'Rudd’s carbon tax bad governance,' says Vic ag scientist - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - General - Stock & Land

The Rudd government’s carbon pollution tax is based on non-scientific and theoretical computer modeling and does not make good governance at a time of rising inflation, global food shortages and increasing export uncompetitiveness due to rising cost and freight pressures.

That’s the view of agricultural scientist John Williams - a researcher, author and educator who is studying for a PhD at the University of Melbourne.

Mr Williams said there are ‘strong and powerful counter-arguments’ to the theories on global warming and carbon trading that are not being fully considered.

Drawing on a chorus of disbelief from a growing number of scientists, Mr Williams said “there is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming”. “All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth’s angle to the sun.”

Global pursuit of happiness | The Australian

ENDANGERED ice caps and polar bears notwithstanding, the thing that most annoys me about global warming is that the climate wars have turned its prophets into priests of a new campaign against the modern world.

Qtown man turns up global warming - Queenstown - The Southland Times

A Queenstown man is taking High Court action to prevent the Government enacting the controversial Emmissions Trading Scheme.

Former property developer Basil Walker is seeking an injuction against all Labour Party MPs preventing the scheme being passed into law before this year's election.

Mr Walker said he was acting in the interests of the people of New Zealand.

More from alarmist David Karoly | theage.com.au

"It is amazing to me that, rather than going to CSIRO, the National Academy of Sciences in the US, the Australian Academy of Sciences or other scientific organisations from around the world that are all consistently providing the same evidence, a significant proportion of the (federal) shadow cabinet and many others in the Liberal Party and National Party and other interest groups are collecting information not from reputable sources, but from websites which may or may not be funded by a right-wing lobby group or a fossil fuel company which says there is a conspiracy. But I'm not surprised — people like to hear information that confirms their underlying beliefs."