Quadrant Online - Carbon capers

A clear example of how the new carbon tax and the ETS is going to ‘spring clean’ this country’s large carbon intensive industries, is the closure of the Shell refinery at Clyde in NSW. Shell will now import a sizable chunk of Australia’s petrol requirements from Singapore. Anyone who thinks that this decision hasn’t been influenced by the “imminent” new mining supertax or the “imminent” carbon tax, isn’t concentrating.

In a country that is increasing its supply to the world of fossil fuels such as coal, coal-seam gas and LNG, for its government to be seriously suggesting that a carbon tax on domestic usage is a positive step towards reducing CO2 in the world’s atmosphere is a joke, a lie, a deception.

It isn’t going to happen!

Quadrant Online - Global warming: an essential reference

To encourage wider discussion of the issue, we provide below an accruing list of articles and papers (in date order of the original document) that address the key issues of (i) the adequacy of the government’s understanding of climate science reality; and (ii) whether theoretical human-caused global warming is a dangerous hazard.

435 DAYS UNTIL LABOR’S MUCH-WANTED, STRONGLY-FELT ACTION TAX | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

The strong feeling is massively against a carbon tax. Flannery lives in a fantasy world. (Incidentally, Flannery claims in his Canadian interview that “a solid 40 per cent” of Australians support action on climate. But only a couple of months earlier, Flannery told the BBC that 60 per cent were supportive. Those town hall meetings are working a treat.)
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Flannery now earns $180,000 per year to promote the Gillard government’s carbon tax policy. Word is bond.