So what did happen to our Democracy? - Just Grounds Community

Australia has had a lot to contend with over the years and we have embraced changes stoically, but always, with hope. For the first time in my life I am seeing that hope disappearing in the eyes of many of my fellow Aussies.

In a time when hysteria over Global warming reached a peak and their is a dramatic change in peoples perception over the true reason behind Climate Change. People have realised not only has there been NO scientific evidence of man' involvement altering the levels Australia's levels are infinitesimal in the overall Global Emissions around the world, and will make no difference unless the large countries made the same changes which is not happening.

So the Australian Government decided to introduce a Carbon Tax, When it was brought up before the election the government made several denial including the most succinct on by the PM. She stated "There will be NO Carbon Tax under a Government I lead" Well this was put to rest and people that believed it must be true voted for her instead of for the Coalition and these votes managed to win her a hung parliament after a dramatic swing against the ALP, and by virtue of a deal with the Greens on first preferences. She used this and promises which of course are not made public to retain the Greens support and bought the support of a few independents to secure enough seats to retain Government. We can say that is the nature of the system and accept this, knowing they have no mandate to introduce any policies outside of their election promises.

However to secure Government The PM felt she no longer needed to keep promises she made before the election and introduced a Carbon Tax. But this wasn't all she Climate change Assembly she promised the people before the election was replaced with a "Multi-party panel for Climate change" but to go on this committee you not only had to agree with their stand on Climate Change, you needed to understand you were there to agree on a price for Carbon., and would be guided by Ross Garnaut on the price to be set

The Government is compensating most of the big polluters, after they have passed the rise in costs on to us of course, so to all households, start adding your wages up, if it is above $120000 it is YOU that receives NO compensation, while Electricity suppliers, BHP and who knows who else will receive compensation. Like every other tax this Government brings out, the mid to higher income earners get to bend over and take it again. Gillard had the cheek to say well people like me shouldn't get it we can afford to absorb this, and fair enough she earns over $355,000 plus allowances, I think at 3x the $120,000 limit, what right does a person in her position have to say we earn enough??? She is earning about five times that of the average full-time adult salary of $67,116, as of February 2010. So enough of your pious opinion Juliar.

And if the Carbon Tax comes to pass in July, this is where our democracy fails, we will have a Government we never elected and therefore have no mandate for such an enormous change, we are suffering more financially than at any time in my lifetime, we have a Government that refuses to listen to the people, and claim we will come round to their thinking on what is really best for us?, we have a minor party who have complete control over our government, say what they like, Labor can not even hold Government unless The Greens continue to support them and vote with them, we have independents that are ignoring the majority of their own electorates, and we have a minimum of 3 years of pain before we can get rid of the Government.

Why should this occur when they never had the mandate to implement these policies, and in the Carbon Tax case lied about it even being introduced to win extra votes, which may well have been the difference in Government, and a reprieve for the pain many Australians are experiencing under this Governments policies.

Letter to PM Julia Gillard regarding Carbon Tax Petition

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The Carbon Tax, will soon wake up to this major contributor - Just Grounds Community

The Carbon Tax, will soon wake up to this major contributor - Just Grounds Community

Greenhouse gas emissions are so bad for us we need to be taxed to breathe the air. Well maybe the Govt is right after researching this, it may be better to drive than to walk. Modern farming uses huge amounts of energy to grow, process and transport our foods.  Livestock farming, particularly of cattle, is responsible for a significant fraction of all greenhouse gases. New research suggests that one kilogram of beef adds 36 kilograms of CO2 and other climate changing pollutants to the atmosphere.

1. One implication of this finding needs to be highlighted: it makes more sense to drive than walk, if walking means you need to eat more to replace the energy lost. Driving a typical UK car for three miles apparently adds about 0.9 kg of CO2 to the atmosphere.
2. If we decided to walk instead, it would use about 180 calories, obviously this seems a much better idea..
3. You'd need about 100 grammes of beef to replace those calories, resulting in the creation of 3.6 kg of emissions, or 4 times as much as walking.
4. Recent research, summarised in the New Scientist magazine of 18th July 2007, suggests that our modern methods of mass beef production generate large amounts of greenhouse gases. This is, of course, not a new hypothesis: we have gradually become aware of the huge amounts of grain needed to feed our animals, and of the troublesome amounts of energy needed to produce the fertiliser needed to get our cereals to grow. The scientist David Pimentel has suggested that it takes seven times as much grain to feed all meat animals in the US as it does to directly feed the human population.
5. The new research, carried out in Japan but surely representative of the impact of modern farming methods in the rest of the industrial world, suggests that one kilogram of meat creates the equivalent of over 36kg of global warming gases. 
6. The average person in the UK eats about 12 kilograms of beef a year. So eating a typical amount of beef generates 0.4 tonnes of emissions. After including the impact of international aviation, each UK citizen is responsible for about 12 tonnes of emissions from all sources, including industry.  A simple sum shows that beef, a relatively small part of many people's diet, accounts for between 3 and 4% of the typical UK person's carbon footprint. 

• http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19526134.500-meat-is-...
• The typical UK car has CO2 emissions of about 180 gr per kilometre. http://www.lowcarbonlife.net/default.asp?page=37
• Information from www.weightlossresources.co.uk
• The website www.weightlossresources.co.uk gives a range of calorific values for beef products on sale in UK supermarkets. 180 calories typically equates to about 100 grams of beef, depending on the cut and the quality of the beef.
• http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/660S contains this statement.
  

This is bad enough. But let's look at it another way which perhaps makes our concerns with food production even clearer. A simple calculation shows that industrial food production is more destructive of the global atmosphere than driving a car. In particular, if one walks to the shops, and eats something after the walk to put back the calories lost in the exercise, then it would generally be better to drive instead of walk. The greenhouse gas content of the top-up food may well be greater than the emissions from the car.

An example Walking three miles uses about 180 calories. Replacing the energy used, assuming you don’t want to lose weight would mean eating about 100 grammes of beef. Of course, it depends on the cut of meat, and how much fat it contains, but this figure is reasonably typical of beef in British shops. The scientists in Japan give a figure of 36 kg of emissions for a kilo of meat, so a portion of 100 grammes equates to about 3.6kg. This is the first part of the calculation – it shows that one 3 mile walk generates 3.6kg of emissions if one replaces the energy lost with beef.

What if one drove the 3 miles instead, and so didn’t need the extra food? The average UK Car emits about 290 grammes (0.29kg) of CO2 for every mile travelled. A 3 mile trip therefore, generates 0.87 kg of emissions. This is about a quarter of the equivalent emissions, from walking. And if there are two of you, and you share the car, then walking would be eight times as bad for the climate. 

The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save energy would be better.

Modern agriculture is extraordinarily energy intensive. And it is not just energy. Cows belch gallons of methane every day and methane is a fiercer global warming gas than CO2. Manure and fertiliser also give off smaller quantities of nitrous oxide, which has over 300 times the impact of CO2.  Intuitively we recognise that major industries such as aluminium smelting generate climate changing emissions. But making a kilogram of aluminium - one of the most energy intensive processes used today – creates only about 6kg of CO2 if fossil fuel is used compared to 6 times as much for food.

We need to become accustomed to the idea that our food production systems, particularly those involving a ruminant animal and their methane err, production,, are equally damaging. As a guy from Ryan Air says, cows generate more emissions than aircraft. Unfortunately, perhaps, he is right. Of course this doesn’t mean we should always choose to use air or car travel instead of walking. It means we need urgently to work out how to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of our foodstuffs, or accept, really how bad are these Greenhouse Gases, they appear relatively a normal part of life.

An efficient aluminium smelter uses about 14 kwh of electricity to make a kilo of metal. Most aluminium is made using electricity from renewable hydro-electric power. But even if it were made from UK electricity from the grid, it would only generate about 6 kg of CO2.  Chris Goodall's book 'How to Live a Low-carbon Life' is published by Earthscan.

It seems Boob Brownie missed this one as he would have insisted the Carbon Tax was attacking meat eaters as well as the mid to higher income earners.  It was described by the New Scientist as 'the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint'   So WHY are we all jumping up and down about Greenhouse emissions produced by cars We just need to stop moving, stop eating and stop breathing and the problem will be solved.

Climate-row professor Phil Jones should return to work, say MPs - Times Online

Climate-row professor Phil Jones should return to work, say MPs - Times Online

Climate-row professor Phil Jones should return to work, say MPs - Times Online

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Although this was overseas it shows they are hiding evidence that Man Made global warming is a fallacy

Climate Change is Natural - Just Grounds Community

Climate Change is Natural - Just Grounds Community

Climate Change is Natural - Just Grounds Community

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