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Media Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

DUMP EMISSIONS TRADING NOW


“The declining credibility of the UN’s science on climate should send a signal to the Rudd

government that it’s time to fundamentally reconsider its approach to climate policy” said

Alex Stuart, chairman of the Australian Environment Foundation.


“This week, the government will re-introduce its misnamed, over-complex and deeply-

flawed emissions trading scheme into parliament.  Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong should

realise that it is already dead on arrival and they should simply dump it.  The notion of

suffering huge economic costs, including the decimation of some industries, to solve a

problem that is yet to be proven, simply makes no sense and never did.”


Stuart’s comments came in the context of a growing scandal surrounding the UN’s

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that is undermining not only the credibility of

the organisation, but also its narrative about man-made global warming.  


Hard on the heels of the Climategate scandal in November at the University of East Anglia’s

Climatic Research Unit, which called into question the credibility of the temperature record

on which the UN body relies; and the slow-motion fiasco of the Copenhagen conference in

December, come yet more climate problems for the UN.  


An unending series of scandals of propaganda masquerading as “peer-reviewed science” in

the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report of 2007 have now been exposed.  First came

Glaciergate, in which the threat to Himalayan glaciers was grossly exaggerated. Then came

Disastergate, which misrepresented extreme weather events as caused by man-made

CO2.  Next, came Amazongate, where an imaginary threat to the South American rainforest

from CO2 has been exaggerated by deceptive substitution of facts.  Now Poldergate, which

revealed that IPCC wildly overstated the area of Netherlands below sea level, has been

followed by Polarbeargate, Africanfarmgate and -

most damaging of all –

UHIgate, which

revealed apparent fraud in the foundations of all IPCC temperature reporting.  


These scandals of science are rapidly eroding the authority of the UN’s IPCC, and its

chairman, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, is under mounting pressure to resign or be fired.


Stuart concluded that, instead of dwelling on remote and perhaps imaginary possibilities of

catastrophe, the Rudd government should focus on real threats to Australia from weather

events of today, like drought, floods, cyclones and bushfires.  That would constitute a real

policy on climate, one that delivers real benefits to the living of today, rather than incurring

vast costs now to provide imaginary benefits to future generations.


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ENDS -

AEF Chairman, Alex Stuart 0448 807178

AEF Executive Director: Max Rheese 0428 621320


The Australian Environment Foundation (AEF) is a not-for-profit, membership-based

environment organisation having no political affiliation.  The AEF is a different kind of

environment group, caring for both Australia & Australians.  Many of our members are

practical environmentalists –

people who actively use and also care for the environment. 

We accept that environmental protection and sustainable resource use are generally


February 9th 2010 






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