please explain

ian.mezz · 2009-11-25T10:45:37+00:00

how putting a new tax on the green house gases is going to help.🤓 is the money going to be spent on planting Trees?? smoking Kills and they cost so much cause of taxes but people still smoke🙅 my old Volkswagen's cant be helping eva but I ain't getting rid of them.🥲

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Nov 2009, 1:14 pm

#749421

1303Steve wrote:Google Lord Monckton to hear the real story, not something from the con artists at East Anglia.

Steve

I certainly wouldnt be using Monckton as the truth

I also have Ray Evans's "Thank God For Carbon"

None of the engineers at my work take their statements seriously - in fact the opposite

Futue te ipsum!!!

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 27 Nov 2009, 2:50 pm

#749432

ok the poor people pay extra for making carbon by using power etc.
the big polluters get free carbon credits and continue to make more and more carbon???? as the demand for utilities can only get bigger.
see I don't under stand buying and selling AIR don't change anything.🤪🤪

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ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 27 Nov 2009, 3:00 pm

#749433

its like selling ICE to the Eskimos🤪

Who made up this scheme David Copperfield.🙅

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ryana89 Officially Full-On Dubber

315 posts · joined Sep 2009 · 27 Nov 2009, 4:38 pm

#749442

ian.mezz wrote:its like selling ICE to the Eskimos🤪

Shhhhhhhhh!!, dont give them any idea's, they might put a tax on that next🙅

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grumble Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,672 posts · joined Jun 2008 · 27 Nov 2009, 6:42 pm

#749466

So Phil why aren't you standing for govt?This theory makes sense but once you are a politician the pocket loading takes over from common sense.I think this is why they are politicians ie they can't make it in the real world.

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 27 Nov 2009, 9:13 pm

#749513

I dont see how your argument makes any sense Phil. I think a more relevant analogy would be to put an ice cube onto a spoon. I dont think its the ice that is already submerged thats the problem, its the ice that is above sea level. When that water melts and falls into the sea, it cant help but raise the level.

Once upon a time there was no such thing as evolution and the world was flat. They were just fanciful claims. So far I see people believing what they want to believe. If you dont want to believe you put up a sceptics webpage link. If your're a believer you put up a climate action link. I'm not prepared to bet $5 on the Melbourne Cup, I'm not really prepared to gamble the planets future away.

HappyDaze Superannuated

2,887 posts · joined Jun 2009 · 28 Nov 2009, 6:18 am

#749561

I suppose we can all 'do our bit' to try to save the planet, but I'm sure that the old planet will do its own thing - as it has done for millions of years!

Cheers?, Greg

I'd rather wear a Beetle out by racing it than by polishing it!

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 28 Nov 2009, 9:10 am

#749590

Bizarre wrote:Steve

I certainly wouldnt be using Monckton as the truth

I also have Ray Evans's "Thank God For Carbon"

None of the engineers at my work take their statements seriously - in fact the opposite

Hi Barry

So the engineers don't agree with his views on the climate change "industry" being about an unelected world
government that will take our tax and give it to third world countries to spend on limos and guns, are the engineers against his views because he was in the Thatcher government, are they British?

The respected Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia has been found to be falsifying data in favour of their arguments.

A researcher has finally been able to measure the greenhouse effect, as in how much radiation comes into our planet and how much is reflected away, the results are say that there very little greenhouse happening.

I agree that we have to look after the planet, but I don't want to go back to living in cave and bathing in a river.

Kev and Penny only want this thing through now so that they have brownie points in Copenhagen, then he can be the head of the UN further down the track.

Steve

MY68VW Seriously Crusin Dubber

181 posts · joined Aug 2006 · 28 Nov 2009, 9:34 am

#749594

Sorry I don't have time today to read entire thread but..

Cut a shaft through the escarpment from sea level (it's 400ft high) put in a turbine the pressure and temp diff will cause wind currents to drive it. Best of all it's out of sight.

In the nrth District the shadow cast by the escarpment in the arvo causes the air to cool and fall giving a nice arvo offshore most days in summer, the natural process is there for the taking.

The steelworks sit on the some of the best realestate in the world. Overlooking the Five Islands, epic surf spots, deep water, fishing. The list goes on.. No wonder BlueScope will fight to keep it out of the governments hands.

Southerly winds are bad, real bad in winter, snow within a 20min drive, it can be wet for weeks on end, the water is cold until January-2C less than Sydney.

Rust is a problem.

Tuned Type IV power - shaking out the rust.

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Nov 2009, 7:52 am

#749950

Chris your 'ice on a spoon' analogy is like an ice cap sitting on land. It melts, and yes the water flows into the ocean and rasies the level. As it would with adding a melted ice cube from a spoon to water that is already in the glass. No argument - melting of land ice caps will raise the ocean.

BUT - the arctic ice cap is not on land, it floats on the top of the Arctic Ocean. If it was to melt, the total amount of water in the Arctic Ocean will not change, and neither will the level. Whether the floating ice is above or below the level of the water underneath doesn't matter. I vaguely remember this little science experiment from one of Julius Sumner-Miller's TV shows from years ago. "Will the water level rise in the glass rise when the ice melts? It didn't! Why is it so?"

If every human on earth was to die tomorrow, the Earth would quickly return to its pre-human state and within 1,000 years it would be difficult to tell we were ever here.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 30 Nov 2009, 8:29 am

#749956

MY68VW wrote:Sorry I don't have time today to read entire thread but..

Cut a shaft through the escarpment from sea level (it's 400ft high) put in a turbine the pressure and temp diff will cause wind currents to drive it. Best of all it's out of sight.

In the nrth District the shadow cast by the escarpment in the arvo causes the air to cool and fall giving a nice arvo offshore most days in summer, the natural process is there for the taking.

The steelworks sit on the some of the best realestate in the world. Overlooking the Five Islands, epic surf spots, deep water, fishing. The list goes on.. No wonder BlueScope will fight to keep it out of the governments hands.

Southerly winds are bad, real bad in winter, snow within a 20min drive, it can be wet for weeks on end, the water is cold until January-2C less than Sydney.

Rust is a problem.

Hi

That would be a great supplementary power source, but when everyone gets home at night and wants power to cool or heat the house, cook dinner or watch telly, you need a base load power supply, at the moment in this country the only base power load we have is coal fuelled power stations.

Steve

SuperOwen Fahrvergnugen

868 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 30 Nov 2009, 5:43 pm

#750028

If every human on earth was to die tomorrow, the Earth would quickly return to its pre-human state and within 1,000 years it would be difficult to tell we were ever here.

I think thats the situation they're trying to avoid.......🤓

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 1 Dec 2009, 10:34 pm

#750242

Phil74Camper wrote:Chris your 'ice on a spoon' analogy is like an ice cap sitting on land. It melts, and yes the water flows into the ocean and rasies the level. As it would with adding a melted ice cube from a spoon to water that is already in the glass. No argument - melting of land ice caps will raise the ocean.

BUT - the arctic ice cap is not on land, it floats on the top of the Arctic Ocean. If it was to melt, the total amount of water in the Arctic Ocean will not change, and neither will the level. Whether the floating ice is above or below the level of the water underneath doesn't matter. I vaguely remember this little science experiment from one of Julius Sumner-Miller's TV shows from years ago. "Will the water level rise in the glass rise when the ice melts? It didn't! Why is it so?"

If every human on earth was to die tomorrow, the Earth would quickly return to its pre-human state and within 1,000 years it would be difficult to tell we were ever here.

I dont think they are saying that its only the arctic ice that will melt though are they? I dont think there can be any argument that the planet isnt heating up. I want a reason why. Is the sun burning hotter? I want to know why I should just be prepared to sit back and watch our snow melt, the sea rise, the coral die, other plants and animal species die. I want an explanation. If we're such scientists then we cant just sit back and say "just because its always happened that way". "Why is it so?"

Solar and wind is definitely one of the answers. It works fine. It doesnt work so well at night, but then we dont use much after 7pm and the dinner is cooked. The coal isnt so bad if you just use it as one source of base load.

I have just built a fully insulated house, with eaves, solar hot water, rain water tank which supplies toilets and laundry, and still overflows into the street after 2 days of rain. I have only 2 small windows on the western side of the house. Lots of windows on the north south sides to allow flow through ventilation. There's an organic vege patch out the back. And I wouldnt even call myself an enviro nazi. I have my vices. All up it cost me about $5K. Thats nothing in the grand scheme of things. These should be compulsory for any new building.

If business were so frikken poor they shouldnt have air conditioning running in a shop thats open to the street all day. THey shouldnt have halogen lights burning throughout the shops, the office blocks which think they are doing a service by turning their lights off for one hour per year... thats just showing how much you are wasting every other hour of the year and how stupid and hypocritical the building managers are. My bosses put up black helium filled balloons everywhere for a week to show how much CO2 we were saving. Never mind that they were using the lifts every day day to replace them whihch would probably outstrip the few flouro lights that we swtiched off. Duh.

Any household air conditioner sold should come with a solar panel that can power it. Yes it wont work at night but its about carbon reduction, nobody is saying we are to acheive zero carbon emissions.

Cars under 1.6 litres should be tax/rego free. Employed people should get passes for public transport like schoolkids which are valid during peak periods. They should put security cameras at Oak Flats train station so that I can park my car there without it being broken into /attempted theft so that I can get back on the trains! They'd pay for themselves in a week fer christ sake! Or how about a direct bus service that doesnt go off and do a detour through every suburb it passes turning a 25 minute trip into an hour trip.

Maybe none of this will save the world but it would make the air cleaner and I wouldnt have to look at the dirty brown skidmark across the sky that bastard Sydneysiders send down to Wollongong.

amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 1 Dec 2009, 10:38 pm

#750243

Ooops. more than 10 lines is a rant. Apologies.

Dont need to worry about it for a while now that Abbot is in charge of the Libs. Will have to wait until after the double dissolution.

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Dec 2009, 7:29 am

#750274

Hi

In the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia they were found to have been discussing how earths temperature has dropped in the last 10 years after they have been telling everyone that it has been rising.

Now that Abbot is there, hopefully wont be running headlong into a huge tax on everything so that the milky bar kid could show off at Copenhagen.

Steve

Phil74Camper Head in the Clouds

2,703 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Dec 2009, 2:20 pm

#750334

Chris you make some great points and it makes good sense to go down the path of greater efficiency, solar/wind, better house design, financial incentives for small cars etc etc. I would much rather have the government spend their resources on this, weaning us off our wasteful habits and curbing wastage, than just bring in a huge new tax that will do zip for the environment.

I read in the Herald today that the world demand for energy is increasing at 2% per year, meaning that the Earth's energy usage will double from today's level by 2050. Exactly how is this going to be done? As Steve has said, you need base load power. No one is going to tolerate regular brownouts or blackouts - we want adequate power available 24/7. Wind and solar just aren't going to provide it. The only alternatives are burning coal/gas/oil, hydroelectric, or nuclear. Australia is already the largest economy in the world with no nuclear power - we are totally dependent on coal/oil/gas, which is non-renewable and dumps pollutants into the air. Yet we have 38% of the world's uranium reserves and we already supply 20% of the world's demand, but no one seems to want a nuclear power plant nearby. We don't have the water resources, or the terrain, for more hydro schemes - who will support building more dams?

Ultimately the population of the world, and its continual growth, is unsustainable. How is Australia going to support 30, 40, 50 million people in future when we can barely support 25? How is the world going to support 7, 8, 10, 15 billion people? Something is going to have to give.

ian.mezz I never said, I could write or spell

3,913 posts · joined Sep 2004 · 2 Dec 2009, 3:08 pm

#750341

Its good to see that Sydney is doing their bit for the Carbon footprint by letting off 5 millions dollars of fire works for the New Year eve party🤪
their hospital mustn't need the money Eva🙅

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amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 2 Dec 2009, 9:51 pm

#750401

Abbot wont be around in 12 months time. Not a hope in hell. He may go OK because of his anti ETS stance, but once that is dead and gone he'll be tripping every 5 minutes. He'll make Downer seem like a genius. That's not good for anyone.