How Australia compares on green emissions trading
On the back of Kevin Rudd’s much criticised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, targets are being shifted to the much more admirable 25 per cent by 2020. More assistance is being provided for industry, with Australia emitting 372,013 metric tonnes a year. With Australia coming in at 16th on the list of the greatest producers of the world’s greenhouse gases… is it time to ask if the scheme unfairly criticised?
Comparatively, Britain, has created the strikingly similar United Kingdom Climate Change Programme. In 2004, Britain was the world's eighth greatest producer of man-made carbon emissions, producing around 568,520 of the total generated from fossil fuels. Their new law requires that by 2020 the nation's greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels, roughly a 25 per cent reduction under “business-as-usual” estimates. These are the same levels as Australia, despite there being almost 200,000 metric tonnes difference in our emissions.
China is the worst in the world, producing an incredible 6,103,493 metric tonnes a year - a staggering 21.5 per cent of the world’s total. However, they seem somewhat resistant to climate change legislation.
One thing is for certain, there should be UN ratified blanket legislation that rules out any confusing states/countries doing as they please with their targets. The facts and figures speak for themselves with global warming and, with some of the big boys (China, India, parts of the USA) refusing to play nice, it’s clear that there needs to be some heavy-handedness by the UN to ensure the purity of our Earth for future generations.
On the back of Kevin Rudd’s much criticised Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (which had the goals of 5 % below 2000 by 2020 on a unilateral basis or up to 15% below 2000 by 2020 if also agreed by the other major emitters.)’s targets being shifted to the much more admirable 25% by 2020 and more assistance for industry, with Australia emitting 372,013 metric tonnes a year, coming in at 16th on the list of the greatest producers of the worlds greenhouse gasses…..is it time to ask, was the scheme unfairly criticized?
Comparatively, Britain, which In 2004 was the world's 8th greatest producer of man-made carbon emissions, producing around 568,520 of the total generated from fossil fuels, has created the strikingly similar United Kingdom Climate Change Program. The law requires that by 2020 the state's greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to 1990 levels, a roughly 25% reduction under business as usual estimates. This is the same levels as Australia despite their being almost 200,000 metric tonnes difference in our emissions.
China is the worst in the world, producing an incredible 6,103,493 metric tonnes a year, a staggering 21.5% of the world’s total. They however seem somewhat resistant to climate change legislation.
One thing is for certain, there should be UN ratified blanket legislation that rules out any confusing states/ countries doing as they please with their targets. The facts and figures speak for themselves with global warming, and with some of the big boys (China, India, parts of the USA) refusing to play nice, its clear that there needs to be some heavy handedness by the UN to ensure the purity of our earth for future generations.
They have to prove that it is warming first and since it stopped in 1998 and they had to change the name to climate change because of that - does anyone still believe them - I don't.
So even if the left wing UN were to mandate it - not every country would take notice and do it - as with most of their mad muck ups - nothing they do actually works - usually makes things worse and they started the ball rolling with false data anyway.
Lets instead ask the Martians what their plan it to reduce carbon and stop the same thing happening on their planet. rofl
Oh there are no Martians!!! so no carbon generated by burning fossil fuels.
Well then just maybe that is because carbon is not the thing that is causing the climate to vary a bit like it has for millions of years long before man infested Earth - and maybe the many scientists - 31,728 - thousands as opposed to a mere 52 who started this Gore manifested hare running - think it is the Sun and its cycle as usual.
Today on breakfast they were dramatising the weather with strong winds - yeah like 100 k's a hour - normal for this time of year and high temps in the sub tropics as if this is unusual but seasonal. Wow and awful must be global warming hide under the bed!
I'd be hiding if the winds were 160 - 200 K's an hour that is not normal and violent storms.
Anyway a real qualified Meteorologist came on and told them it is normal weather for this time of year as cold up from the South hits the hot down from the North (tropics) and causes storms and strong winds as Spring hits Winter.
Bit like Y2 Bug - this carbon emission's scare is a scam to make money and scare the children and the brain washed.
http://petitionproject.com/
31,478 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/1799/Earths-Fever-Breaks-Global-temperatures-have-plunged-.74F since Gore released The Inconvenient Truth
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/11/gore-admits-financial-reasons-advancing-global-warming-hysteria
This ETS could well bankrupt our economy as we - if it was even true - put out less than 2% of the worlds CO2 emissions and once again we will be the idiots doing it just as we were and still are over tariffs - lowering them - when every other country still protects their industries and only pays 'lip service' to the idea.
Lose even more of our jobs to countries with no carbon taxes - then who will pay the welfare bill as it increases and no jobs?
It is about time governments got on with doing the things for the public who elected them and not for the big businesses to make even more profits in return for their donations to political parties.