Renewable targets set

We have an emission trading scheme now – so any policies the ACT has to reduce carbon will instead just shift the emissions somewhere else in the world. This is Corbell’s stupidity at its finest.

Try writing to him and see how long that little project takes.

I once wrote to Corbell and didn’t receive a reply.

So I wrote to him again asking why he didn’t reply to my first letter and the previous issue contained therein.

Not suprisingly, he didn’t reply to that either so I gave up.

Note for next time: write to Stanhope – in fact, don’t wait for next time. Send copies of both letters to Jon Stanhope and politely request a reply. He will pass the letter on to Corbell and it would be surprising if it wasn’t answered.

Pot Holes said :

So what we just give up and say it is all too hard and our pissy little bit of dirt won’t make any difference to the big wide world. I am not a greenie but surely we have to start somewhere.

Well I would suggest that “start” shouldn’t be something who’s only possible resultant outcome is a higher cost of living for people in the ACT.

#11 Pot Holes says – [So what we just give up and say it is all too hard and our pissy little bit of dirt won’t make any difference to the big wide world. I am not a greenie but surely we have to start somewhere.]

Personally I would not refer to the ACT or Australia as a “….pissy little bit of dirt….”.
But anyway….. Do you know that CSIRO research in 1992 showed that the Australian landmass absorbs our emissions from industry and land clearing ?
http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9920527.htm
Quoting from the abstract; “The present modelled rate of net sequestration is of a similar magnitude to CO2 emissions from continental fossil fuel burning and land clearing combined.”

So – the facts are Pot Holes – that the carbon sink that is Australia – leaves none of our emissions for the rest of mankind to panic about.
If the CSIRO do not stand by those findings – they should take the paper off their webpage.

Pot Holes said :

So what we just give up and say it is all too hard and our pissy little bit of dirt won’t make any difference to the big wide world. I am not a greenie but surely we have to start somewhere.

+1

It’s a bloody good idea. If everyone did it we’d all be better off. Sometimes the grubbyment gets it right.

Perhaps we could start by working towards concerted action from the big polluters rather than sending families broke for miniscule effect.

So what we just give up and say it is all too hard and our pissy little bit of dirt won’t make any difference to the big wide world. I am not a greenie but surely we have to start somewhere.

Trying to put these matters on scale with the real world.
Taking nation by nation figures for carbon dioxide emissions from the “BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2010” – which you can download in xls.
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9033088&contentId=7060602
Comparing emissions for China with those for Australia we see that our emissions have risen little over a decade while those for China are increasing rapidly. From 2002 to 2009 the Chinese increase in emissions each year exceeds our total annual emissions and Chinese emissions are not slowing.
If Australia suddenly stopped all carbon emissions we would not offset the Chinese increase in emissions by even a year – any effect on global climate could not be measured.
So this posturing by the ACT Govt is an exercise in utter futility in terms of climate – but it will certainly push up the cost of living for all of us.

Sorry, I and the 54ModelShiela already pay a premium for electricity, so it’s simple Simon, it’s NO to Greenpower and we rent so Solar isn’t in the offering. Perhaps if ActewAGL wasn’t the sponsor of everything we could enjoy cheaper power. I guess that is never going to happen, Labor or Libs.

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Mr Gillespie said :

Corbell, if you are reading this, you are an an idiot

And if he is not reading it?

I hear you CRI – but he really, really should be reading these threads! This site (Riot) is really the only voice we mortals have to express our views on this rubbish as it comes out. Try writing to him and see how long that little project takes.

And the next ACT election is when…………………….??