Alan Jones
Climate change is predicted to change a lot of things, but it’s already having a profoundly negative effect on what you are permitted to publish, say or read, writes Tim Blair.
ANOTHER $1 BILLION OF TAXPAYERS’ MONEY
We run a grave risk, as a country, of becoming a nation forced into embracing one policy, with no debate and little consideration of alternatives.
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The current religion is net-zero carbon dioxide, as I have said, without ever demonstrating clearly what damage 0.04% of the atmosphere can possibly do to us as a planet when carbon dioxide is the source of all plant life.
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Today, more money is being thrown at the issue, taxpayers’ money, with the Prime Minister saying he will launch a $1 billion investment fund to “fast track low emissions technologies, including carbon capture and storage and methane reducing livestock feed.”
All to reach net-zero. Another $1 billion of taxpayers’ money, on top of the recently announced $21 billion for hydrogen production.
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$3 billion in NSW for a guaranteed 10,000 jobs in hydrogen production.
What is your maths like? $300,000 per job. Taxpayers’ money!
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But just leave hydrogen for a moment and back to the headline today for a $1 billion tech fund to promote carbon capture and methane reducing livestock feed.
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This is supposed to be a big election push, but scholarly people, without a platform, are writing to me about this same issue of burying carbon dioxide, carbon capture!
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Has anyone admitted that we already have massive carbon capture mechanisms?
Australia has 440 million hectares of grasslands, 4.4 million square kilometres larger than Europe’s total area.
We also have 140 million hectares of native forests.
As one of my correspondents has reminded me, 1.8 million hectares of plantations and 4% of the world’s global forest estate.
The point is, we are not short of trees which capture carbon dioxide.
We have the world’s sixth largest forest area.
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As a result, our grasslands, forests, crops and the waters of the continental shelf sequester, a fancy word for burying or hiding away, far more carbon dioxide than Australia emits from all energy, transport, agriculture and mining sources.
So what’s this $1 billion announcement about?
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