I suggest that the government should 'jump the gun' on the handback of carbon revenue by helping the vulnerable from day one. If that first day is say 1 July 2010 then disadvantaged groups should have solar water heaters, increased insulation and fuel efficient vehicles already in place. If done right these measures should erase the carbon pricing effect before it happens. The revenue figure of $8bn has been touted for the emissions trading scheme. The Budget surplus could be dipped into beforehand for a fraction of that to help the particularly vulnerable.

Given that world oil production is declining and coal fired energy has been increasing markedly in price such measures are prudent whether or not you agree with the ecological basis for carbon reduction.

Oh, boo hoo. Anglicare and other charities already receive so many tax breaks and handouts that it would be cheaper for the Government to take over all charitable organisations.

Business was the first to start complaining; now it’s the pampered charity industry with its tax breaks and exemptions galore on the businesses they run.

Undoubtedly, they all thought like the rest of the sheep: we must do something about climate change, and we will all have to pay ‘a little extra’. Now that they are beginning to find out what that ‘little extra’ will really be, they don’t like it.

The whole silly system is going to fall into a heap; just as we ‘heretics’ said it would. Apart from being totally useless in affecting climate change (a natural phase we have to learn to cope with), the science pushed ‘solution’ will become unworkable as more organisations start crying for exemptions and hand outs, and the average householder has to pay more and more to make up for them.

Rather than listening to whingers and compensating the ‘disadvantaged’, the Government should scrap the whole CO2 mitigation nonsense and get on with adapting to a situation which will change only when nature decides to change it