“The war on carbon energy, the carbon tax, the renewable energy targets, escalating electricity costs, and the voices in Parliament calling for Emissions Trading Schemes have all unnerved our big users of carbon fuels and electricity. Smelting and refining have become threatened industries in Australia.”
Progress on Climate Policy has been made in Australia with the repeal of the carbon tax, closure of the Climate Commission, and increasing skepticism about climate alarmism and related energy-market interventions. President Obama, beholden to radical U.S. greens, even took a shot at Australia’s climate pivot during his trip to the country last month, generating negative reactions from many Australians.
Nonetheless, ‘green’ policy in Australia has caused a good deal of industrial damage and business uncertainty that must be reversed with a full government commitment to climate realism and rational energy policy.…
Continue Reading“The skeptics contend that forecasts of global warming are flawed and overstated and that the future might even hold no significant warming at all. Some say that if the warming is modest, as they believe likely, it could bring benefits like longer growing seasons in temperate zones, more rain in dry areas and an enrichment of crops and plant life.”
”’The expense [of climate policy] is patently obvious,’ said one of the most outspoken skeptics, Patrick Michaels, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society. ‘If the policy is going to be that expensive, the science should be much less murky than it is now,’ he said.”
James Hansen’s climate alarm back in 1988 attracted mainstream scientific caution and dissent, believe it or not.…
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