GISS July : Right At Scenario C
Posted on August 17, 2011 by stevengoddard
The GISS July anomaly went up to 0.60C, which places it squarely on top of Hansen’s scenario C – i.e. zero emissions after the year 2000. An honest evaluation would say that Hansen’s model has failed and his fears are unfounded.
(Real Science)
EU Emissions Trading Scheme Is A Failure
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 21:59 Matthew Sinclair, Public Service Europe
How much longer can European politicians keep the emissions trading scheme on life support?
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme is like a cargo ship stranded on a beach. Expected to play its vital part in an international carbon economy, it is grounded on the hard economic realities facing Europe. It sits there looking lonely and pointless thanks to the failure to secure an international deal. Instead of lucky locals picking over crates of consumer goods, there are big businesses and financiers making handsome profits at the expense of poor consumers. Instead of an insurer picking up the bill, families get higher electricity prices. Too many manufacturing workers play the role of the crew, and will be looking for a new job. (GWPF)
Despite the left-wing Fairfax rag, SMH trying to suggest there’s some doubt over change of Australian Government it’s a matter of exactly when, not if. The Left/Green/allegedly-Independent conglomerate administration will be obliterated at the next election and Australia will not have a CO2 emissions trading scam scheme of any description.
Pollution permits out if we get in: Coalition
Lenore Taylor
ELECTRICITY markets could be severely disrupted by the Coalition’s threat not to compensate generators for around half a billion dollars of forward-dated pollution permits set to be auctioned before the next election.
The Gillard government is proposing to auction 15 million forward-dated pollution permits in 2012-13, and electricity generators say they would like to buy 10 times more than that in order to nail down their carbon price liability as they enter into forward contracts with retailers and big industrial companies.
But the Coalition leader, Tony Abbott, has warned business the permits will be ”worthless” if he wins the next election, and the finance spokesman, Andrew Robb, said the Coalition was ”saying loudly that it is ‘buyer beware’ in relation to any advance auction of permits because if we are elected the scheme will be scrapped so there will be no market for them.”
The Coalition has vowed to repeal the carbon tax if it wins the next election even if it means holding a second double dissolution poll, but if the parliament runs its full term, the forward-dated permits will be one of a raft of problems in undoing the complex scheme. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Posted in Cap and tax, Green scams
Powerful states say all options considered in battling Gillard government tax
John Ferguson
THE nation’s most powerful states will confront Julia Gillard with a demand to tear down the carbon tax or face a revolt over multi-billion-dollar asset writedowns and sweeping job cuts. (The Australian)
Convoy a revolt of working people
Gary Johns
THE “convoy of no-confidence” in the federal Labor government, a convoy of trucks, trailers and campervans sponsored by the National Road Freighters Association started out from all over Australia yesterday and will be converging on Canberra on Monday.
The convoy will be carrying a petition calling for a federal election. Thousands will be streaming in from regional Australia in no fewer than 11 different convoys. (The Australian)
August 16th, 2011. It’s just another huge rally at Parliament House.
There was a crowd of 3000 according to the ABC report, but Nick Bryant from the BBC estimated 4,000-5,000, and significantly he also admitted that the crowd was not a red-neck, ute crowd, and that for many it was their first protest. For others, like one doctor, it had cost them dearly to get to the rally (see the quotes from his piece below). Such is the passion of the protesters. (Jo Nova)
Posted in Activists, Cap and tax
Russia’s Arctic Oil Rush May Run Into Asia’s Coming Econ-Crash
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 10:13 Al Fin Energy
Within the next year, the Kremlin is expected to make its claim to the United Nations in a bold move to annex about 380,000 square miles of the internationally owned Arctic to Russian control. At stake is an estimated one-quarter of all the world’s untapped hydrocarbon reserves, abundant fisheries, and a freshly opened route that will cut nearly a third off the shipping time from Asia to Europe.The global Arctic scramble kicked off in 2007 when Russian explorer Artur Chilingarov planted his country’s flag beneath the North Pole. “The Arctic is Russian,” he said. “Now we must prove the North Pole is an extension of the Russian landmass.”
In July, the Russian ship Akademik Fyodorov set off, accompanied by the giant nuclear-powered icebreaker, to complete undersea mapping to show that the Siberian continental shelf connects to underwater Arctic ridges, making Russia eligible to stake a claim. Around the same time, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced the creation of an Arctic military force tasked with backing up Moscow’s bid. _CSMonitor
Russia certainly sounds serious about this Arctic seafloor grab. But will there be enough global demand for oil remaining — once these expensive arctic wells come in — to pay back the huge investment which will be required to hold and develop this territory?
The future of the great Chindian economic boom may not be as exalted as conventional forecasters have thought. North American and European economies have been cutting back on oil demand, and a lot of analysts are beginning to think that the emerging economies may follow suit — at least until they can work out the troubling bugs in their systems. (GWPF)
Posted in Development, PlayStation® climatology
It’s industry itself that the Greens hate
The Greens want:
And now even coal-seam gas is under attack: (Andrew Bolt)
Greens question the science of gas for power generation
Sid Maher
BOB Brown has challenged a key assumption of the carbon pricing package he negotiated with Julia Gillard, declaring “the jury is out” on whether switching from coal to gas for electricity will deliver the emissions savings the government’s greenhouse modelling assumes. (The Australian)
Posted in Enviros, Misanthropy
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