Let's go through it:
- Lie Number 1: Carbon Pollution. It isn't carbon and it isn't pollution.
- Lie Number 2: The majority of scientists agree that climate change is a result of human activity. A manufactured consensus from a politicised organisation (the IPCC) which was formed to find evidence of a pre-conceived conclusion. How much climate change is actually a result of human activity? We don't know.
- Lie Number 3: We can avoid the worst impacts by reducing "pollution". No we can't. The carbon tax will do nothing to change the climate.
- Lie Number 4: Climate change is predicted to lead to further rises in temperature, rises in sea levels and some extreme weather events becoming more common, making life more difficult. Temperatures and sea levels have been rising slowly for centuries, without any help from man-made emissions. There are no confirmed links to more extreme weather events despite what the media tries to tell you.
- Lie Number 5: Countries around the world are already taking action [lists China, USA, India and Europe]. No, they are not. China's emissions will rise for the foreseeable future despite a few token environmental gestures, India's carbon tax is $1/tonne, the USA has backed away from any federal climate action leaving just the tiny RGGI, and Europe is a hopeless economic basket case on the verge of collapse, thanks in part to a crippling ETS mired in fraud and corruption.
- Lie Number 6: These clean energy sources [solar, wind, tidal and geothermal] are sustainable, renewable, their supply cannot be disrupted by events elsewhere, and they don't contribute to pollution. None of those energy sources can replace fossil fuels for base-load electricity generation. And wind and solar are "disrupted" when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Tidal power is non-existent in Australia, and geothermal is so tiny as to be not even worth mentioning. The manufacture of solar panels and rare earth magnets for wind turbines releases millions of tonnes of real pollution into the environment.
- Lie Number 7: Developing these new industries means developing new jobs. False. Every fake green job costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and takes away on average 2 - 4 real jobs. Subsidising inefficient, unreliable and expensive alternative energy is like burning $100 bills. The market will decide when "alternative" energy becomes competitive, not the government.
- Lie Number 8: Meeting the challenge of climate change means being responsible, staying competitive and Australia continuing to prosper. A unilateral carbon tax does nothing for climate change, it is totally irresponsible, will make Australia less competitive compared to its trading partners, and will damage the economy for no benefit.
Wow. Eight whoppers in just over a minute. Pretty impressive.
And it's all paid for by YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
Angry yet?
Check out a proper climate illustration here.
P.S. They've disabled comments in YouTube. I wonder why?
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