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Dreaming of a different kind of White Paper
With a pre-Christmas White Paper, the Federal Government transformed the global warming debate's focus into the introduction of a comprehensive new...
A Bad Climate Trade-off
The high priests of climate change are wrapping up their latest meeting today in Poznan, Poland, where the United Nations is hosting a conference...
Business plays the patsy
What are business organizations for? Do they exist so their chief executives can sit on government advisory boards and have afternoon cocktails at...
Global warming blame game gets furry
So many things are blamed on global warming. A quick internet search of reported repercussions just beginning with ‘p', includes...
Wong right to put off our targets
Much to the chagrin of greenies, Penny Wong is delaying issuing Australia's emission reduction targets until after this month's Poznan meeting on...
Topsy-turvy temperature
So much of government policy is now about reducing carbon emissions on the basis that the earth is heating-up. But measuring the earth's...
Dont ditch cattle yet, science isnt settled
How many times have you heard it said, the science is settled, we will have catastrophic global warming unless we change our ways and reduce our...
A misguided desire to save the bush
There has been much written about Australia's national character emerging from a bush ethos - the idea that a specifically Australian outlook...
Roos for Ruminants but What about Rice
The Federal Government's climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that reducing sheep and cattle numbers and...
Change of climate an ill wind for carbon tax
THE Wall Street share market crash in October 1929 sparked off the Great Depression in the 1930s. Will Wall Street's latest financial collapse...