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$2000 global warming tax - per year - per family

For some reason,
the public doesn't seem to like this

By geologist Bob
Carter

By John Spooner

27 Jun 11 - (Excerpts) "There is no need for a
carbon tax because dangerous global warming is not occurring," says
Australian geologist Bob Carter.

"The government's chosen climate communicators
have failed to confront the real climate change issue (which is natural
climate hazard). And as opinion polls clearly show, they have failed to
convince the public that a global warming crisis exists, or that a carbon
dioxide tax will have any beneficial influence on future climate."

"Climate Change Minister Greg Combet announced
the government's solution on June 16. It is to spend $12 million on
''informing'' the electorate about the need for a carbon dioxide tax.
(In this case, "informing" is another word for propaganda.)

Professor Carter then goes on to demolish the
so-called "consensus" on global warming.

Fact 1. A mild warming of about 0.5
degrees Celsius (well within previous natural temperature
variations) occurred between 1979 and 1998, and has been followed by
slight global cooling over the past 10 years. Ergo, dangerous global
warming is not occurring.

Fact 2. Between 2001 and 2010 global
average temperature decreased by 0.05 degrees, over the same time
that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increased by 5 per cent.
Ergo, carbon dioxide emissions are not driving dangerous
warming.

Fact 3. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is
beneficial. In increasing quantity it causes mild though diminishing
warming (useful at a time of a quiet sun and likely near-future
planetary cooling) and acts as a valuable plant fertiliser. Extra
carbon dioxide helps to shrink the Sahara Desert, green the planet
and feed the world. Ergo, carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor
dangerous, but an environmental benefit.

Fact 4. Closing down the whole Australian
industrial economy might result in the prevention of about 0.02
degrees of warming. Reducing emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 (the
government's target) will avert an even smaller warming of about
0.002 degrees. Ergo, cutting Australian emissions will make no
measurable difference to global climate.

Fact 5. For an assumed tax rate of $25 a
tonne of carbon dioxide, the costs passed down to an average family
of four will exceed $2000 a
year.

"So the cost-benefit equation is this," says
Carter. ''Your family pays more than $2000 a year in extra tax in return
for a possible cooling of the globe by two one-thousandths of a degree.''

"In the light of these facts, little wonder the
government's four horsemen of the climate apocalypse have been unable to
convince the public of the desirability of carbon dioxide taxation.

"In the meantime, watch out for those ads that
Minister Combet is going to run towards this end. After all, you're paying
for them."

See entire article, entitled "An Inconvenient
Fallacy"
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/an-inconvenient-fallacy-20110626-1glmu.html

Thanks to David Newton for this link

Professor Bob Carter is a geologist and the
author of Climate: The Counter Consensus.

He will be speaking at the Sixth
International Conference on Climate Change.

Link to streaming video of conference:
http://climateconference.heartland.org/watch-live/

If you think
this couldn't happen in your country, look at where gasoline prices
are today as opposed to, say, three years ago. A dollar a gallon
more? Two dollars more?

That's what over regulation can do
... even before the extra taxes are slapped on.

Now consider what those regulations will do to the cost of
heating your home and business. And the cost of electricity. And the
cost of food. And the cost of airline travel. The list goes on and
on.

We'll be lucky
if it comes out to "only" $2,000 per family.

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