"the anti-global warming alarmists are beginning to dominate both the left and right of politics leaving a rather limp green salad of greens and trendy intellectuals in the middle"

A climate of apathy | ScottishSceptic

The article from ABC continues, the US president has given up hope taxing carbon through conventional means and has resorted to extra-constitutional controls through pollution regulation which has been thwarted by the senate (probably to the president’s relief) Labour unions in the US and Australia are now heavily against carbon taxes which means the anti-global warming alarmists are beginning to dominate both the left and right of politics leaving a rather limp green salad of greens and trendy intellectuals in the middle. Polls no longer show any kind of enthusiasm amongst the public, China is all in favour of carbon taxing – so long as it continues to destroy the Western industries it is eagerly welcoming into its own new industrial empire.

Then there is the 27-member European Union: simply put, carbon pricing has been a disaster. … Add to this Japan and South Korea’s shelving of the ETS, Russia’s massive carbon-fuelled economic plans, the refusal of Japan, Canada and Russia to sign any successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol which expires next year, the dwindling prospects for a legally binding, enforceable and verifiable global deal at the next round of UN climate talks in South Africa later this year, and it is clear Australia would be out of step with the world under Labor’s carbon tax proposal.
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So there we have it. Global warming could cause “multifaceted damages” all proven because the “climate” one year in Pakistan was 2C warmer than 2 years before. Which bucks about the whole global warming climate (i.e. 10 years) trend since 2001 since when temperature has not gone up (i.e. it got marginally colder), but don’t let a small thing like that stop some cheap plastic salesman from using the global warming scare to sell petrol chemicals. The only trend that is going unchecked is the worldwide slump in support for this kind of nonsense!