Here in Australia they’re (the Federal Govt) going to introduce a ‘carbon price’ – which means carbon producing industries will have to pay a tax to the government for every ton of carbon (dioxide? what?) that they produce.
The idea is to cause a reduction in Australia’s production of ‘greenhouse gasses’ – a contributory factor in global warming.
There is never, ever, any mention of what effect even a total reduction – to zero – of Australia’s greenhouse gasses would have on global warming, now and at different times in the future, nor what effect it might have on the effects of global warming, now or in the future.
‘The effects’ being what we don’t like, what we’re frightened of.
So – what good will reducing our emissions do? To us and to the world?
Well – we produce about 1.5% of the world’s emissions.
Therefore we can, at best, reduce world emissions by that much. Actually no one can reduce them. They’re climbing all the time. We could reduce the rate of climb by that much if we produced none.
And what difference would that 1.5% reduction in gasses have on global warming?
Zero.
What difference would that zero effect have upon the effects of global warming that might adversely affect our country?
Zero.
Hence it is obvious it is a waste of time and resources.
Time and resources better spent preparing for the inevitable effects of global warming.