Cap-n-Tax - Two lies and Two flaws

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The Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is promoted using two lies and will be rejected because of two fatal flaws. The Scheme has nothing to do with carbon or pollution - these are two Orwellian lies dreamed up to generate public fear and loathing about a non-polluting harmless natural gas that sustains all life on earth. The Scheme is mainly about capping and taxing the production of carbon dioxide, a life-preserving plant food which has always been in the earth’s atmosphere, generally at concentrations far above the trace amounts present today. It is a Cap-n-Tax Scheme. This Scheme has two fatal flaws. The first fatal flaw is that the scheme is not supported by independent scientific advice that proves that carbon dioxide drives global temperature. Judging from past evidence, and the number of prominent scientists prepared to go public with their dissenting opinions, there are grave doubts about the science behind the scheme. The second fatal flaw is that the government has not provided a cost-benefit analysis, done by independent experts to the standard required by any public corporation seeking to raise huge funds from an increasingly sceptical public. The Australian Senate should insist that independent enquiries are held into the science and the cost-benefits before this flawed bill gets legislative support.

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