The Prince of Wales has warned of the "catastrophic" consequences of inaction on issues such as climate change, at a UN sustainability conference in Brazil.
Prince Charles said he had "watched in despair" at the slow pace of progress on the "critical issues of the day," in a pre-recorded video address in Rio.
He urged world leaders to adopt a more integrated approach to issues such as climate change and food security.
Waiting for the worst to happen would be "too late to act at all", he said.
heh. i say ol' chaps i watched this jolly video on those damnable carbons causing the climates & wotnot & i was all like "sink me! if those blasted proletarians shouldn't jolly well clean that mess up post haste!" then i shook my head in despair, took a private jet to scotland for crumpets & jam with miggens.
heh. i say ol' chaps i watched this jolly video on those damnable carbons causing the climates & wotnot & i was all like "sink me! if those blasted proletarians shouldn't jolly well clean that mess up post haste!" then i shook my head in despair, took a private jet to scotland for crumpets & jam with miggens.
It's all well and good to deny climate change but you can't deny the effect that pollution has had on our ozone layer. That is enough evidence to do more about limiting pollution.
If the government's income from the carbon tax is put to use as they have claimed it will be, for example in the development of renewable resource technology, then I think it will be worth it.
Just imagine the Co2 footprint of that gathering of Left Wing taxpayer funded bludgers and wtf is gillard going there for ?
To announce that shes offering up the Australian economy for slaughter.
We used to throw virgins into Volcanoes to appease superstitions
Now we sacrifice economies.
Just imagine the Co2 footprint of that gathering of Left Wing taxpayer funded bludgers and wtf is gillard going there for ?
To announce that shes offering up the Australian economy for slaughter.
We used to throw virgins into Volcanoes to appease superstitions
Now we sacrifice economies.
I got lost on the whole global warming thing, too much contradictory information.
What's the latest? So climate change is real, but global warming is not?
@infi Why do you find it hard to believe the oceans could rise? Look at the proportion of ocean to land mass and the real stats on ocean levels rising. I remember reading about some islands going under, a quick google shows this:
I got lost on the whole global warming thing, too much contradictory information.
The debate and contradictory information are an illusion created by extremely loud pseudoscience conspiracy nutters like faceman and lord monckton. Treat it as you would evolution or lung cancer, ignore the religious and the cigarette CEOs. Real scientists are pretty much all in unison, as much as they are on anything else, and they're the only people in the world with a track record of being right about the natural world. Listening to faceman and his type's opinions is like going to hippy homeopaths instead of the combined opinion of every trained and experienced brain surgeon, on how to detect a brain disease.
Now watch as some "totally unbiased" people rant about me having already said all this on this forum, yet don't bring that up about any of the bullshit from faceman etc above. :P
And because the science is so persuasive that none of the major emitters are taxing their citizen but we are going out on our own little lonesone and signing up for all of our taxpayers to hand over their money for more bureaucrats and Commissions for Climate change so we can make the world a safer place.
The science is persuasive. The reason no-one is doing anything about it is because of bullshit nay-sayers creating false doubt, and because people will lose too much money if changes are made.
Documents released to the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance under Freedom of Information laws revealed that bureaucrats in the Department of Climate change flew 6,528,616km last financial year, costing us a staggering $3,274,286.40!
So where were they flying to?
None other than the holiday resorts of Cancun, Vanuatu, Maiami, Fiji, The Maldives, Grenada, Maimi, Barcelona… Must be tough having to travel to places like the Caribbean & South Pacific all the time!
Even if that was true, do you want a country with one of the highest emissions per capita in the world to wait for the poor countries to lead the charge? "You guys aren't doing even more, despite most of your emissions coming from our factories in your countries."
Prince Charles has given an address like that many many years ago (bout 25 years if I remember correctly). He's always been a closet hippie. Then again, he would have been brought up with the old histories about how the King is tied to the Land etc so its no stretch of the imagination to see him portray himself thus.
I dunno about all this climate change stuff, but I do know you can pretty much guarantee that when Faceman says "heres whats really going on", then the opposite is actually true.
I dunno about all this climate change stuff, but I do know you can pretty much guarantee that when Faceman says "heres whats really going on", then the opposite is actually true.
Yeah that's what caused me to actually start caring about climate change.
it's ok for people to fly all around the place in jets cos they pay for trees to be planted in the upper atmosphere to offset their plane's co2 where it does it's worst
yeah except the only reason solar is economical is due to feed in subsidies that everyone else pays for, effectively pushing up the price of power for everyone as it's an inefficient form of generation.
but yeah, if you don't have solar at everyone else's expense you're a total wanker, right?
AGW is dead for now. The (so called) first world can't afford to send tons of cash to the (so called) third world at the moment, which is all that the scare was ever about.
Expect it (or some close variant) to resurface the next time the (so called) first world is doing well.
Taxpayers will likely spend $21 million to move federal parliamentary offices from Phillip Street to nearby Bligh Street in Sydney.
The parliamentary committee on public works tabled a recommendation today to move the Sydney offices for the prime minister, cabinet, ministers and visiting senators and members, from 70 Phillip Street to a new six-star, green star building in Sydney at 1 Bligh Street - just one street away.
They care about the Co2 emissions from their current building ?
jesus christ this is just bullshit.
The biggest item is “Fuel tax rebates” ($4.99b). That’s a deduction that any business which uses a vehicle is able to claim for the cost of using that vehicle - just like any other ordinary deductible item. How that constitutes a “subsidy” is beyond me.
The second biggest item is “Lack of indexation on fuel excise” ($3.235b). John Howard stopped indexing the fuel excise after the GST was introduced. Basically, what the ACF is re saying is that because an additional tax isn’t levied on a particular class of business or fuel consumer, that’s a subsidy to the fossil fuel industry!
The third biggest item is “FBT company car concession” ($1.11b). It’s not a concession at all - it’s one method of determining how FBT is levied on a company car so that an employer is taxed for a non-cash benefit provided to an employee.
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