Thoughts on a hot subject

Warning...This is a very cyncial look at the hotest subject on the planet currently, so don't say you weren't warned!

I find it hard to believe just how much hype there is over the subject of Climate Change / Global Warming etc...I have no doubt that the world climate is changing and that we humans maybe contributing to the current changes and further more, it is not at all a bad thing to cut back on how much toxic shit we (the human population) pump into the air we breath...However, why have so many forgotten that:

1.) The world's climate has been through more climate changes, that any of us johny come lately humans have memory or records of...We have only been here for a VERY short space of time in comparison to the planet.

2.) That in Australia, there is only going to be one large set of losers in all the hype and hood winking that is currently being undertaken by our politicians, media and big business on both sides of the over stated arguement...those losers will be every tax payer and engery consumer whether you are a climate change suporter or skeptic!

3.) The winners will be our politicians as they rack in millions / billions in extra tax revenue, something our big spending Rudd bank government is in desperate need of to balance their now way out of balance budget and i am sure something the opposision leader has not failed see the bennifits of, just in case they manage to win the next election over Kevin 07....

The other big winners are the energy companies as they have now the prefect reason jack up prices to not only cover the extra cost of this susposed planet saving tax (AKA ETS) and i am sure they won't forget to add a slice to better their own bottom line.

Finally the other parties to enter the Climate change hype winners circle will be all the dot com like clean green energy companies and government consultants, that will be earn millions in grants and other revenue further hood winking both governments and the public alike that they have some magic new technology to solve the world energy problems as well as the climate change problems....


Futher more, I to the best of my memory, from all the new stories, articles etc about the Magic planet saving E.T.S that our Government is proposing to dump on us, am yet to understand how imposing this new TAX (as that is what it is) is going to stop even one particale of CO2 from being pumped into the air! SO WHY ARE WE ALL SO WILLING TO SUSPORT THIS TAX IF IT CHANGES NOTHING other than making our politians look good on the global stage and fill a big hole in their budget???

Though in all of this, the thing that makes me laugh more than anything else is the fact that the people are most vocal about the damage we the human population are doing to the planet with all our planet distroying CO2, are the very people who are most likely adding faster than most, as they constantly fly from one end of the world to the other for meetings on the subject! You would think if these Polititians, Scientists and so called "experts" were serious aout leading by example they would use video conferencing and save tonnes of CO2 caused by planes, hire cars and large conference venue electricity consumpution....Ironic really when you think about it!