PeterC
The Carbon Tax is not some socialist conspiracy to redistribute wealth, it is designed to discourage use of carbon-intensive energy sources.
You are smoking something weird, you are completely wrong. If the idea it was going to discourage the use of CO2 emitting fuels, well they need to look at a couple of failed experiments over the last 20 years in Europe....Carbon Tax applied, discouraged nothing! In fact the rate went up
If you really think they wanted to discourage fuel use they would need to ramp up the price somewhat aggressively, not several cents a litre but dollars. This is exactly what happened with cigarettes, the price hikes were huge relatively, and look....the % is down a bit, but volume has remained. So while you might argue it worked on smokes, it only sort of did, but the price hikes were huge.
This is the sort of policy commonly suggested in economics and public finance text books and is a responsible path for the government to take.
Right that is a good idea......believe some silly idealogical socialist text book
The science behind global warming and climate change has been proven and tested for twenty years. The government is showing good leadership by taking this move to do something about it.
What rubbish!
Twenty years is not even on the climate scale for a start. REAL climate scientists refer to a blink of an eye in climate terms as 30 years for a start.
Simple facts for you to contemplate, and one simple question. CO2 in the atmosphere has been on the rise for a long time, man made content in the last 50 years also. Nobody on either side disputes this. So by coincidence for a period of 20 years (out of the last 30) there was also average temperature rise. No disputes there either. So the theory is that the man made CO2 was the driving force and as CO2 increased temperature would thus continue. How could it not?
Ohhhh but it did, the last 10 temps declined, yet CO2 levels rose, some naturally and some man made. So the question is, if CO2 is such a significant driver of temperature and that man made CO2 was so much a player, how on earth is it possible that over the following ten years temperature went the other way while CO2 climbed even higher?
While you think about this, consider this, you can have a hypthesis tested a thousand times with a positive result, but it only takes one negative to debunk it.
A few more questions for you to contemplate instead of just believing greenie and left wing scare mongering & propoganda.
Ships sailed the north west passage.....powered by sails! Not much man made CO2 then. Why was Greenland called Greenland? Why did they find all sorts of warm climate begitation in ice core samples? Why did we not have catastrophic global warming when CO2 levels were 4500ppm (over 10x todays level) ?