Gillard more damaging than climate change

There was a lot of talking at Durban but the wishy-hopey-changey people have yet to tell us how they will actually affect ongoing, natural climate change. The Third World nations had their hands out, false claims were made about rising sea levels and sinking islands, guilt was spread around with a shovel, but no-one could demonstrate any validity for the extravagant statements made about the ability to alter the climate of the planet. Par for the course. As the executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) Tom Harris later said: “Developed nations are not guilty of causing the climate change that developing nations claim they are suffering. “Climate changes all the time - both warming and cooling - due to natural causes and there is nothing that we can do to stop it. However, to the degree possible, and considering our economic circumstances, developed nations still have a moral obligation to devote a proportion of their foreign aid to helping the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to natural climate events.” Australian professor Bob Carter, of James Cook University, the ICSC chief science advisor, said: “Science has yet to provide unambiguous evidence that problematic, or even measurable, human-caused global warming is occurring. Consequently, any agreements - Durban, Cancun, Copenhagen or Kyoto - to reduce humanity’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are utterly futile. Governments need to recognize that the really dangerous climate hazards are natural events and change, and to prepare more fully to adapt to them when they occur.” The result of Durban, hailed as a breakthrough, has been another agreement to furiously talk further. The aim is to have a treaty by 2015 to take effect from 2020 and, of course, establish a $100 billion-a-year development fund to help poorer nations manage climate change. The wealth redistribution is the biggest goal and, really, is the principal goal of the whole climate change scam. Australia has already committed to sabotage its own economy through the disastrous carbon dioxide tax Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Greens imposed on the nation this year. No other nation has been so foolish. The Durban agreement has plenty of wriggle-room for nations struggling with the economic crisis and they will use it, no matter what has been said in the wash-up of the talks. The end of the world is not close, but it is a lot closer than the ability of mere humans to alter the climate.