Last week, the Telegraph.co.uk reported that five members of the Australian Congress have resigned rather than follow their party and vote for Australia's version of Cap and Trade legislation. Professor Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist and global-warming skeptic, pointed out last summer that the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) threatens to cause enormous economic damage in Australia's industrial and mining heartlands, which are both dependent on Australia's vast reserves of coal.
The article observes:
"For the rapidly increasing number of us who believe that AGW (Anthropogenic global warming) is little more than a scheme by bullying eco-fascists to deprive us of our liberty, by big government to spread its controlling tentacles into every aspect our lives, and scheming industrialists such as Al Gore to enrich themselves through carbon trading, this principled act by Australia's Carbon Five is fantastic news."
I agree.
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