Here is the other video:

Article can be found here. The economic highlight:

A recent study of a wide variety of policy options by Yale economist William Nordhaus showed that nearly the highest benefit-to-cost ratio is achieved for a policy that allows 50 more years of economic growth unimpeded by greenhouse gas controls. This would be especially beneficial to the less-developed parts of the world that would like to share some of the same advantages of material well-being, health and life expectancy that the fully developed parts of the world enjoy now. Many other policy responses would have a negative return on investment. And it is likely that more CO2 and the modest warming that may come with it will be an overall benefit to the planet.

There are concerns new planning guidelines for wind farms in New South Wales will kill off the industry.

Using the word ‘industry’ very loosely. It gets better:

…draft planning guidelines which give landowners the right to veto wind farms proposed within two kilometres of their homes… noise levels from new wind farms will be more strict, with a limit of 35 decibels…

How sweet it is.

The Government is currently considering 17 wind farm applications. Mr Hazzard believes 13 that have not yet gone to public exhibition will be covered by the guidelines once they are finalised.

Similar laws have been introduced into Victoria. The Greens of course are angry that their Big Green industry pals won’t be able to cash-in on higher energy prices and violating other people’s private property rights. The Greens really are a collection of totalitarian fascists.

THE anti-wind farm movement that is gaining influence in the NSW Parliament is being ”aided and abetted” by climate sceptic groups and some mining figures.

So apparently it is okay for Big Green Spanish and Indian multi-national corporations to capture public policy making, but anyone else is in league with mining and therefore bad. The anti-wind farm movement is gaining traction because they are being aided and abetted by the reality of high wind farm prices and unreliability of service. There is also the considerable impact on the landscape.

The Premier, Barry O’Farrell, said in August it was his opinion that no new wind farms should be built in NSW, but it is understood there are divisions in cabinet about the issue.

The Nationals MP and Roads Minister, Duncan Gay, said yesterday his anti-wind farm views were well known and he hoped yesterday’s cabinet meeting ”addresses the sins of the past”.

Follow Abbott’s lead – just say no.

………….meeting the world’s total energy demands in 2030 with renewable energy alone would takean estimated 3.8 million wind turbines (each with twice the capacity of today’s largest machines), 720,000 wave devices, 5,350 geothermal plants, 900 hydroelectric plants, 490,000 tidal turbines, 1.7 billion rooftop photovoltaic systems, 40,000 solar photovoltaic plants, and 49,000 concentrated solar power systems. That’s a heckuva lot of neodymium.

Unfortunately, “renewable energy” is a meaningless term with no established standards. Like an emperor parading around without clothes, it gets a free pass, because nobody dares to confront an inconvenient truth: None of our current energy technologies are truly renewable, at least not in the way they are currently being deployed. We haven’t discovered any form of energy that is completely clean and recyclable, and the notion that such an energy source can ever be found is a mirage.

“The Beckhams, and others like London mayor Boris Johnson, are very bad role models with their large families. There’s no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them 100% by having another child,” he said.

It is fascism: condemning and shaming the innocent and restricting freedom over very personal choices.

Denniss clearly did not know or have any factual details or evidence at his disposal, beyond repeating ad nauseum that the CSIRO backed the climate ‘science’. Using the CSIRO as the yard stick for climate science would be like asking the Chinese Communist Party if their political ideas were working. It is not credible. The CSIRO has become a hot bed for left radicalism. How do you think Greenpeace was recently able to learn and gain access to destory the CSIRO’s genetically modified wheat crop? Inside job, that’s how.

Monckton threw fact, reference, details and evidence at Denniss and the Canberra press gallery and he only got snide remarks about the Coalition’s climate change policies in return – policies which Monckton does not support anyway. So what was Denniss hoping to achieve? His little strawman trick was pitifully weak.

Channel 7 were there of course and they launched a predictable ad hominem attack on Monckton, Mark Riley style. Along with the pro-Al Gore Sunrise morning programme it is pretty clear which bandwagon Channel 7 are on: big government and small freedom.

John Howard’s promise to introduce an ETS in 2007 had a very long list of qualifications, including: preserving our fossil fuel competitiveness and seeing the rest of the world acting in unison on Co2 regulation.

The question then must be asked: why didn’t Bolt get Costello to apologise for wanting Australia to introduce an ETS as well? I don’t think this is a Victorian – New South Wales issue. Bolt is still dirty that Howard did not obey his call to resign before the 2007 election and install Peter Costello as leader. It is this type of left-wing entitlement mentality along with the ‘you better say sorry if you disagree with me’ line that is seeing Bolt drift further away from the right.

UPDATE

Bolt also criticised Alan Jones for apparently calling Gillard a traitor, which I don’t think he did. This is what Alan Jones did say. Maybe Bolt didn’t see the irony of Jones quoting environmentalist Edward Paul Abbey: “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” I fully endorse what Jones’ said; does Bolt?

Even if Jones called Gillard a traitor, then consider the etymological definition ” “betrayer,” lit. “one who delivers,” from stem of tradere “deliver, surrender” “. Gillard is betraying this country through her lies and sell-out Greens policies. Where do her loyalites stand? To voters or Bob Brown?