South Africa - PHILIP LLOYD: Treasury uses scare tactics to justify carbon tax

Why was it necessary for the Treasury to overstate the case? Did it honestly believe we should be scared into accepting its new tax? A guide to the true effects of climate change is the past century. There was detectable global warming, but the effects can barely be seen. We live in a water-stressed country. Yet our weather service reports "higher temperatures will influence the rainfall, but it is still uncertain how the annual rainfall will change. It could increase in some parts of the country, and decrease in other parts." The panel couldn’t have put it better.
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Why should we slavishly follow the Europeans? There is absolutely no basis for a carbon tax in SA.

- Lloyd is with the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.