Robert Le Page I read your greenie links and as I thought there are no subsidies on "Fossil fuels".
In fact a massive amount of tax is collected from petrol. No coal subsidy but where the Government allows costs these idiots say subsidy. The irony is that Don Henry and all his little mates get big fat fringe benefits but not in pay. So they avoid their fair payment of tax.
Get rid of the Fringe Benefits altogether.
The greenies want to take everyone else's money but not even attempt to pay their fair share.
The money we have wasted on dopey solar and wind power would have cleared Australia's debt.

There is one thing science cannot do in the real world:
That is to predict the future with any reliability by extrapolating the past.

These IPCC-promoted scare stories are necessarily based on assertions about the tweaks to the extrapolation models that are supposed to deliver the truth about what will happen many years hence on the basis of what has happened in the past.

Predictions can be made only on the principle of induction, which in turn depends on all the relevant data and relationships remaining constant for extended time out of reach of externally and unpredictably imposed adjustments.

Even assuming the latest speculative predictions summarised by the IPCC hold true (which doesn't look promising when considering the apparent pause in warming within time periods we CAN measure), it has been convincingly demonstrated[1] that "tackling climate change" by cutting CO2 emissions even based on the prognostications of the IPCC won't make a detectable difference to global temperatures.

[1] http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/

What can, however, be confidently predicted is that reduction of CO2 emission beyond a certain level will cause such mass human poverty, and misery and death as to please no-one but the most misanthropic of social engineers

JBowyer:

You are entitled to your opinion, even if it is an attack on the Greens which is your real motive for your post.