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Carbon Taxes

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4 July 2010

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The Carbon Sense Coalition today claimed that the Henry Tax review, designed to provide Australia with a more efficient tax system, had completely failed in the carbon tax area, with three complex ca= rbon taxes now and more being promoted by Climate alarmists.

The Chairman of “Carbon Sense”, Mr Viv Forbes, said that a philosophy of centralisation,= a developing budget crisis, electoral considerations and climate alarmism were now driving tax policy.

Forbes explained:

“Australia now has three taxes on coal.

“Firstly, coal companies pay the same federal profit-based corporate tax that every other company pays, at the same rate.=

“Secondly, every coal miner must pay “= Coal Royalties” to state governments who own the mineral resources. Coal royalties are payable even if the mine makes a loss. All mining companies p= ay royalties.

“Thirdly, if the current federal proposals become law, coal, iron and gas companies will pay an additional profit-based “resource rent tax” to the Federal Government. (see note.)<= span lang=3DEN-AU style=3D'mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-s= erif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-AU'>

“Yet global warming alarmists are calling for still more carbon taxes.

“If you tax something you will get less of i= t.

“How many carbon taxes do we need before we achieve Bob Brown’s green dream of zero coal mining: “We can do without coal and we can do without gas”?

“And with all these taxes restricting the gr= owth of our biggest resource industries why is the government promising to spend= tax money on transport infrastructure? Coal is the greatest user of transport infrastructure in eastern Australia and much coal revenue is diverted to co= al royalties and rail and port charges.

“With three taxes already curbing the growth= of the coal industry, and global warming alarmists demanding still more carbon taxes, it is no wonder that the Premier of Queensland wants to sell the sta= te rail and port facilities.”

“The Federal Treasurer should also remember = that the tax on nothing is nothing”.

Viv Forbes
Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition<= /span>

Rosevale, Qld, Australia
www.carbon-sense.com
Phone 07 5464 0533
Email: Info@carbon-sense.com

Note: Coal companies also pay re= nt on their mining leases to the state government, special high rates to local government authorities, and fringe benefits tax on any accommodation provid= ed to employees.

Disclosu= re: Viv Forbes is a mineral economist and a non-executive director of a small Australian-owned coal exploration company which is prob= ably exempt from the new RRT.

Reports from the Sil= ly Science Department:

Re-Paint the Silver Lining?

A grant = from Bill Gates is helping researchers explore the possibility that making clouds whiter and more refl= ective by spraying them with a fine seawater mist could help block the sun's rays = and send them back into space.

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Cloud whitening builds on the natural cloud-forming process, says Silicon Valley inventor Armand Neukermans, who received the funding to = test if the concept is doable.

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When wat= er vapour in cloud-forming regions encounters sea salt crystals it condenses around them, forming tiny droplets, he explains. Together, many droplets diffuse sunlight and make a cloud whiter.

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See: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/researc= h/2010-06-10-cloud-whitening_N.htm

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Whitewash the Hills?

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Workmen = in the remote Peruvian Andes are painting mountain summits white in a bid to reflect heat away from the peaks and restore the country's glaciers, Agence France-Presse repo= rted last week.

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Closer to home, it is understood the NSW government is following the Andean experiment closely and is considering applying the science in its own climate-change p= rogram: by painting the outdoor dunnies white at new coalmines.
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The non-government organisation behind the Andean project was one of 26 winners= of the World Bank's "100 Ideas to Save the Planet" competition annou= nced last November.

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See:

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-a= nd-culture/everything-will-be-all-white-thanks-to-a-bunch-of-landscape-pain= ters-20100703-zuuz.html

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Famous Forecasts that Failed.=

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In 1969, Richard Nixon’s presidential advisor, Daniel Moynihan, summarised for the President the general concern of scientists about “the carbon dioxide problem". This report was recently released.

Moynihan’s memo reads, in part:

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“I= t is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO₂ content in the atmosphere will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth's surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level= of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.”

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These predictions were wide of the mark:

Rat= her than increasing by 81 parts per million as the "pretty clearly agreed" experts feared, CO₂ rose by only 45 parts per million.

Rat= her than spiking by 3.9 C (7 degrees F), the actual temperature increase between 1969 and the year 2000 was a practically imperceptible 0.3 C. = Which means the experts were off by 1200 percent.=

Most embarrassing of all, rather than rising 305 cm (10 feet), sea level increased by a paltry 10 cm (3.9 inches). Which means the experts overestimated that particular danger by 2950 percent.

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Moral of= the story: no one has ever been able to predict the future. Not even hig= hly educated, highly regarded government advisors.

See: http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/07/nixon= -was-told-sea-level-would-rise-by.html

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The Week That Was – News you will not see or h= ear on the ABC.

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