Aussie version of cap and tax goes down in flames.

[gsvol]

Let's hope this idiocy meets the same fate here in America.

The Rudd government arrogantly refuses to acknowledge that there remains a very lively scientific debate about the extent of and the main causes of climate change, with thousands of highly reputable scientists around the world of the view that anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are not and cannot be the main driver of the small degree of global warming that occurred in the last 30 years of the 20th century… The cruel joke is that all those thousands of jobs to be destroyed by Labor’s CPRS will be in vain, because this scheme will make absolutely no difference to the global climate.”

(could one substitute 'obama' for 'rudd' in the above statement??)gs

CO2 is irrevelant to any climate change debate.

Arctic sea ice holding up quite well this August, sorry Al (and all those with their heads stuck up Al's four axe handle wide buttocks), no time to go into panic mode.