Mum and Dad Investors: Beware the carbon trading honeypot

THE carbon tax will be a “honeypot” for criminals and a massive fraud opportunity that could be manipulated by the mafia to make and launder money, a major fraud conference was warned yesterday.

At the International Organised Fraud Symposium in Queensland this week, Australian Crime Commission executive David Lacey said crime groups, [...]

CARBON TAX: The one-woman protest

 

 

 

 

Jason Morrison, popular 2UE breakfast presenter, wandered through the Sydney CBD on Monday evening this week, and was surprised to see a lone woman standing on at a busy intersection holding up a No Carbon Tax sign.  Tempe Harvey lives in Brisbane, Queensland, and is a mother, a wife [...]

JULIA GILLARD’S GLORY DAY – 12 OCTOBER 2011

INTRODUCTION OF THE CARBON DIOXIDE  TAX INTO PARLIAMENT

Julia Gillard will introduce the “Carbon Dioxide Tax” bill into Parliament on Wednesday, 12 October 2011.  This is doomsday for Australian industry and a day of shame for a Federal Government who refuses to listen to the people.   It is predicted that Julia Gillard [...]

…first USA, then Germany and now the Brits start backpeddling on carbon taxing madness

Fresh from congratulating Julia Gillard on her new Carbon Tax madness, the Sunday Times reports that David Cameron and his greenest-ever Government finally noticed that unilateral taxing of energy use will drive business to less taxed countries and start  a ‘sea change on our climate change agenda’ to protect Britain’s energy intensive industries:

“David [...]

SO WHY ARE AUSTRALIANS PAYING THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CARBON TAX?

Europe’s carbon scheme raised $4.5 billion in the first six and a half years. So in the same timeframe, why will the Gillard Government’s carbon scheme cost us $71 billion?

The Australian Trade and Industry Alliance launched this advertisement on the Australian Government’s proposed carbon tax:

A VERY INCONVENIENT TRUTH: AL CAN’T COUNT

More Hot Air and Over-Exaggeration from Al Gore ……

Al Gore says that 8.6 million people watched his day-long online marathon.  But closer inspection reveals it was closer to 17,000.  Maybe, there’s a little bit of storytelling going on and perhaps the numbers are a wee bit inflated.

Read more on the Watt’s [...]

Giant Underwater Volcanoes Discovered

Jessica Marshall writes in Discovery News:

A dozen massive peaks, some active, can be seen in a novel scan of the ocean floor.

 

British Antarctic Survey

In the first ever-survey of its kind, a chain of massive volcanoes that rise up to 1.86 miles were discovered lurking beneath Antarctic waters near the [...]

AN INCONVENIENT CARBON TAX WILL HURT SMALL BUSINESS

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Small businesses employ more Australians than any other industry or sector. And it’s small business that will be hurt by the carbon tax. [...]

Times Atlas Apologizes for Global-Warming Error

Climate-gate, Himalaya-gate, and now … Atlas-gate?

Publishers of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World scrambled Tuesday to correct a controversial statement that Greenland had lost 15 percent of its permanent ice cover over the last 12 years — an assertion scientists labeled “incorrect and misleading.”

The claim came in a HarperCollins press [...]

Airlines warn of trade row over EU carbon plan

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From the beginning of 2012, the EU’s Emission Trading scheme will compel airlines flying to or from Europe to buy permits for 15% of their emissions. [...]