Comments on: Global climate talks hotting up in Barcelona

By: Tom McLoughlin

Tom McLoughlin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:12:57 +0000

You’re right John, about CC being bigger than spin, ironically, which is also why it was impertinent for someone to block my comment on one of your Rooted blog entries about the re-insurance industry economic sanction that is likely to impact Australia as a huge coal exporting do little/nothing government that has run a hundred miles from a carbon tax.

Later that same week, Beazley admitted to Monica Attard Sunday RN radio that Climate Change policy was likely to turn “punitive” like - do you think? - withholding of global re-insurance to Australia in the future.

Not happy having a valid comment deleted from the Rooted blog, as a subscriber. True it went ahead on a Keane story string as an alternative, but out of place, and out of time.

By: wtf

wtf — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:11:16 +0000

Al Gore has been on the defensive over his financial motives for pushing for a cap and trade system to reduce CO2 emissions, arguing that he is merely putting his money where his mouth is, however, a startling revelation in a recent Newsweek article proves that Gore is only interested in solutions to environmental problems that line his pockets.
For argument’s sake, let’s accept the highly contentious premise that the life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb, carbon dioxide, is a dastardly evil threat to the planet, despite the fact that Al Gore himself admits CO2 is NOT the major driver of global warming.
If there was a solution to neutralize CO2 emissions that didn’t involve devastating the economy, taxing the citizens into oblivion, de-industrializing the west and giving government huge regulatory powers over our private lives, would Al Gore, Maurice Strong and the rest of the kingpins of the globalist environmental movement be interested?One of Gore’s global warming advisors, CEO Timothy LaSalle, told Gore’s team that CO2 emissions could be neutralized completely by clever use of agriculture and technology, without the need for a global carbon tax or the use of cap and trade systems that Gore, along with people like the Rothschilds, Maurice Strong and Barack Obama, have a huge financial stake in promoting.“If we feed the biology and manage grasslands appropriately, we could sequester as much carbon as we emit,” says Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute, who presented at two summits. The political clash is this: if you tell people soils can be managed to suck up lots of our carbon emissions, it sounds like a get-out-of-jail-free card, and could decrease what little enthusiasm there is for reducing those emissions—as one of Gore’s assistants told LaSalle in asking him to dial down his estimate. (He didn’t.)
So there you have it – LaSalle proposed a way of solving the CO2 issue but was basically told to shove it by Gore’s team because the methods he advocated would eliminate the need for what Gore and his cronies are really pursuing, nightmare regulation, taxation, and control over American’s lives, along with billions of dollars flooding into the coffers of Gore and the rest of the “carbon billionaire” globalists via the carbon trading systems they own.

By: Graeme Lewis

Graeme Lewis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:06:47 +0000

No doubt about it - KRudd and PWong are just making more hot air. Lots of words without meaning.

Yes Bill Heffernan is on the money, but who wants to listen. KRudd issues the spin, and the media generally, get spun.

By: Harry Buskens

Harry Buskens — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:30:55 +0000

If Crikey is at all concerned about the future of the world, get Senator Heffernan to write an article of his viewpoints on climate change - he says Global Warming pales into insignificance compared to damage to the earth through over population.
We will not be able to grow sufficent food to feed the world by 2050 (even well before that) and he quotes some quite diabolical figures about future survial but while I think that issue is much graver than Global Warming (more certain) it seems nobody pays any attention to that.

At a recent Senate Enquiry hearing, he made those points and I was certain it would gain some traction in the media, but I guess nobody watches Senate Enquiries.

But Crikey could take the initiative and invite Senator Heffernan (forget some of his radical past comments) to write an article - I’m certain you would find his contention quite startling.

By: baal

baal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:03:33 +0000

Oh dear, after a week of interest rate jockey jokes we have climate talks ‘hotting up’. C’mon Crikey, if you need help with the creative bit just let us know.