Déjà vu, but from another angle

The cost to industry to buy carbon credits will run into billions in Australia alone, someone is going to pay, and it usually means the consumer. This isn't limited to oil refineries, but anyone that has carbon emissions.

Let's all hope that we are in fact in a cycle of global warming caused by green-house gas emissions, because if we aren't our responses to it will be completely wrong.

Yes buts it all OK now we are in safe hands.
Rudd signed the Kyoto Agreement so it will be a better world.
See what a difference it's made to our lives already.

The really sad thing is that it is already too late. The genie is out of the bottle. We have passed the key tipping point. About three years ago the permafrost started to melt. The pollies and newspapers don't want to talk about this, it is too depressing. Melting permafrost is releasing co2, at an accelerating rate, much more than anything our puny little savings efforts are going to save. We should have all listened to the Greens 20 years ago and slapped on carbon trading tax in a big way then. The 2020 talkfest should have been considering what we are going to be doing between now and 2020 to shift population centres further north (where the water is going to be); and how are we going to deal with massive food price hikes (already starting to happen); what we will do about outback communities when transport costs make them unsustainable etc. Carbon tax isn't the con, the con is persuading us that they can still do something about it.

Well,
They've finally found a way to TAX air and WATER.
Of course it only you poor unwashed scum that will have to contribute.
It wont effect the rich or the pollies.

Global warming, Weapons of mass destruction, Y2K are you seeing a theme here yet?