Labor's carbon tax lie

[OzWaveGuy]

How the mood has changed, 3 yrs ago it would be verboten to have dissenting voices in the MSM on climate change. Newspapers and TV stations have changed their tune...perhaps at a very late stage in the game - climate change does exist. However, still a ways to go yet.

 

[drsmith]

The power station Cate Blanchett is in front of is a decommisioned one in Battersea, South London.

Naughty, naughty.

A poster on Andrew Bolt's blog picked it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station

 

[moXJO]

They forgot to add a unicorn,rainbow and smiley face on the sun.

 

[So_Cynical]

The power station Cate Blanchett is in front of is a decommissioned one in Battersea, South London.

Naughty, naughty.

A poster on Andrew Bolt's blog picked it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Power_Station

So its a decommissioned English power station. :dunno: why is that naughty?

 

[sails]

Also the initial black and white background helps make the power station look more unappealing. Labor must think Aussies are a bunch of twits...

Meanwhile, Rudd is probably jetting around the world again (or likely will be soon). Has Blanchett jetted back to Hollywood yet? I wonder if they ever care enough to work out their own carbon emissions...

 

[drsmith]

So its a decommissioned English power station. :dunno: why is that naughty?

It's a mis-representation of the truth, like most of the rest of the add.

 

[sails]

So its a decommissioned English power station. :dunno: why is that naughty?

You don't get it?...

Just have another think about it - the answer might eventually work it's way past all that labor propaganda in the brain...


Edit: I see drsmith has already given you the answer ...

 

[Smurf1976]

So its a decommissioned English power station. :dunno: why is that naughty?

It's a bit like showing a picture of an old and worn out aircraft belonging to some Third World airline in an article about Qantas / Virgin / Jetstar maintenance standards.

Or showing a picture of someone working on a high rise building 50 years ago with no safety equipment as part of an article arguing that safety standards in 2011 need to be improved.

A picture paints a thousand words or so they say. In both those examples and the climate change ad, the effect is to portray the situation as worse than it is. People see the picture, and assume that is somehow relevant to the issue at hand.

There's plenty of real working coal-fired power stations in Australia, almost all of which don't produce noticeable smoke when in operation. There's no reason why they couldn't have used an image of any one of those plants. Just about every Australian has seen an aerial shot of Loy Yang A or Bayswater at some point as these are used frequently as is Yallourn W. There's no reason whatsoever to not use a real image of a real plant - except that there's no smoke. They could even have taken a lead from Midnight Oil and used Vales Point power station if they really wanted to...

 

[noco]

It's a mis-representation of the truth, like most of the rest of the add.

What's new with this deceitful Gillard Doc.

History with Gillard and the Labor Party keeps repeating itself.

LIES, LIES AND MORE DAM LIES.

Thank God voters are starting to wake up to this CON job on the carbon dioxide tax.

 

[Wysiwyg]

2005 article ...

SOx, NOx, CO2, Hg and Particulates Removed at Ohio Power Plant

Processes that uses an ammonia based solutions to capture SOx, NOx,CO2, Hg and particulates from power plant flue gas have or will be demonstrated at First Energy's R.E. Burger Plant in Shadyside, Ohio. The ECO technology produces a commercially salable, ammonium sulfate nitrate fertilizer co-product, reducing operating costs and avoiding landfill disposal of waste. The CO2 is to be recovered and prepared for sequestration in another process.

Present time ...

Powerspan has successfully pilot tested its proprietary post-combustion CO2 capture process at an existing coal-fired power plant – one of the few companies to have achieved this significant milestone.

This companies carbon capture and pollution control systems would be a practical solution but I haven't heard anyone suggesting practical ways to arrest the problem. "Tax it" is a typical easy way out for a lazy, no idea government. This government has lost their circle of influence because their very circle of control is fragmented.

 

[Smurf1976]

Onshore in Victoria is the Latrobe Valley with vast reserves of brown coal and presently generating about a quarter of Australia's electricity.

Offshore we have the heavily depleted Bass Strait oil fields, and the gas fields that are half way to being gone.

Some with limited foresight suggest that we burn what remains of the gas to generate power, thus cutting CO2 emissions. A more logical approach would be to put the CO2 from burning coal into the reservoirs that have safely contained oil and gas for millions of years.

 

[So_Cynical]

It's a mis-representation of the truth, like most of the rest of the add.

You don't get it?...

Just have another think about it - the answer might eventually work it's way past all that labor propaganda in the brain...

mis-representation of the truth LOL .. you guys are funny

The Ad is selling something and uses images to help get a message across....the fact that the old power station and this "mis-representation of the truth" has you guys in a twist is a sure sign that the inevitable is fast approaching.

Its a bit of a change from the Howard decade of denial and do nothing policy....not to worry im sure 1 vote Tony (the man who will never be King) has some sort of plan...after all the coalition is committed to the same GHG cuts as Labor.

 

[drsmith]

A twist ??

Presenting the truth does not necessarily equate to being in a twist.

 

[So_Cynical]

A twist ??

Presenting the truth does not necessarily equate to being in a twist.

And the Children Overboard affair...was that a mis-representation of the truth?

Should i be in a twist about it? or just accept that politicians lie all the time and spin the message of the day to appeal to there supporters....the power station is a prop in an ad.

 

[IFocus]

Cates evil, a terrible Australian, boooo hisssss

Blanchett exposed for the crime of speaking up

Who knew Cate Blanchett was so wicked? Finally, she's been exposed, and a good thing too.

If you've missed the weekend kerfuffle, we've learnt that Cate Blanchett is the wrong kind of rich ”” a person of means and profile prepared to stand up for causes more general than her own self interest.

What was the woman thinking?

Oh what

Wealthy Australian women entering the public policy debate seems to be fashionable at present.

Last year, Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart ”” worth $10.3 billion on last count ”” climbed on the back of a truck with a megaphone to campaign against the mining super profits tax.

The rotter attacking Gina and the Telegraph Australia's finest

This is how The Telegraph lead its page seven story of Rinehart's public protest at the time:

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had to dodge Australia's first ever protest rally led by billionaires as he set about spending a few billion himself buying tax support yesterday.

Oh what it may have been in the Telegraph's hands if it was prepared to apply some consistency:

Australia's richest woman says hard working mums and dads trying to keep their suburban small business afloat should pay more tax so she can pay less.

Presumably Blanchett has nothing to gain from a carbon tax. Rinehart had a lot to gain in derailing the mining tax.

The lesson in the Telegraph world?

No good deed goes unpunished.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/polit...speaking-up-20110530-1fbdm.html#ixzz1Nmn7TlbI

 

[noco]

And the Children Overboard affair...was that a mis-representation of the truth?

Should i be in a twist about it? or just accept that politicians lie all the time and spin the message of the day to appeal to there supporters....the power station is a prop in an ad.

I fail to comprehend the comparison between Labor's carbon dioxide lie and the children overboard affair, where there was undoubtley a conflict of reporting by persons either by the navy or other sources.

The fact of the matter on this thread is that Julia Gillard openingly lied personally when she went to the 2010 election stating "THERE WILL BE NO CARBON DIOXIDE TAX UNDER THE GOVERNMENT I LEAD" and then within days of forming a coalition with the Greens, she now goes all out to impliment it. We also had Wayne Swan catagorically stating the same thing with the emphasis that the Liberal Party were adopting a "SCARE" campaign in stating Labor would introduce a carbon dioxide tax if elected.

We now have an advertising event involving movie stars with an old disused power station some where in England.

Wayne Swan has stated the government has had no involvement in the capaign. Nine organisations - including Greenpeace, the World Wild Life Fund and the Climate Institute - have launched the ad, which hit TV screens yesterday.

So who is funding the ad? How much will it cost over how many weeks? How much are the movie stars being paid?

Can anybody really believe this untrustworthy Labor government are not funding the ads?

 

[Knobby22]

Can anybody really believe this untrustworthy Labor government are not funding the ads?

Well yes... it is well publicised that the trade unions are funding the ads.

Waste of time in my opinion.

Read a great article on the weekend that most people don't think for themselves and are tribal in nature. They need the leaders of their tribe to chnge their opinion and no amount of science etc. will switch them. They should have got Marious Kloppers and people like that to do the adds. They are preaching to the converted with Cate Blanchett.

 

[wayneL]

Read a great article on the weekend that most people don't think for themselves and are tribal in nature. They need the leaders of their tribe to chnge their opinion and no amount of science etc. will switch them. They should have got Marious Kloppers and people like that to do the adds. They are preaching to the converted with Cate Blanchett.

But I'm guessing you believe that only applies to "deniers", whereas alarmists are all completely independent thinkers?

 

[Knobby22]

But I'm guessing you believe that only applies to "deniers", whereas alarmists are all completely independent thinkers?

No, if anything it applies to a greater extent to the left. I call the far left the dumb left. They are excellent at parrotting, the far right though have the same skill and both are extremely annoying to talk to.

The point is if you are going to make ads to influence opinion, choose the right people!!! No point in preaching to the converted.

 

[wayneL]

Cates evil, a terrible Australian, boooo hisssss

Blanchett exposed for the crime of speaking up

**wonders what Carbon Cate's carbon footprint is?

Another hypocrite.

I still love her though. :