SE QLD Farmer and Chairman of the “Carbon Sense” group Viv Forbes writes:
Responding to the draft Garnaut report, it is becoming very clear that carbon dioxide is not a key driver of earth’s temperature, and attempts to reduce man’s emissions of CO2 will do more harm than good.
There is certainly no justification for the premature imposition of any de-carbonisation proposals in Australia - no emissions trading systems, no cap and trade nonsense, no subsidies for converting food to motor spirit, no mandating of fairyland energy proposals, no geo-sequestration and no more carbon taxes.
Photo of “Carbon Sense” Chairman Viv Forbes. Viv farmers in South East QLD and breeds Stud and commercial Damara Sheep. Seen here hold a Damara Ram.
However, if we were forced to choose between all the above unpalatable de-carbonisation alternatives, “Carbon Sense” would reluctantly support a simple carbon tax on all net direct emissions of CO2 from all industries. This should be accompanied by the IMMEDIATE abolition of all the other state and federal legislated Greenhouse foolishness.
As soon as the climate and the science make it clear, even to economists such as Professor Ross Garnaut (pictured), that man does not control the climate, we can then easily abolish the silly carbon tax.
(Editors Note:
All four major global temperature tracking outlets Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS have released updated data which show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped dramatically. Check the Graphic out for yourself by Clicking Here.
Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C. All in one year time. For all sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.)
The Precautionary Principle so loved by those spreading doomsday stories on everything, even suggest that a simple carbon tax is far less risky than grandiose plans to create an expensive and artificial bubble industry based on Carbon Emissions Trading.
The immediate effect of cap and trade legislation is the creation of new electronic assets called “permits to emit” with no reality, no separate existence, no asset backing and no intrinsic value whatsoever. Their value depends solely on a politician’s promise that people holding an emissions permit will have a protected position compared to those without a permit.
As soon as the government creates these securities with no substance and the Carbon Bank which stores no carbon, a huge new artificial industry will be created. There will be administrators and auditors, bankers and brokers, barristers and bureaucrats, carbon credit farmers and foresters, lawyers and lobbyists, traders and tax advisers, and all the high paid never ending research jobs in Zero-Gen and Zero emissions.
This picture shows how nature works in hard times. Look at the co-operation on our farm, between our Senepol Bull, who is pushing over the Leucaena saplings so he and the Damara, Dorper and Meatmaster rams can get a feed.
To some people, the Greenhouse industry looks like the saviour of Australia after the last coal mine and the last cement plant are closed, the last farm becomes a carbon credit plantation, and the sounds of planes, trains, trucks, tractors and dozers are no longer heard in the land.
Decarbonisation will never create one more roof on a new house, a slice of toast on one plate, a steak on a single barby, a blanket on one bed or a light in one dunny. And the warm inner glow from Canberra will not boil one kettle in Cairns.
When the real economy dies, so too will this huge parasitic bubble economy manufactured in Parliament. It will be better for all concerned that it is never created.”
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