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Friday March 12, 2010

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  • Brian on Smith Blog - Our Right to Feel Safe Change one word in the sentences . Maximum to MINIMUM I will be there on Wednesday more
  • angry on Flying Foxes and little girls This is the SICK and PERVERTED laws you get from FANATICAL greenies. Human being to them are seen as simply PARASITES on the ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification It doesn't say it, but those are the guidelines required for something to be labelled Halal or "permissible". :-) more
  • angry on Halal certification "Shez", for your edification the word "halal" is NOT mentioned in the Bible ANYWHERE! FAIL! more
  • angry on Halal certification "Shez"... Given your rabid and fanatical support for this, please remember that you are free to emmigrate to a muslim ... more
  • angry on Flying Foxes and little girls This SO TYPICAL of the Leftist ideology of anna BLIER'S government! She and her government are on the nose and well and ... more
  • Ray on Halal certification Halal signifies that a product or object etc is permissible as per Islamic law. Therefore bananas,apples etc are edible ... more
  • JohnE on Racists in our midst I amazed to see indians taking over all the 'menial' work (no disrespect to that type of work intended). Every trolley boy ... more
  • JohnE on Flying Foxes and little girls Absolutely disgusting. Simply not good enough. If the law is NOT acceptable, we the people, have the power to change it. I ... more
  • Shez on Flying Foxes and little girls I wouldn't wish bad on anyone, but maybe if one of these judges that give out these so called punishments are victims of a ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification Halal in the Bible... FROM THE BIBLE: Deuteronomy 14:3-10. Do not eat any detestable thing. These are the animals you may ... more
  • David T on Tony Abbott does a Turnbull Tony, we need a strong opposition not a fickle oppostion. Please don't give the government any more ammunition as this will ... more
  • Albert on Flying Foxes and little girls These laws prove once again that the environmental movement is not about taking action to protect human life and future ... more
  • angry on ETS Police SUBJECT: 'Execute' Skeptics! Shock Call To Action: 'At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers' -- ... more
  • unimpressed on Flying Foxes and little girls Fetalaiga's 18 month ban from driving just shows the level of stupidity of both the law makers and the magistrates that ... more
  • Lynne on Flying Foxes and little girls The only thing in Queensland that is better protected than these disease riddled flying vermin are bureaucrats. When are ... more
  • LEONARD on Separation of Powers The Doctrine of the Separation of Powers has become simply a joke. It purpose is to separate the Legislature, the Executive ... more
  • Anne Scott on Halal certification You are missing the point, Shez. We, Australian taxpayers, begrudge paying Mr El-Mouelhy a levy on products he has managed ... more
  • Wobblyone on Halal certification Hey Angry... Shez is either Muslim or one of the idiot do-gooders that can't tell which way its bum is pointed. And Shez... ... more
  • Shez on Halal certification G'day angry. How are you today? Yes I am Australian, and bloody proud of it. I'm off to have some Cadbury's Dairy Milk. If ... more

Climate Change

Posted by: Michael Smith | 20 October, 2008 - 12:12 PM
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I'm very concerned at the Federal Government's treatment of conscientious scientists like Professor Bob Carter, Professor Ian Plimer, former head of the Australian National Climate Centre Bill Kininmonth. These eminent men of science are being discredited by the unbalanced approach the government is taking to climate change - check out this website.

I've spoken to each of those men on the air. They say that climate change is real - yes the climate varies, but human activity and in particular carbon dioxide emissions aren't the cause.

The Prime Minister says unequivocally that human activity and what he calls "carbon pollution" are the cause - listen here.

Even the Federal Opposition is on the bandwagon. I've spoken to Malcolm Turnbull and he is a true believer in the mantra. Malcolm says that he takes the Rupert Murdoch approach - which is to give the planet what he calls the "benefit of the doubt" and act to cut emissions. I think the Rupert Murdoch approach is more to do with selling newspapers and appealing to the existing public sentiment - that is that most of us are convinced that human activity is causing climate change

Most of us get our information about this issue from the television. Most television reports about climate change feature visuals - mainly ice bergs breaking down, polar bears on bits of ice, smoky cars and vapours coming from large chimneys (almost always the evaporation stacks at power stations - which produce only water vapour).

I really think we urgently need to at least listen to those who have a view other than Al Gore's. We are about to commit our economy to a devastating new tax - the Federal Government's Emissions Trading Scheme (now re-named by the spin merchants in the government as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme)

Professor Garnaut's report to the Australian Government on climate change is a weighty scholarly work - it's 680 pages long and as you would expect from an eminent scholar like Professor Garnaut it's a well-produced report.

It's very clear that Professor Garnaut wants it to be take its place in our country's history. After the launch of the hardback version of the report last week we learnt that there was no Australian-made paper good enough for the book - the paper it was printed on was imported from Italy at a cost of $18,000 (and according to Climate Change Minister Penny Wong the carbon miles in flying the paper out weren't calculated or offset). link

But Garnaut's report makes only scant reference to the alternative theories beyond those put by Al Gore and the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Those views rate a minor mention up front - but beyond the initial reference it's as if the theories underpinning the new religion of climate change are facts of physics. They are not - they are theories and I think we need a lot more attention on getting to the cold hard facts.

Blog comments Your Say

  • If the libs back this bs i will never back them again.

    Darren Luck Tuesday 24 November, 2009 - 8:11 AM

  • There is a very interesting article re:a climate change conference held in New York in 2008.I suggest that you have a read.

    http://ecoworld.com/features/2008/03/15/the-debate-goes-on/

    Dennis Sunday 22 February, 2009 - 8:13 AM

  • Global Warmin is big business and even bigger business if we are silly enough to implement an ETS system.

    Whether or not you believe in Global Warming all steps to stop this crazy tax on the poor need to be taken.

    We dont need or want another consumption Tax.

    Tony Zegenhagen Wednesday 26 November, 2008 - 8:46 PM

  • And the Rudd Govt, is spending over $140,000 a day advertising something which could be based on a complete fraud. They are not prepared to debate the matter either.
    Its good that people like yourself Michael encourage a closer look at all this hype.

    John Thursday 23 October, 2008 - 5:02 PM

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