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Feds plan to co-fund electric vehicle chargers. Seems to be based on the 'Field of Dreams' theory of 'if you build it they will come'.

https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/a ... e-chargers
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Seems to be an egregious waste of taxpayers’ money. Simply shouldn’t be happening. Rent seekers transferring their costs onto others… other taxpayers. Awful public policy.
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See link for some opportunities created for new entrants to the sustainability market.
https://sustainabilitymag.com/esg/fiske ... ic-vehicle
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*Proceeds to vote Liberal*
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EDIT
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*still votes Liberal*
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RedRaider wrote: January 1, 2022, 10:54 amEDIT
This was a cartoon of Santa in a self drive EV sleigh. I don't why the Edit?
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RedRaider wrote: January 1, 2022, 6:51 pm
RedRaider wrote: January 1, 2022, 10:54 amEDIT
This was a cartoon of Santa in a self drive EV sleigh. I don't why the Edit?
It was a broken link, without an explanation of what the link was for. I do try my best to fix things… but we can’t in those circumstances.
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Now an Oil Company moving to support Electric Vehicle (EV) charge hubs
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Put your money where your mouth is. Vote for someone with a climate policy.
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The climate change cult are even worse than the covid cult.
WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN
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gangrenous wrote: January 14, 2022, 12:50 pm Put your money where your mouth is. Vote for someone with a climate policy.
I think attacking a particular party over how they name things is somewhat semantics:-
- Labors - climate / environment policy - https://www.alp.org.au/policies/
- liberals - climate / environment policy - https://www.liberal.org.au/our-plan/environment

Couldnt find a carbon tax in either to be honest.

Either way, labor has some good stuff on electric vehicles, and on improving waterways

Liberals have some good stuff on taking care of waste / recycling.

Neither party had much on tree planting reforestation - maybe tony abbott sold that one too poorly.

As an aside - labor party listed six odd policies under climate change but only had one or two in education and health... at least labor know that banging on about the environment is the way to go for this election.
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papabear wrote:
gangrenous wrote: January 14, 2022, 12:50 pm Put your money where your mouth is. Vote for someone with a climate policy.
I think attacking a particular party over how they name things is somewhat semantics:-
When did I do that?
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gangrenous wrote: January 27, 2022, 8:30 pm
papabear wrote:
gangrenous wrote: January 14, 2022, 12:50 pm Put your money where your mouth is. Vote for someone with a climate policy.
I think attacking a particular party over how they name things is somewhat semantics:-
When did I do that?
Ripping the libs for having an “environmental policy” instead of a “climate change” policy..
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You’ve got the wrong end of the stick there. I’m not having a crack at them over semantics. I’m saying they don’t have proper policy for addressing climate change, nor have they for 15 years.
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gangrenous wrote:You’ve got the wrong end of the stick there. I’m not having a crack at them over semantics. I’m saying they don’t have proper policy for addressing climate change, nor have they for 15 years.
It's purely coincidental that they finally started giving a crap about the environment when Andrew Twiggy Forrest decided to invest heavily in hydro.
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BOM predicting another couple of months of La Nina but weakening.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/outlook/
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Still cool with sitting on our hands on climate change Red? Still happy with your critiques of models over the people with years of experience and PhDs?

Or have you finally seen enough massive natural disasters to want to address the situation properly and admit that perhaps these folks know what they’re talking about? Maybe do something to help your kids and grandkids?
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gangrenous wrote: March 19, 2022, 9:43 am Still cool with sitting on our hands on climate change Red? Still happy with your critiques of models over the people with years of experience and PhDs?

Or have you finally seen enough massive natural disasters to want to address the situation properly and admit that perhaps these folks know what they’re talking about? Maybe do something to help your kids and grandkids?
:welcome: Fiction writer
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No fiction here. You’re on record supporting the Liberal party and their (lack of) policy on climate change. You’re on record as saying that expert models should be questioned because of aspects you have zero knowledge on.

All pretty solid facts here.

Unless you’ve recognised your errors?
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Yawn, more fiction. I support positive actions on climate change regardless of where it comes from. I accept that the writers of an IPCC report made a mistake in saying the Himalaya glaciers were melting faster and said it was good that they were able to admit to error. Somehow you have twisted this into a broadbrush on the entire scientific community. You are a fiction writer
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RedRaider wrote:Gangers, I am attempting to discuss with you the need to rely on the Empirical evidence on the issue of Climate change. For someone like me, empirical evidence is all important. It is that evidence which should determine actions by business, Government and individuals. I have no doubts the empirical evidence shows rising trend temperatures beginning from the early to mid 1970s. This is consistent with a longer term warming trend which can also see decades of 'cooler than average' temperatures. For me this means linear model forecasts need to be questioned.
Oh so this wasn’t you saying that there’s nothing to worry about because we’ve seen ice ages before and the modelling you don’t understand is wrong?
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RedRaider wrote:I support positive actions on climate change regardless of where it comes from.
Well that’s not true. You don’t want Australia to do anything serious. Certainly not via a carbon pricing mechanism which everyone agrees is most efficient approach and was shown to work.

Just own your denial and that you’re unwilling to sacrifice a thing to stop climate change because you don’t accept the science and you’re happy to support a party actively thwarting progress at international panels to make change.
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How can it be warming if it’s always raining?
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gangrenous wrote: March 19, 2022, 8:36 pm
RedRaider wrote:I support positive actions on climate change regardless of where it comes from.
Well that’s not true. You don’t want Australia to do anything serious. Certainly not via a carbon pricing mechanism which everyone agrees is most efficient approach and was shown to work.

Just own your denial and that you’re unwilling to sacrifice a thing to stop climate change because you don’t accept the science and you’re happy to support a party actively thwarting progress at international panels to make change.
Maybe you haven't seen this link to the news of November 2021.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/11 ... arbon-tax/
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gangrenous wrote: March 19, 2022, 8:32 pm
RedRaider wrote:Gangers, I am attempting to discuss with you the need to rely on the Empirical evidence on the issue of Climate change. For someone like me, empirical evidence is all important. It is that evidence which should determine actions by business, Government and individuals. I have no doubts the empirical evidence shows rising trend temperatures beginning from the early to mid 1970s. This is consistent with a longer term warming trend which can also see decades of 'cooler than average' temperatures. For me this means linear model forecasts need to be questioned.
Oh so this wasn’t you saying that there’s nothing to worry about because we’ve seen ice ages before and the modelling you don’t understand is wrong?
Just so you understand the definition:
arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.
"linear movement"
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RedRaider wrote:
gangrenous wrote: March 19, 2022, 8:36 pm
RedRaider wrote:I support positive actions on climate change regardless of where it comes from.
Well that’s not true. You don’t want Australia to do anything serious. Certainly not via a carbon pricing mechanism which everyone agrees is most efficient approach and was shown to work.

Just own your denial and that you’re unwilling to sacrifice a thing to stop climate change because you don’t accept the science and you’re happy to support a party actively thwarting progress at international panels to make change.
Maybe you haven't seen this link to the news of November 2021.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/11 ... arbon-tax/
Don’t try and deflect.What do you support? It’s not a price on carbon you’ve said so.

You don’t get to point the finger at Labor dropping a policy because you and your ilk killed it as politically viable.
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RedRaider wrote:
gangrenous wrote: March 19, 2022, 8:32 pm
RedRaider wrote:Gangers, I am attempting to discuss with you the need to rely on the Empirical evidence on the issue of Climate change. For someone like me, empirical evidence is all important. It is that evidence which should determine actions by business, Government and individuals. I have no doubts the empirical evidence shows rising trend temperatures beginning from the early to mid 1970s. This is consistent with a longer term warming trend which can also see decades of 'cooler than average' temperatures. For me this means linear model forecasts need to be questioned.
Oh so this wasn’t you saying that there’s nothing to worry about because we’ve seen ice ages before and the modelling you don’t understand is wrong?
Just so you understand the definition:
arranged in or extending along a straight or nearly straight line.
"linear movement"
Just so you understand:
You don’t get to dismiss modelling on the basis of your own daft assumptions about how it works when you don’t know ****.
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gangrenous wrote: March 20, 2022, 3:34 pm
Don’t try and deflect.What do you support? It’s not a price on carbon you’ve said so.

You don’t get to point the finger at Labor dropping a policy because you and your ilk killed it as politically viable.
Ignoring for a second how ugly a term 'you and your ilk' is here, and how it is another example of both sides desperately trying to point a finger at the other, not even Labor blames the right side of politics for this particular crashing policy failure -https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/te ... 201-p53fpv

The fact is the the Greens took an extreme position, refused to negotiate and as a result the entire legislation was voted down - despite LNP senators crossing the floor.

Sooner rather than later we will need some form of carbon pricing. Unfortunately, it will take people of all kinds of 'iks' to grow up and find a consensus position.
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However, a carbon price was put into place, and the coalition government dismantled it. The coalition very clearly led the trenchant opposition to doing anything.
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greeneyed wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:19 pm However, a carbon price was put into place, and the coalition government dismantled it. The coalition very clearly led the trenchant opposition to doing anything.
A carbon price that was supported by neither the right or the left! The Greens voted against it!

Sorry, but that's almost the definition of unworkable.
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T_R wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:59 pm
greeneyed wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:19 pm However, a carbon price was put into place, and the coalition government dismantled it. The coalition very clearly led the trenchant opposition to doing anything.
A carbon price that was supported by neither the right or the left! The Greens voted against it!

Sorry, but that's almost the definition of unworkable.
It was implemented and in legislation. There was a transition year to a floating price. It was certainly workable.
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greeneyed wrote:
T_R wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:59 pm
greeneyed wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:19 pm However, a carbon price was put into place, and the coalition government dismantled it. The coalition very clearly led the trenchant opposition to doing anything.
A carbon price that was supported by neither the right or the left! The Greens voted against it!

Sorry, but that's almost the definition of unworkable.
It was implemented and in legislation. There was a transition year to a floating price. It was certainly workable.
Well, the Greens and the LNP and, as it transpired, the majority of the electorate felt differently.

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T_R wrote: March 21, 2022, 3:53 pm
greeneyed wrote:
T_R wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:59 pm
greeneyed wrote: March 21, 2022, 2:19 pm However, a carbon price was put into place, and the coalition government dismantled it. The coalition very clearly led the trenchant opposition to doing anything.
A carbon price that was supported by neither the right or the left! The Greens voted against it!

Sorry, but that's almost the definition of unworkable.
It was implemented and in legislation. There was a transition year to a floating price. It was certainly workable.
Well, the Greens and the LNP and, as it transpired, the majority of the electorate felt differently.

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And we know why. The trenchant scare campaign from the coalition. Based on a denial of climate change science and poor economic policy to boot. The lack of action is costly for the environment and it will have significant economic costs. What's worse, what we're now doing is inadequate and more costly for taxpayers.
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Why are we all talking about the coalition? If the Greens had supported it, it would still be law.
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