TIM BLAIR BLASTS THE GREEN WIZARDS OF OZ.

We don't let our light shine too often on Oz, but today I came across a marvellous Tim Blair observation in his Daily Telegraph blog:

The insane cost of green appeasement:


- Successive federal governments have spent more than $5.5 billion over the past decade on climate change programs that are delivering only small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at unusually high costs for taxpayers and the economy.


It’s all been for exactly nothing. The precise cost of the 17 programs analysed is $5.62 billion, which equals the pre-tax average annual wages of nearly 90,000 Australians – every cent of it blown to hell.

• Greenoids and environmentalons who complain about public funding of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix should consider that, at just $50 million per year, the amount spent on green dreams would be enough to secure the event until 2123 – when, on current trends, the race will feature gravity-powered nerf karts.

• Australia’s great green waste is more than double the current insurance bill from the massive Queensland floods.

• It’s enough to pay Tim Flannery’s tax evangelism salary until he is more than 31,000 years old, by which time one or two of his predictions may have come true.

• Hand those billions over to Sydney city council and they’d be able to build 14,800 kilometres of cycle lanes for nobody to use.

• Speaking of wasted money, $5.62 billion would fund the entire ABC for nearly seven years. Or seven and a half years once Phillip Adams retires.

• With that kind of cash, the government could put boaties in hotels for 198 years.

Hilariously, green types are using universal past failures to justify the introduction of a carbon tax:


Andrew Macintosh, the associate director of the Australian National University’s centre for climate law and policy, said: ‘’Market-based measures like a carbon price will be far more effective than this sort of scatter-gun approach.’’


Then again, wouldn’t anything be more effective? So far we’re $5.62 billion for zero. Let’s try putting howler monkeys in an industrial centrifuge, or naming our children after shapes. Maybe interfaith staring contests will fix things. Hey, if you’re really crazy, we could always put a tax on fumes that plants eat.

UPDATE. Terry McCrann:


The “Julia” carbon tax will have to raise at least $10 billion a year and continually increasing. Every year. Forever.


Progress!

Tim Flannery is the quintessential complete nutcase ecobozo, formerly a mammalogist and palaeontologist. He should have stuck with his kangaroo species and his fossil bones, alas, this would be May 68 fossil is now more interested in kangaroo courts.





In 2005, he warned against imminent extreme drought in Australia:

"Three major phenomena are depriving Australia of its rainfall..."

"The worst case scenario for Sydney is that the climate that's existed for the last seven years continues for another two years... In that case, Sydney will be facing extreme difficulties with water."

"Large cities are the most vulnerable of all structures to water deficit because you've got 4 million people who need water there just for everyday survival."

"If you think there's only a 10 per cent chance that this rainfall deficit's going to continue for another few years, you'd be pulling out all stops to preserve water. Because every litre you use now on your car, or your garden or whatever else, you might want to drink in a year's time."

Quick reality check. Sydney, Colo River, a good one month ago:





More ***EXTREME DRAUGHT*** in Australia:





Econutters. Just how long are we going to keep up with their nonsense?



MFBB.