THE carbon tax is making Australia more, not less, dependent on the highly polluting brown-coal electricity generators. Billion-dollar subsidies have allowed the Victorian operations to force cleaner base-load power stations out of the market. Continue reading
Tag Archives: co2 emissions
Enviro groups say brown-coal carbon tax compo keeps us dirty
Aus: Brown profits and Green fury from carbon tax plan
THE Orwellian name of the Gillard government’s carbon tax policy – Clean Energy Future – makes its aim of shifting electricity generation from the dirtiest power stations to the cleanest quite plain. Consumers are entitled to feel somewhat mystified that brown-coal generation – the highest carbon polluter – is largely unaffected by carbon emissions policy. Continue reading
Stephen Stromberg: Does President Obama really care about global warming?
Environmentalists gathered in Charlotte, N.C. to watch Obama’s second nominating convention can agree that the president and his party are a lot better than the Republicans. Continue reading
Destroyed Coastal Habitats Produce Significant Greenhouse Gas
Destruction of coastal habitats may release as much as 1 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, 10 times higher than previously reported, according to a new Duke led study. Continue reading
Canada ‘playing with numbers’ on carbon target claims
Stephen Harper’s government accused of using accounting tricks to take credit for emission declines Continue reading
Dutch analysis finds wind power is a ‘money pit with virtually no merit of CO2 emission reduction or fossil fuel saving’
A Dutch analysis finds that wind energy reduces emissions and fossil fuel use by a maximum of only 1.6% compared to directly generating energy from fossil fuels. Continue reading
NOAA: Budget woes force a halt to climate monitoring at 12 ground stations
Asked and answered – CO2 is not a villain. Get over it. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged carbon scam, climate fraud, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia
Aus: Carbon tax leaves big polluters better off
When they talk about “big polluters” they actually mean those returning previously lost carbon to the biosphere – apparently that’s a terrible thing, liberating an essential trace gas in short supply. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax
Tagged anti coal, carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia
Roger Pielke Jr. declares Pope Catholic
Well, actually not – Junior just said that he’s going to vote Obama. He did get and admit one surprise though: Continue reading
Aus: Govt breached faith on power stations: Greens
The tinkerbells are always upset when reality intrudes. Continue reading
Aus: Carbon compo for brown coal a bigger waste than BER and pink batts
On Australia’s Green/Left policy train wreck:
“WHILE last week’s backflip by the government on the removal of the carbon pricing floor was broadly welcomed by those facing the prospect of paying the world’s highest carbon price, this most recent change in policy direction lays the foundations for more problems down the line.” Continue reading
Aus: Carbon payout to biggest polluters in doubt
Oh gosh oh darn. We don’t throw away a lot more of taxpayers’ money to shut down some of our cheapest and most reliable electrical generators? Oh the devastation… Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Cap & Tax, Coal
Tagged anti coal, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, really stupid idea
Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: An independent constraint on climate sensitivity
Abstract: Global CO2 emissions per unit increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration provide an independent constraint on climate sensitivity over the timescale of the available data (1960-2008), suggesting that, in the short term and perhaps also in the long, climate sensitivity may lie below the values found in the general-circulation models relied upon by the IPCC. Continue reading
Bangkok 2012: EU Signals It Will Not Adopt New Unilateral CO2 Target
The European Union appears unlikely to adopt tougher targets for carbon emissions this year after an official at the UN climate talks in Bangkok was quoted as saying further cuts were ‘wishful thinking’. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, IPCC
Tagged climate hysteria, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, weather superstition
Doug L. Hoffman: Where Did All The CO2 Go?
The subject of human carbon dioxide emissions and their build up in Earth’s atmosphere is at the center of the anthropogenic global warming controversy. It cannot be denied that humans produce CO2 in large amounts, both from burning fossil fuels and from land use changes. Continue reading
Miranda Devine: Surprise surprise: wind farms do nothing for the environment (except cause noise pollution)
A two-year analysis of Victoria’s wind-farm developments by mechanical engineer Hamish Cumming shows that “despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from green energy schemes driven by the renewable energy target, Victoria’s wind-farm developments have saved virtually zero carbon dioxide emissions in the state”. Continue reading
Unexpected finding shows climate change complexities in soil
In a surprising finding, North Carolina State University researchers have shown that certain underground organisms thought to promote chemical interactions that make the soil a carbon sink actually play a more complex, dual role when atmospheric carbon levels rise. Continue reading
Yorkshire: Clean coal action call by MPs to cash in on exports
TIM YEO: We need to strengthen our brand in order to do business with the Chinese Continue reading
Carbon efficiency failing to fight warming: study
And conversely carbon profligacy is failing to aid warming, with a slight decline in global mean temperature despite a rise in CO2 emissions. What’s their point? Continue reading
Designers Set Sail, Turning to Wind to Help Power Cargo Ships
“If the world’s shipping fleet were a country, it would be the world’s sixth leading emitter of greenhouse gases. To reduce those emissions — and, not incidentally, to conserve expensive fossil fuels — cargo ship designers are now turning to the oldest source of power there is: the wind.“
Does whale oil attract carbon credits or certified emission reduction certificates when used for lighting? Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon offsets, Carbon trading, Clean energy
Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, international trade, shipping
