Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Global warming's awful fortune tellers - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com
The editorial writers at Investor's Business Daily chewed on the unsavory irony of the fear-mongering predictions of the global alarmists.

"If there is any disruption in food supplies," they wrote, "it's caused by rising food prices ironically caused by increased demand for biofuels to save the earth, and the diversion of cropland and even the clear-cutting of sacred rainforests to produce them.

"The endless fraud perpetrated by the climate hucksters knows no bounds."

Even Jeane Dixon had a better record.
Australia - Transcript of doorstop interview - Beijing, 26 april 2011
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, what is your message to Chinese business sector, and those who might be wondering about the carbon tax, and whether it will affect their interests in (inaudible) in Australian export?

PM: Well, if anybody raises that with me, and no one has to date
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JOURNALIST: Prime Minister, you are not addressing any part of my question, will the carbon tax cause commodity prices in Australia [inaudible] to go up?

PM: Well we are working as you are well aware through a business round table with what are called in the trade a mission incentive trade exposed industries and we will keep working with them to get the design of the carbon price right, so we protect Australian jobs. But across the countries that I’ve visited on this trip - Japan, South Korea, China - people are hungry for our commodities export, they are hungry for our energy exports, including LNG, and so I am very confident these export industries have a very bright future.

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