There is an opinion piece in yesterday's Sydney Morning Herald entitled 'Crying Need for Doubting Peter' in which Gerard Henderson suggests that even if carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are contributing to global warming it is unclear why a nation like Australia -- responsible for only 1 percent of the world's emissions -- should be an international leader in responding to climate change.
Gerard Henderson quotes ABC Radio National Broadcaster Robyn Williams from his interview with Channel 9 TV journalist Adam Shand on Sunday.
You can watch the Channel 9 story -- which is probably the first time mainstream Australian TV has given some of Australia's so-called global warming skeptics a fair hearing -- here as Part 1 and Part 2.
"-all 180 MWatts of it- just consider how much CO2 would NOT be in the atmosphere now and in the future too."
WOW! 180 MW
Sounds a lot.. its got a "mega" in front of it.
Never mind that that is the maximum the dam could ever produce and not the average!
Listen Lawrie, after the construction phase, how many people do you think this small remote controlled facility was actually going to employ?
AND unless they cut all the trees out of that valley, it is well known that methane emissions from dams can be quite significant.
James Hansen is coming after Gerard Henderson, and James has a noose and a book of scripture. Written by Al Gore.
Does Gerard have a prayer? Perhaps: "Lord, deliver me from the Gadarene swine".
???? Ask him what? If you are wondering if increasing wealth will make you happier, that's not the question.
Ah, the strawman; an agrarian symbol if ever there was one; as to agrarian lifestyle, perhaps you'd better ask Dr Hamilton;
http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/spr03/polspr03-7.htm
Stop beating up on the strawman, cohenite, he can't fight back. No on is asking for a 3rd world agrarian lifestyle.
All the 'ethicists' advocating unilateral reduction of Australia's carbon footprint should read this;
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080702.RREYNOLDS02/TPStory/Business
And when they have finished bloviating about that, maybe they can then comment as to the ethics of reducing our lifestyle to the 3rd world agragrian lifestyle so beloved of such AGW advocates, when reducing our lifestyle apparently involves further reducing that 3rd world lifestyle standard via such ethical processes as growing ethanol rather than food.