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Over the last decade like the Australian ABC the UK BBC has been chief amongst media spreading the global warming hysteria. Finally after a decade of global cooling even the mighty BBC has relented.

From BBC online:

What happened to global warming?

“This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true.

For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.

And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.

So what on Earth is going on? “

Writes the BBC’s Climate correspondent Paul Hudson.

Don’t you just love the surprised innocence in Paul’s tone, completely blindsided by this news he is. Now Paul is not your average BBC news journo, he is THE BBC Climate Correspondent breaking this amazing news to the world.

After going through a range of options as to what is really driving the climate, the Sun, World ocean temperatures, Paul comes to the stunning conclusion:

“One thing is for sure. It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over. Indeed some would say it is hotting up.”

How long before Australia’s own National Broadcaster the ABC starts to report the facts instead of the hype?

Indeed how long before our own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister (the minister for the natural) Penny Wong, admit the truth to the Australian people,

“the science on climate change is anything but settled”.

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Federal Water Minister Penny Wong’s water buyback scheme is devastating drought ravaged rural Australia and threatening our national food security.

From todays Sydney Telegraph.

“Once-thriving rural communities are being devastated as farmers sell water rights back to the government to keep the bankers from their doors. Towns are finding themselves without doctors, tradesmen, teachers and with empty shops in their main street as their agricultural roots dry up and labourers, farm hands, shearers, drivers and the farmers themselves give up and leave.”

The water buyback is crippling the economies of small towns such as Warren in NSW.

“NSW farmers have sold almost four times more water than any other state – almost 400,000 megalitres – in what small towns call the “most disastrous scheme ever entered upon by any government”.

Macquarie Food and Fibre Network chair Tony Wass (pictured) fears saving South Australian wetlands will destroy Murray-Darling towns.

“What they are doing is strangling the food source,” he said. “Every farmer in Australia feeds 600 people. There is a lack of recognition of the value of farming.

We’re run by bureaucrats who make us feel unwelcome on our own land.”

Water4Food Association chairman Terry Hogan put it in a global context:

“We need to make our city cousins aware the tsunami coming is not climate change, it’s food security.”

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Local Federal MP John Cobb says:

“Because of the drought, farmers are desperate and the Rudd Government is deliberately taking advantage of the situation.

The Rudd Government has no plan for what it is doing, and won’t have a plan until at least 2011.

Because of the drought all the Rudd Government is buying right now is airspace in dams and the future of regional communities.

Answers in the Senate show the Rudd Government hasn’t spent a cent on irrigation water infrastructure, despite promising over $5.8 billion.

At the same time the Rudd Government is refusing to invest a single cent into guaranteeing the Nation’s food security, it has refused to stop its Labor mates in Victoria from stealing 110,000 megalitres of water out of Murray Darling Basin via a pipeline to Melbourne.”

John Cobb said he held grave concerns not only for future of regional communities, he was also worried about the nations food security and the welfare of many in regional Australia who are struggling to cope with the drought which is now entering its eighth year in some areas.

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Murray Darling Basin Dairy farmer Shane Spunner writes:

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Whatever irrigation water that is available in the Murray River basin is that expensive that with the current milk price , unless you are prepared to go into more debt, it is simply unaffordable.

Penny Wong has not yet finished buying water, and that the MDBA basin determination plan , due in 2011 , has been touted to have significantly less water available for irrigator’s.

With the federal Government, MDBA, Water for Rivers, The Living Murray, VIC, NSW, SA govts , Melbourne Water, Coliban Water all entering the “market” to supposedly buy irrigation water from willing seller’s you really do wonder whether government wants farmer’s or whether they are under the insane impression that there was money to be made from speculative trading of water.

If the latter was the case , I wonder who will buy their water when all the farmers have gone broke ? I think the vast majority of people tend to get caught up in the hype surrounding the health of river’s.

The role of a river is to drain the country . The longer the river, the lower the quality at the end. Given that the Murray flows through some of the worst salt affected land in Australia (the area surrounding Kerang) and that when the explorer Sturt first crossed the Darling he noted how brackish the water’s were.

It is ridiculous to expect that the water at the bottom of the river will be as pristine as that which leaves the upper Murray.  It is also ridiculous to send water that could generate ten’s of million’s of dollar’s in wealth, to the lower lakes to simply evaporate (over 1 000 000 megs annually! , there is also a 30% transmission loss to get the water there).

These are extraordinary times at the moment and with every capital city on the sea, and with the ability to desalinate water and SA having the option of filling the lakes with sea water (when we upstream have no option), surely people have to think of the future of farming as nothing grows without water.

Currently the easy option (both financially and politically) seem’s to be to rip the heart out of farming in the basin and that will be to the long term detriment of this country from here on.

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QLD farmer and Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition Viv Forbes writes:

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Viv Forbes

Soon our elected representatives will be asked to vote on Senator Wong’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

This scheme is not about carbon or pollution. Its main effect is to provide for a cap on the human production of carbon dioxide, a colourless harmless natural gas. Carbon dioxide is no more a pollutant than oxygen or water, the other two atmospheric gases on which all life on earth relies.

The bill will also levy a tax on whatever carbon dioxide is produced, and levy an excess production tax on anyone whose production exceeds the legal cap. It is a carbon dioxide Cap-n-Tax Bill.

There is no human activity whatsoever that does not generate carbon dioxide. Therefore any attempt to measure, cap and tax human production of carbon dioxide must eventually extend to every human activity (the UK government already floated the idea that every person be issued with a personal carbon ration card).

This is a very serious proposal, with wide-ranging implications for all aspects of economic life and personal freedoms.

Click on the cap-n-trade Maze to see full size

It could only be justified if there was a clear and urgent danger that additional human production of carbon dioxide is highly likely to cause dangerous global warming.

There is no evidence that this is the case just computer models and scare forecasts. Neither the scientific questions, nor the cost benefit analysis has been subject to any critical independent analysis.

The Cap-n-Trade Maze diagram  illustrates the sequence of decisions that should be made before this bill gets assent.

If the answer to ANY ONE of the boxed questions is NO, there is no justification for Australia rushing ahead with its Cap-n-Tax Bill.

This Maze, although light-hearted, has a factual basis and conveys some very serious messages.

It is highly unlikely that anyone could honestly answer Yes to every question, which is what is required to justify passage of the bill.

This suggests that there is a high likelihood that the bill will have NO CLIMATE EFFECT WHATSOEVER and thus a costly exercise in self delusion.

The Carbon Sense Coalition’s strong recommendation is that all Parliaments reject all Cap-n-Tax Bills.

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Nationals Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce writes from Parliament:

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Barnaby Joyce

The problem with the ETS is most Australians are unaware of the impact it will have on the cost of living or the reality of what happens to those industries that’ll be left to shoulder the cost.

The role of the Parliament on a major piece of legislation is to make sure that Australia is fully aware of what they signing themselves up for and what it will achieve if they buy the ETS ticket.

The longer the debate goes on the more people understand and if the debate goes all next week all the better for all Australia.

All over Australia views on the ETS issue are changing as people understand that they face increased costs to consumables like power and food.

The ETS is the employment termination scheme for regional Australia and the Nationals have led the way on this debate stating that you can reduce carbon emissions; if that’s what you really feel you have to do, without destroying the living standards of huge belts of Australia.

At the same time the National Party has been at the forefront of saying there are two sides of the debate and our Parliament shouldn’t be scripted into only allowing one.

If people don’t believe in global warming then that’s their right and no less a right than the person who believes in it fervently.

There are a range of views across and within all parties and wouldn’t it be nice if we had a debate where everyone could express their genuinely held beliefs in a truly democratic institution.

This is the most crucial economic policy in recent time in Australia and it’s vital we keep the debate going. If we get it wrong then the economic ramifications for Australia will be catastrophic.

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Breaking News:

• Coalition Senators and Independents Steve Fielding & Xenophon delay renewable energy laws

• Steve Fielding to have ‘get back to you’ meeting with Senator Wong Later today

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Agmates member JeffT writes:

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You may remember the frightening pictures (recycled from previous year) of the Wilkins Ice Shelf breaking away earlier this year, as portrayed by the media (from the Australian)

A SPLIT over global warming has emerged in Kevin Rudd’s cabinet after it was revealed that a 13-month-old photograph was published this month to support the view that a catastrophic melting of Antarctic ice was imminent.

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was disappointed with the way her ministerial colleague, Peter Garrett, weighed into the debate about global warming, claiming sea levels could rise by 6m as a result of melting in Antarctica.

The pictures below show what is happening on the West Antarctic Peninsula, in this case over a short period from 10th June to 16th June 2009. The yellow arrow is pointing at the area of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, a sea ice bridge between Charcot Island and Latady Island, shown as two little blue bumps, just below were arrow is pointing.

Antarctic Peninsular 16/06/09

Antarctic Peninsular 10/06/09

As today is 6 days away from the Winter Solstice(the Sun’s up North) , this ice should continue to increase considerably until at least late July.

So the disastrous Antarctic melting scenario of 20′ sea level rise from Wong/Garrett, with it’s Climate Change/ETS reasoning is again proven wrong.

From Todays  Australian: “Ice Shelves Stable over Six Years”

ANTARCTIC ice shelves are showing no sign of climate change, six years of unique research have shown.

“More than six years of observation has not revealed any significant climatic trends,” CUT associate professor Alexander Gavrilov said yesterday.

So at every chance, we should support Senator’s Steve Fielding and Barnaby Joyce – and any other politician who believes that the current push for an ETS under the guise of “Saving Our Planet” – or from Senator Wong – “for our children and their children’s children” (emotional blackmail) is a scam.

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When Independent Senator Steve Fielding met with Australian Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and her chief scientist Professor Penny Sackett he asked one simple question:

Isn’t it true that carbon emissions have been going up and global temperature hasn’t?

Simple enough question I would have thought. After all isn’t that why the Rudd government is pushing ahead with its Carbon pollution Reductions Scheme, because rising CO2 levels are causing global warming. Should have been easy enough to answer. Senator Fielding explains to AM’s Tony Eastley:

Look, firstly I would have to say I am not a sceptic but at the same token, I do want to get to the bottom of the issues. Now up until now, we have seen carbon emissions go up and global temperatures, the way the IPCC has been measuring them, not going up.

Astoundingly Penny Wong has told Steve Fielding that her and the governments scientists would have to get back to him on that.

Steve Fielding

they wanted to rephrase my question not answer it so I have got an agreement with Penny Wong that she would answer my question over the next day or so.

So I am hoping to get that either later today or tomorrow and then we can get to the bottom of it.

Because really, that is a fundamental question – is carbon emissions driving up global temperatures – and there is a question mark over it.

Haven’t we been repeatedly told the science is settled, runaway climate change is at a tipping point etc etc. Are we (the so branded sceptics) the only ones who have noticed for the last decade that the IPCC modelling of increasing global temperatures is not happening even though CO2 levels continue to rise.

What?.. the Australian Climate Change minister and her army of government scientist not to mention a house full of federal politicians (bar the Nationals who read Agmates and can use google search) have not seen the data which is accessible to anybody via a handful of computer clicks.

What else can I say – Unbelievable.

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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong have repeatedly told us that they are pressing ahead with their Emissions Trading Scheme based on what the science is telling them on Climate Change.

Agriculture minister Tony Burke when presented with ABARE figures on the cost to farmers of an Emissions trading Scheme maintains that farmers will adapt.

So what is it that Minister Burke knows that nobody else seems to. Perhaps its the advise he’s getting from the scientists?

Professor Barry Brook,  Climate Scientist from Adelaide University is a key scientiist advising the government on Climate Change. Just watch Professor Brook explain to the Supreme Master TV vegetarian viewers how Livestock Methane Emissions are a greater threat to Global warming than all the coal powered fire stations in Australia put together.

He believes Australia can phase out cattle production completely in just the next couple of years. Is that what Tony Burke has up his sleeve for livestock producers? Is his idea of adapting, raising Kangaroos instead of beef and perhaps its growing trees for Carbon?

If he is listening to Professor Brook farmers future sure as hell won’t be raising beef or dairy cattle. Watch the video and you’ll be as horrified as I was.

The video may take a little while to load, but stick with it.

(Thanks to Agmate JeffT)

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Update:

Contact details for the good professor Barry Brook.

Work Phone – 08 83033745 – Mobile 0420 958400 – Email barry.brook@adelaide.edu.au

Thanks to South Australian Agmate Richard.

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Agmates member JeffT writes:

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I was very interested to read that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is now campaigning to accredit beef producers in the major beef producing countries. (Agmates 10th June, Foxes in Charge of the Hen House)

Beef producers in those countries should be aware of who they are dealing with here.

World Wildlife Fund is the largest conservation organization in the world. WWF works in 100 countries on more than 2,000 conservation programs. WWF has 1.2 million members in the United States and nearly 5 million supporters worldwide and employs over 4,000 staff.

Financial information  2006:

Revenue $162,536,877.00 – Expenses $130,811,748.00 – Net assets $221,290,334.00

Yes they are huge, well resourced and extremely well funded. Anyone who takes WFF lightly is very foolish.

History.

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was formed, Sept. 11, 1961 (another bloody 9/11 coincidence?) in Morges, Switzerland by Sir Julian Huxley.

Julian Huxley, was also the British Eugenics Society president from 1954-1962.

[E]ven though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable. –Julian Huxley

The radical eugenics policy Huxley hoped would become thinkable was -

Nazi abuses, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of “undesired” population groups.

WWF’s first president was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands 1962-1976.

He was forced to resign in late 1976 as a result of the Lockheed Scandal.

Scandal rocked the Royal Family in 1976 when it was revealed that Prince Bernhard had accepted a US$1.1 million bribe from U.S. aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Corporation to influence the Dutch government’s purchase of fighter aircraft.

Later it was also revealed:

In 1988, Prince Bernhard and Princess Juliana sold two paintings from their personal collection to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund. The paintings sold for GBP700 000, which was deposited in a Swiss WWF bank account. In 1989, however, Charles de Haes, director-general of the WWF, transferred GBP500 000 back to Bernhard, for what De Haes called a private project. In 1991, newspapers reported what this private project was: Prince Bernhard had hired mercenaries – mostly British – to fight against poachers in nature reserves.

In 1995, Nelson Mandela called upon the Kumleben Commission to investigate, among other things, the role of the WWF in apartheid South Africa. In the report that followed, it was suggested that mercenaries from Project Lock had planned assassinations of ANC members and that mercenaries had been running training camps in the wildlife reserves, training fighters from the anti-communist groups UNITA and Renamo.

He was succeeded in 1976 by John Loudon till 1981. Loudon was the  former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, and chairman of Shell Oil Co.

Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh served as president from 1981 to 1996.

Prince Philip emerges in a television interview this week as the model royal “eco-warrior” who believes overpopulation has contributed to the pressures on the world and that anyone who believes in God should go green.

The duke hints that curbing family sizes may be the best means of keeping the soaring cost of staple food products, such as bread and rice, in check.

WWF Associations

The WWF office in Washington , D.C. adjoined the Conservation Foundation, whose new president in 1961 was William K. Reilly, a protege of the genocidal environmentalists Russell Train and Maurice Strong.

Remember some of my raves a while back on WWF – and The Nature Conservancy and connection to our Federal Government?

Firstly the link between the two.

Amongst that article, you will see Stanford University. This hall of learning also appears to be the think tank for climate change of the fanatic kind and eugenics – population reduction.

People such as:-
Paul and Anne Ehrlich – one of their books “The Population Bomb” on how the Earth cannot support the population (written in the ’70’s). They reckoned the US could not support 150 million – it is now around 300 million.

John Holdren – now POTUS Obama’s science advisor – collaborated with the Ehrlichs in writing their books and various papers. He is now carrying the alarmist Climate Change banner. He has also spoken recently on population reduction.

Stephen Schneider - promoted the Global Cooling scare in the ’70’s, also a close friend of Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Now right into the current Climate Change and Emissions Trading. Schneider has refused public debate on climate change just recently.

Now the next link between the above WWF , TNC and Australia’s Department of Environment (Sen Peter Garrett’s portfolio.). See the pretty Government letterhead. The TNC has been described as a “realestater” by some in the US. They have an on going series of projects in the US to remove people and farms from large areas of the western US, to convert it to wilderness. eg The Wildlands Project and the Y2Y project (Yellowstone to Yukon).

Supreme Master TV

Another connection, which will scare the heck out of beef, lamb and pork producers is the Supreme Master TV site. Click here to open up the site.

When the front page loads, scroll down to the WWF symbol (panda) and watch Dr Keith Allot on ” Restoring the Balance of Nature”

While on the movie clip page, you can scroll down to select Professor Barry Brook (Adelaide University – Climate scientist) on Livestock. Agriculture and climate Change. This guy is one of the chief scientific advisers to the Rudd Government.

Also the UN’s Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri on going vegetarian to save the planet, and further down Dr James Hansen of NASA’s GISS on climate change, reducing carbon – all the usual alarmist rhetoric – but he has been an adviser to Kevin Rudd and  Penny  Wrong.

Scary part of all this is that there is 1,555,000 pages available on a Google search, some of it about the Cult of Supreme Master. This series of programs is broadcast around the world on satellite, internet TV and cable where applicable.

Just a little bit of history and information from my files, to show who and what you are dealing with.

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Intended or unintended the consequences of Kevin Rudd & Penny Wongs Twynam 240 gig, $303 million water buyback are already emerging. From todays Australian Newspaper

Richard Haire

The head of Australia’s oldest cotton company, Richard Haire, said his Queensland Cotton Corporation had suffered “collateral damage” from the Twynam agriculture company’s sale last week of 240 gigalitres of water.

Queensland Cotton bought three NSW cotton gins, or mills, from Twynam three years ago: in the Gwydir Valley at Collarenebri, at Warren in the Macquarie Valley, and at Mungindi in the Macintyre Valley.

Mr Haire said Twynam’s water sale meant the $20 million cotton gin at Collarenebri was no longer viable.

Anybody who has been to Collarenebri will know that will be the death of the community. QLD Cotton spent jusyt on $1 million in the townships of Collarenebri and Moree. Thats a huge hit to their local economies.

The township of Warren will also feel the brunt.

Mr Haire said half the cotton processed at the Warren gin came from Twynam properties.

“We will be doing everything we can to keep it open, but there is no doubt that this decision willcertainly shorten the season,” he said.

Haire believes the Twynam purchase and future buy backs has already killed irrigation investment.

The political and legal risk associated with investing in irrigated Agriculture in Australia has suddenly become huge. Capital investment in irrigated agriculture in Australia is going to evaporate.

Cotton Australia has estimated that every 270 megs (million litres) of irrigation water used generates one full time job. On these figures the Tywnam purchase will cost the bush 900 jobs. The Rudd government has allocated $3.1 billion for water bubacks. This will mean that an incredible 9,000 plus jobs will be lost in irrigation towns and communities.

The Rudd government has done no studies into the impacts of their water buyback on the economies of rural towns. That would be because they don’t care. The buybacks are designed to win Green preference votes not support the river and communities that grow our food and fibre.

The National Farmers Federation and its President David Crombie support the water buyback scheme.

My question is – How can you David Crombie – How?

Where is the line in the sand for the National Farmers Federation on this unrelenting attack on our nations Food and Fibre producers by the Rudd Labor government?

Doesn’t Crombie or anybody in the NFF realize that very soon there will be no one left for them to ‘represent’?

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