Until recently, the websites of all The Australian Greens’ federal members provided a poll (available since May, 2009) whereby people could vote on the question, “Do you support the Greens’ plan on emissions trading?” Here it is on Sen. Bob Brown’s website:
For some reason—uncharitable cynics (which does not include us) might suggest that the results were not quite was the Greens would favour—the poll is no longer available. Joanne Nova reports that, of 2,000 votes, 80% were “No”. The Greens, however, do provide other polls for concerned visitors to express their agreement, or otherwise, with Green policies:
We have written to the Australian Greens asking for an explanation for the poll’s disappearance; naturally, we shall provide details of any response we receive.
By “emissions”, the Australian Greens refer to industrially produced carbon dioxide, that benificent gas which we all exhale and which is necessary for life on earth. According to the Greens’ policy document, “Why do we want to cut emissions?”:
It can never be said too often that emissions reductions have one purpose only – to avoid catastrophic climate change.
The Australian Greens will surely be glad to learn that reputable scientists can assure us that anthropogenic carbon dioxide does not and will not cause catastrophic climate change; the Greens can, therefore, safely reject any proposal for taxing carbon dioxide.
UPDATE I: David Paris, Digital Communications Coordinator for the Greens’ Parliamentarians, has kindly and swiftly responded to our query; he writes:
UPDATE II (10 June): The story continues at Joanne Nova’s site.
UPDATE III (11 June): See, there is no recent, catastrophic warming:
UPDATE I: David Paris, Digital Communications Coordinator for the Greens’ Parliamentarians, has kindly and swiftly responded to our query; he writes:
We have not used the poll feature on our website for some time.By “price” he means a suitably punitive tax-rate, we assume, and by “pollution” he means carbon dioxide. Someone might excusably wonder whether the poll question—still open—from 12 October, 2009, “Do you think the Government should support the Greens’ Safe Climate Bill”, did not also relate to “the Rudd government’s deeply flawed CPRS”.
There are several old items on our site that relate to the 2009 negotiations around the Rudd government’s deeply flawed CPRS that have been removed to avoid confusion with the current debate about a price on pollution. The poll you are referring to is one of those – from May 2009.
UPDATE II (10 June): The story continues at Joanne Nova’s site.
UPDATE III (11 June): See, there is no recent, catastrophic warming:
