Prof. Richard Lindzen reveals the real reason for the carbon tax

Professor Richard Lindzen exposes the Brown/Gillard governments iniquitous Carbon Dioxide Tax for what it is, simply a means of raising government revenue. He considers those Australians who have swallowed the governments sales pitch to be gullible for accepting a tax that will do absolutely nothing to affect climate change.

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[djaef]

Bolt is such a dolt. He misses the point as always. Let's just keep digging coal out of the ground and polluting the earth eh.. Don't worry about the possibilities opening up in clean and renewable energy or try to improve our footprint.

[kevvys1a1woos]

@djaef Not really. We can do both - mine coal and develop new technologies. Only coal and hydro can supply base load generation at present. We certainly don't need a carbon tax that hurts everyone and achieves nothing.

[MegaPostman77]

Well people. Here you have it. The world's finest climatologist has spoken. Richard Lindzen has been studying climate over a forty year period and there is no-one who even comes close to this individual's level of understanding of climate processes. Oh, and spare me the nonsense of how we are raping the fragile planet! I would argue that any planet that has been around for 4.5 BILLION years is hardly 'fragile' or for that matter - capable of being raped. GET A LIFE!!

[Mackberserk]

@Antithropocentric That's quite a comparison. It's extremely easy to calculate the trajectory and velocity of an asteroid, and would thus have irrefutable evidence based on established laws of physics... Climate change however involves far too many unknown variables and interpretations to simplify it down to your analogy, starting with (but by no means limited to) predictions of temperature increase and what potential impact those temps COULD have on earth's inhabitants

[mphello]

@hopeintruth1 Yeah - the left-right paradigm is an artificial construct - until the rightwing ridicules groups lobbying against AGW, or for animal rights, or prisoners' freedom, etc as being "leftwing".

[hopeintruth1]

@mphello

I am not a conservative .The left right paradigm is an artificial construct disguised as an imperial truth . Its purpose is to convince you that you have a choice , that you have come to a conclusion and have made a decision .

[Antithropocentric]

How much does anyone want to bet that right-wingers would have no problem raising taxes to stop an ASTEROID from hitting the Earth (if astronomers said it would happen, in say, 2035). You'd see a very limited amount of "asteroid denial" or whining about "tax scams."

The reason? Because you can't blame an asteroid on PEOPLE. Anti-enviros can't accept the concept of people mucking up "God's creation" which they believe was put here solely as a materials warehouse for humans.

[marsglorious]

@kjemma You are underestimating solar panels. Solar panels are within the scientific fields of nanotechnology and have been growing exponentially. Germany, a green pioneer, has a 30% growth rate in the solar industry and has just hit 20% electricity from renewables. I for one, have solar panels and they aren't that crap, perhaps 15 years ago, but they run everything fine and they are much cheaper now. Judging solar panels now is like judging computers in the 80s.

[kjemma]

@marsglorious Solar panels are ancient technology. They are not getting better. They are expensive, fragile - and provide precious little energy compared to the real needs of this planet. Did you know that if you plasted your whole roof with solar-panels, it would take you WEEKS to gather the same amount of energy that you can get from one gallon of gazoline? And that is if you have constant sun from crystal clear skies all the time. Yes, renewables are the future, but in 60 years

[mphello]

@tubester4567 FANTASTIC COMMENT!

[mphello]

@hopeintruth1 Obviously you do not have the mental capacity as a raving conservative

to comprehend the difference between actively killing someone versus preventing them from breeding.

All those conservative idiots who whine and cry about "illegal immigration" (which is a myth - there is NO proof for it whatsoever) hypocritically do and say NOTHING about reducing world overpopulation and overconsumption in Africa, India, China, the USA.

[mphello]

Even Michael Ruppert - who pisses me because he was a dirty policeman and CIA agent

and then goes and has a bunch of children like the filthy breeder he is - even HE agrees Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) and peak oil are real, serious, and now (global peak oil is now 7 years in the past). The end of oil won't save us if we continue to frack and burn coal. Outlaw coal NOW. Solar and wind power all the way for electricity.