“So rather than augmenting supply with water you cannot sell at a profit, you simply impose restrictions and constrain demand. Because you have no competition, nobody can undercut you.” - Malcolm Turnbull (Brisbane Institute-July 2006)
Pollies Cool on Warming Fixes
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Updated on Monday, June 30, 2008 at 11:12AM by
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Last week the US Senate debated a 500-page global warming bill known as the Warner-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade bill. The Democrats knew it would likely be vetoed by President George Bush, but they hoped to push it through the Senate anyway and in this way build further momentum for reducing America’s greenhouse gas emissions. But they weren’t successful: some Democrats refused to support it on the basis that it would push up petrol prices. It was perhaps the worst possible time to introduce the legislation with oil prices doubling in the past 12 months and fear of a global fuel supply shortage. Emissions trading is based on the theory that, by forcing up the price of fossil fuel, alternatives will be found.
As Oil Prices Rise, Nations Revive Coal Mining
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Soaring commodity prices have had distorting effects across the global economy, driving up food prices and prompting fears of future energy shortages. But they have been an unanticipated boon to the coal producing regions of countries like Japan that had written off coal mining as a relic of the Industrial Revolution.
Sunspot cycles may hold key to global warming, cooling
From January 2007 through the end of January 2008, the average global temperature fell by nearly a degree Fahrenheit, based on data obtained by the MET Office in Great Britain and other international temperature monitoring networks. What are we to make of this? The recent climate conference held in New York City, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, provides some answers. Several hundreds climatologists in attendance dispelled notions that the global warming debate is over. Most attendees, who readily acknowledge the existence of post-Little Ice Age warming, believe man-made emissions are unlikely to cause major climate change and signed a declaration to that effect.
Australian State Government's Insane Water Grid Experiment
Updated on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 10:04AM by
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A CORPORATE-government conglomerate in the so-called ‘Smart State’ of Queensland, Australia, plans subject some three million citizens to a dangerous experiment that will inject so-called purified sewage directly into a dam supplying household water. Against the wishes of residents and ignoring the most basic law of hygiene to separate human bodily waste from food and water, the government will conduct the experiment in league with multinational water corporations including Veolia Water and Haliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown Root (KBR). The bureaucrats says it’s safe because it’s been happening in western Sydney for 17 years, where waste water is dumped into the Richmond River and used again 17km downstream by another community. In London, where this also happens, there is an alarming rise in male infertility and breast development.
The Mary River… where fish breathe air and turtles breathe through their bums.
Not long after he’d announced plans to dam it, Queensland’s ex-Premier Peter Beattie labeled the Mary River as “hardly pristine”. At a superficial glance, and in selected places, one would have to agree. Just on a century and a half of logging and farming have taken their toll, but surely the real test would have to lie in either the biodiversity or the uniqueness of today’s river, still the least developed in south-east Queensland.
Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year. Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.
