Kathianne
12-02-2009, 06:37 AM
Along with Phil Jones career. Hope US Senate reads the writing on the wall:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/ets_assumes_room_temperature/
Early election looms after ETS voted down again
From: AAP December 02, 2009 12:06PM
THE Senate has rejected the Government's emissions trading scheme a second time, giving Labor a trigger for a double dissolution election.
The Senate voted 41 to 33 to reject legislation setting up the carbon pollution reduction scheme.
The vote, taken at 11.47am (AEDT) today, followed more than 40 hours of debate in the Upper House.
Liberal senators Sue Boyce and Judith Troeth voted with the Government, but their support was not enough to give Labor a majority.
The crossbench, including the Australian Greens, voted with other Coalition senators.
Family First senator Steve Fielding, who voted against the Government, said the vote was a win for common sense.
"Australian families and business will breathe a sigh of relief today knowing that they won't be slugged with a massive tax," he said.
Yes, we can hear the arguments of those once thought 'true believers', same as those in our own government:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/02/2759595.htm?section=justin
...Speaking today as the debate came to a close, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the Government would not give up on the ETS and accused the Coalition of trying to spook voters.
"When you cannot fight the argument you run a scare campaign," she said.
"These are people sprinting back to the past. They are sham arguments from people driven, and now led, by people who do not believe climate change is real."
Deputy Opposition leader in the Senate Eric Abetz spoke scathingly about the scheme.
"The CPRS is dead and no amount of CPR will revive it," he said. "Labor has never tried to explain the fine print - and little wonder."
Speaking in support of the amended ETS agreed to under former Opposition leader Mr Turnbull, Senator Troeth said it is clear humans are causing climate change.
"While this legislation may be flawed in many ways - it's been amended by the very substantive efforts of the Coalition - we will all ultimately have to accept that to a greater or lesser degree we will all pay in some form or another to combat global warming," she said.
"I urge senators to consider that if people like me are wrong there will be many great gains to be achieved nonetheless."...
:eek: Got that last part? "...if people like me ARE WRONG..." In other words, spend gazillions of dollars, nothing wrong with that, maybe some good, even if there wasn't anything man could do about 'the crisis', the 'made up crisis', anyways.
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/ets_assumes_room_temperature/
Early election looms after ETS voted down again
From: AAP December 02, 2009 12:06PM
THE Senate has rejected the Government's emissions trading scheme a second time, giving Labor a trigger for a double dissolution election.
The Senate voted 41 to 33 to reject legislation setting up the carbon pollution reduction scheme.
The vote, taken at 11.47am (AEDT) today, followed more than 40 hours of debate in the Upper House.
Liberal senators Sue Boyce and Judith Troeth voted with the Government, but their support was not enough to give Labor a majority.
The crossbench, including the Australian Greens, voted with other Coalition senators.
Family First senator Steve Fielding, who voted against the Government, said the vote was a win for common sense.
"Australian families and business will breathe a sigh of relief today knowing that they won't be slugged with a massive tax," he said.
Yes, we can hear the arguments of those once thought 'true believers', same as those in our own government:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/02/2759595.htm?section=justin
...Speaking today as the debate came to a close, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong said the Government would not give up on the ETS and accused the Coalition of trying to spook voters.
"When you cannot fight the argument you run a scare campaign," she said.
"These are people sprinting back to the past. They are sham arguments from people driven, and now led, by people who do not believe climate change is real."
Deputy Opposition leader in the Senate Eric Abetz spoke scathingly about the scheme.
"The CPRS is dead and no amount of CPR will revive it," he said. "Labor has never tried to explain the fine print - and little wonder."
Speaking in support of the amended ETS agreed to under former Opposition leader Mr Turnbull, Senator Troeth said it is clear humans are causing climate change.
"While this legislation may be flawed in many ways - it's been amended by the very substantive efforts of the Coalition - we will all ultimately have to accept that to a greater or lesser degree we will all pay in some form or another to combat global warming," she said.
"I urge senators to consider that if people like me are wrong there will be many great gains to be achieved nonetheless."...
:eek: Got that last part? "...if people like me ARE WRONG..." In other words, spend gazillions of dollars, nothing wrong with that, maybe some good, even if there wasn't anything man could do about 'the crisis', the 'made up crisis', anyways.