PROTEST RALLY OUTSIDE ALP'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE

PROTEST RALLY OUTSIDE ALP'S NATIONAL CONFERENCE
DARLING HARBOUR CONVENTION CENTRE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 4TH 12NOON, BAYSIDE CENTRE

"THE PM WHO CONNED US WITH A LIE"

PM GILLARD WHY?

CARBON TAX - LIE

MINING TAX - LIE

ASSYLUM POLICY - LIE

NBN - LIE

Hi everyone,

This is certainly a testing time in our ongoing campaign against the introduction of the carbon tax. We can feel recharged by this week's newspoll with Labor's primary vote back down to 30% & the two party preferred at 57% Coalition to Labor's 43%. This is truly incredible when one considers the blaze of media attention the PM has received with world leaders in the Queen, President Obama, CHOGM, G20 and the recent Asian leaders forum. In contrast Tony Abbott tactfully kept a low key approach knowing full well he could not compete against those big 5 tickets. Now we get down to the real agenda, not the fairytale, fake message that the PM tried to portray to world leaders and the media.

This PM cannot escape the fact that she conned the nation with a lie that is "there will be no carbon tax..." and the other areas mentioned above. Our next protest rally outside the ALP national conference will be a big reminder to all those in attendance and the media of this huge lie that will not go away until the next election, hopefully very soon.

CATA encourages all to be there and make it known to everyone that we will not be beaten, this tax must be and will be repealed. This ALP event is over 3 days from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th. We will meet outside the Bayside Centre at 12noon on Sunday the 4th of December. Bring your banners, your loud voices as we let the media and those inside the conference know exactly how we feel in been conned by the PM over the carbon tax.

This protest will be the start of a new form of campaigning until this tax is repealed. We need to be in their face and on their turf. This carbon tax cannot stand the test of time as it is a big fraud, con and will do ZERO for the climate.

So we have every reason to continue our attack until the job is done, we have a promise signed in blood from Tony Abbott that he will repeal it, for that reason CATA will be behind the Coalition actions in axing the tax.


Kind regards


CATA TEAM
Consumers & Taxpayers Association Inc.

MORE INFO HERE : http://www.consumersandtaxpayersassociation.com/events_6.html

Canada adds its objections to $100-billion climate fund

The Harper government is joining the United States in raising objections to a planned $100-billion (U.S.) a year climate fund that is designed to bridge differences between rich countries and the developing world.
Heading into the United Nations climate conference in Durban this week, the United States has made it clear it will not support the current proposals for the climate fund over concerns about how the money would be raised, lack of verification of how it is spent, and an unwillingness of major emerging countries to commit to legally binding emissions reduction.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/video/video-kyoto-is-in-the-past-environment-minister-says/article2252304/?from=2252782

Environment Minister Peter Kent has raised his own doubts about the climate fund, saying on the weekend that Ottawa would not agree to proceeding with it in the absence of a broad global agreement, which would include China and other emerging economies, to restrain greenhouse-gas emissions.
The Harper government has already indicated it will not commit to new targets under the Kyoto Protocol after the treaty’s first commitment period expires in 2012.
Mr. Kent on Monday would not comment directly on reports that the government will pull out of Kyoto after the Durban conference. Such a move would remove international monitoring of Canada’s emissions reductions. It would also amount to a repudiation of key principles of the Kyoto treaty, notably that the developed world has a historical obligation to do the lion’s share of reduction because it has contributed most of the industrial emissions that cause climate change.
“Kyoto is the past,” he told reporters on Monday.
The Harper government has instead endorsed the 2009 Copenhagen accord, which included a commitment to reduce greenhouse gases from all major emitting countries, including the United States and China. While countries have published targets, negotiators have made little progress in converting the Copenhagen political compromise into a binding treaty.
“Our commitment is to Copenhagen and to a realistic plan to reduce greenhouse gases in alignment with our neighbour and closest trading partner with whom we have very integrated economies to reduce our greenhouse gases on a continental basis,” Mr. Kent said.
New Democratic Party environment critic Megan Leslie accused the government of attempting to sabotage the Durban talks with its hard line on Kyoto.
The Harper government has largely mirrored the U.S. approach to global climate negotiations, a stand that has frustrated European and developing countries that are members of the Kyoto Protocol.
Negotiators at Durban are wrestling with how to finance the climate fund. UN officials are suggesting countries consider taxes on air travel and marine transport, and some countries support a financial transaction tax. Neither Washington nor Ottawa have supported such measures.
The United States last week indicated it supported the “basic concept” of a climate fund, but had serious reservations about its design. Washington wants major emerging countries like China, Brazil and India to play a role in financing emission reductions in lesser developed countries.
Graham Saul, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, said the climate fund is a critical prerequisite to an international treaty that would bring real progress on global emissions reductions.
“The fund was supposed to be about building trust toward a meaningful international agreement and Canada has violated that trust in so many ways, this is only the latest way,” Mr. Saul said.

Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming

Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson
was strongly critical of those who
supported the 'Climategate' scientists

5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made

Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a 'strong message'

Critics claim: 'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'

Scientist asks, 'What if they find that climate change is a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

more than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the  correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change.

Following on from the original 'climategate' emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches.

And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data, government employees at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are also implicated.

One message appeared to show a member of Defra staff telling colleagues working on climate science to give the government a ‘strong message’.

The emails paint a clear picture of scientists selectively using data, and colluding with politicians to misuse scientific information.

‘Humphrey’, said to work at Defra, writes: ‘I cannot overstate the HUGE amount of political interest in the project as a message that the government can give on climate change to help them tell their story.

'They want their story to be a very strong one and don’t want to be made to look foolish.’

Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the centre of the affair, said the group findings did stand up to scrutiny.

Yet one of the newly released emails, written by Prof. Jones - who is working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - said: 'Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get – and has to be well hidden.

'I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.'

The University of East Anglia, where most of the emails originated - none of the newly released emails appear to be post 2009, but clarify the extent of government involvement in the scandal

In another of his emails, he wrote: 'I’ve been told that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is above national Freedom of Information Acts.

'One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process.'

More...

• Climate change fears 'have been exaggerated' say scientists who claim apocalyptic predictions are unlikely

Other scientists are clearly against such a policy, but some seemed happy to collude with concealing and destroying evidence.

One nervous scientist wrote: 'The figure you sent is very deceptive.'

'I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run,' wrote another.

The lead author of one of the reports, Jonathan Overpeck, wrote, 'The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what’s included and what is left out.'

A weak performance by Environment Secretary Chris Huhne on Question Time has helped to inflame the row over the second leak of private UEA emails - now described as Climategate 2.0.

Professor Phil Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, appears before the Science and Technology Committee after the last dump of leaked climate-change emails

Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation warned against ignoring 'shortcomings' in a letter strongly critical of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

It said: 'The BBC, in determining its policy towards the coverage of global warming, which is of course not simply a scientific issue but an economic and a political issue, too, ought to shred that section of the Jones review and revert to the impartiality laid down in its charter.'

He was also strongly critical of sections of the media who lent support to the scientists.

Andrew Orlwowski, UK science site The Register's science correspondent comments on one email that says, 'What if climate change turns out to be a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering.'

Orlowski says, 'That won't be necessary.'

Clive Crook, a commentator for the Atlantic, who described the earlier inquiries into the Climategate emails as 'ineffectual' and 'mealy mouthed', reportedly said, 'The closed-mindedness of these supposed men of science, their willingness to go to any lengths to defend a preconceived message, is surprising even to me.

'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering.'

There is other correspondence from scientists such as Prof Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Centre at Penn State University, some of which have a distinct feel of PR 'spin'.

The release of the information echoes the 'Climategate' leaks of hacked private emails two years ago ahead of crunch climate talks in Copenhagen that referred to ways to ‘hide the decline’ in global warming.

A series of independent reviews cleared the East Anglia researchers of impropriety, but they were told they had been too secretive.

Today's leak may also be timed to disrupt the next session of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change next week in South Africa.

The new email leak is accompanied by a text file which appears to protest against the huge expense of anti-warming technologies - highlighting deaths from poverty against the $36 billion expense of 'green' energy

The emails have been released in the form of quotes carefully 'chosen' to show bias, or that scientists were pursuing a particular agenda in their research.

The unnamed individuals who released them chose the 5,000 emails from keyword searches, saying, 'We could not read every one, but tried to cover the most relevant topics.'

The emails were posted on a Russian server - Sinwt.ru - as a downloadable ZIP file in an apparent attempt to cause disruption in advance of next week's climate change conference in Durban.

They were rapidly reposted on climate-sceptic blogs such as The Air Vent.

It is not clear, though, whether they are new, or indeed whether they indicate any kind of conspiracy.

The release of the data was accompanied by a 'press release' in the form of a readme file, which said, 'Over 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day.'

'Poverty is a death sentence. Nations must invest $37 trillion in energy technologies by 2030 to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions at sustainable levels.'

'Today's decisions should be based on all the information we can get, not on hiding the decline,' said the file.

The identity of the people who posted it was not revealed - although the clear political statement is new.

The file also contains more than 200,000 other emails, which are encrypted, and no password is provided.

Presumably, this is to protect the individuals involved - or simply because the material is so non-controversial or boring that it's not worth releasing.

NASA thermal satellite image showing the world's arctic surface temperature trends: Today's emails appear to show scientists interested in painting a particular picture of such trends - but the information is not new

The University of East Anglia has not confirmed whether the material is genuine.

None of the material appears to be new, either: it seems to date from the first release in 2009.

It also occurs against a rather different scientific background, after the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature review of climate-science data by prominent climate sceptic Richard Muller, which analysed 1.6 billion temperature records, and concluded that global warming was a genuine effect.

It is still unclear what effect - or combination of effects - is causing the current warming of the atmosphere, which has risen around one temperature in the past 50 years.

Professor Mann, speaking to the Guardian, described the release as 'truly pathetic.'

'Well, they look like mine but I hardly see anything that appears damning at all, despite them having been taken out of context.

'I guess they had very little left to work with, having culled in the first round the emails that could most easily be taken out of context to try to make me look bad.'

A police investigation is ongoing.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2066240/Second-leak-climate-emails-Political-giants-weigh-bias-scientists-bowing-financial-pressure-sponsors.html#ixzz1f4QA2Yid

NO CARBON TAX RALLY Thursday 17th November 2011 at 12 Midday

http://www.stopcarbonlies.com/canberra_rally.html

 

Rally Info

NO CARBON TAX RALLY
REPEAL CARBON TAX - YES WE CAN

PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL ADDRESS PARLIAMENT
Thursday 17th November 2011 at 12 MiddayParliament House, Canberra

Join Young Australians, Working Families, Students, Workers, Small Business Owners and Senior Citizens who will take the Election Now, No Carbon Tax message up with the Government by protesting outside Parliament House in Canberra during the visit of the USA President Obama.

DateThursday 17th November 2011
Time
1200 Midday
WhereParliament House, Canberra

TransportCoaches organised by CATA
Public Transport
Own Transport


Schedule

• March
• MC Welcome
• Key Note Speaker
• Invited Speakers
• Industry Speakers
• Rally Participants
• MC Close

ParkingTBA


What to bring

• Sunscreen,
• hat,
• water bottle,
• placard,
• casual or more formal attire is fine.
• Aussie Flags are another great symbol.
• Wet weather gear, but only if forecast looks like rain.

Placards and Props**
Placards should be soft materials like cardboard or corflute and should not be attached to large stakes or poles. You cannot put anything into the ground on the lawn, gardens and walkways as required by the authority. No structures are permitted. If in doubt please contact CATA for clarification.

Aussie SpiritLastly, bring your Aussie spirit, integrity and pride. Its an uplifting experience and you will meet a lot of people as we put the Government on notice that Australians take democracy seriously and expect their representatives to act with integrity and seek a mandate for major issues.