tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700865439696699671.post2034746658096949056..comments2023-11-10T12:38:31.997+11:00Comments on Inside Tasmania: The Greg Hunt Shame FilesInside Tasmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02838579766453380651noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700865439696699671.post-23734488943616305482016-06-17T13:50:09.501+10:002016-06-17T13:50:09.501+10:00It is so retrograde of Australian politicians to t...It is so retrograde of Australian politicians to try and promote a boom in both coal and gas at the same time, at the expense of the environment, after 40 years of observed global warming trend from industrial carbon emissions.PostGrowthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02067125745672651303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700865439696699671.post-37930038726348853892016-06-17T13:35:36.886+10:002016-06-17T13:35:36.886+10:00Mr Greg Hunt is using a statistical fudged innocen...Mr Greg Hunt is using a statistical fudged innocence defence, so that it cannot be certain that our coal that is contributing to global warming. By the same defence, Cigarettes don't cause cancer, and neither does selling them, and when sliding into global mass extinction events, a few new coal mines either way won't make any difference. This wrong by the "well mixed" proposition, that only the total amount of CO2 emissions matters, and the carbon budget idea, and progressive carbon tax idea, that each additional tonne of CO2 from fossil fuel is more over-kill. Nature will tell us soon enough that we may have passed the over-kill threshold some time agoPostGrowthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02067125745672651303noreply@blogger.com