December 01, 2009

Australian Parliament Rejects Their Version of Cap & Trade
— Gabriel Malor

What looked like a sure thing a few weeks ago just got voted down in the Australian Senate. There has been a bunch of drama over this bill, including the ousting of the main opposition leader after he started to go along with PM Rudd's plans to send the Australian economy back to the Stone Age.

Now it looks like Rudd and both houses of parliament are in for an early shake-up:

Opponents of the cap-and-trade scheme used their numbers in the Senate after a climate change skeptics took control of the opposition leadership on Tuesday.

The scheme would have been the biggest outside Europe, covering 75 percent of Australian emissions and starting in July 2011. It would have effectively forced polluters to pay for their emissions, requiring them to purchase emission permits from a carbon market.

Senior opposition lawmaker and frontbencher Christopher Pyne said he expected a dissolution of both houses of parliament and an election early in the new year, ahead of polls due around late November.

"I think the election will be on March 6. I think the government will call a double dissolution election if the ETS (emissions trading scheme) is voted down this week," Pyne said.

Ah, Copenhagen, we barely knew ye.

Lousy Editorializing: Y'know, last year I wrote that 2008 would be known as the year when the Global Warming scam started to fall apart. And it did. That's when more American's disbelieved in warming than believed in it. Many people woke up and realized that the big ball of nuclear fire hanging over our heads might have something to do with global temperatures on Earth. And many people looked around and noticed that it's been awfully cold around here lately (for example, we had snow in Malibu for the past two years).

But if it started last year, man, the collapse of the Global Warming con is coming fast now. Almost like a runaway greenhouse gas effect that's just going to ruin everything.

In many places it was was a heinous, unthinkable violation to doubt Global Warming, especially for my generation. I came out as a skeptic to a few of my coworkers last year and they looked at me like I was an alien. But this week I saw doubt in their eyes when another coworker brought up ClimateGate.

The taboo for being a "denier" is lifting. Before you know it, no one who can get away with it will fess to believing in Global Warming. Of course, a lot of politicians will go down kicking and screaming, swearing to their last breath that it's real. They've got too much invested in it being real and many are much too proud to admit they were duped.

But I'm okay with that. As Americans sour about the billions of dollars that have been wasted on Global Warming, they'll go hunting for wasteful fools in Washington.

Obama wants to go to Copenhagen and make a commitment to fighting Global Warming? Let him. Just something else to pin on him in 2012.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 05:13 PM | Comments (66)
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1 I wish the Senate would follow suit, but with idiot RINOS (BIRM) such as Grahamasty, it could be possible that Dingy Harry rams Crap and Tax through next year.


Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at December 01, 2009 05:17 PM (otlXg)

2 All I can do is pray.  I'm represented by John Kerry.

Posted by: Truman North at December 01, 2009 05:18 PM (XH/G8)

3 It's the Charles Johnson Effect.  Once he decided to be wrong, he turned out to be wrong about everything.

Posted by: stuiec at December 01, 2009 05:20 PM (Ate22)

4 Almost like a runaway greenhouse gas effect that's just going to ruin everything.

Especially erg's dreams of redistribution.

Posted by: nickless at December 01, 2009 05:20 PM (MMC8r)

5 I miss John Howard.

Posted by: DrewM. at December 01, 2009 05:23 PM (FCWQb)

6 Somewhere, probably in our galaxy, a superior race is doubled over in laughter.

Posted by: railwriter at December 01, 2009 05:23 PM (daRzV)

7

But if it started last year, man, the collapse of the Global Warming con is coming fast now. Almost like a runaway greenhouse gas effect that's just going to ruin everything.

So there really IS a hockey stick.  They just had it inverted.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at December 01, 2009 05:23 PM (r1h5M)

8 Hopefully the collapse of the scam that is global warming will also stop companies from doing their "going green" scams as well. I'm all for capitalism as long as people understand that going green (in the corporate sense) has nothing to do with the environment, but the bottom line.

Posted by: wherestherum at December 01, 2009 05:23 PM (gofDd)

9

What looked like a sure thing a few weeks ago just got voted down

Awesome.

Posted by: katya at December 01, 2009 05:23 PM (C06Pi)

10 You laugh now you DENIER - but you just wait. When your house in the Colorado is under 50 feet of water in 2007, err, 2008, uh 2009, uh 2012 you'll see who is laughing!

Posted by: Al Gore at December 01, 2009 05:24 PM (bgcml)

11 Never underestimate the power of large groups of delusional people.

Posted by: 48%er at December 01, 2009 05:25 PM (QOE7k)

12 Will the EU ever get their right to buy 100w light bulbs back?

Posted by: KF at December 01, 2009 05:25 PM (/wrw/)

13
it's Hopenhagen

Posted by: a.k.a. the man with no name at December 01, 2009 05:27 PM (Uf4aV)

14

So there really IS a hockey stick.  They just had it inverted.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at December 01, 2009 09:23 PM (r1h5M)

##Replaced minus sign with plus sign because Saturn is rising in Pisces.

What the hell does that even mean?

Posted by: Harry Read Me.txt at December 01, 2009 05:27 PM (bgcml)

15 We have reached a stripping point.

Posted by: United pole dancers local 22-42-18 at December 01, 2009 05:29 PM (oXeUp)

16 Our dreamy President needs to go to the enemy's camp down there and set things straight.

Posted by: Chris Matthews at December 01, 2009 05:29 PM (DtTM9)

17 My stomach is unsettled!

Posted by: manbearpig at December 01, 2009 05:31 PM (oXeUp)

18 So, the planet no longer has a fever?

Posted by: huerfano at December 01, 2009 05:31 PM (vtuZz)

19 "All I can do is pray.  I'm represented by John Kerry."

Count your blessings, my friend. I have Dick Durbin and Roland Burris. (And The One, God help us.)

Posted by: Brown Line at December 01, 2009 05:32 PM (rwPlA)

20 Brown Line... maybe when I get Prince Charles to "take back" Massachusetts, I can throw in Illinois

Posted by: Truman North at December 01, 2009 05:33 PM (XH/G8)

21 The taboo for being a "denier" is lifting. Before you know it, no one who can get away with it, will fess to believing in Global Warming. Of course, a lot of politicians will go down kicking and screaming, swearing to their last breath that it's real. They've got too much invested in it being real and many are much too proud to admit they were duped.

Actually that is an interesting question...will they bale and find another crisis that will demand exactly the same solution as AGW? You have to remember, while AGW is singular in how successful of a scam it has been, it is hardly the first green on the outside, red on the inside, initiative environuts have given us.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 01, 2009 05:33 PM (bgcml)

22

Kind of an aside but, since he didn't know anything about it anyway well...

Beloved ABC anchor (who ended his career as a joke - no not the subject of a joke - an actual joke) sets date for retirement.

http://tinyurl.com/yfr9cp3


 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at December 01, 2009 05:34 PM (r1h5M)

23

The sad thing is that this is not a fringe sentiment. These people involved are THE biggest proponents of this shit. Everything is based upon a faulted system.

And this gives nobody in authority to ruin the economy, any pause whatsoever?

Posted by: hutch1200 at December 01, 2009 05:34 PM (oXeUp)

24 So let me get this straight... Mann under investigation, Jones steps down, Australia votes down Crap & Trade ... almost sounds like people are starting to wake up.

Posted by: Pull_My_Finger at December 01, 2009 05:34 PM (lxEx/)

25 Every American scientist that supported this scam AND Al Gore should be brought up on charges. convicted, and spend the rest of their miserable lives in Leavenworth. Anything less is a complete disgrace.


Posted by: Chuck Shumer at December 01, 2009 05:35 PM (EL+OC)

26 Well, you know, Obama promised that on his watch the seas would lower and the temperatures of the world would cool.  I don't suspect this is how he meant it, but ...

Posted by: Shep at December 01, 2009 05:37 PM (wnMoI)

27

Actually that is an interesting question...will they bale and find another crisis that will demand exactly the same solution as AGW?

They already found one. Supposedly there won't be many fish left in the ocean in a few decades.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 01, 2009 05:37 PM (P33XN)

28 You all laughed at Obama when he promised to save the environment.  He is less than a year into his term and the problem is solved.

Posted by: Just Another Moonbat at December 01, 2009 05:38 PM (HAdov)

29 Fucking sock (Can nothing technical be done about this?)

27 Chuck, wouldn't you want him stripped of his nobel?

He can use it to clean up after Bubba has his way with him.


Posted by: Barbarian at December 01, 2009 05:38 PM (EL+OC)

30 I noticed that Anthony Watts found a factual, provable hockey stick graph relating to the climate.  Or at least, related to his site.  Heh.  I wonder if Ace is experiencing the same thing due to the piltdowners.

Posted by: K~Bob at December 01, 2009 05:39 PM (WtrwW)

31 I'm going to retire?  Someone alert the media!

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 01, 2009 05:39 PM (vtuZz)

32 The thing about the Australian version of  cap and trade is that due to all the deals for special interests (Big Business, Unions, Financial institutions) in the legislation all it would have really ended up doing is raising the cost of living for average Australians and little else (It certainly wouldn't have reduced Australia's carbon emissions by much). In fact there is some speculation that Prime Minister Rudd was only trying to ram it through before Copenhagen so he could play bigger role at the meeting and suck up to the UN which would in turn help him in his quest to secure one of the rotating seats on the UN security council for Australia.

Posted by: Hellrider at December 01, 2009 05:41 PM (Nm59v)

33 Seriously though, Do you think the world is coming to their senses? I haven't had a lot of good things happen in my life lately and if this scam gets exposed to everyone then maybe there is hope.

Posted by: clonefan at December 01, 2009 05:43 PM (H5NQD)

34

Oh my gosh, the left is freaking out about Palin's jet rental for her book tour:

http://tinyurl.com/y89jqaj

 

Posted by: katya at December 01, 2009 05:48 PM (mXWSz)

35 will they bale

Physical labour? Surely you jest!

Posted by: Urbane Urban Liberal, Somewhat Horrified at December 01, 2009 05:49 PM (OYpGF)

36 clonefan, it's too soon to tell.  nobody except news junkies have the slighest idea about this yet.  Tiger Woods and all.

Posted by: Truman North at December 01, 2009 05:50 PM (XH/G8)

37 You have to wonder how the fringe "Right", pols like Graham and Brownback and bloggers like Frum and Moran, must feel to have latched onto this left-wing quackery. I imagine after all the pompous condemnation they and the Charles Johnson types heaped on AGW skeptics that they know no one ever again will give a shit what they have to say or write--if they ever did.

Posted by: This is Charles Johnson's brain on liberalism at December 01, 2009 05:52 PM (GjSWq)

38 Cap 'N' Trade is gonna get Copenhagened.

Next week, something will be rotten in the State of Denmark.

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2009 05:52 PM (I3Udb)

39

Oh my gosh, the left is freaking out about Palin's jet rental for her book tour

Libtards think we don't know about airplanes.  But we do.  Patsy Cline died in one.

Posted by: huerfano at December 01, 2009 05:53 PM (vtuZz)

40 Next week, something will be rotten in the State of Denmark.

Dammit, stop stealing my lines before I use them. I WAS SAVING THAT!

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at December 01, 2009 05:58 PM (Mi2wf)

41 Truman, I guess you're right. Depressing.

Posted by: clonefan at December 01, 2009 05:59 PM (H5NQD)

42 The comments are funny in the Palin article.  BTW, did Sarah ever explicitly promise only to take the bus?  How about worrying what elected officials, who fly off the public coffers, promise?

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2009 06:02 PM (I3Udb)

43 Dammit, stop stealing my lines before I use them. I WAS SAVING THAT!

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at December 01, 2009 09:58 PM (Mi2wf)

--Ha ha, I used it tonight precisely because I was worried someone else would next week

As to the linked article, I am astonished that the leaked e-mail/file fiasco was not even mentioned tangentially in there.  Is it outright denial, or was this revolt planned even before the leakage?

Posted by: logprof at December 01, 2009 06:04 PM (I3Udb)

44 Junk Science will win here in the USA, brace for it.

Posted by: Dan F at December 01, 2009 06:22 PM (nyFP6)

45 It is nice that the global warming scam is all falling apart (and we owe Bush for having fought against it so well in his first term) but there should be a serious chill that goes up everyone's spine when you realize that we were only one bad storm or a warm summer away from having this insanity take over the world. If it hadn't snowed during many of the global warming rallies or had mild summers and storm seasons, the fear would have pushed this idiocy through all of the governments and we would all be paying for it, right now.

We dodged a bullet on this one (assuming that we still get away from the global warming insanity) but the whole charade showed how vulnerable and gullible our populations are and how intent our political class is to grab power. Global warming is not the last of this type of insanity that will be pushed on us, and the next one just might be successful.

If the left had more brains, this world would have been screwed royally long ago. It is only the stupidity and ineptitude of the left that allows our gullible populations to not be roped into these schemes of servitude and government-enforced stagnation and poverty. We will not always be so lucky. Dan Rather might have a cousin who shows us a more credible forgery (which would not have been tough, really) ...

Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 01, 2009 06:22 PM (A46hP)

46

Senator Inhofe said he's also going to Copenhagen to let the world know that Cap and Trade is dead in the Senate.  I urge you to write him to get his AGW-fraud investigation underway.  This will be the best way to put a stake in the heard of the AGW fraud, and seeing Fat Albert take the Fifth will be the icing on the cake.

With a world-wide fraud on the go, with the potential to beggar our ways of life, the Senate hearings could dwarf Watergate.  Don't just sit there and do nothing. I urge you, write to Senator Inhofe, and let's kill this thing for good.

 

Posted by: Son of a Pig and a Monkey at December 01, 2009 06:56 PM (VJkVW)

47 <i>If it hadn't snowed during many of the global warming rallies or had mild summers and storm seasons, the fear would have pushed this idiocy through all of the governments and we would all be paying for it, right now</i>

Never underestimate the power of God. He has a devastating sense of humor, which is why it snows virtually every time Algore gives a speech on AGW.

Posted by: The Great Satan™ at December 01, 2009 07:02 PM (zA7Oy)

48

49: Beautiful and spot on. While it is premature to assume we have dodged the bullet just yet, this apparent near hit shows how human beings, vulnerable and venal,  always will be potential pawns for the left-wing's next bright and shiny thing.

Perhaps if Inhofe and company make examples of some of the more prominent fraudsters it will take another generation or two of human-like herd animals to be available to service the Left.

Posted by: awed at December 01, 2009 07:13 PM (GjSWq)

49 I believe it was a guy named Erlich who was one of the main screamers behind AGW.  He was also one of the main screamers behind TEH NEXT ICE AGE!!!!!!ZOMG in the 70's.  It makes me wonder why these jackasses still have an audience.
I have no problems with wanting to save the environment, I think that the skies over LA are much nicer now that there is less smog, and I'm all in favor of LED light bulbs cause they're going to save me cash on the power bill.  But let's use our heads and do things for the right reasons.
Whoever came up with CFLs needs to be dragged to the wall and shot.  Repeatedly.  They have mercury in them, which means that if you are just throwing them in the trash you are committing an ecological no-no.  Nice planning, that, yeah that's much better than incandescent bulbs.

Posted by: GreenGasEmissions at December 01, 2009 07:27 PM (xa1/W)

50

Somebody please ask me on-air what I think about Charlie... um, Gibson - yeah Gibson, retiring!   Go ahead, ask me.  HAHAHAHHAH!

Shit, you morons are right, that joke never gets old!

Then we could do: "Charlie Gibson retired because he had become just too dominant in his field, and from having a face that looks like a douche-bag crapped-on by a moose, but mostly....

Holy shit, that joke never gets old either!

Posted by: Sarah Palin at December 01, 2009 07:35 PM (ktKOD)

51

Whoever came up with CFLs needs to be dragged to the wall and shot.  Repeatedly.  They have mercury in them, which means that if you are just throwing them in the trash you are committing an ecological no-no.  Nice planning, that, yeah that's much better than incandescent bulbs.

I'm throwing mine in the trash and the onus is on the AGW goons.  A bunch of huge ONUSES they are too.

Posted by: Speller at December 01, 2009 07:43 PM (7Ldd7)

52 I must apologize. Earlier, I linked to a site where Al Gore is being questioned by four guys at a Barnes and Noble book signing last week before Thanksgiving.  The text and video blew me away, as Gore's body guards wrestled the guys out of the book store for merely asking what he thought about climategate. Geez, it was ugly. Perfect Gore moment.  I thought it was amazing video. Still do.

Then I realized infowars is Alex Jones. then I remembered Alex Jones as a 9/11 truther, then I remembered him nearly attacking Michelle Malkin.

Mea Culpa. won't happen again.  But it really was amazing video.

Has Al Gore responded to anyone "legitimate"? I gotta see him melt in real time.


Posted by: Derak at December 01, 2009 07:51 PM (ckgBi)

53 Perhaps if Inhofe and company make examples of some of the more prominent fraudsters it will take another generation or two of human-like herd animals to be available to service the Left.

Posted by: awed at December 01, 2009 11:13 PM (GjSWq)

It wil be interesting to see how this unfolds. Inhofe has really been a rock. An excellent advocate and defender. Unfortunately, there's always a crisis around for the left. They're still banking on the big, monetary disaster - which is all but assured. And we've got that meteor whipping around in 2019, or something - but meteors are amenable to weapons technologies, so lefties don't like them too much ...

If the left really had any geniuses that believed any of their schemes, they would just do them, instead of whining to others to do something (and that's the best of the left). The fact that the best geniuses are not attracted to green schemes is not going to be helped by restricting production for all and forcing a parity in cost between green dream products and conventional energy. When it gets interesting enough, the best geniuses will go into it.

I'd feel better if the left were susceptible to humiliation or embarrassment, but it doesn't seem to faze them. They have no problem saying really stupid things and just pushing on. The Precedent says that "10,000 people just died in a tornado", when only 12 people died, and he just keeps going as if nothing had happened. "30,000, 40,000 ... even $50,000" for a procedure that rings in at $1,000. No big deal. He's not totally retarded. No. He isn't. ...

I find the sort of brazen stupidity and deceit that pours out of Washington daily quite alarming. I hope you're right about turning away a generation or two (as after the 60's). I agree with that, though I think that road's going to be pretty rough.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at December 01, 2009 08:12 PM (A46hP)

54 Step one: get the House back.

Step two: make sure anyone who takes a job with the EPA during this administration understands they're gonna spend 120 days a year on the Hill responding to subpoenas.

Last administration (sometimes justly) lambasted for 'politicizing science'.  This administration solved the problem by throwing out science entirely, it's all politics now.

Posted by: mrkwong at December 01, 2009 09:11 PM (G8Eo0)

55 The Australians Copenhagened (in the Nelsonian sense) Copenhagen.


Posted by: mrkwong at December 01, 2009 09:14 PM (G8Eo0)

56 I hear Obama's also making a stop in the Scottish Highlands to fight the Loch Ness Monster.

Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at December 01, 2009 10:14 PM (dwwPD)

57 Not only is this not over - but the moment it is perceived to have lost enough steam they'll simply find a new "crisis" to justify the same policies.

Posted by: MlR at December 01, 2009 11:27 PM (op9m5)

58 Wear Christian Louboutin Shoes, and lower your carbon footprint!

The Aussies didn't buy the hype. Which puts all of Australia ahead of Madison Avenue in that regard. Seriously, look at all the Green hype in the commercials on NFL Sunday. I still fear that Obaka and friends are determined to be PC about Global Warming Cooling Climate Change, just because they want to believe it.
 

Posted by: exdem13 at December 02, 2009 01:39 AM (lYKj1)

59 > They already found one. Supposedly there won't be many fish left in the ocean in a few decades. It's true! The Soylent Oceanographic Survey has all the data. Google it!

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at December 02, 2009 05:59 AM (qndXR)

60

Charles Gibson?  Never heard of him.

 

Posted by: Charles Gibson at December 02, 2009 06:11 AM (3Wewy)

61

Excellent post, Gabe! I had to come out of my normal kurking posture to tip my hat to you and to GLOAT!!!

Oh, Father in Heaven, I have felt so alone here in the wilderness of GlobalWarning Skepticism, nay Outright Disbelief. How many times Father have I told them, "We revolve around a HUGE nuclear bomb! It's friggen HOT up there. If it gets a teensy weensy bit hotter there, we will roast before you can unplug your car, fool!."

Oh how they laughed at me, scoffed and called me 'denier'. Denier? Isn't this supposed to be based on science? There's no skepticism in science now???Is this New Science or something?

And now I dance upon the ashes of their little faith, Father! My cup overflowth!!

 

 

Posted by: Redstaedeb at December 02, 2009 08:28 AM (ykmvs)

62 OT/
Why are we getting spammed by boot sellers?

On topic:
Kudos to Australia for some sanity on the warmist hoax. Unfortunately Barbara Botoxer is pushing the line that climategate should be called swift hacked email gate. Don't think that one will fly Barbara. The repubs on her committee really need to come up to speed. They questioned the EPA drone and she said EPA believes in the scientific method, disagreed with what happened at UEA, but that EPA had free and open scientific discussion. This after the EPA has tried to silence two times this year, anti warmists and/or anti capntax employees.
Yet no repub called her on this lie.

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