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A shortage of idiots undermines emission trading schemes
Advocates here insist that the Gillard scheme will be a valuable tool in the fight against the scourge of Anthropogenic Global Warming I have never been convinced that it will do anything that its advocates claim and I have repeatedly suggested that its little more than a scam. This post has but one purpose and that is to point out the folly of “emission trading schemes” and to show just how easily they become little more than a shambolic fraud. One only has top look to the European scheme to see what we can expect from the one created by the Gillard government:
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Of course my quote above does not tell the whole story but it is a good example of how these schemes rely upon what can only be described as “clever accounting” to create the pretence of efficacy. To be honest I can see how such an indirect method to change industrial behaviour can ever truly work because it is all based upon the “bigger idiot principal”* and just as that sees the collapse of ponzi schemes it is seeing the collapse of the European emissions trading scheme as well:
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Its a far from pretty picture in Europe and the only light in the antipodean climate darkness is that the Coalition have promised to repeal the idiotic regime created to placate the loopy Greens by a desperate Julia Gillard. Now if only the incoming Abbott government would have the courage to also ditch the majority of their own pointless scheme the country would be truly free of the AGW madness .
Prost Genossen
*the bigger idiot principle is essential in all kinds of derivative trading schemes it is the underlying belief that any commodity can be sold at a profit if only enough people can be convinced to buy into the scheme. It is fine until the supply of idiots runs out.
Related articles
- Politicians reject call for early shift to emissions trading (abc.net.au)
- EU urged to revive flagging emissions trading scheme (guardian.co.uk)
- Opposition rules out emissions scheme (news.com.au)
- The EU Emissions Trading Scheme under WTO Rules (worldtradelaw.typepad.com)
- What Gillard is up against (theaimn.com)
- Without dignity all is lost for Labor (iainhall.wordpress.com)
- How does Julia sleep? (spectator.co.uk)
- Carbon fat cats are killing the emissions trading mouse | Damian Carrington (guardian.co.uk)
The redundancy of Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery has had a really good session with his nose in the money trough under the patronage of the Labor Government but of course he should be unsurprised that when his patron falls that he will be cut off from the largesses that he has enjoyed over the last few years.
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What amazes me is that under a Labor government we have seen the creation of such a useless department as the one devoted to climate change, worse still that they have been paying Flannery so much money to sprout the same nonsense that the waterfront home-owner has so hypercritically been yelling from the roof tops for free.
Sadly I expect that making Flannery redundant will probably entail a substantial severance package. Even so the nation will be better off on the day that he has to front up to centerlink ….
Cheers Comrades
The relief felt is amazing
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- Severance Packages | eLocal (elocallawyers.com)
- The Power Index: carbon cutters, Tim Flannery at #6 (crikey.com.au)
A pleasant surprise in today’s Age
The Age is usually such a rabid AGW advocate but maybe this is the start of a new more balanced approach to the issue of climate change. Maybe its just a the removal of the execrable Jo Chandler from their staff that has seen them mellow, most likely its just a reflection of the fact that the interregnum between Christmas and new year is a time when regular writers are away on leave and the need for copy to fill the paper allows them to cast a wider net than usual. No matter what the reasons for its publication I found the piece by John Spooner most refreshing and worthy of praise:
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I hope that the real reason that this piece has got such a prominent place in today’s Age is that the minions at Fairfax are finally realising that they have hitched their faith to a false religion and that its apparently golden idols are nothing but tat and cheap wax, that the cold hard light of truth is turning them into the misshapen formless blobs that we sceptics always thought that they were.
Cheers Comrades
Or NOT!
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- Sceptics cool on climate studies (smh.com.au)
- George Monbiot, millenarian prophecy and his desire to see western society back into an “energy dark age” (iainhall.wordpress.com)
- The choices of Andrew Bolt: “Worry about the climate? I’d rather have an orgy!” (watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com)
- Climate change conforming to UN predictions: scientists (abc.net.au)
George Monbiot, millenarian prophecy and his desire to see western society back into an “energy dark age”
One of the reasons that I abandoned the left’s politics is its inability to see the obvious and its wanton ability to to be duped by its ideologues. One such issue has to be climate change and the extent to which humanity’s footsteps on the planet will impact on the environment. One article that I read a few days ago in the Guardian has been republished in the Green Left Daily , sorry I meant the AGE, and its a call for the subversion of democracy to the to the needs of Gaia from that high priest of the Green faith George Monbiot:
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Of course what all of these minions of the watermelon left ignore is the complete equation, namely the human impact on the environment is a function of not only the things that humans do, but also the number of us that do it. So while the likes of George may whine about the industrial economy they also bemoan the loss of life from pestilence, famine and war. But here in lays the real problem when it comes to human impact on the planet. As a species we have become very adept at circumventing all of the checks upon our population and we are now reaping what this compassion for all has sown. Add to this the persistence of the cultural imperatives to have many children (especially in the third world) and it becomes clear that George is letting his leftist politics and hatred of the “elite” cloud his reason.
There are two ways to control an ever expanding population, either limit the number of children that are made to that which will replace numbers with out increasing our population or we stop making extraordinary efforts to constrain the four horsemen of death that have for so long controlled human numbers. This is of course an anathema to the left who think that every death in a struggle for resources or territory is an unmitigated disaster and requires sackcloth, ashes and the blaming of western culture. Dare I suggest its not the successful western cultures that are the problem for the planet because almost all of those have well and truly taken to heart limiting the number of children we make to replacement levels, its the countries of the third world who have unsustainable birth rates which combined with the compassionate “aid” from the industrialised first world have seen rapid declines in childhood mortality and subsequent population increases.
If our George really believes his own apocalyptic doom-saying then why does he not even consider the issue of population? It seems to me that he is so in love with his own millenarian prophecy and his desire to see western society back into a new “energy dark age” that he is not seeing the real big picture at all .
Cheers Comrades
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- Biodiversity offsetting will unleash a new spirit of destruction on the land | George Monbiot (guardian.co.uk)
- Break the grip of corporate power to secure our future | George Monbiot (guardian.co.uk)
- Guardian’s George Monbiot Apologises To Lord McAlpine (order-order.com)
- Lord McAlpine: Guardian will not pay George Monbiot’s legal costs (telegraph.co.uk)
- Is the Birth Rate Properly a Political Question? (theatlantic.com)
- George Monbiot, millenarian prophecy and his desire to see western society back into an “energy dark age” (iainhall.wordpress.com)
- Can’t Lord McAlpine just forgive George Monbiot? (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
- Can We Create a New Generation of Environmental Defenders? (phippsscienceeducation.org)
Wind schemes and socialist ideals
– The blades of turbines on a wind farm catch the wind 10 August 2007 in front of Aegean Sea on Evia island, off the eastern coast of Greece. (RAE). AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/GettyImages)
To say that “climate change” is all a load of hot air would not be strictly correct but it is very clear that the virtues of wind turbines have been very greatly over sold and now that there are a large number of these machines gracing blighting the landscape its is easy to see that they are just not delivering the goods in terms of the energy that they are collecting. Were it not for subsidies schemes we would just not have so many of these useless monuments to Green vanity dotted like herds of lanky white elephants on the country side.
Good sense is starting to make itself known as recession hit governments realise that subsidising green energy schemes is not sustainable in the long term no matter how devoted its protagonists are to the Gaian faith. Thus we have seen a very big cut back in subsidies for solar panels here in OZ (which will hopefully stop the endless telemarketer calls trying to sell systems to cynics like Moi) and In the UK the government is very keen to substantially cut the overly generous subsidies that has financed so many turbines in the UK.
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To me the real irony is that so many of the acolytes of the Green faith are so hot to trot for socialist ideals and yet they also endorse these subsidies that only enrich a small clique of climate “entrepreneurs”. Am I the only one who can appreciate the hypocrisy for a socialist endorsing Green subsidy schemes whilewhining about lack of funding for leftist agendas that they are passionate about? Isn’t it strange that they get so upset about the miners making a quid producing real benefits to the economy and the nation yet they don’t raise a single eyebrow about the shysters ripping off the community in the name of Gaia?
Cheers Comrades
Peter Gleick (NOT) cleared of forging documents in Heartland expose
To my mind this report in the Guardian is the epitome of bad reporting and that is because the headline is not in fact substantiated by the actual story in any meaningful sense at all.
When you read a headline claiming this:
Peter Gleick cleared of forging documents in Heartland expose
One would expect a few minor details like who has “cleared” him and on what basis that conclusion was reached.
Sadly all the good comrades at the Guardian offer in the entire piece is the vague sentence that I highlight in my screenshot below:
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Struth that is as bad as saying his mum is sure that he didn’t do it and then reporting that as fact! Its truly bizzare and clearly ideological that this pudding should be so over egged in the cause of the Green religion, then again the faithful demand that their profits be seen as without sin even when their heartland is black with the pus of lies and deception.
Cheers Comrades
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Canada inspires with funding cut to NRTEE
In some instances Canada is often seen as being quite similar to this country. We are both countries which have a large land area and lots of natural resources with comparatively small populations. We also have rather similar cultural traditions derived form our British colonial heritage. Of course our climates could not be further apart and I reckon you have to be tough to stand the Canadian winters in a way that even Tasmanians don’t come close to. They too have suffered the ravages of the millenarian Green religion but its good to see that they are finally beginning to fight back and that they are beginning to dismantle and de-fund a quango not unlike the much derided “Climate Commission” created by our own Labor/Greens government.
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Sadly it may take a bit of time, and a change of government, for the Climate Commission to cease embarrassing the poadlitical grown ups but the experience in Canada does show that it can be done and that in these austere times the saving is very much to the advantage of the nation.
Cheers Comrades
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James Delingpole promotes Killing the Earth to Save It in Perth
A nice account of James Dellingpole’s book launch in Perth from my good friend Matt Hayden:
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Matt offers some interesting observations about the changing demographics of Climate change sceptics but I can’t help wondering what our favourite decaf soy latte drinker would have thought of the whole thing.
Cheers Comrades
Fluffy Wuffy refuses to die while there is still cold beer and re runs of Top Cat on cable
