Viv Forbes gets some global warming; Al Gore gets duped
Ever since Viv Forbes of Carbon Sense moved out to
Rosewood, he has been complaining every winter about needing a bit of that new
fangled global warming.
Apparently the Bureau of Meteorology has listened to
him and decided to do something about it by revising and adjusting the records
to make it warmer. He reports:
We live at Rosevale, just over the hills from the Amberley air base. We have just been subjected to retrospective global warming by the keepers of the Amberley temperature record - Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology.
Until 2012, our official temperature records showed we had been in a cooling trend since records started in 1941. In 2012, BOM “adjusted” the original records and, lo, now we are suffering a global warming trend.
More here:
I’ve been telling him for years that he needs to keep
up the complaints; a squeaky wheel gets the most grease. Now he can turn down that electric
blanket.
Gore duped
Clive Palmer, founder of the Palmer United Party,
caused a fair bit of consternation among the Liberals and the population at
large by announcing that he would be releasing his policy on carbon tax repeal
with Al Gore at a press conference. (Aussies love parties with someone’s name
attached to them, something believed to have been imported from the Peronists
in Argentina.)
PUP went into the election with a policy of repealing
the carbon tax, but Palmer’s policies change pretty much on whim. Clive turned up at parliament house for
a week in his own Rolls Royce and other expensive cars claiming to be saving
taxpayers money. The following
week, he was in a chauffeur driven commonwealth car, which he claimed, was
because of his duty to keep Australians employed.
There was good reason to think that the presence of
Gore during the announcement meant that Palmer had had another change of heart
and would oppose abolition of the tax.
Instead we witnessed the bizarre spectacle of the
world’s greatest climate frantic and advocate of punishing energy consumers, Al
Gore standing beside a mining billionaire who was announcing that his party
would be voting to abolish the carbon tax.
The question on everybody’s lips is, did he sell out
or was he rolled?
Gore charges quite substantial appearance fees and his
presence may have cost Clive a pretty penny. His Chinese partners should keep an eye on those accounts
that he can access for $250,000 withdrawals.
The answer is probably neither, rather the two of them
got together to do a dirty deal whereby Clive was given an indulgence on axing
the carbon tax, which costs him $6 million per year on his nickel refinery
alone, as well as blocking Abbott’s idiotic Alternative action plan, in
exchange for retaining the renewable energy target and the Bob Brown Bank or Clean Energy Finance Corporation, both of which
benefit Gore.
The CEFC is there to help finance crony capitalists and rent seekers in
the green energy field to milk the RET by building costly wind and solar farms
which survive by selling expensive and unreliable energy at a higher price to
consumers under a mandated arrangement from the government.
Gore is a co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, which manages and advises on green investments of the kind Gore’s climate scaremongering helps whip up.
Among the businesses it “participates” in is Australia’s $1 trillion Investor Group on Climate Change, which comprises Goldman Sachs and many of our bigger super funds. Those funds invest big in renewable energy and are scared the Government will soon slash or scrap the Renewable Energy Target, which forces electricity suppliers to use more expensive wind and solar power.
IGCC has protested that “changes to the RET scheme could undermine the value returns on investments made to date” and “we do not favour any changes”.
This entire arrangement is an agreement between two carpet baggers, one
selling green investments on the pretext of a scare campaign that he has
championed, and another who is in the position to benefit from the repeal of a
tax that if Gore was even moderately honest, he would do everything possible to
retain.
The press conference says a lot about both parties, none of it
complimentary.
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