Post by tolpuddlemartyr on Jul 23, 2011 20:07:00 GMT -5
Australia's federal opposition leader, paleoconservative, anti-abortionist and climate change denier Tony Abbot aka the "Mad Monk" leader of the unfortunately misnamed "Liberal" party has been running a scare campaign against the Carbon Tax despite the fact that the tax actually excludes petrol and major polluters.
And boy has he got a lot to say about it, he's said so much that for every statement he's made denying climate change he's got an equal and opposite statement confirming it. Building a broad base I guess. Crikey has an article entitled Tony Abbot debates Tony Abbot where the Mad Monk manages to neatly contradict his own view on climate change no less than 11 times.
He's a complicated man
The argument that is absolute crap is also real, two and two make five Watson, it is policy the Mad Monk has spoken.
And boy has he got a lot to say about it, he's said so much that for every statement he's made denying climate change he's got an equal and opposite statement confirming it. Building a broad base I guess. Crikey has an article entitled Tony Abbot debates Tony Abbot where the Mad Monk manages to neatly contradict his own view on climate change no less than 11 times.
He's a complicated man
Tony Abbott: I mean in the end this whole thing is a question of fact, not faith, or it should be a question of fact not faith and we can discover whether the planet is warming or not by measurement. And it seems that notwithstanding the dramatic increases in man-made CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world’s warming has stopped. Now admittedly we are still pretty warm by recent historical standards but there doesn’t appear to have been any appreciable warming since the late 1990s.
Tony Abbott: It’s quite likely that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has had some effect on climate, but debate rages among scientists over its extent and relative impact given all the other factors at work.
Tony Abbott: OK, so the climate has changed over the eons and we know from history, at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth, the climate was considerably warmer than it is now. And then during what they called the Dark Ages it was colder. Then there was the medieval warm period. Climate change happens all the time and it is not man that drives those climate changes back in history. It is an open question how much the climate changes today and what role man plays.
Tony Abbott: I am confident, based on the science we have, that mankind does make a difference to climate, almost certainly the impact of humans on the planet extends to climate.
Tony Abbott: The argument is absolute crap.
Tony Abbott. We believe climate change is real, yes, we believe humans make a contribution towards climate change.
Tony Abbott: It’s quite likely that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has had some effect on climate, but debate rages among scientists over its extent and relative impact given all the other factors at work.
Tony Abbott: OK, so the climate has changed over the eons and we know from history, at the time of Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth, the climate was considerably warmer than it is now. And then during what they called the Dark Ages it was colder. Then there was the medieval warm period. Climate change happens all the time and it is not man that drives those climate changes back in history. It is an open question how much the climate changes today and what role man plays.
Tony Abbott: I am confident, based on the science we have, that mankind does make a difference to climate, almost certainly the impact of humans on the planet extends to climate.
Tony Abbott: The argument is absolute crap.
Tony Abbott. We believe climate change is real, yes, we believe humans make a contribution towards climate change.
The argument that is absolute crap is also real, two and two make five Watson, it is policy the Mad Monk has spoken.
