[Green-Activist] {Disarmed} Re: [ClimateChangeAction] Greenhouse Mafia strikes Forde electorate . . .

Sat Sep 8 21:11:26 EST 2007

Hats off to Cedar Vale Mum, Kim Bax!
Great stuff 
go get 'em!
:-)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kim Bax 
  To: ClimateChangeAction at yahoogroups.com.au 
  Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 8:27 PM
  Subject: [ClimateChangeAction] Greenhouse Mafia strikes Forde electorate . . .

  Press release from Mrs. Kim Bax (Cedar Vale, Beaudesert Shire), about
  Wendy Creighton's response to Climate Change (Liberal Party candidate 
  for Forde). . . Saturday 8th Sept 2007 (to cc list below)

  Also posted here (with embedded links):-

  http://www.kimspages.org/pressreleasesat8sept2007.htm

  Greenhouse Mafia Strikes again . . .

  Local Cedar Vale Mum Kim Bax is not happy with Wendy Creighton's 
  response to Climate Change. Wendy is the local Liberal Party 
  candidate for Forde. "It's the same old tired rhetoric and party 
  line," said Kim, "mostly re-cycled rot and avoidance from The 
  Greenhouse Mafia, who were admirably exposed by ABC 4 Corners in 
  February 2006. These sharks operate from Washington to Canberra, and 
  all points in between." I don't think our Liberal candidate's truly 
  thought about this stuff, other than alerting the party hierarchy to 
  my approach, and relaying their spin.

  Kim says Wendy . . . .

  Claimed Howard's meeting the Kyoto targets, when leading Australian
  Climate scientists say we're not.

  Failed to mention the global storm our hugely generous Kyoto targets
  caused, which were the most favourable given to any developed nation.

  Called CO2 emission targets set by the former chief economist of the 
  World Bank, and by Australia's own Government scientists, "Arbitrary."

  Claimed to be setting CO2 targets, when the bureaucrats concerned 
  said (in just June this year), "We haven't been asked yet to model 
  the impacts of a particular policy change."

  Said mining hampers CO2 reduction here, when it's only 5% of GDP, and 
  some Liberals are worried inflexible "Quarry vision" harms other 
  industries.

  Admitted we have "Higher" per capita CO2 emissions (in fact, they're 
  the highest the World).

  Said our huge per capita emissions were caused by long travel 
  distances, when the UK emits a higher percentage of its CO2 from 
  transport (most Aussies don't routinely commute long distances 
  between cities).

  Hid behind our "1.3%" contribution to global CO2 (in fact it's 1.5%), 
  when it's roughly the same as all other small developed countries, 
  most of them with much bigger populations than ours.

  Spruiked overseas re-forestation programmes, when leading Australian
  climate scientists emphasise "Other solutions have to be attacked 
  here at home, and not just expect that we can answer all the problems 
  by doing these things overseas."

  Thinks we should re-forest the World, instead of reducing CO2 at 
  home, and seriously suggested Howard's $200 million toward this (less 
  than his election ad budget), would make a dent in "Halving" Global 
  de-forestation.

  Failed to say there aren't enough forests, or potential forests, in 
  the World to absorb the giant amounts of carbon spewed by industry.

  Warned CO2 targets set by the former Chief economist of the World 
  Bank, and by Australia's own climate scientists, would mean 
  the "Removal of all cars on our roads." In fact, the UK is aiming 
  for these targets, and even MORE of their CO2 is caused by cars. I 
  guess the Brits aren't into hysterical and overblown claims.

  Accused environmentalists of being narrow minded and "Political," when
  alarm bells are ringing from every quarter of the political and 
  business spectrum.

  Brushed aside "Climate Tipping Points," with no acknowledgment of the
  truly massive risks involved.

  Admitted John Howard's spruiked $2.8 billion budget to fight Climate
  Change is to be spent over 25 years.

  Didn't contest the $8.9 billion a year figure spent on supporting 
  fossil fuels (from the University of Sydney), and while some of these 
  programmes aren't a "Bad" thing, failed to admit that "About 58% of 
  the total fossil fuel subsidies identified are perverse subsidies. 
  These subsidies increase Green House Gas emissions while at the same 
  time reducing economic efficiency." And that's still an awful lot 
  more than $2.8 billion over 25 years to fight Climate Change.

  Didn't dispute that the CO2 saved by our entire solar programme 
  (476,000 tonnes), is only 0.28% of the 170 million tonnes spewed by 
  coal here. Said she didn't understand my criticism of this.

  Disputed China's renewable energy targets, when a September 2007 CNBC
  article said "China plans to invest 2 trillion yuan ($265 billion) in
  renewable energy by 2020."

  Failed to see China's planned 60 gigawatts of renewable power by 2030 
  is more energy than we use from all sources. Missed the point I was 
  making, e.g. it's possible to run a modern economy on renewables 
  (even though it's obvious China's not running its entire economy on 
  renewables).

  Hi-lited China's use of coal, without mentioning Aussies still emit 5
  tonnes of carbon per person, per year - compared to just 1 for the
  Chinese.

  Failed to acknowledge that China has far high renewable energy targets
  than Australia.

  Accused China of not "Actively working to reduce emissions," when 
  they now run enough green power to energise over half of our nation.

  Made spurious claims about developing nations shunning Kyoto targets,
  without mentioning the "Common but differentiated responsibilities"
  officially enshrined in Kyoto, based on relative wealth, and relative
  input to current CO2 concentrations. One of Australia's leading 
  climate scientists puts it best "The 50 least developed countries 
  have together contributed less than 0.5 per cent of global cumulative 
  emissions over 200 years."

  And HERE'S Wendy's responses in full (with a detailed critique from 
  Kim)

  And HERE'S Kim's questions to Wendy in full.

  And HERE'S Kim's local Climate Change film site

  From:- Mrs. Kim Bax, Cedar Vale, Beaudesert Shire ph 5543 1796 or 041 
  270 8451

  cc - Federal politicians (Qld)
  cc - State politicians (Qld)
  cc - Wendy Creighton (Liberal, Forde)
  cc - Brett Raguse (ALP, Forde)
  cc - Hajnal Ban (National, Forde)
  cc - Andy Grodecki (Green, Forde)
  cc - Local press (Forde electorate)
  cc - Various environmental contacts and organisations

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