ROSS Garnaut, in his report on the so-called "climate change", is
discovering Australia is so tiny in the world global warming religion,
we will be better off sitting tight and waiting to see what the rest of
the world does.
Whatever we may try, it will make no difference whatsoever in the eyes of the rest of the world.
More
importantly, if Australia did implement some of the demands from "green
movement devotees", thousands of jobs would be lost. Worse still, the
cost of living would go through the roof.
A dairy farm's cost of
production will increase by perhaps a third, even if agriculture is
left out of the emissions trading scheme.
Farmers will be hit
with massive increases in electricity, fuel, transport, etc, plus
flow-on from businesses that will have to pay. After all, they have the
ability to pass on costs. Farmers do not.
"Or an
exercise in utter futility that is both mindless and dishonest: and yet
would impose real and significant costs on all Australians, living and
future," he wrote.
The Department of Primary Industries has
computer models with several scenarios as to what will happen in the
Western District over the next 50 years due to climate change.
It
has lead to some highly suspicious suggestions such as that the region
will become desert, that the present food bowl of Victoria will fail,
and that Gippsland had better lift its game!
The well-known fact
about computers is that the results they produce are only as good as
the information put in, which is clearly shown by some of these
scenarios.
Some simple facts from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology may help us to understand why these scenarios should be questioned.
The
average rainfall trend in eastern Australia over the past 107 years has
increased. The past 12 years, however, have been below average, but not
as low as 1902-03.
It will get back to average rainfall, just as surely as farmers will adopt and cope as they have done over the past 200 years.
Open-minded
research scientists studying ship logbooks from the past 350 years have
discovered they contain excellent, clear and similarly written
information about weather patterns that are establishing grave doubts
about many of the so-called "facts" the climate change addicts are
hooked on.
If everybody keeps a level head, this situation can be worked through - history proves it can!
