With the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakening by 50% and the real chance of it passing a tipping point this century, this whole push for a tax on gas exports is so last century. We have to stop mining and exporting fossil fuels! Why make that harder to accept?

Can’t understand why the gas miners are not backing a tax. Social Licence would be purchased at a very low price and future extensions for their climate destroying activities would be far more likely.

And anyone who thinks a tax on gas exports wouldn’t just be used to pay for AUKUS or the like, is an even bigger numptee.

Very tragic. We are not a kind people. Nonetheless the story did not need the misleading headline. The poor man was hidden in the hedge.

Easy to be mislead. The 1% of human infrastructure invades, fragments and pollutes too much of the rest. Human mycelium. Add that to the planetary beef disease.

And the “Care Plan” algorithm for chronic conditions, to qualify for Medicare subsidised treatment. (Happened to me recently.) Doubtless checked by Medicare using another algorithm.

I am just mystified. I can’t find a single environmental organisation NOT backing a tax. FOE, Greens, 350, ACF etc.. Only FOE acknowledged there are serious arguments against, that they have at least considered. Nobody else even replies to emailed questions.

And anyway, easy enough to have tax breaks for genuine research.

She’s a f*ckwit. End.

Boxing took its toll on the old brain there.

This accords with the report in the FT as quoted by Adam Tooze a few days ago. Strait open to fee-paying neutrals and allies of Iran.

Yeats:
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”

Is it worth pointing out that the Straits of Hormuz are not closed to all shipping? See the FT report. “Allies” ships pass, “Neutrals” ships pass for a fee. “Enemies” do not pass.

Well, there we respectfully disagree.

Then we have to ask if a tax /revenues will make the politics of getting rid of FF’s harder or easier. I fear it will make it harder.

There’s only one question: How is an export tax going to help us stop mining the stuff, as climate science demands?

On toast, with a poached egg on top!

Oh come on. He’s a “Nation Builder” from a family of “Nation Builders”. He told us that himself. (Pity the Nation).

From outside the UK the BBC has long seemed an astonishingly massive wide-ranging organisation. Much is brilliant but there’s an apparent brief to police the margins of British culture and politics. If there is a British Establishment, the BBC has a large role in establishing it.

Yet here in Australia all the pressure from “progressives” is to turn gas exports into another source of government revenues, increasing dependency.

And on the BBC App you have to click through to News/ UK/ England to find any mention of this.

A large amount of oil & gas reserves do need to stay in the ground in order to prevent catastrophic ecological & economic collapses globally.

That's not an 'opinion' that is a scientific fact, one we are being told to self-silence on.

Be vary wary of anyone who cannot state - directly - that fact.

As the photo suggests, Albo is a man trying to shrink into himself to represent an ever smaller target. A man who has passed the end of his political road and secretly knows it.

???

The science says we have to ban the mining and export, not create another dependency on gas mining revenues.

Please do not add your name.
Increasing dependence on gas export revenues is not going to
help eliminate the burning of fossil
fuels. Following the science.
The physics knows no borders.

@mon4kooyong.bsky.social What we are seeing right now is wholesale abandonment of effort to secure a liveable planet. Increasing dependence on FF revenues will make it much harder, politically, to eliminate fossil fuels. Follow the science!

Great. So we burn more gas. It’s time you explained how creating a dependence on gas revenues helps us stop the burning of fossil fuels globally, as science demands.

The question you have to answer is, “Will taxing fossil fuel export profits help the politics of eliminating the mining and export of such fuels ASAP, as the science demands, or
make it harder?”

There’s a climate emergency going critical and we have to drastically reduce carbon emissions globally. But hey, lets just focus on turning our gas exports into a source of revenue rather than eliminating them as quickly as possible.