The Adverse Outcomes associated with man-made global warming are ALREADY happening (to the Arctic, Antarctic, the Tundra, Greenland, the Himalaya plateau, coral, ocean fisheries, tropical and sub-tropical agriculture, and to other systems and ecosystems). Biofuel diversion and famine are a PRESENT reality. Crop-based biofuels are highly CO2 polluting and the global food price crisis (driven in part by US-, UK- and EU- mandated food diversion for biofuel, oil price rises, globalization, global warming and speculation) threatens “billions” with biofuel-driven famine according to UK Chief Scientist Professor John Beddington FRS.

16 million people ALREADY die avoidably in the world each year from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease and this is already being significantly impacted by global warming according to the UN. In December 2007 in Bali the three Rome-based UN Agencies – FAO, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development – warned that climate change is a major challenge to world food security and will increase hunger and malnutrition unless immediate action is taken. Unaddressed climate change already threatens billions and will kill over 6 billion people this century according to Professor James Lovelock FRS.

The Green Paper departs from the above Rational Risk Management protocol in all 3 key areas as described above:

(a) it ignores major realities (e.g. Australia’s world leading coal exports that contribute 43% of Australia’s annual contribution to global GHG pollution; the estimated 5,000 Australians who die annually from coal burning-based power generation; the reality that the “true cost” of coal burning-based power generation is 4-5 times the “market cost”; the urgent need to reduce atmospheric CO2 from the present damaging 387 ppm to a safe and sustainable level of less than 350 ppm (according to top US climate scientist Dr James Hansen); the need for a carbon pollution tax and urgent implementation of clean technologies (according to top world economist Professor Jeffrey Sachs); and makes INCORRECT assertions (e.g. “the scheme will cover the bulk of Australia’s emissions” (p15));

(b) as outlined in (a) above, the Green Paper has used information selectively to support a partisan pro-coal position; and

(c) the Green Paper Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme fails to significantly alter the system to the extent that “Carbon Pollution” from Australia’s domestic and exported GHG emissions is predicted to actually INCREASE 67% by 2020 and DOUBLE by 2050 under this prescription. The Green Paper fails to provide any substantial change in response to what eminent people now describe as a Climate Emergency. Thus on 17 July 2008 an outstanding new Australian book entitled “Climate Code Red. The Case for Emergency Action” by David Spratt and Philip Sutton was launched in the Queen’s Hall of Victoria’s Parliament House by the Governor of Victoria, the eminent medical scientist Professor David de Kretser, who warned of the acute seriousness of man-made global warming and the existence of an emergency situation. Top US and World climate scientist Dr James Hansen (Head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York) commented thus about “Climate Code Red”: “A compelling case … we face a climate emergency.”

In summary, the Australian Federal Government Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) Green Paper is terminally flawed and if adopted globally would be a DEATH SENTENCE for the planet’s biosphere. This is an extremely serious case of one of the World’s major greenhouse gas polluters blatantly “turning the truth upside-down”. If the World wants to save the biosphere (including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef) it should respond urgently to force terracidal, climate criminal Australia to rapidly reduce its annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution down to the World average and thence to “negative CO2 emissions”. Pressure can be exerted on climate criminal Australia through Sanctions, Boycotts, Green Tariffs, Reparations Demands and arraignment of Australia on charges of Climate Genocide before the International Criminal Court (e.g. through action by acutely climate change-threatened Pacific Island States and populous mega-delta countries.

Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds” (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He has just published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com);
see also his contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007). He is currently preparing a revised and updated version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a possibly 100-fold greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others).

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