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Junk Kyoto and the carbon tax
From Doha it's clear the rest of the world cannot sustain the UN-led model for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and Australia should recognise it...
Failure to extend Kyoto agenda will mean pain at home
Over the next week the fallacy that our carbon tax is in line with international action to cut greenhouse gases will be exposed, and with serious...
Cometh the storm, cometh the climate lies
By circulating commentary that suggests hurricane Sandy was exacerbated by human-caused global warming, the Climate Commission is wilfully...
Costs lost in the focus on climate
It is more than 25 years since the possibility that carbon dioxide and other human-induced greenhouse gas emissions achieved currency as possible...
EU carbon link just more hot air
Any business that buys cheap European emissions permits now may find them worthless by the end of the year. Linking emissions trading schemes isn't...
Somersaults and a belly-flop: carbon tax fails on all counts
In a humiliating backdown, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, though failing to acknowledge the damage of a carbon tax to the Australian economy,...
Electricity users cop the renewable energy bill
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", says a Shakespearean character noting how poor government had caused the country to go to the dogs....
Costly price to pay for taxes, regulations on energy
This week the Commonwealth Government's Climate Commission visited Melbourne. Headed by master sensationalist Tim Flannery, the commission was...
Uncertainty erodes the outcome
Finally, some honesty. In "Carbon price floor crucial to its aims" (The Australian Financial Review, July 5) four lead advocates of the...
World's biggest carbon tax to become even bigger
Changes to global carbon accounting standards will wipe out the average 20c weekly "overcompensation" by the year's end and add $230 million to the...