Could Australia Blow Apart the Great Global Warming Scare? « The Invisible Opportunity: Hidden Truths Revealed

Since the Australian government first introduced its Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation—the Australian version of cap-and-trade energy rationing—there has been a sharp shift in public opinion and political momentum against the global warming crusade. This is a story that offers hope to defenders of industrial civilization—and a warning to American environmentalists that the climate change they should be afraid of just might be a shift in the intellectual climate.

Video: Alarmists on parade: National Clean Energy Summit

August 10, 2009 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Cox Pavilion

Grist: Barack Obama is not Bagger Vance | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts

Things are pretty grim among progressives these days, what with health care bogging down and climate legislation on indefinite delay; right wing crazies everywhere and Blue Dogs intransigent; the organized coalition that brought Obama to office fractured and ineffective. Disillusionment is in the air.

In response, on listservs and private conversations, I’m hearing more and more people express some version of the following sentiment: Barack Obama should save us.

AUSTRALIA'S PROSPECTIVE MASSIVE & CATASTROPHIC METEORITE TAX > Senator Barnaby Joyce > This week in politics

...Mr Rudd would have to save the planet with a Massive Meteorite Tax (MMT). First of all he would work out who was going to be affected that is people living above ground. He could create a tradeable permit system to live above ground, permits which the government would issue, and reduce the number of permits each year. This would deliver a market approach to moving Australia underground.

If you argued against the scheme Mr Rudd could say that you were denying the existence of massive meteorites and putting all of humanity at risk. It would be stated that on the basis of evidence the existence of massive meteorites was overwhelming and we in Australia are not going to sit back and do nothing. He could create a new cause de jure to be demonstrated for and rallied around. Mr Rudd could be a world leader and go to forums in certain Danish towns stating that he was leading the world in burying Australia. He would affirm that if Australia could be successfully buried that other nations too could bury their economy and people, using Australia as a working example.