Posts Tagged ‘carbon tax’

• Dishonest Australian Labor Government carbon price plan for climate change inaction

  Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop GHG pollution by about 2050. However in Australia, a world leader in annual …

• Australia’s outrageously deficient carbon tax entrenches climate change inaction

  The Gillard Labor Australian Federal Government has announced details of its Carbon Tax-ETS-Ignore Agriculture (CTETSIA) plan by which it ostensibly proposes to “tackle climate change”. However sensible analysis of the proposals makes it clear that Australia’s pro-coal, pro-gas Labor Government …

• Obama’s 6 months of failure on Carbon, War & Gaza

  Photo credit: jurvetson Top scientists and economists tell us that Carbon Trading (Emissions Trading Scheme, ETS) proposals are dangerous, fraudulent Ponzi schemes and that genuine, non-manipulatable, equitable Carbon Taxes are urgently required to help stop planet-threatening carbon burning. [1]. 16 …

• Oz Environmentalist Professor Tim Flannery supports disastrous Australian Carbon Trading ETS

  As evident from the failed G8 meeting at L’Aquila, Italy, the worst greenhouse gas polluters of the First World support cap-and –trade emissions trading scheme (ETS) approaches to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution despite contrary advice from top climate scientists …

• Top experts: Carbon Tax needed NOT Cap-and-Trade Emission Trading Scheme (ETS)

  A number of eminent scientists, economists and writers variously argue strongly FOR a global Carbon Tax that will directly put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution and enable urgently required rapid transformation to a non-carbon economy. They variously argue …

• Canada re-elects climate wrecker Stephen Harper

  As most of the political spotlight is on the presidential election in USA you might have missed the election in Canada last week. Unfortunately not much changed there. Stephen Harper and his Conservative party remained in power, the Liberals lost …

• South Africa’s Climate Change Plan Includes Carbon Tax

  Last week South Africa’s government unveiled an “ambitious” climate change plan that includes rigorous energy efficiency measures and a carbon tax on CO2 polluting industries. “The world faces a global climate emergency. It is now clear that only action by …