Just how much power over us do warmists want?

It’s increasingly clear that even more dangerous than the carbon dioxide tax are the measures taken by Left wing governments to crush resistance against it and force you to comply:

The Conservative government of John Howard introduced the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the NGER Act). The act set up a compulsory national framework for the reporting and dissemination of information about greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas projects, and energy use and production of corporations.
The objectives of the NGER Act, as stated in the legislation, are to:

• inform government policy and the Australian public

• help meet Australia’s international reporting obligations

• assist Commonwealth, state and territory government programs and activities

• avoid the duplication of similar reporting requirements in the states and territories

• underpin the introduction of an emissions trading scheme

The first annual reporting period began on 1 July 2008. Corporations that meet an NGER threshold must report their:

• greenhouse gas emissions

• energy production

• energy consumption

• other information specified under NGER legislation

GetUp turns to ShutUp

The creeping totalitarianism of the Left:

Under the commercial broadcasting code of conduct, broadcasters are required to make reasonable efforts to ensure that factual material is accurate, and are given 30 days to make a correction after they receive an initial complaint.

GetUp! had made a complaint to the Australian Communications and Media Authority that says the broadcaster 2GB was wrong when he stated human beings produce only 0.001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the air 

GetUp! has also alleged Mr Jones contravenes another section of the code of conduct which requires broadcasters to give ''reasonable opportunities'' to ''significant viewpoints'' on ''controversial issues of public importance''.

Mr Jones today denied ever having made the comment and said the complaint was politically motivated.

"I never said that at all," he told AAP.

And Jones quite rightly points out:

Much of my stuff is opinion … I am a broadcaster, I don't pretend (to know what I'm talking about)..." 

''… (my)opinions lack validity...(my) opinions are extreme..."

Why shouldn't  Alan Jones be entitled to his own facts?

And what gives GetUp! the right to use the existing complaints process for the codes of practice developed by the industry itself under section 123 of the Broadcasting Services Act 1992?

Surely the complaint process should only be used so we can complain about the ABC?

Farr out on Monckton

We’re told repeatedly that Lord Monckton is no scientist and his arguments against global warming alarmism are nonsense.

So it’s very telling after having been grudgingly granted a debate at the National Press Club that no scientist or journalist or scientist or scientists have come forward as yet to demonstrate some fraud or foolish error in Monckton’s arguments.

None.

Nada.

If this is warming, the crops are loving it

The warmists cry starvation in 2008:

Impoverished farmers in South Asia and southern Africa could face growing food shortages due to climate change within just 20 years, a new study says... 

“The majority of the world’s one billion poor depend on agriculture for their livelihoods,” said the lead author of the new study, David Lobell of Stanford University. 

“Unfortunately, agriculture is also the human enterprise most vulnerable to changes in climate.”

But so far, so great, as my local Woolworths noted:

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MT today July 18

On our MT 1950s show today:


- Lord Christopher Monckton tells us he’s apprehensive about tomorrow’s debate at the National Press Club after the 651st time all his taking points were "meticulously shown to be utter nonsense".

- Monckton rightly likens the claim of those who think science needs facts to "the intimidation and stifling of debate by the Hitler Youth". "I certainly didn't need any so-called science to discover my Universal Cancer Cure™ ", he noted.

 - Monckton went on to confide that the Carbon Tax certainly "wouldn't be getting his vote in the Australian Senate"

Listen here.

Blog science poll results

The results from our second Blog Science Poll™ are in:

Does CO2 absorb and emit energy in the thermal infrared?

                         %
Yes................. 35


No................... 21


It's plant food.....43

So there you have it. All the evidence we need  - CO2 is only plant food.

Here we go again with another Arctic scare

So what happened to all those earlier predictions of melting Arctic sea ice?

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