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<\/a>By Andrew Bolt<\/strong><\/p>\nPeter van Onselen <\/a>is wrong to claims sceptics didn\u2019t <\/em>like discussing climate change. In fact, what they demanded was more <\/em>discussion, not censorship and media shut-ups, to achieve just what now so bemuses Peter:<\/p>\n How quickly things can change in politics. At the end of last year the (Australian<\/span>) government\u2019s CPRS was something most Liberals (The Conservative Party here in Australia<\/span>) wanted off the political agenda. Whether it was Malcolm Turnbull (the former Conservative leader<\/span>) and his supporters who wanted it pasted into law so they could get back to talking about debt and deficits or the climate change sceptics who wanted the legislation defeated, conservatives didn\u2019t particularly like discussing climate change. <\/em><\/p>\n The reason was simple: opinion polls showed an overwhelming majority of the public supported action on climate change and (Australian Prime Minister<\/span>) Rudd\u2019s CPRS (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme<\/span>) had become the conventional wisdom for what shape action should take…. <\/em><\/p>\n The government has (now) looked to shift the policy agenda on to matters other than climate change for two reasons: it is concerned that selling the CPRS might be as complicated as selling the Goods and Services Tax was for John Hewson in 1993 and Howard in 1998. .. <\/em><\/p>\n For a government that ended last year urging action on climate change (the greatest moral challenge of our generation, as Rudd calls it), to focus policy attention elsewhere this year has been utterly brazen\u2026 The risk for Rudd is that a double dissolution guarantees climate change is more likely to become the central issue of the campaign, exactly what the Coalition now appears to be wanting.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n UPDATE 1<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span>Even greens are coming to their senses, scared by the now-imminent prospect of an economy with no emissions-belching industry:<\/p>\n IT\u2019S the Queensland town renowned for a postcard setting, caring community and laidback lifestyle … but has Maleny become too green for its own good? <\/em><\/p>\n As the children of a generation of tree-changers begin their working lives, Maleny is discovering that being green is no protection against that scourge of rural communities: youth unemployment…. UPDATE 2<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s telling that when Canadian commentator Mark Steyn and Canadian blogger Donna Laframboise <\/a>cast around for examples of outrageously biased reporting, journalists who bought the IPCC spin and academics with a vested interest in defending the IPCC\u2019s dodgy sources, they look to Australia <\/a>– and specifically to the (Australian<\/span>)ABC\u2019s Lateline<\/em> and to Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg.<\/p>\n UPDATE 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Global Cooling – California Now Rethinks Its Gas-Slash Laws<\/strong><\/p>\n An admission of the fact that slashing gases is also slashing jobs:<\/p>\n Republican politicians and conservative activists are launching a ballot campaign to suspend California\u2019s landmark global-warming law<\/a>, in what they hope will serve as a showcase for a national backlash against climate regulations. <\/em><\/p>\n Supporters say they have \u201csolid commitments\u201d of nearly $600,000 to pay signature gatherers for a November initiative aimed at delaying curbs on the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants and factories until the state\u2019s unemployment rate drops.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile another reminder that getting warming won\u2019t be so awful, after all, since it\u2019s a cold planet that\u2019s least comfortable, as Americans have found all winter:<\/p>\n A winter storm continued its blizzard rage in some parts of the Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday morning, dumping nearly two feet of wet, heavy snow <\/a>that cut power to about 200,000 residents, caused the roof of a private jet hangar to collapse at Washington Dulles International Airport and forced the nation\u2019s capital into quiet hibernation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n (Via Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n Read more excellent articles from Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n Filed under: America (USA)<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, Blundering Bureaucrats<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Climate Alarmists<\/a>, Climate Change<\/a>, Environment<\/a>, Environmental activists<\/a>, Fanatics<\/a>, Fraud\/Waste<\/a>, Global Warming<\/a>, Liberals<\/a>, Lily-Livered Liberals<\/a>, Limp-Wrist Liberals<\/a>, Media<\/a>, Media Mind Manipulators<\/a>, MSM (Main Stream Media) Liberal<\/a>, Muddled Media<\/a>, Politics<\/a>, Power Hungry<\/a>, Propaganda<\/a>, Pseudo-Journalism<\/a>, Public Opinion<\/a>, Spine Donor Politicians<\/a> Tagged: Andrew Bolt<\/a>, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd<\/a>, Carbon Cap And Trade Tax<\/a>, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS)<\/a>, Climate Change Legislation<\/a>, Climate Change Religion<\/a>, Climate Change Scaremongering<\/a>, Global Warming Alarmism<\/a>, Global Warming Hype<\/a>, Tony<\/a> By Andrew Bolt Peter van Onselen is wrong to claims sceptics didn\u2019t like discussing climate change. In fact, what they demanded was more discussion, not censorship and media shut-ups, to achieve just what now so bemuses Peter: How quickly things can change in politics. At the end of last year the (Australian) government\u2019s CPRS was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nCommunity concern has become so acute that even local greenies are calling for drastic action and putting out the welcome mat for new industry<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
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