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I would say that the bureaucracy needed to run this vast redistribution of wealth will be enormous.
Tax cuts could be paid fo by reducing 11,000 dead wood federal public servants, plus the extra public servants that would be needed to administer the carbon tax.
I would say that the bureaucracy needed to run this vast redistribution of wealth will be enormous.
Nice to see such fine manners on display from everyone
Your quoted document shows the coming change in ratios but still no hint as to where the revenue short fall comes from when you remove such a large amount of taxable income from the system?
Rapid localised changes are often due to changes in regional ocean currents. In addition there are several orbital cycles that occur that have varying effects on the climate. The main cycles have approx 20,000yr, 40,000yr and 100,000yr frequencies and the stalactites may well be displaying some of the shorter scale climatic changes associated with these (the shorter frequency ones can be seen overprinting the dominant 100,000yr eccentricity variations in the records, interestingly the 100,000yr cycle has been the dominant one in the last million years, prior to that the 40,000yr axial tilt variation was dominant). Also stalactites require air to form so these one would only be recording the local climate whilst they were not submerged.Saw a show the other night on the blue water holes (deep caves filled with water) in the Bahamas. The deeper levels were oxygen free so things were preserved fairly well. Anyway they cut one of the stalactites and tested it in a similar way they do with ice core samples for past climate data. Going off my bad memory in the last 70000 years there were roughly 14 changes in the climate. And some that occurred very rapidly (within 50 years). I know to take TV shows with a grain of salt but did raise some questions.
Any data that shows the rapid change in the past and what caused them?
While global warming doesn't cause the weird weather, the professor acknowledges its part in making some of them more severe.
"Global warming doesn't produce these events, however, it's pretty hard to avoid the conclusion that global warming has exacerbated the frequency and the intensity of these heat waves," the Monash University professorial fellow said.
But this year's floods in Australia do not fit into that picture.
"It is much harder to make the connection to link those floods in Queensland in early 2011 to global warming," he said.
"There was a particular and very unusual meteorological sequence that led to those floods and it is very difficult to work out if climate change is exacerbating that situation at all."
The culprit here is a record-breaking version of La Nina, the relative of the drought-causing El Niño.
"This is the largest recorded La Nina event seen in 120 years of recorded history," Prof Nicholls said.
"The only one that comes close was in 1917."
Prof Nicholls' observations draw the inevitable question as to whether global warming has in turn caused the latest version of La Nina to be especially strong.
The answer to that evades him.
"We don't really know," Prof Nicholls said.
A 2000km shift southwards in our climate zones ??
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...mmission-inquiry/story-fn59niix-1226087140792
That would make Australia a tropical paradise.
WAY WAY WAY OFF TOPIC NOW IFocus ...... go and start another thread called "BABY BOOMERS SENDING THE REST OF US BROKE":
Just think of all that tropical rainforest and the CO2 it could obsorb.How do you spell malaria..............
I would if I could fit Liberal and Abbott in there some where
Rapid localised changes are often due to changes in regional ocean currents. In addition there are several orbital cycles that occur that have varying effects on the climate. The main cycles have approx 20,000yr, 40,000yr and 100,000yr frequencies and the stalactites may well be displaying some of the shorter scale climatic changes associated with these (the shorter frequency ones can be seen overprinting the dominant 100,000yr eccentricity variations in the records, interestingly the 100,000yr cycle has been the dominant one in the last million years, prior to that the 40,000yr axial tilt variation was dominant). Also stalactites require air to form so these one would only be recording the local climate whilst they were not submerged.
There is a cave in the Nevada desert, the Devils Hole, where the dating of oxygen isotope ratios preserved in layers of calcite (same mineral that forms stalactites) displayed climatic variations that did not agree with the Milankovitch cycles and was presented as proof that the orbital variations were not the cause of the major climatic variations. It was later found that the oxygen isotope record in the caves was dominated by Pacific Ocean currents and reflected local climatic variations.
Given the Bahamas caves proximity to the ocean you would think that ocean current would have had a significant influence on the temperature record contained in the stalactites there, it would also explain the rapid temperature variations too.
JULIA Gillard has invoked a doomsday-like scenario of metre-high sea level rises and a 2000km southward shift of Australia's climactic zones as she battles an opposition scare campaign over her proposed carbon tax.
How do you spell malaria..............
How do you spell bulls#!t?
DYOR
The huge increase in coal-fired power stations in China has masked the impact of global warming in the last decade because of the cooling effect of their sulphur emissions, new research has revealed. But scientists warn that rapid warming is likely to resume when the short-lived sulphur pollution – which also causes acid rain – is cleaned up and the full heating effect of long-lived carbon dioxide is felt.
The last decade was the hottest on record and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1998. But within that period, global surface temperatures did not show a rising trend, leading some to question whether climate change had stopped. The new study shows that while greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise, their warming effect on the climate was offset by the cooling produced by the rise in sulphur pollution. This combined with the sun entering a less intense part of its 11-year cycle and the peaking of the El Niño climate warming phenomenon.
Do you mean a bullseye, maybe?
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