Carbon tax: What’s the real cost? Aussie manufacturer asks Penny Wong | FOOD Magazine

Frank Kaiser: This question is directed to Penny Wong. As a manufacturer employing 23 people what compensation is going to be offered to small business to offset the increase in electricity, raw material (steel), fuel and on top of that an increase of 3% in super contributions? All of these are increases on the table now. Are there more to come once the impact of the government’s carbon tax is announced or can the government recommend a good liquidator?

Chinese electric taxis struggle to win mass appeal

For China to hit its EV targets however, will mean quickly winning market acceptance for an untested technology.

"I think it's going to be a very, very long time because the Chinese consumer, at the end of the day, is very pragmatic and wants a reliable car with a gasoline engine. They don't want to be the ones experimenting," said Michael Dunne, president of industry consultancy Dunne & Co. in Hong Kong.

You've been framed: six new ways to understand climate change

[Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia] “The overwhelming scientific evidence tells us that human greenhouse gas emissions, land use changes and aerosol pollution are all contributing to regional and global climate changes, which exacerbate the changes and variability in climates brought about by natural causes. Because humans are contributing to climate change, it is happening now and in the future for a much more complex set of reasons than in previous human history.”

I’m confident too that none of my climate science colleagues would find anything to challenge in this statement.

You've been framed: six new ways to understand climate change

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Mike Hulme is a full-time employee of the University of East Anglia. He has recently held research grants from The Leverhulme Trust and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, for which he receives an honorarium, and has recently undertaken paid consultancy work for Samsung Securities. He undertakes public speaking on climate change, either pro bono or for fees ranging from $50 to $400. He has no other financial conflicts of interests to declare.