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Today the Department of Climate Change will begin taking applications for grants of up to $250,000 so that organisations can “share their stories and demonstrate the opportunities associated with Australia moving to a clean energy future.” 1
 
We are almost morphing from political propaganda to straight out political bribery. $250,000 is more than I and one of my staff get paid combined so that someone can write a Labor pop-up book. I bet you Rhys Muldoon will be all over this one.
 
This “Climate Change Grant Program” will cost $3 million. Coincidentally, that is the same amount that Labor has offered those affected by this Government’s overnight ban on live cattle exports.
 
While people in the north of Australia are told to get by on the dole, the government is handing out to others cheques of $250,000 so that others can “share stories” for a clean energy future. I bet you there would be quite a few people in the north who would like to “share stories” mainly about a Green-Labor-Independent free future.
 
Fair dinkum, what is going on here? The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland and the Green-Labor-Independent government. This is bizarre. This is more money we are going to be borrowing from overseas for something that would go down very well at a hothouse, talkfest at a community forum in Nimbin.
 
 
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# Lorikeet
Friday, July 01, 2011 9:21 PM
Oh well, they need to keep going on with this expensive fairytale in order to:

1. empower their corporate mates.
2. wipe out the livestock industries.
3. preach the new (Pagan) Gospel according to the Greens.

But never fear ... help is here.

From today, we have Senator John Madigan riding into the fray and gearing up to crack heads!
# Simon Larrescy
Saturday, July 02, 2011 5:54 AM
Nimbin, That's Good Dairying Country Barnaby... With Time The Chinese North Will Turn Time Back. There's Plenty Of Blood & Bone Laying About Wasting Our Moment In Time... 'Return To dust, O children of Adam'... Don't Worry Barnaby Your Just Not BENT Enough To Understand These Twisted UnAustralians... Their Burning Money Idea? Doesn't Seem To Work! In The Practical World. Agriculture Life, Always Did Have The Answers. Propaganda Is What Fools Believe And Wolves Use. To Suck In The Flock.
# Fiona
Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:46 PM
Barnaby, can you please start a petition that ordinary voters like me can sign that calls for fresh elections? We may not get another election, but at least voters like me would be able to have a voice amongst the frustration and helplessness that is the Canberra situation at the moment.
# Judy Jeffree
Sunday, July 03, 2011 10:33 AM
Typical of this government. Waste money where it's not needed and do nothing to help the businesses and people they are destroying. Pathetic! We have to get rid of them before Australia is a total basket case
# kelly liddle
Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:03 AM
Dear Barnaby Joyce

I think this will interest you please read and have it checked.

The following study done by myself and assisted by a scientist is only to demonstrate that the warming can be mostly if not all explained by thermal emmissions or basically a large scale heat island study using energy use data. This is not intended to give any exact warming extent as average values are used and wind land cover etc are not taken into account (this is virtually impossible despite the claims of organisations such as NASA or CSIRO) Also the energy use is not constant and will have greater effects when weather is cold and heating is more widely used.

The energy use we shall use is the total annual use of fossil fuels and nuclear. These 2 energy sources are being released by humans.

Numbers used for calculations.

Area m2 is square metres

USA 9626091000000 m2

China 9596960000000 m2

France 547030000000 m2

Germany 357021000000 m2

United Kingdom 244820000000 m2

Planet Surface 510066000000000 m2

(Source : www.worldatlas.com)

Annual energy use based on energy use in 2009. Includes fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Does not include others such as wind solar biofuels geothermal or hydro.

Mtoe is Million tonnes or oil equivalent.

USA 2119.8 Mtoe

China 2037.7 Mtoe

France 228.8 Mtoe

Germany 285.6 Mtoe

United Kingdom 197.7 Mtoe

World 10424 Mtoe

(Source : Statistical review of world energy full report 2010 (Beyond Petroleum))

The following formula was used. It basically is working out the amount of energy in continuous watt output per hour per metre squared and then calculating out the expected change in temperature by using the average input of energy from the sun using Albedo and Suns energy per square according to NASA. This is not intended to give any accurate prediction but just a general prediction.

Mtoe* 11.63*1 000 000 000 000 (conversion of Mtoe to Watts)*0.7 (energy available as thermal energy)/365/24(conversion to Watt output per hour)/land area in square metres(to give energy output per square metre per hour)*Kelvin 287/342/.703(to give estimated temperature change where Kelvin 287 is earth average temperature 342 is available energy from sun and 0.703 is the amount available to the troposphere after the albedo)

After doing these calculations if the air never left the country and everything else such as albedo remained constant mentioned these would be the approximate temperature changes.

USA 0.24 degrees increase
China 0.23 ,,
France 0.46 ,,
Germany 0.88 ,,
United Kingdom 0.89 ,,
World 0.0224 ,,

Conclusions: If a climate model printout has not taken this into account the printouts highest value shall be the greater of the recycling price to the use as a biofuel (but watch out for the thermal emissions). Most fuel use is over land and in the northern hemisphere so this is where the expected highest results are likely. Anecdotely this could be the effect in the antarctic peninsular but it is very difficult to get any fuel use figures. If this is the case the increases are likely to be in summer as this is when the scientists travel there.

Note; The energy available is a very conservative estimation based on average power station efficiency and vehicle efficiency and uses eg. domestic use of energy is far higher with average households spending over 50% of energy dirrectly for heating (hot water cooking and space heating). The amount of energy from sun will not be accurate as the albedo and latitudes on the earth could have a big effect.
# david
Sunday, July 03, 2011 4:38 PM
They claim they are not taxing fuel
there will be a tax on the refineries
there will be a tax on the trucks delivering the fuel
there will even be a tax on the electricity to pump the fuel

You can see how bizarre it has become and how desperate those involved are to hold onto government regardless of principles when the Greens are willing to tax train travel to subsidise private vehicles. What do they think will happen when they make public transport more expensive compared to private vehicles?
# Lorikeet
Monday, July 04, 2011 1:55 PM
Yes, Fiona, a fresh election is needed. Bring it on!!!
# tony shirren
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 1:30 AM
Hi Barnaby, when will someone bring world renowned climate scientists like Prof Bob Carter and his colleagues forward and claim that the IPCC has been corrupt since 1995 and run by WWF , Greenpeace and government officials with one agenda . According to many climate scientists the Climate Commission has been given heavily audited papers based only on computer modeling with no empirical data , and even then the modeling was designed on a small recent time frame, it shows a rise in temp because of oscillations and noise in the data , when the same graphs are extended over a longer time frame it shows a decline in temperature over the past decade . Also it was proven the Al Gore famous hockey stick graph was proven to be fraud by erasing those same oscillations and noise on the graph leaving the current ten year period so as to give the illusion of a dramatic rise , this proves the greens and Socialist left are corrupt and will do anything to push their agenda.
As for the destruction of the cattle industry in the top end , my parents spent decades on many of the bigger stations and have many friends absolutely distraught and at a loss as to how this government could destroy their businesses over a couple of minutes of heavily edited emotive film bites ,that Lyn Gilbert had spent years collecting by hunting down a couple of small back street butchers out of hundreds to capture .
I was disgusted at the medias sensationalism when the same woman after years had captured a small film clip of men in Egypt putting some big heavy weathers (castrated rams ) in the back of a ute to take home and slaughter just like I and every farmer on the planet has done , and then to have Keiren Gilbert on Fox News spew language like quote " very disturbing horrific scenes there'" are you kidding!! ? What future do my kids have when unproductive morons that produce nothing and are prepared to ruin our industries and our great nation that was built on the farming , mining and fishing industries for a quick buck ? I heard Bob Brown say yesterday that it's time we moved towards a single centralized world governance , isn't that Socialism ? hasn't that always ended with evil dictators like Marx , Stalin and Hitler to name a few ? What did my uncles and family members fight and die for in the world wars? If these idiots stay in power much longer we're going to end up bankrupt with serious health problems form suicide and depression before we can vote in a government that's Australia friendly .
# Lorikeet
Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:59 PM
Yes, the Climate Change farce is about making us eat a vegan diet.

I have had a good look at the faces of some of the Greens candidates here in Brisbane. Some of their men look old and wrinkled, even though they are middle aged.

One man could easily appear in a horror movie without even visiting the makeup department. I'm sure he could make a mirror crack at 1000 paces, but I don't know if he could live without his car for long enough to walk that far.
# aidan
Wednesday, July 06, 2011 10:12 PM
Another $3m wasted. I thought the government was trying to get the country out of debt - ha ha. I think it is clear the government doesn't care about what we think it should do. Gillard and her crew are just pushing ahead with their agenda regardless, to the detriment of the country. Shame on her and them! They are ruining peoples lives and destroying business and the future of our nation. The Climate Change agenda is all about government control and redistribution of wealth - Marxism. What good will "telling stories" do? Nothing!!!
# Lorikeet
Thursday, July 07, 2011 12:53 PM
I heard that the type of communism being practised by the government is Stalinism, but who knows?

When Anna Bligh was at university, she said she was a Marxist! I guess this must mean that she marks the passage of time, while the banks and anyone else interested rips us all off. Then when life gets too boring ,she sells everything off.

Let's all spare a thought for the 95% of Ipswich flood victims who are still out in the cold in the middle of winter, because Anna doesn't make the banks pay up!

Meanwhile graziers in the Northern Territory are preparing to shoot starving stock, while being offered some measly dole payment by Ju-liar Gillard. I'm sure she spends hours every day thinking up new Ju-lies (such as her promise that fuel will never incur a Carbon Tax).
# shannon
Friday, July 08, 2011 9:15 PM
Gillard and her "droning voice" ...is poised for another "artificial performance"...come this Sunday, re the economic "rape" of this country ..in the form of the greatest scam ...the Carbon Dioxide Tax.
The entire Labor/Green "Slime Machine.".never have illustrated an ounce of integrity in the entire 4 years they have been in office.
It just been "down hill at breakneck speed"...to deliver Australia to their "comrades in the UN"....bankrupt...on their knees ..and submissive..!!
God when will this nightmare end ???
On Sunday ....hopefully greater then 60% of Australians ..will switch off their TV's in protest as the darkest period of this countries history approaches.
Flick the (S)WITCH.....on Sunday !!
# Lorikeet
Monday, July 11, 2011 4:31 PM
Joe Hockey has been trying to talk up a by-election, followed a Double Dissolution. Who could blame him?

While I would not like to see Senator John Madigan risk losing his hard won seat, I am very eager to kiss goodbye to 9 Green Senators and their co-conspirators, the Labor Party.

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