The Carbon Sense Coalition » Wong Horse Knackered but... “Carbon Tax” is Saddled and Ready

The aging galloper “Ration-N-Tax” from the Wong stable is knackered.

Anyone with any economic or political nous knows that the carbon cap proposals are neither politically nor economically possible in Australia or the USA. No electorate in the western world will sit by to see their standard of living reduced until their carbon emissions per capita are equal to those of India or China while they transfer their businesses and technology to these growing industrial giants of Asia.

From now on, those pushing the RAT Scheme are flogging a dead horse. Public opinion is changing swiftly and any time soon even Malcolm Turnbull will switch his bets.

But the canny handlers anticipated this result and have another nag saddled and ready.

[Alleged] Space cure for the [alleged] climate crisis

How would space exploration help us find solutions for the climate crisis? In today’s Washington Post Outlook section article, "Return to the Heavens for the Sake of the Earth," Kim Stanley Robinson makes the argument that a vigorous space progam can help us find solutions to the climate crisis.

“Our climate crisis is very much a matter of interactions between our planet and our sun. That being the case, our understanding is vastly enhanced by going into space and looking down on Earth, learning things we cannot learn when we stay on the ground,” writes Robinson, author of “Science of the Capital,” a series on climate change.

[Yeah, right]: Tiny Tuvalu says all its energy renewable by 2020 - Taiwan News Online

The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for climate change by fueling its economy entirely from renewable sources by 2020.

Twitter / Kim Rohde

Two of my friends are doing the Bike Transalp. Stage 1 was cancelled due to snow. Apparently there is no global warming in Austria.