Combet clarifies carbon comments - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock & Land

CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has back-pedalled on comments made last week on national radio suggesting farmers can pass on increased costs from the carbon tax back to consumers.
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Mr Gillam said Minister Combet’s comments clearly showed the Labor/Greens/Independent government “has no idea about farming, let alone on how to control the weather through a tax”.

He said farmers are - and have always been - price takers.

“One would expect that a Minister of the Crown involved in selling the benefits of the clean green economy would be aware that throughout the history of civilization there has never been an instance where a farmer has been able to set the price for his goods let alone pass down costs to the consumer,” he said.

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Sustained high temperatures from this year's record-breaking heat wave caused an unusual disruption at Washington's Reagan-National Airport.

Pfizer Refuses To Pull Funding From Anti-Science Front Group, Says $45,000 Grant To Heartland Is 'Best For Shareholders' | ThinkProgress

The Union of Concerned Scientists is asking people to contact the two medical doctors on Pfizer’s board of directors with the message that “they can help protect Americans’ health by cutting off funding for climate denial groups.”

Virginia Hasn’t Set A July 14 Temperature Record Since 1966 | Real Science

Records for all Virginia USHCN stations which were operational in both 1930 and and 2011