven at 19 cents kilowatt = 50 cents for one & half hours)
•Total $1.58, without labor per loaf of 700 grams.
But on a commerial basis this all changes –
The wheat grower – CO2 Tax on fertilizer and power!
The flour processer – CO2 Tax on power
The flour processers bag supplier – CO2 Tax on manufacturibg bags
The Distributor sending the flour to the bake – CO2 Tax on emmisions packing, forklifts etc
The Baker – power increases through electricity CO2 Tax
The Shopping Centre – increased rent because of power increases CO2 Tax.
Because it is all added at individual stages – the loaf of bread is not going to go up by 2 or 3 cents – it’s going to go up by 20cents plus!
The multiplier effect is far greater than these idiots think – that they try to determine the imbedded CO2 in each loaf of bread! When are they going to get in the real world of suply chain and business?
And don’t forget the GST component! Choice and this website should be banned!
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I’m sorry Dave (said in Hal’s voice), but that comment is particularly moronic. Please never ever try and work out the cost of anything, ever again.
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I think Dave is closer to the truth, this mob in government are the kings of the unintended consequence. If six months from now Dave is right will you apologise.
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Nice little touch the linking of 375% increase in price of bananas with Cyclone Yasi. Join the dots: the carbon dioxide tax is going to stop all those nasty “extreme” weather events that used to happen in the past due to natural variability, but are now “caused” by a few extra parts per million generated by the activities of Man plus all the extra breathing, burping and farting by the increased populations of all animals including Man!
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For goodness sake Crakar, we’ve been through all this before on Coby’s blog. OF COURSE I’d change my mind if the evidence pointed that way. The point is (for those that live in the real world of peer-reviewed climate science) it currently points distinctly and unwaveringly in the other direction – not that you’ve been able to see that yet.
Jo: your claim to have been a believer for 17 years before finding the truth has the ring of someone who claims to have once been atheist all their life (prob just through never having encountered religion in their youth) who claims to have found God and so can speak with authority of both sides. The truth is though, like the believer who probably never understood the intellectual hollowness of the supernatural position, I’m not sure (if you can toss it aside someasily) that you ever understood the depth of climate science underlying our understanding of global warming and how long we have known of it’s potential. Hey, I’m happy to be proved wrong but that’s what strikes me first up.
For example, you talk blithely of warming being potentially due to other factors but then list things that can’t possibly be responsible for the pattern we see: (i) ocean currents – can only move heat AROUND the system, like SOI, and can’t add heat TO the system (ii) solar irradiance – too weak by an order of magnitude and currently in a prolonged low while temps keep rising (totally disproved) (iii) solar magnetic effects – mechanism?! (considering we already know for a fact that CO2 is intimately linked to the earth’s moves in and out of glacials on orbital timescales (iv) geothermal – the heat leaking through the largely insulative granitic crust is, again, orders of magnitude too weak to account for the warming and has not, at any rate shown any variation of late (v) other factors – fire away? (although, one wonders why you need to keep looking given the CO2 concentration accurately predicts, added to natural variation, exactly what we see.
It’s funny, you say ‘without prejudice’ but display the typical unscientific ‘anything but CO2’ prejudice when the answer is right under your nose…
Anyway, I’m happy to be proved wrong and I’m terribly sorry that my post appeared a little too brusque on first appearance – thought the Ed were cutting/pruning what I was trying to say and it would end up with no meaning. I will adhere more closely to the nicities henceforth, I assure you. I too sleep well at night. M
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That’s OK Matt. Even dumb troglodytes get a fair go at this forum.
Oh, have you caught up on the latest public statements of the (former) world’s greatest Gaiaist James Lovelock? Wotchagonna do, have him burnt at the stake for apostasy?
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Matt Bennett,
You say –
If you mean that ocean currents just swirl around without having an effect one way or the other on climate ,then I think you are wrong.For example –
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Hello Matt,
I did recognise your name but was not sure it was you. I hope you hang around for a while as i would like to catch up a bit.
Cheers
Crakar
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Matt Bennett,
You say –
Can you explain the heat exchange mechanism by which heat is trapped in the atmosphere or to put it another way, how is it that you assert that less energy leaves the atmosphere than enters? What is the rate of the heating and how will it stop?
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…if the evidence pointed that way.
Mr Matt Bennett, I assume you are a newcomer to this site!
I cannot recall anything you have said before that stands out!!
The evidence my friend is definitely pointing straight ahead if not downwards, depending on time and scale! And depending on which dodgy figures you follow!
…Anyway, I’m happy to be proved wrong
Ok then, please feel free to scroll through any of Jo`s archives …
….you will be proved wrong on all of them…
(Pressing the button to open the trapdoor containing the 15 Foot Very Hungry Crocidiles…)
…Goodbye Mr. Bennett…hahahahhohohoho ahhh Mr. Bond….
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The “real world of peer reviewed climate science”
Are you taking the piss Matt?
The real world is not peer reviewed it is just the real world.
In the real world there is no proven link between global warming and CO2 rise.
The last 10-15 years of NO GLOBAL WARMING make that abundantly clear.
If you think that scientists, employed by government in order to provide information in support of government policies constitutes “the real world” then you and I live in very different worlds.
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I slipped in the name of Peter; Post Code 2600; Income $300,000+; put in 6 squiggly mercury polluting globes, a new shower head and a couple of other “savers”. The tax on carbon (not sure whether that’s on diamonds, graphite or the amorphous form charcoal, I’ll have to clarify with Choice) will cost him $14-59, he’ll get no Govt. assistance but save $8-16!
It appears poor old Pete can’t take a trick. Maybe he can borrow the Thomson credit card for any required extras!
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The getting of Wisdom? Here’s a surprise!
‘Gaia’ scientist James Lovelock: I was ‘alarmist’ about climate change
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change?lite
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Hi Kevin,
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Ocean currents don’t add heat to the earth system as a whole. They (thankfully!) can move it around, just as your example points out, and keep some latitudes warmer than they would otherwise be. They can also do the opposite, like the circumpolar current surrounding Antarctica that stops certain latitudes on the bottom of the globe from ever reaching the more moderate temps that their counterparts in the north would have you predict.
Hi Mark, thanks for the fair go! Trog.
(ps – good to see Lovelock showing true scientific rigour, just like I’m espousing, and ‘manning up’ when he thinks he’s erred. Great stuff. Doesn’t mean it’s not happening though, just that his more extreme concerns were unfounded, in his opinion)
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Matt,
Any proof for catastrophic man made global warming?
Just wondering…..
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Yes Matt,
Can you please qualify and quantify your predictions or projections for climate change over the next 10 – 15 years. What exactly will need to happen to the climate for Jo to be proved wrong? What exactly will happen to the climate to prove Matt wrong? Will this be a global or local shift? Will it be based on temperature extremes or averages? Will it be based on an increase in extreme weather? Will it be based on sea level rise? Will it be measured in human costs? E.g. Number of People killed or displaced from human induced climate change.
Alternatively, if over the next 10-15 years the climate (global temp anomaly) continues doing what it has for the last 10-15 years (sweet f$&@ all) an extreme weather events become no more severe or frequent (despite scientists best efforts to change to definition of extreme events eg “heat wave” in order to manipulate the statistics) — and it actually turns out that the preventative steps implemented to fight climate change (such as making people pay much more money for electricity) which results in fuel poverty, sickness and death in cold and hot climates, how will we measure the extent to which people such a yourselves are held accountable for your alarmism?
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Matt, it is over AGW is over and out. We have been subjected to scientific nonsense and political spin for twenty years. It has failed as the planet refuses to do as it it told, it is doing what it always did. Following the cycles that are totally external in origin, the odd big volcano or a meteor impact may give rise to a problem for a while but the earth heals and stabilises.
What the IPCC and other climate unrealists have been playing with is weather.
Climate is what you expect and weather is what you get, climate is controlled almost exclusively by external influences, weather is the world trying to reach equalibrium chasing its tail by ever varying external influences. Prove me wrong with your models of climate.
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G’day again, Matt.
If you can find scientific rigour in the works of Phil Jones, Michael Mann, James Hansen et al then clearly we have an irreconcilable difference of opinion.
Your opinion also requires that we tax and hobble ourselves into stone-age poverty whilst China and India reap the benefit of our mineral wealth. A dubious cabal of (political) scientists, socialists and bankers will be the only ones to prosper and be empowered.
You refuse to see that this debate was never about science.
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I’m guessing Choice magazine must’ve really appreciated whatever handout they got from the Guilleard/Thomson/Slipper Mob – after all, their entire business model is under threat from the new media.
Maybe the extra dollars will help them struggle on for a few more years.
Personally, I refer to retrevo and a few other consumer oriented sites to get for free what choice still try to charge for.
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Oh dear Black Adder, you seem WOEFULLY misinformed, probably because you read blogs instead of peer-reviewed science. Do you understand how orbital cycles, northern latitude snow cover, oceans and CO2 work together to move us naturally in and out of glacial-interglacial cycles? Let’s start with that…..
And Kevin, when the earth is in equilibrium, there is NO difference between the incoming and outgoing radiation energies. However, when the amount of energy being trapped in the system increases (ie more greenhouse gases, natural or man-made) there is a lag on at least centuries timescales before the system settles into a new equilibrium, where incoming equals outgoing again, although now at a higher temperature than before. Do you understand that?
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Matt Bennett,
Thanks for the laughs!
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Matt,
Jo and the contributors to this site have posted volumes of scientific evidence that demonstrate that CO2 is an insignificant driver of global temperatures. I suggest that if you are intellectually honest you will review this evidence with an open mind. Resist the temptation to succumb to groupthink on this issue. Resist the temptation to be fooled by government propoganda.
They want your money Matt, it couldn’t be more obvious.
Unless you are being employed by government Matt? In which case YOU WANT OUR MONEY.
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Anytime Kev, 🙂 laughter/mockery is oft used to mask an insecure intellectual position.
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Perhaps you can define
“insecure intellectual person”?
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To all,
I am glad you all had the opportunity to meet Mr Matt Bennett, he and i have conversed before on a pro warming site in the past and i must say we did have some very colorful and wonderful discussions across the whole range of subjects.
By reading the comments above it would appear that Matts approach has not changed one iota and remember he was/is an avid believer in the AGW myth. Back in the day Matts beliefs were intrenched based on the following:
1) The planet is warming in conjunction with the rise in CO2
2) This will be a hot spot, any second now…………….any second now.
3) There will be more cyclones etc (my it has been a few years since we last spoke)
Now so far all of the booga booga dooms day/the sky is falling predictions turned out to be false so leaves us with “the big one”.
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_stddev_timeseries.png
Unfortunately even this booga booga (give me all your money) prediction has blown up in his face like a bad trick cigar so now Matt is reduced to merely “hit and run” raids on sites like this, bible in one hand, IPCC propagander in the other.
It is a crying shame to watch how a once great debator has been forced to stoop so low due to being wedded to his beliefs.
Its time to let go Matt…………..seriously its time.
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Just wanted to say, as a subscriber to Choice, I wrote an e-mail to them decrying their involvement with the website. My main point was the fact that the information shown was incorrect, e.g. Carbon vs Carbon Dioxide emissions. I’m not sure I agree with their view of their involvement, but still it’s their view.
Here is the reply:
Thank you for your feedback about the Your Carbon Price online tool. I appreciate your feedback, and your suggestion that we take care about the organisations that we partner with.
While you obviously disagree with CHOICE’s involvement, we only engaged in this project with very serious consideration, and ensuring that the independence of the project was maintained throughout.
The online tool is based primarily on independent analysis undertaken by CSIRO and AECOM. The Climate Institute commissioned CSIRO and AECOM to undertake independent research into the impacts of a carbon price on costs of living for Australian households, with project funding from the Federal Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency. CHOICE and ACOSS provided advice through the development of the report and partnered with the Climate Institute in the launch of the yourcarbonprice.com.au website.
We joined in this project because we believe the carbon price is a significant consumer issue, and the debate around its implementation has been characterised by very strong views, but not much clarity. This is not a question of supporting the government, the opposition, the greens, the independents or any political party. It is rather an attempt to provide information on a major policy which will be implemented on 1 July this year.
Obviously with such a contentious and divisive issue, the very act of trying to provide information will be seen by some as a political act. But that is not our intention, nor we believe is it the outcome.
Thanks again for your feedback,
Matt
On behalf of the CHOICE campaigns team
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