Carbon Dioxide Tax: Useful? Useless?

Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water Mark Butler today said that if the carbon dioxide tax is reversed, Australia would be without any "useful" climate change policy.

Note the word useful.

Remember that his party, the Australian Labor Party, introduced a useless carbon dioxide tax.

Useless. you ask?

Well, what would you call a tax that would cut global temperatures by four thousands of one degree by the end of the century?

During an interview on the Bolt Report, 13 April 2014, (LINK) Anthony Albanese told Andrew Bolt that “We are not Climate Sceptics....”

Andrew Bolt then said: 

The IPCC Scientist Professor Roger Jones estimates that at the very most, if global warming theory hasn’t been exaggerated, your (Labor’s) carbon tax or an emissions trading scheme to achieve the same effect, would cut the world’s temperatures by four thousandths of one degree by the end of the century.

Source of Andrew's figure (LINK)

Victoria University climate scientist Professor Roger Jones has calculated that if the rest of the world did not act and Australia reduced emissions until 2020, then did nothing else, Australia's policy would knock 0.0038 degrees off the global  temperaturetemperature rise by 2100.

Jones's best estimate is that in those circumstances, global temperatures would rise by 4.7674 degrees. If Australia also did nothing, the temperature rise would be 4.7712 degrees.

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CARBON CAPERS in Australia

On ABC's Insiders July 13th, Bill Shorten claimed that the ALP was the only party that had maintained a position on taxing Anthopogenic Global Warming ie taxing the man made global warming hoax. (link)

We've got a strong amendment which is based on consistent views over a number of years from Labor about emissions trading.

Can he be serious? Let's examine the party's positions.

LABOR POSITIONS

Labor knows that to propose/support a carbon tax going into an election would lose votes and probably lose the election so we have seen Labor's position about face post elections.

2007 Rudd:

Climate change is not just an environmental challenge. It is so great we should be at the stage now in this country where climate change is beyond politics (link-youtube)

However after the ClimateGate emails exposed the hoax and Man Made Climate Change got a beating at the Copenhagen Gabfest, Kevin Rudd ran dead on the issue.

Pre 2010 Election:

Although history has been re-written since (a favourite past-time of Socialists) both PM Gillard and Deputy Swan both backed away from the carbon dioxide tax. They knew that there was no chance of re-election if they said: "There WILL be a carbon (dioxide) tax." (See Did Swan Mislead Parliament?)

The Carbon dioxide tax was introduced by the Gillard Government at $23/tonne and became effective on 1 July 2012. It increased to $25.14/tonne on 1 July 2013 and to $25.40/tonne on 1 July 2014.

Pre 2013 Election:

Newly re-instated PM Rudd, campaigning for the 2013 Election:

says Labor 'got it wrong' on introducing carbon tax without mandate

Labor's ally, the Greens party have maintained their support for the falsified AGW hypothesis but this is really their attack on Australian Sovereignty. (Greens Policies)

LIBERAL POSITIONS 

Leader Malcolm Turnbull, with or without his connections to his previous partners -carbon credit traders Goldman Sachs, was for the AGW hoax, was pro carbon tax. At that stage, Tony Abbott disagreed with his leader:

"The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger." 

When Tony Abbott became leader of the Coalition, he backed away from the "crap" position:

Tony Abbott now claims to take climate change "very seriously" 

Whether Abbott's presumed new position was a political stance or not doesn't really matter as he still maintained Renewable Energy Targets, still talked of carbon abatement and he appointed the warmist Greg Hunt as Minister for the environment.

Larry Pickering

PALMER'S POSITIONS

Before the 2013 Election, Clive Palmer said he was for the repeal of the carbon tax, however he changes his position more times than a baby changes nappies and for the same reason.

Re Palmer's latest amendment, Larry Pickering writes (link)

Clive's new amendment had to be generated from the Lower House and the Reps won’t sit until next week. Oh dear, what a balls up.
Clive immediately went into Clive mode claiming the Government had, “pulled a swifty”. Of course the Government hadn’t pulled any bloody thing, it was Clive doing all the pulling and it wasn’t just swifties.  

He clearly hadn’t realised what he’d done. Nor did the Press (well, you can understand the Press gallery not understanding anything).  

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics  have constantly opposed any form of tax but have had their political success thwarted by false promises and changes of position.

In 2009, NCTCS (although not approved as a party by the AEC) contested two by election. The Pro-Carbon Tax Malcolm Turnbull had just been replaced by Tony Abbott and many of our supporters returned their vote to the LNP Coalition.

By the time of the 2010 Election, it seemed unnecessary for voters to support NCTCS because both major parties were saying "NO CARBON TAX."

Again at the 2013 Election both major parties were saying "NO CARBON TAX."

If only the voters hadn't been sold a PUP, perhaps NCTCS could have swayed Australia away from the fraud of the man made Global Warming Hoax.