A number of European and Asian countries have embraced “anti-global-warming” treaties with great fanfare — only to step back when it became apparent how much harm the treaties would do to their economies and to their ability to meet their energy needs.
Now we can add Australia to the list of nations that aren’t so sure strict limits on so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions that environmentalists blame for global warming are practical or economical.
Australia’s prime minister says his country will “delay” plans to slap high new environmental taxes on its major industries. Instead of summer 2011, the heavy taxation will not take effect until mid-2013 — at the earliest.
Critics point out that other countries rejected tight new greenhouse gas limits at a conference last year in Denmark, and they worry about the effect of putting big costs on companies that supply the Australian people with power.
It seems it isn’t only the United States that has serious doubts about the supposedly catastrophic effects of “global warming” — or about the costly means that have been proposed to stop it.