Save Australia from a CarbonTax and Really Cool The Planet

by Mark
(Australia)

The new religion on global warming is what is really heating the planet.

The lies from some scientists, the United Nations and especially New World Order politicians is what is really heating the planet.

Save Australia

And the world from the lies of Julia Gillard, who was the minority PM up until 2013. It was hotter in the 60s than it is today.

Barry's Response - Notes for the rest of the world:

Julia Gillard was the prime minister of Australia. She came up with a climate change scheme in 2010 to gain agreement amongst all interested parties but still go after
heavy emitters. Infrastructure was also to be overhauled for environmental purposes.

Supposedly she said there would be no carbon tax during the 2010 election, however that was not the case in the long run.

Glad I could let you air your grievances, Mark.

So it goes - she talked about a national consensus back in 2010 to find a way to implement an approach for mitigating greenhouse emissions, but this idea fell through. After her success in the election way back then, this plan was replaced with a multi-party climate change panel, which advocated a tax which evolved in to an emissions trading scheme.

It came all the Clean Energy Bill proposal the following year and all hell broke loose with the opposing party. The houses passed this one by the end of the year. It took effect about a year afterwards. Australians were not wild about this, not unanimously, anyway. Some feel that the
standard of living became jeopardized with no environmental benefit realized.

Ahhh...

Politics & the Environment.

Purgatory for bureaucrats. Mark, I get it. Let's take a step back and ask: Will a carbon tax cool the planet? Isn't that the sales pitch? Governments take your money, redistribute it, and somehow, Earth's temperature adjusts. Climate doesn't work like that.

What does Science Say?

Earth's climate is a huge, chaotic system that's driven by a lot more than carbon dioxide. Here's a few:
- Our climate is driven by the Sun. Solar output has historically triggered ice ages and warming periods; CO2 didn't.
- Have you heard of El Niño and La Niña? Even though CO2 is the same, these cycles (and others like them) redistribute heat around the world on their own schedule.
- A single eruption can send more particulates into the air than years of industrial pollution.

Now let's compare that to the actual impact of a carbon tax. Does the carbon tax work? Carbon taxes penalized emissions and encouraged green energy. How did it go?
- Emissions barely changed in Australia.
- The price of electricity went up for consumers and businesses.
- Costs are passed on to people (because that's what happens).

China and India's emissions wiped out Australia's reductions. What does this do to "cool the planet"

Any Alternatives?

Get serious about the environment without wrecking the economy:
- Regulators stifle innovation. Why did natural gas replace coal more than any government policy in the U.S.? The price was cheaper, not forced.
- The answer is nuclear power. Yet "green" politicians don't get it.
- Carbon capture tech is advancing. It's better to incentivize research than penalize it.
- Clean up the real stuff. Smog isn't carbon dioxide. How about toxic industrial waste, microplastics, and actual environmental hazards?

We're taxing the wrong things, aren't we?
We should tax...stupid ideas. Bureaucracy hurts economies more than CO2.

Taxing carbon won't cool the planet. But what about free thought? Maybe it'll warm things up.

Clearing the Air

Combine science and common sense.
There's no climate fear-mongering within a true professional and scientific arena. We seek solutions that work for the environment instead.
- No political bias
- Advanced modelling and data-related feedback.
- Sustainability doesn't mean poverty. Let's figure out how to make everything work.
- Carbon credits don't matter as much as clean air.

Let's fix problems, not push agendas. If you have anything to add, post it below.

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