British Gas wants to charge more for using less gas! « Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog

British Gas has already developed a system for encouraging people to use more energy through their pricing – they give lower rates if you use more energy in a quarter. This new scheme could be another clever means to encourage people to use more energy, perhaps by penalising them for not using enough. So not only do you pay treble for the firts few kWh of energy each quarter than you do for the rest, it seems that if you use less energy than British Gas estimates they will punish you with a fine for not causing enough climate change greenhouse gases to be injected into the atmopshere.

Synthstuff - music, photography and more...: Environmental bullshit in the media

If you show an Aquarist, especially someone who specializes in tropical reef habitat aquariums the above two news stories, they will snort their coffee out through their nose and call you an idiot (or worse).

Check out this section of the Marine and Reef Aquarium Supply home page...

There is a whole section on hardware for the specific purpose of adding gaseous CO2 to freshwater and saltwater aquaria. The CO2 in freshwater tanks is plant food — if we did not have CO2, we would not have plants. When it comes to Reef tanks, things get interesting.

Agmates Rural News » Blog Archive » NFF and Cattle Council Rewarded by Government with Copenhagen Junket

Northern NSW Farmer and Australian Beef Association, Chairman, Brad Bellinger writes:

Our members are yet again disgusted with the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and Cattle Council of Australia (CCA). This time it is their support for the Rudd Government’s insane Emissions Trading Scheme.
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It was appropriate that the talkfest was held in Copenhagen - home of Hans Christian Andersen and his classic story “The Emperor’s New Clothes‘.