Environmentalists have been warning about this, and now it’s happened. Climate change is enroute to claiming its first government.
In a caucus revolt triggered by (former) leader Malcolm Turnbull embrace of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the Australian Liberal caucus has ejected their leader, electing Tony Abbott in his place. Turnbull lost the his leadership by one vote this morning.
Mr. Rudd’s ETS which will face a Senate vote, and is expected to be defeated in the Upper Chamber. Last week, Turnbull faced the first significant challenge to his leadership over ETS when five of his shadow ministers resigned in protest of their leader’s support for Rudd’s carbon trading bill.
Upon failure of the ETS legislation in the Senate, the bill can be reintroduced by Rudd but this would likely cause a double dissolution election; Rudd cannot pass the legislation due to a majority possessed by the Liberals and Family First party (a party also against Rudd’s ETS legislation).
World leaders weigh in on the crisis…. “Whoops! Sorry about that.” – carbon billionaire Al Gore
Tim Blair has details –
Seconds after Mr Abbott beat Malcolm Turnbull by one vote, he then declared a secret ballot on the ETS.
The motion proposed that the legislation should be delayed for three months, and if this could not be secured, then the legislation should be defeated.
The motion was carried by 54 votes to 29, guaranteeing the death of the Rudd Government’s ETS.
That folks, is the sound of all hell breaking loose.
Love it! Those Aussies have balls, yes they do!
ClimateGate, Scalp #1. Whhhoooooo Hoooooooo.
Wouldn’t it be grand if Iggy could channel his Aussie OLO number?
It would sure make Dion happy 🙂
Down Under is OVER THE TOP!
Ah right…must a been that Tasmanian devil eh?
Anthropogenic Global Warming suffers from cold feet Auzzie style.
WHO HOO and Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
All the dickering,conflict and turmoil being caused by something that does not matter(co2)
We need some of those Aussie balls here.
Bob @ 10:38, that nails it just right.
Keep standing up for all that is right you Auzzies, Canadians and Americans have to do the same phone your MLA’s and MP’s, let them know this scam must be stopped and no more taxpayers money stolen by these climate charlatans! Hear that Suzeookie. Fraud charges soon I hope, and maybe JAIL TIME Dave,,your idea. Jus imagine a Euroweenie like Herm leading Canada if you are not already mad enough to phone an elected official.
If only we could find a political party in our country with the intestinal fortitude to denounce this lie
Damn Straight.
Oi, Oi, Oi!
Aussies, toughest bastards around. Big brass ones down under!
This, fresh on the heels of this past summers deadly and unecessary wildfires and resulting damage to small communities, has the Aussie’s doing what I wish the rest of the world will/would do.
I to, have been musing at how this is not being reported on by cbc and bad company.
There has got to someone there who’s just pissed that they can’t be a journalist about all this instead of just a cbc liberal pussy-footer first, foremost and only?
Someone, anyone?
A Billion a year would be great boost to our health care system.
I would venture to say that if he was only voted out by one dissident vote, then this is not in any way a measure of the climategate’s effectiveness in reversing bad environmental policy.
The snowball keeps growing. Kate (and many of her commenters) said right from the beginning, this story is not going to go away.
Keep hammering away at the MP’s. Don’t let them rest.
The Aussies are far more civilized than what is going to happen in the USA…
An organized Civil War, or State Vigilant Posses will hang all Environmentalists..including Obama
The line is drawn… JMHO
The Aussies are far more civilized than what is going to happen in the USA…
An organized Civil War, or State Vigilant Posses will hang all Environmentalists..including Obama
The line is drawn… JMHO
Copenhagen could be a blood bath
Cheers!
Let’s keep the pressure on our MPs!
@Aizlynne
I tend to agree. The Liberal party in Oz clearly appears to be fractured over this issue which might bode ill for them in a coming election. Or are they split over this new guy Tony Abbott? Until I have a better grasp of the political landscape down under I won’t be breaking out any champagne just yet, and for now only twist open a beer.
I would venture to say that if he was only voted out by one dissident vote, then this is not in any way a measure of the climategate’s effectiveness in reversing bad environmental policy.
~Aizlynne
I disagree.
We’ve had hot heavy Global Warming propaganda thrown at us 24/7 for 20 years and this is the result of Climategate’s 10 days of exposure.
Advance Australia Fair!
When will someone stand up in our House of Commons and demand an investigation and explanation? Maybe after the next election or maybe somebody can put what is right ahead of their own political aspirations.
I wrote the Prime Ministers office a couple of days ago and got this reply today. I agree with the comments above, send letters, lots of them. Put yourself in their position, if nobody was interested would you go all the way and stick your neck out? On the other hand if you had nothing but support and encouragement wouldn’t you be more inclined to take those extra steps? Remember, there human to.
Dear Mr.: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
On behalf of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, I would like to thank you for your e-mail, in which you raised an issue that falls within the portfolio of the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment.
Please be assured that the statements you made have been carefully reviewed. I have taken the liberty of forwarding your e-mail to Minister Prentice, so that he too may be made aware of your comments. I am certain that the Minister will give your views every consideration. For more information on the Government’s initiatives, you may wish to visit the Prime Minister’s Web site, at http://www.pm.gc.ca.
L.A. Lavell
Executive Correspondence Officer
@Oz
Boy am I glad you showed up!
I think we’ll need a translator up here for the next while…I can’t even get past the first comment without sputtering a WTF?
-OHH Honey: “Didn’t think the libs would make hockey stick.”
-Winston: “You should be ashamed, OHH, for a joke like that. (Why didn’t I think of it first, mutter, mutter)”
heh. huh?
I forgot to add that it isn’t that the opposition to the issue was carried by only one vote, it’s that after 20 years of Global Warming propaganda financed by $79 Billion it is remarkable that there were any opposition votes at all.
After a mere 10 days of exposure to the Climate Gate info the opposition carried the day.
John Howard, former Leader of the Australian Liberal Party, was defeated in the previous election, losing his own seat, because of being at odds with the public on “cut through issues”.
The #1 “cut through issue” that John Howard was at odds with?
Industrial relations and global warming were the biggest vote-changing issues.
Climategate is a nuclear bomb!
This is very exciting news from Australia. I doubt very much that Climategate had much to do with it. It looks to me that the tensions and entrenched positions were already well in place within the Liberal Party, and the leadership crisis probably would have happened with or without Climategate, which has not been referred to in any of the reported discussions. Nor have any of the Aussie bloggers who know what’s going on made any claim that Climategate had any influence on these events. The timing is coincidental.
New WSJ article by MIT Atmospheric Physicist Richard S. Lindzen here.
Dr. Lindzen was actually an IPCC lead author at one point.
He discusses Climategate but also gives a fairly in depth explanation of IPCC climate modelling. It’s a bit heavy but shows how the IPCC basically starts with an unalterable premise about CO2 and then hammers a lot of square pegs in round holes to make things work.
If you want a sound technical understanding of how the IPCC models work, this is a in-depth but very rewarding article.
BREAK LOOSE BREAK LOOSE BREAK LOOSE !!!!!!
Paul in calgary
Keep in mind, the Liberal party was in power for over a decade and are now in disarray with weak leadership. As much as a lot of us would like to see they are very unlikely to form the next government.
When I emailed the Prime Minister I got the exact same form letter back. With a promise to forward my email to the relevant Minister Jim Prentice. Prentice seems to have been drinking the Global warming koolaid a bit to much, so tons of pressure from the electorate needs to be applied. If you have not sent something off yet, get on it before Copenhagen. After Copenhagen it is to late.
Rudd was elected on the Kyoto issue. He will be bounced for it as well. As with any leftie, he immediately went to work to implement the protocol, then was told he would increase electical service costs by 250% right away, and more increases to come. So he said, “Oh, never mind then.” Like Chretien, he knew nothing of the issue, and knew nothing of the consequences.
“As of March 2009, carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is at a concentration of 387 ppm by volume.[1] Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide fluctuate slightly with the change of the seasons, driven primarily by seasonal plant growth in the Northern Hemisphere. Concentrations of carbon dioxide fall during the northern spring and summer as plants consume the gas.” 387 parts per 1,000,000 parts. Yes, let’s suck on that.
The money question though is as follows.
How much of political correctness will crack open at this point?
Will this extend to the rest of the sorry agenda, or will it begin to expose the complexity of opposition to political correctness (for example, the libertarian vs social conservative divide as seen on different views of gay rights).
When you have a certain kind of leadership like Ronald Reagan provided, sometimes a broad coalition can develop. In this case, I sense that the broad coalition will take some time to develop, many libertarians will be satisfied to kill off the dragon of “climate change” and maintain their somewhat ambiguous support of social liberalism despite its leftist biases.
We’ll have to wait and see if this crack develops further, or if it’s just one country and one political culture. The Canadian government solution is to pretend to be both politically correct and skeptical simultaneously. We have seen where Harper came down on the libertarian vs social conservative paradigm, mainly libertarian, a few bones for the social conservatives mainly on the heritage and patriotism fronts.
It’s all a very murky political picture overall nowadays, there is no one unified counter-proposal to political correctness in general, but two or three, and a sort of endless swirling around of opposing factions trying to form temporary alliances.
This is how the liberals stay in control to a large extent, they are not a majority, but they stick together on one ideological program.
This Australian development will end up being small change if nobody of stature steps up to the plate at Copenhagen and denounces the whole progress for the dangerous fraud that it has become.
Hey Kate, can you post about other issues too, ya know…like it used to be?
Hey Kate, can you post about other issues too, ya know…like it used to be?
Let’s see here jim…the Riders lost and Tiger isn’t talking about his marital problems yet…what else is there? hmmmmm…Honduras elected a conservative rancher? Yeah Kate…what’s up with that? Did we recognize their election or not? Better get on that one. That’s real news! No sleep for you girl.
The BBC just commented on the Australian situation. They said that the Labour party under Rudd would win by a huge majority.
REMEMBER!!! It was our Prime Minister that called Kyoto at Wealth Redistribution Plan, long, long before anyone else was using those words.
Hope springs eternal.
That should be:
REMEMBER!!! It was our Prime Minister that called Kyoto a Wealth Redistribution Plan, long, long before anyone else was using those words.
Hope springs eternal.
tranio, would that be the same BBC that is rumored to have had the East Anglia CRU whistleblower data since November 12th, a whole week before it was first given to the internet?
Politics is the art of the possible.
If Harper kicked up $hit unilaterally at Copenhagen…the opposition and the media would have them for breakfast and Count Igula would have us shivering in the dark…..
The LIBRANOs would not need a war chest…….the media would do it for the cause…..
Better for Harper to play the long game and not rock the boat, dunking us.
We expected the warm-mongers to brazen it out—-remember even before Climate-Gate…Copenhage seemed on the ropes….that hasn’t changed much.
India’s newspapers are diverse by nature—Indian politicians are adept survivors.
It is not in China’s interest to support the KYOTO II process—-they have too much to lose if the US crashes….Russia needs an economically healthy Europe, to pay for all the Gas and oil which is Russia’s major source of foreign currency.
Rules of Acquisition—-#88–don’t kill a potential customer.
Pat -Yes our Prime Minister said that – he hit the nail right on the head! Way ahead of the pack, as usual.
Speaking of boob rhy – he had the strangest motion in parliament today to recognize victims of the gulags in Communist/Fascist states..anyone know what that was all about? Those of us who have heard his bellowing in the past know that this is opposite to how he thinks, he pals around with Communists.
Here is the link:http://www.liberal.ca/en/newsroom/media-releases/17005_liberal-mps-pass-motion-to-mark-august-23rd-as-black-ribbon-day
Is that unka mo in the shadows? What is the pocky pillsbury dough boy, from china, up to?
Things that make me go hummm?
Listen Guys and Girls,
With respect I think your missing the bigger point, a foreign government falls because of the activities of a bunch of criminals masquerading as scientists in an English University funded by the British tax payer.
Its just us English maintaining power and ruling the world like Hollywood and the intelligentsia has been telling you for decades. Everything that’s wrong in the world is the result of us Imperialistic pigs. Got that.
paging jason kenney; jason kenney, please report to customer service
I E-MAILED PRENTICE AND HARPER !! GOT THE SAME RESPONCE BACK …WILL SEND ANOTHER ONE OFF TODAY …THERE IS NO LIMIT AS TO HOWM ANY YOU CAN SEND IS THERE ?
Paul in calgary
Delicious.
no limit Paul, 1000’s if you’ve got the time, free mail by post to our MP’s office in Ottawa, free postal mail to all other MP’s and Senators.
“Hey Kate, can you post about other issues too, ya know…like it used to be?”
Jim, bear with me for a while. This is the biggest story the blogosphere has ever pushed, and we’re pretty much doing it on our own.
Covering this story takes hours of research and surfing every day – and then there are the scores of emails. Even if I wanted to cover other news of interest (of which there is precious little),
I simply don’t have the time.
It’d be different if the scandal were being covered appropriately in mainstream circles, but it’s not. So, while they concern themselves with the planetary implications of a golfer driving into a tree, I’ll be sticking to the small stuff.
Finally the Grope and Flail has something on Climategate. I can see their editorial board sitting around saying we must write something on the subject. We are losing subscribers. Yes let’s get Margaret Wente to write her column on the topic, after all most of our readers treat her as the resident right wing flake anyway. Voila today’s paper. I’ve still cancelled anyway because of their censoring of the news.
“Love it! Those Aussies have balls, yes they do!”
Soccermom
Well, in celebrating their courage, here is Australia’s most celebrated band in the world:
AC/DC
Big Balls
I’m ever upper class high society
God’s gift to ballroom notoriety
I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I’ve got
The biggest balls of all
CHORUS:
I’ve got big balls
I’ve got big balls
And they’re such big balls
Dirty big balls
And he’s got big balls
And she’s got big balls
But we’ve got the biggest balls of them all
And my balls are always bouncing
My ballroom always full
And everybody cums and cums again
If your name is on the guest list
No one can take you higher
Everybody says I’ve got
Great balls of fire
CHORUS
Some balls are held for charity
And some for fancy dress
But when they’re held for pleasure
They’re the balls that I like best
My balls are always bouncing
To the left and to the right
It’s my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night
CHORUS
And I’m just itching to tell you about them
Oh we had such wonderful fun
Seafood cocktail, crabs, crayfish…
Ball sucker
(“But we’ve got the biggest balls of them all”)
Yes you do Australia, YES you do!!!
The Aussies have been first on everything lately.
1) First to Elect a Gov on Climate Change Policy (Rudd)
2) First to Raise Interest Rates at their central bank to end monetary policy stimulus
3) First to eject a party leader specifically on climate change (Turnbull)
Things move faster down-under!
Canada also rejected a Climate based policy platform last year with the trouncing of the Liberals in the Federal Election. I am quite amazed that the Liberals and NDP are still beating that dead horse, and hope the CPC are simply placating with rhetoric.
The problem once again is the Americans and their lurch to the left, “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities” W Churchill
TONY ABBOTT!?! The “Belina is a whore” nut from Drayton Valley left the country and ended up leading the Austrlian Liberals. They can have him.
“So, while they concern themselves with the planetary implications of a golfer driving into a tree,..”
ROTFLMAO!!!