on 31-08-2013 06:54 PM
Coalition's climate policy would cost vastly more than budgeted, study finds
Modelling commissioned by WWF-Australia says funds set aside to meet emissions targets would fall short by at least $20bn.
Another detailed study has concluded that the Coalition's climate policy will cost vastly more than has been budgeted or else will dramatically fail to meet Australia's emissions reduction targets.
Modelling by Reputex climate analytics, commissioned by the environment group WWF-Australia, found that the money set aside by the Coalition to buy abatement was likely to fall short by $5.9bn a year between 2015 and 2020, or between $20bn and $35bn in total.
The Coalition insists it will provide no more than the money it has allocated to its emissions reduction fund – $2.5bn over the next four years – and, according to figures in the original 2009 policy document, almost $5bn by 2020.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/29/coalition-climate-change-modelling-shortfall
on 01-09-2013 05:59 PM
Spend no money at all on carbon dioxide / global warming
All a big scam. Carbon dioxide is not a problem.
want to worry about something, worry about something real such as Fukushima which is deteriorating (this IS something to worry about), GMO foodstuffs being pushed upon us, toxins such as Aspartame in our food
on 01-09-2013 06:34 PM
I do worry about all those, but I also worry about climate change, because I have enough of science education to understand how it works, and believe the 90+% of scientists rather than ignorant fools like Jones et al.
And i certainly worry about the incredible TA plans; expensive and useless.
on 01-09-2013 06:38 PM
WWF should be impressed about the habitat saving ideas of the Coalition policy.
Land and rivers will be regenerated, oceans will be protected much better from pollutants. Animal habitat will be rehabilitated and farmers will be encouraged to make improvements rather than be forced to pay electricity bills in the thousands of dollars that prevent them from improving their land.
on 01-09-2013 06:54 PM
on 01-09-2013 07:04 PM
Quotes by H.L. Mencken, famous columnist: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Quote by David Rockefeller, heir to billion dollar fortune: "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis..."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or….one invented for the purpose."
Quote by Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: "It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true."
Quote by Gordon Brown, former British prime minister: "A New World Order is required to deal with the Climate Change crisis."
Quote by Club of Rome: "Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
Quote by UN's Commission on Global Governance: "Regionalism must precede globalism. We foresee a seamless system of governance from local communities, individual states, regional unions and up through to the United Nations itself."
Quote by René Dubos, French scientist, environmentalist, author of the maxim "Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature."
Quote by Ted Turner, billionaire, founder of CNN and major UN donor, and large CO2 producer: “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
http://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html
on 01-09-2013 07:08 PM
tasteless and odourless . its not a pollutant.. i does have this awful side effect of bleeping up the climate though. thats proven.
the coalitions climate policy reminds me of sneering paid deniers laughing at us all .
on 01-09-2013 07:18 PM
Quote by Jim Sibbison, environmental journalist, former public relations official for the Environmental Protection Agency: "We routinely wrote scare stories...Our press reports were more or less true...We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment."
Quote by David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!: “We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.”
on 01-09-2013 09:01 PM
"want to worry about something, worry about something real such as Fukushima which is deteriorating (this IS something to worry about), GMO foodstuffs being pushed upon us, toxins such as Aspartame in our food."
enter Agenda 21 and the Wildlands project - this included a plan to keep humans in tightly controlled high-rise areas and most of the land being off limits.
carbon dioxide is not a problem. paying taxes to the likes of Al Gore is nothing more than a scam. There is a bigger agenda behind this"
This must be the night of the nutters.
LL: "i does have this awful side effect of bleeping up the climate though. thats proven."
Actually LL, science does not prove a theory, and climate change needs a while to have convincing scientific data over and above natural historical data (noise).
on 02-09-2013 08:21 AM
Australia-wide, temperatures have been considerably warmer than average since last spring. The September-August period looks likely to be Australia's warmest 12-month period on record, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
The Salt Lake City heat broke parking meters and an Interstate 15 onramp on its way to shattering the big one: Hottest summer ever.
June started the sizzle, then July turned into the hottest for the city since record-keeping started in 1874.And although Tropical Depression Ivo brought rain and cooled the air, August still managed to join July in the sun and basked in the honor of hottest August on record.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56801092-78/record-summer-heat-lake.html.csp
China roasts in hottest August since 1961
Britain sees hottest August temperatures for ten years as heatwave returns
Nah, it's all carp.