[lbo-talk] Climate change and politics in Australia now...

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jul 11 08:07:17 PDT 2012


If you want to understand how far the Australian polity has dealt with climate change, read this. As for my view....Labor's price on carbon is better than the Coaltion's plan to do next to nothing. The Labor government's 'carbon tax' (to use the Coalition's opportunist language) could be better; but Australian citizens are not sufficiently conscious of the realities about climate change, in spite of information coming from climate scientists such as this from today's Yahoo news feed:

"Their conclusion: Global warming has made such a Texas heat wave about 20 times more likely to happen during a La Nina year.

"Using a similar approach, scientists from Oxford University and the British government looked at temperatures in central England. Last November was the second warmest in that region in more than 300 years. And December 2010 was the second coldest in that time. Their analysis concluded that global warming has made such a warm November about 62 times more likely, and such a cold December just half as likely.".

Q. Who really speaks about the subject of climate change with the gravity it deserves?

A. Many, but they are effectively neutralised by the amplified cacaphony of a well financed propaganda machine. Again, in a bourgeois democracy the golden rule applies: who has the gold, rules.

http://www.climatecodered.org/2012/07/sober-assessment-of-our-situation-1.html

Over and out from Oz, Mike B)

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