Just increasing income tax, company tax, sales taxes etc are very unpopular, but hey, this new anti-pollution tax is the answer!
We can even introduce it and tell people that they should feel good about it, because it wil save the world from climate change!!
Now we have a way to tax the air people breathe!
Originally, it was called Global Warming, then when they realised that the world is not warming, they changed the name to Global Climate Change.
Duhhhh, of course the climate is changing, it changes not only every day, but even every hour!
Back in the late 70's, they were saying that we are headed for another ice age!
Can't they make up their minds?
How boring would it be if the climate was exactly the same all the time?
The ex US Vice President Al Gore started all of this with his non-factual movie, An Inconvenient Truth(?) (and in the UK, a disclaimer has to be shown before this movie is shown there to tell poeple that what is contained in the movie is mostly BS) so that it would give a big boost to his emmissions trading company, and you know what, we fell for it!
Here is a guy telling us how diabolical it will be for all of us and if we don't so something right now it will all be too late and the world's weather will change forever, and we will all die a painfull death.
In the mean time, as he's counting all his money, he flys around the world in a private jet, and on land, only travels by helicopter and limousine and rents entire floors of top hotels to stay when he is away from any of his multitude of huge houses that chew more than 5 times as much electricity than any of our homes, and he's telling us that WE have to do something!
As man is only a very minor player in the various emmissions on earth, why are we worrying about it?
The sun, the oceans, the volcanoes etc etc are the real culprits as they are responsible for around 97% of CO2 etc., and even if we stopped all manmade emmissions, it wouldn't make a skerick of difference to the earth or its weather.
What are they going to do with the money they get from the Carbon Tax?
Most of it will just be given back to the lower income people (and how is THAT going to get them to reduce their emmissions?) and most of it will go into administration so Juliar can keep her union bosses happy with all the extra workers she has to hire to look after it (actually, these people have been employed on this for the last 3 years in a very fancy, expensive building in Canberra with leather lounges everywhere, 50" plasma TV and Blu Ray players and Nintendo games etc - a friend of mine helped build the building, and these people have just been twiddling their thumbs for the last 3 years, some of them on salaries over $200K a year), yet not ONE word has been said as to how this will help the Global Climate change BS.
In fact, with all these extra people working on this, in their fancy office buildings chewing up even more electricity and fuel to get around, it will actually make things worse!
Now, if they said that they were going to use the money to put up catalytic converters on all the active volcanoes, and do something about the gaseous emmissions from the frozen methane at the bottom of the oceans, then I would think that they may do something, but just to take money away from us is not going to help one iota.
So what happens if we have no ice on the polar caps in summer?
Not much actually.
The last time this occured in the 14th century, mankind explored the world, and mankind actually did pretty well out of it, and the polar bears survived and in fact, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that polar bears would be better off, by having more food, if there was no ice on the poles.
There have been many long periods in earth's history when the CO2 levels were actually THOUSANDS of times higher than they are now, and the earth survived, as did the plants and animals.
The fact is that we don't know what changes the weather will have in the short, medium or longer terms, and there is no evidence to show that we will be worse off IF the climate does change.
In fact, if the CO2 levels double, plants will grow 40% better than they do now, and food production will increase accordingly.
Perhaps we should try and make more CO2 to help the environment!