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Greg Hunt – blinkered attitudes on carbon pricing
Our Federal Minister for Environment continues to insist that emissions were reduced more in years before, not after, introduction of carbon tax! Without a Minister for Science and many of them being has been lawyers, how ‘ornery do they make Australia look? Here’s … Continue reading
FactCheck: did carbon emissions fall faster before the carbon price?
Emissions fell by six times the rate in the five years before carbon tax than under carbon tax. – Environment minister Hunt, The Guardian, Jan 17, 2015. Australia’s total greenhouse emissions have been declining since 2007, the year the Rudd Labor Government … Continue reading
Pope Francis – Biblical Case about Climate Change: ‘If We Destroy Creation, Creation Will Destroy Us’
Somebody better tell mad monk Tony to stick his budget and, per Ross Garnaut yesterday, get same deficit/debt fix by keeping the already operational carbon tax. Surely he can’t be crazy enough to risk getting smited by his Father Superior? … Continue reading
Carbon tax can save budget pain: Garnaut
Now that it looks like most of PM Abbott’s budget finaglings are likely to be blocked in the senate, to get equivalent result, all he needs to do is keep carbon tax! >readmore> ClimateSpectator
Is The Solution To Climate Change In Vancouver?
Here’s a good news story about carbon tax. It compares economic growth between British Columbia and the rest of Canada. Also per capita CO2 emissions and fuel usage. BC has out performed the rest of Canada, economically and reduced emissions … Continue reading
Australia accorded “Fossil of Day” award, at UN Climate Summit in Warsaw – twice!
It’s been embarrassment after embarrassment for Australia at the Warsaw climate change meeting. Australia pulled a triple bad start by being awarded Fossil of the Day on the summit’s first day. Australia also topped Fossil of the Day Awards on Wednesday, for seeking to repeal … Continue reading
Food prices and the carbon cost myth
As Mr Abbott keeps pounding the pulpit about how much each household will save, from scrapping the carbon tax, here’s one analysis to say we shouldn’t get our hopes up for any savings from food prices. >readmore> ClimateSpectator
Greg Hunt – why we need carbon tax
“Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.” Greg Hunt. In 1990 Greg Hunt co-authored a university thesis entitled A Tax to Make … Continue reading
Scrapping carbon tax leads to electricity price rises: report
‘Renewable energy, when it’s put onto the system, tends to cut household electricity bills, not push them up,’…..‘It represents a very low-cost form of energy that displaces other fossil fuel generators which have very high fuel costs.’ >readmore> ABC RN
How broken is government’s carbon pricing mechanism?
Emissions reductions running faster than expected, electrical sector to meet 2020 target by 2015! Carbon tax is not doing everything, nor is it doing nothing, but, obviously, it’s doing something. >readmore> ClimateSpectator
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