The Climate Crazies

I suppose it was inevitable that climate change would arise in a Federal Election campaign, but what a joke it is. ...

I suppose it was inevitable that climate change would arise in a Federal Election campaign, but what a joke it is.

On the very day that the United States has backed away from an Emissions Trading Scheme, Julia Gillard announces that she will use a hand-picked "citizens jury" and a climate change commission to produce a consensus and a policy.

The "biggest moral issue of our time" has become a mater for a talk fest, and the expenditure of more money to achieve nothing.

While the world's biggest emitters of CO2 (the U.S., India and China) do nothing it is crazy to hamstring our industries and kill our economy with a "big new tax on everything" to solve a problem that doesn't exist manufactured by lies and exaggerations by the vested interests in the green movement.

I'm hoping that the mining industry will now make good on their threats to resume their advertising campaign against the resources tax and that the Australian public will wake up to themselves. Surely we couldn't be silly enough to re-elect the party that gave us the burn your house down for free scheme and the we will pay a million dollars for a $100,000 school hall scheme-- would we?

I live in a safe Nationals seat so there's not much I can do, but pray for an awakening in the marginals.