So the long-running soap opera called Australian Climate Politics has reached its surprising end. Continue reading
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Roger Pielke Jr.: Not With a Bang But a Whimper
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Andrew Bolt: The carbon tax just became another damaging tax grab
Henry Ergas on the cost of the latest Gillard Government backtrack – dropping the $15 a tonne floor price on carbon permits: Continue reading
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Andrew Bolt: Carbon tax changed already to limit damage
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet today proved the carbon tax was not thought through and needs dramatic revision just two months after it was introduced. The change is to stop the worst of the damage, but it makes the tax even more useless. Continue reading
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Aus: Combet’s cut-price carbon caper blows $25 billion budget black hole
<chuckle> That tax that “wasn’t about revenue”? Abandoning the “floor price” just ripped another hole in the Green/Left government’s budget. Continue reading
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Aus: Carbon changes will hit budget surplus
AUSTRALIA’S carbon price will be set by the volatile European market from 2015 under changes announced by the Gillard government that could hit the budget bottom line and cut incentives for switching to green energy. Continue reading
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Terry McCrann: Linking collective carbon insanities
THE symbolism couldn’t be more deliciously appropriate: we are linking the collective insanity of our carbon tax to the collective insanity of Europe’s. Continue reading
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Carbon Tax Silence, Overtaken by Events
Professor Robert H Frank may know his economics but he sure doesn’t know much about climate and climate models. If you haven’t already done so, see Does the IPCC really believe anyone can predict the future? to understand why Frank is so wrong and there is absolutely no possibility things are as bad as climate prognosticators claim. Continue reading
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Trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory: AEI Hosts Fifth Secret Meeting to Promote Carbon Tax
Today, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a prominent conservative think tank, hosted a secret, four-and-a-half hour meeting of pols, wonks, and activists, including several self-identified ’progressives,’ to develop a PR/legislative strategy to promote and enact a carbon tax. This was the fifth such meeting to advance the ”Price Carbon Campaign/Lame Duck Initiative: A Carbon Pollution Tax in Fiscal and Tax Reform.” An annoted copy of the meeting agenda appears at the bottom of this post. Continue reading
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Quick fix to EU carbon scheme expected in weeks
A planned quick fix to the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme is expected to emerge over the coming weeks as a first step to the deeper reforms urgently sought by environmental and some business campaigners. Continue reading
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Fossil Fools: Europe’s Cap-And-Trade Triggers Coal Boom
Demand for coal grew 3.3 percent last year in Europe while sales of less- polluting natural gas fell 2.1 percent. Gas-fired plants need about half the carbon permits of coal burners. Even so, the 17 percent drop in permit prices to about 8 euros a ton has reduced their competitive advantage. Coal will continue to remain on the money in Europe because it’s more competitive to burn than gas. More and more of the coal to Europe will come from the U.S. where just the opposite is happening. Continue reading
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Tagged carbon price, co2 emissions
Aus Treasurer Swan won’t rule out carbon price rethink
Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has refused to rule out changes to Labor’s carbon pricing scheme, amid reports the Government is considering dumping the floor price from the policy. Continue reading
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Hockey Schtick: Report: Europe’s cap & trade and carbon tax schemes have not reduced greenhouse gas emissions
Not that it will make any difference to the climate Continue reading
Aus: Govt won’t drop carbon floor price: Greens
The Australian Greens insist there will be a floor price when the carbon tax transforms into an emissions trading scheme in 2015, despite reports the federal government is looking to scrap it. Continue reading
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Carbon taxes: They just don’t work
Earlier this week, we learned that the Pembina Institute joined forces with Mark Jaccard at Simon Fraser University to present yet another faulty carbon tax advocacy piece, promoting it as “research.” The deficiencies in the study’s research method are too numerous to document in a 1,000-word article, so I will focus on just a few. Continue reading
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Indur Goklany: Surprise! Current Motor Fuel Taxes Exceed the Estimated Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) in Most Industrialized Countries
“Simple math demonstrates that the average taxes (including duties) on gasoline and diesel in virtually every developed country exceed the average U.S. EPA’s (over)estimated global social cost of carbon now and through 2025 (at least). In fact, motorists in most European countries already pay taxes in excess of the upper bound estimate of the social cost of carbon through the middle of this century.” Continue reading
Why should the carbon scam be restricted to wealthy Westerners?
Brazilian Indigenous Community Seeks Survival Through Carbon Credits Continue reading
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EU Carbon trading crashes: German bourse closes and Irish end carbon rort
More signs Australia is leaping onto a burning ship as it starts carbon taxing, just as the largest carbon markets are winding up: Continue reading
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Irish Times: Minister ends carbon charge for energy companies
THE GOVERNMENT has repealed the multimillion euro carbon levy on fossil fuel-based energy generation, which had allowed energy companies to increase wholesale electricity prices. Continue reading
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wants stronger green hammer
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wants stronger green hammer
Professor John Schellnhuber has been the European version of James Hansen for some time and was at one time research director for the UK Tyndall Center. He founded the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research at the end of 1992, as money came on-stream following the Rio conference on sustainability, which spawned Agenda 21. He reveals his one world aims at this Renewable Energy Finance seminar of the “bank-run Frankfurt School of Finance, attended mostly by representatives of the solar and wind branches, as well as lawyers — for an entrance fee of 500 euros each”.
He heads the German Chancellor’s “de-industrialisaton council”, which speaks volumes. Continue reading
Global CO2 Price of $50 May Avert Climate Catastrophe, MIT Says
A global carbon price of $50 a metric ton may be enough to limit catastrophic climate change, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading
