Comment Re:Easy, India or China (Score 1) 303
You realise that the ancient Greeks knew the Earth is round, right?
Aww, he's trying to argue. Look at him use his words! Such a good boy.
You realise that the ancient Greeks knew the Earth is round, right?
Aww, he's trying to argue. Look at him use his words! Such a good boy.
Does anyone actually buy into that? What a crock.
The removal of the Carbon Tax was entirely politically motivated.
Politically motivated only because poor people were being wrung dry by the utility rate hikes caused by the carbon tax, and they rebelled. But that was the entire reason for politicization of climate change. It's all about money.
You can't get any significant money for your government programs from taxing the rich, so you need to tax the poor. But if you're progressive, you can't exactly overtly raise taxes on the poor...so...carbon credits. Brilliant!
Only Australian Labour completely screwed the pooch and people were seeing their bills double or triple...that isn't going to sneak by unnoticed. It'll probably be 20 years before they see a majority again.
Talk to me agitation when you've read the IPCC report. I won't debate with John Regurgibots.
In other words, fuck out you lying ignoramus
On this topic many socialists seem to grow drag knuckles and turn into the hard left version of the Drudge Report comment box...all hemorrhoids and no logic. Friendy reminder, in science there are no facts, just theories paired up with hard data. Everything is open to interpretation. For example, I would conjecture that global warming as it exists in the policical world is a means to a political end (hardly surprising?). Raising taxes is politically inconvenient, and in order to generate significant revenue you need to raise taxes on the overwheling majority of your tax base, the poor. This is especially inconvenient for the left, who tend to run on a platform championing social programs and increased quality of life for the poor. So, in order to do that, you need to present a problem and get Joe Sixpack worried about it, and then solve the problem through an increased revenue sceme (e.g. carbon tax, carbon credits) that act as a regressive tax, keeping wealthy donors happy and keeping the majority of the burden on the poor through increased utility bills.
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