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Climate Control is futile.

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:55

Carbon Sense-  10 August 2010

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to wasteful spending on attempts to change the climate by taxing and rationing carbon.
 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that man will never control climate.
 
“Noah did not blame cooking fires for the flood – he built a boat before the rain came”.
 
Forbes explained:
 
“It’s time to stop wasting money trying to control the climate – this will be no more successful than slaughtering sacrificial goats, even if tax payers and electricity consumers are to be the goats.
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Letter to the Dominion Post

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:43
Why are there so many people losing their jobs and not so much work available at this point in time when we are told that we  have weathered the downturn better than most others? It cannot all be blamed on the recession, employers, service companies, and manufacturers have already factored in the cost, and implication of E.T.S.  In short terms  the E.T.S. is killing our local consumption and exports regardless of what our overseas consumers think, they are not concerned about food miles, carbon credits etc. they are only concerned about price.
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The Secret History of Climate Alarmism

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:41

The Weekly Standard

A very German story of power politics disguised as environmentalism

BY John Rosenthal     August 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44

Changes in the earth’s atmosphere, the additional greenhouse effect and the resultant changes in the climate .  .  . represent a global danger for humanity and the entire biosphere of the earth. If no effective counteracting measures are taken, dramatic consequences are to be expected for all of the earth’s regions.
This warning will undoubtedly seem familiar, perhaps even mind-numbingly so. But if the substance sounds like the same-old same-old, the date on which it was issued might seem surprising. It was not in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate summit or indeed anytime in the last decade. The above passage is nearly two decades old. It comes from a resolution adopted by the German Bundestag in September 1991.
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Green Car Policies are Defective and should be Recalled.

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:36

Carbon Sense 5 August 2010

 

This election is crucial. People are uninspired by either of the big parties,
but too many are thinking of voting Green.
PUT THE GREENS LAST.
Their destructive anti-human, anti-carbon, anti-farming, anti-fishing,
anti-forestry, anti-mining, anti-industry policy will produce a
BLACK FUTURE
for all Australians. Do not give them control.
Learn how to use the preferential voting system. Do not tick the party box – number every square, however you like but -
PUT THE GREENS LAST.
Please Spread this Message Far and Wide.

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to the massive subsidies to the green car industry and to rich buyers of green car toys.
 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that to waste taxpayer funds helping foreign car manufacturers to produce cars that consumers don’t want is bad policy.
 
“Worse still is a policy that encourages people to trash a roadworthy car and buy a trendy new one they do not need.”
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Going forward, not backwards

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:29

 

29 July 2010

 

Speech by Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, to the NZ Shareholders Association annual general meeting, Novotel Hotel Greenlane, Auckland.
 
It is my very warm pleasure to be here today to address the New Zealand Shareholders Association. 
 
I hope I’m returning the favour to your Chairman, Bruce Sheppard, who kindly spoke at my National Conference last month in the home of the Ranfurly Shield, Invercargill.  I wish him and your incoming Chairman all the very best.  The Association does a great job on behalf of all shareholders.
 
Since I don’t wish to be part of the ‘not growing trees for wood’ business or the ‘not farming sheep, sheep industry’, my presentation today will be in three parts. 
 
I’ll start by sharing with you the balance sheet of New Zealand farming.  Second, I wish to speak on the emissions trading scheme to dispel a few myths before focusing on some ideas, I feel, may help our struggling capital markets. 
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Muddle in the middle

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:27

by Barry Brill

December 21, 2009

Scenarios are not science 

Pity the politician in 2010. Climate change policies pose an unknown, but potentially strong, temptation to cross party lines. A bit like abortion brought out single-issue voters a few decades ago. 

Some political leaders have a messianic urge to save the planet; others have an ideological aversion to intrusive state controls. A few (perhaps) have studied the science in depth, and all have glanced regularly at fickle opinion surveys. But most are stuck with the muddle in the middle, anxious to do whatever will deliver the best outcomes for the country and their constituents. 

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A Carbon “Price” means a Carbon “Tax”.

Submitted by climaterealists on Tue, 17/08/2010 - 20:25

Carbon Sense 29 July 2010

 

The Carbon Sense Coalition today called for an end to deceptive advertising regarding Global Warming Policies.
 
The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that those calling for a “Price on Carbon” should speak the truth and call it a “Tax on the Production of Carbon Dioxide”.
 
“Similarly the CPRS (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) had nothing to do with pollution but everything to do with imposing taxes and rationing on economic activity.”
 
Forbes explained:
 
“The new green mantra chants: “We need a price on carbon”.
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The Rising Costs of Driving

Submitted by climaterealists on Sun, 15/08/2010 - 20:41

AA Directions Magazine-  Story by Peter King

It's said the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Looking at the increasing motoring costs scheduled by Government this year, perhaps one more thing should be added - complexity. For although the increases in taxes might be predictable, the reasons for the increases are becoming more and more difficult to understand.

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Now they are contradicting themselves

Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 04/08/2010 - 17:30

Pastural Farming Climate Research

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Dairy NZ is giving a series of workshops on livestock farming and greenhouse gases. They are delivering it on behalf of MAF so there is a fair amount of Government propaganda delivered. “We need an ETS or they won’t buy our produce ” sort of propaganda. On balance they did deliver it in a manner that accepted the widespread scepticism about global warming and the need for an ETS.

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