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This Sunday, 18 October, thousands of Australians will participate in a world-record breaking international premiere of Not Evil Just Wrong: The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria.

Not Evil Just Wrong, a feature length documentary, shreds the outlandish claims made by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and shows how extreme environmentalism damages the lives of the most vulnerable. The film explores the science of global warming and compares the current “crisis” of global warming to other supposed crises that mankind has faced in recent memory.

The international premiere falls just one day before the Liberal partyroom meets to determine its position on the Kevin Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme. The film is expected to feature heavily in the debate. Hundreds of private and public screenings have been organised by community groups and concerned citizens in every state and territory in Australia. A full list of public screenings in Australia may be found Here

“This film premieres right when Australia needs it most,” states Ann McElhinney, codirector of the film. “Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wants to impose a crippling tax on every Australian household. This film will reveal to Australians for the first time the true cost of this radical environmentalism and generate a real debate.”

The draconian measures that must be undertaken not only in Australia, but around the world, in order to have a measurable impact on CO2 emissions will have harmful impacts on all humanity, and will disproportionately affect those who can least afford it. In the same way as the banning of DDT based on discredited science led to the deaths of millions from malaria, so too will climate change hysteria lead to suffering for the world’s poor.

“This is the film Hollywood doesn’t want you to see,” says McElhinney. “It is not a mainstream Hollywood documentary. It features real people, and the real impact on their lives. We are going to distribute it the same way we shot the film – premiering it all across the world on DVD on individual TV sets in the homes of real people and to community groups.”

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I was contacted by ABC Four Corners researcher Anne Connolly this morning. Four Corners will be attending and filming the Professor Bob Carter Climate Change meeting organized by Agmates in conjunction with Property Rights Australia and The Australian Climate Science Coalition.

The Four Corners crew will be there on the day following Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce and will be attending the campdraft with him and then the Bob Carter Climate Change talks that night.

All indications are that their will a large roll up to the meeting. If you’d like to ensure that you have seats for the meeting please click here and use the RSVP function to show if you will be attending or not attending. If you are not attending please use comments section at the bottom to leave a message of support or otherwise. Its important if you cannot be there on the night that you have your say.

In the the lead up to the resumption of Parliament and second vote on the Rudd Governments Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme the three meeting at Rockhampton, Roma and Clermont are shaping up as events of national significance. They are the most significant and substantial community insipired Climate Change meeeting in Australia between now and the crucial vote.

So take your place in the historic meetings. Be sure to secure your seat at the closest meeting and bring a friend. You can play your part in spreading the word through the Australian community by emailing this onto each and every person on your email contact list.

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Steve Truman Agmates Editor.

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Agmates in Conjunction with Property Rights Australia and The Australian Climate Science Coalition is bringing Professor Bob Carter to three regional Queensland centres to explain why he believes the Rudd Governments carbon Pollution reduction Scheme is the “Worst Act of Parliament Since Federation”.

The evenings with Professor Carter are at:

Tuesday 6th October – Rockhampton Leagues Club Corner of Cambridge & George Street Rockhampton – 7pm to 9.30pm.

Friday 9th October – Jubilee Hall,TAFE College, 2-28 Timbury Street, Roma – 7.30 – 9.30pm. * Senator Barnaby Joyce will there and will address this meeting.

Saturday 10th October - Clermont Blair Athol Community Hall, Collins Street off Ruby Vale Road, Clermont – 1.30pm to 3.30pm.

In an email to all members of his Group site Senator Barnaby Joyce said:

“Hi Agmates you might have seen a note from Cate Stuart about the series of meetings being planned for Rockhampton, Roma and Clermont with Professor BobCarter from James Cook University. Professor Carter will be addressing the Climate Change Debate and I would urge you all to try and get along to one of the meetings.

I can’t stress enough just how important this is. I will be attending the meeting at Roma and would love to see you all there, it’s alsoa chance for me to catch up with you personally to discuss any other pressing issues as we continue to take the fight up to the Rudd Governmentprior to the next election.”

If you live near one of those centres, not only make an effort to get to the meeting but ring your neighbours and friends and get them to come along with you.

See here for more details about meetings

About Bob Carter:

Bob Carter pictured during a recent presentation to MP's ans Senators in Canberra. Professor Carter was there at the request of Independent Senator Steve Fielding.

Professor Bob Carter’s talk will explain the basic elements of the science behind the hypothesis of dangerous global warming caused by human carbon dioxide emissions, address the causes of the political socio-pathology represented by the CPRS bill, and suggest a cost-effective, hazard-reduction way forward.

Bob Carter has acted as an expert witness on climate change before the U.S. Senate Committee of Environment & Public Works, the Australian and N.Z. parliamentary Select Committees into emissions trading and in a meeting in parliament house, Stockholm. He was also a primary science witness in the U.K. High Court case of Dimmock v. H.M.’s Secretary of State for Education, the 2007 judgement from which identified nine major scientific errors in Mr Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth”.

His talk will provide a balanced summary of the current state of knowledge regarding whether dangerous global warming is being caused by human carbon dioxide emissions. All persons who are concerned about the need for implementation of aggressive emissions trading measures, such as have already been passed in European countries and are currently being contemplated in USA, New Zealand and Australia, will benefit from attending his lecture. There will be ample opportunities to ask questions and engage in discussion.

Public discussion of whether emissions trading will have any effect on future climate, the impact that it will have on living costs for the average Australian, and how damaging it will be to the national economy is dominated by propaganda from extremely vociferous, well funded and self-interested organisations.

For a carbon dioxide tax level of $20/tonne of carbon dioxide emitted, the average Australian family will have direct extra costs of ~$2000/year levied against them, plus an unknowable sum of extra indirect costs. In return, computer modelling suggests that there might be a reduction in global temperature by the year 2100 of one-ten thousandth of a degree Celsius; in other words, no measurable effect upon climate will result.

If you’d like more information or volunteer you help on the night or to secure your seats call me on 0428 966819 .

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Agmates editor – Steve Truman

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In an article from international news agency Reuters yesterday the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said:

“The world will have to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people.

Annual cereals output would have to grow by almost one billion tonnes from about 2.1 billion tonnes at present to meet the projected food and feed demand by 2050, the agency said.

Interestingly the report says that Meat production will have to increase by more than 200 million tonnes to reach 470 million tonnes in 2050. The Australian Government through its Carbon Pollution Reduction scheme plans to reduce our cattle and sheep populations by 25% to cut methane gas emissions. Thats 28 million cattle down to 21 million and 70 million sheep down to 52 million.

The article goes on to say that the world will need to increase investments in agriculture. The Australian government has massively cut funding to Agricultural research.

The article goes onto say that the world can feed itself by bringing into production 120 million hectares of land in developing countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Interestingly the report expects Arable land in use in developed countries to fall by some 50 million hectares. This figure is interesting. The Australian government had legislated to take 32 million hectares of arable land out of production and into growing forests as carbon sinks over the next 40 years.

Also interesting is that the Australian government through its national water Buyback scheme is taking up to 50% of our irrigation water out of our Agricultural food bowl the Murray Darling for the environment. The report says global water use for irrigated agriculture is projected to grow by only about 11 percent by 2050.

I’d hope that the UN FOA has calculated in these numbers to its estimates. Australia is one of the top 5 food exporters in the world. Obviously our Government has decided that it is more important to protect our environment than it is to play our part in feeding the people of the world.

I personally believe we as a nation have a greater moral obligation to feed people than we do to save the trees and wildlife habitats.

Apparently our government does not have the same moral priorities as I do.

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Agmates editor Steve Truman

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Greens Senator Christine Milne has called on consumers to to stop buying milk from Japanese Food Giant Kirin’s National Foods, until the company gives dairy farmers a better deal.

Senator Milne says consumers can help the farmers, buy not buying ‘Pura’ or generic brands of milk.

“I think the community needs to pick up anything they look at in the dairy line and if it’s produced by National Foods, give National Foods the same level of respect that they’re giving farmers at the moment…and that’s not much,” she said.

Tasmanian dairy farmers say they are being forced into bankruptcy by a multinational company abusing market power to halve the price it pays for their milk.

National Foods — owned by Japanese conglomerate Kirin — has slashed the price it pays Tasmanian dairy farmers for milk from an average of 49.7c per litre to an average 29.6c, and as little as 20.8c.

Tasmanian dairy farmer Phil Beattie says:

“Our cost of production is almost exactly 39c a litre. If you take 29 from 39, that’s 10. Multiply that by 7.5 million litres and you have an annual $750,000 loss.

“They are persecuting us. We’re a small family business — we’re just a family farm. Why are they trying to bankrupt us?”

Show our dairy farmers your support. Boycott all National Foods Dairy Products.

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Also posted on Supporting Our Food and Fibre Producers.

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The transformation of the National Party into a powerful stand alone political party was completed over the weekend at it’s peak federal council meeting in Canberra.

The party’s federal director Brad Henderson declared the re birthing of the party when he stated:

“The nub of the changes that we are making is about more assertively advocating the interests of regional Australia.”

Long time Agmates readers will know that this is dream come true for me and the Agmates community. Over the last 3 years on these Agmates pages I have been the loudest and longest advocate for the party to take exactly that stance.

I could not be a happier or a prouder person today. Our very own party unashamedly championing the causes of the seven million people who live in rural and regional Australia is a dream come true for me.

Until now to their great disadvantage seven million regional Australians have been at the mercy of the Urban centric Labor and Liberal political party’s. Now at last we have representation. Now at last we have a voice and are no longer the forgotten Australians.

After the rebirth over the weekend I’m beaming like a proud new parent.

Here is a small selection of over 300 posts on Federal politics over the last 2 years.

[11/05/09] Senator Barnaby Joyce – The National Party Manifesto

[15/01/09] National Party Ploy To Get Rid Of Barnaby Joyce

[24/06/08] Nationals Cosy Relationship with the liberals is Killing it

[22/06/08] Liberals Betray Nationals & Rural Australia

[02/02/08] Who can save the Nationals from themselves?

[02/02/08] Nationals Must face their Irrelevance

[11/12/07] Farmer and Life-time Nationals Voter – No More

[02/12/07] National Party Ignore Vail’s Call for Gen Change

[23/11/07] National party’s Sorry record of Battling the bush

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The Emissions Trading Scheme will be voted on in the senate this Thursday, 13th Aug

A protest of ordinary Australians against it is being organized from 9.30 am on that day.

Speakers will outline the costs of an ETS which includes

• Fuel prices will rise at least 10% but then increase much higher from there

• Food and transport costs will rise 10 – 25% then rise further from there

• Power costs will quickly rise by 100% (as has happened in Spain which is converting to more renewable power sources)

• Unemployment will reach over 20% (Spain has just reached 18% , but Australia is more fossil fuel reliant so we will be looking at higher unemployment rates)

• Companies which become unviable will move overseas – therefore exporting tens of thousands of Australian jobs.

• Australia will lose $billions of dollars from coal and mining exports

• Farmers will not only have higher power & fuel costs, but will be taxed around $7 – $10 per sheep and $60 – $75 per cow per year for methane emissions after 2015.

• The average taxpayer cost will be $4550 per year starting in 2011 but rising to $91,000 per year by 2060.

• The ETS will be mostly regulations controlled by the parliament so exact prices for carbon, and the percent amount of emissions reductions can be increased by a government (in control of both houses) at will.

All these costs could be voted into force by the senate on Aug13th despite the fact the scientific evidence CO2 causes climate change has no conclusive basis.

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Leon Ashby is the president of the Climate Sceptics

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A protest rally by ordinary Australians against the passing of the Emissions Trading Scheme will be held in Canberra this Thursday to coincide with the Senate vote on the legislation.

The protest rally will commence from 9.30 am (assembly time) behind Old Parliament House, then marching to the precinct in front of Parliament house to hear speeches, poems & songs from 10 am.

Schedule of Protest in Canberra – Aug13th

• Everyone who is against the ETS for whatever reason is being urged to attend the protest / rally.

• Various speakers will outline the reasons they are against an emissions trading scheme

• Barnaby Joyce, and Wilson Tuckey will be two of the speakers at the event.

• Placards, balloons and speakers are being finalised.

• Many people will stay for the vote in the senate to hopefully see it being voted against.

• Please bring a placard with a fun or serious comment on it.

• About 15 large helium filled balloons will be released as part of the event – each with a different reason why the ETS should be rejected written on each one.

The program will be

• 9.30am assemble at the point designated in the attached photo.

• 9.45am march 400 metres to precinct in front of Parliament house.

• 10 am speeches , songs and poems

• at the end of speeches (11am?) balloons released

• 11.30 am lunch & socialising in the parliament house cafeteria

• after lunch – sitting in the senate chamber watching the debate & the vote process.

• 6 pm meet at Canberra Yacht club (Marina Place 500 metres NW of Parliament House near waters edge) to watch various evening news services to see how the ETS vote gets reported.

From more information about the protest rally, Contact the Coordinator:

Leon Ashby
President The Climate Sceptics
PO, Box 721, Mt Gambier SA 5290
Ph 0887259561 or 0887235550
http://agmates.ning.com/group/climatscepticsparty
info@climatesceptics.com.au
http://www.climatesceptics.com.au/

The Newspoll survey released in today’s Australian newspaper reveals to a massive 70% of Coalition voters oppose want the Liberal / National party to reject Kevin Rudds Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme when it comes before the Senate in two weeks time.

The Newspoll survey asked:

Which one of the following comes closest to your view about the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme?

Today’s Newspoll result is the  death knell for Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.   From Todays Australian:

“Mr Turnbull was openly attacked by outspoken veteran backbencher Wilson Tuckey and was yesterday facing further internal revolt when he was accused of putting political expediency ahead of the national interest by supporting Labor’s emissions trading scheme.”

Liberal MP’s are as outraged at Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott’s politically expedient back flip on the ETS as I was in this article posted just days ago:

“The tragedy for rural & regional Australians and blue collar workers is that Abbott and Turnbull are actually terrified not of the coalition losing the election, which is inevitable no mater when its held in this current term, but of themselves losing their inner Sydney ‘doctors wives’ dominated seats of Warrinngah (Abbott) and Wentworth (Turnbull).

Stuff the lives and jobs of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians, they have to be re-elected. Its a sad indictment on them as men.”

Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership of the Coalition is untenable – more from the Australian.

“The latest outbreak of dissent came just as public opinion turns against Australia taking a world lead on climate change.

Liberal backbencher Cory Bernardi, already sacked by Mr Turnbull for speaking out, said the party would suffer for the Opposition Leader’s actions in preparing to pass Labor’s ETS before Copenhagen. “The political price of supporting something you publicly acknowledge is bad for every family, every community and the country, for short-term expediency is likely to be very high. Moreover, it is payable in the most prized of political capital — credibility,” Senator Bernardi said in a newsletter to colleagues. Senator Bernardi told The Australian he believed changes on the support for an ETS would have a big impact on the Liberal Party.”

As far as Coalition supporters are concerned both Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal Leader and passing the ETS legislation in the Senate are unacceptable.

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Open letter to Leaders of the State Based Farming Organizations.

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I’m writing to you as President’s, Chairperson’s, executives and members  of commodity councils and Farming organizations, about a matter of the gravest importance and Urgency.

In just 16 days time the Federal Parliament with sit again. The Rudd Government will be presenting it’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme legislation for passage through the Senate into Law.

The very survival of the Australian farm industry and our rural communities depends on the Senate blocking this legislation in its current form.

Two very important and significant things have happened over the past 48 hours.

1. The Climate Sceptics Party have announced that they are Coordinating a rally of Australians against the governments Emissions Trading Scheme to be held on the front lawn at Parliament House Canberra on the 13th of August . This is the first day back from the Parliaments 6 week winter recess and is the day that the ETS will be introduced into the Senate.

2. Yesterday Senator Barnaby Joyce launched his Agmates Group site. He has published an excellent post in his groups topics showing among other things that this legislation will wipe out Australian farmers and massively increase the cost of food to every Australian consumer. Click on linked headline below to read it.

GET TO KNOW YOUR ETS, TAKE IT OUT TO DINNER

Senator Joyce is urging every farmer in Australia to be at the rally at which he is a speaker.

Senator Joyce  says that we must put 1,000’s of people on the lawn to show the politicians, and mainstream media that we will not accept this new tax that will bring no benefit to the environment, but put 100,000’s out of work and cripple our farm industry.

I’ve spoken to the President of the Climate Sceptics Leon Ashby and he has agreed that we can invite farm organizations to march in the Rally under their own banner. The rally is for all Australians, be they from  mining, industry, farming , workers and everybody adversely affected by this flawed legislation.

We are urging the leaders all  the commodity councils and farming organizations to rally their members and March on Canberra. We expect you to lead your members to Canberra.

So now your challenge.

We are calling on each organization to hit the phones, email whatever and firstly explain that this is the most important issue to farmers (them) in our lifetime. We want you to rally as many members  as you possibly can to attend and get them to rally their friends.

No time to lose. We have just 16 days to save our industry. Once the legislation is passed its to late.

Yours in anticipation

Steve Truman

Agmates Founder