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Worried about climate change? Furious about the carbon tax? Confused about the science? Walkley-award winning journalist Michael Bachelard will lead The Sunday Age team investigating the 10 most popular questions on OurSay which will be featured and updated on The Age's Climate Agenda website.
This OurSay is now closed. Scroll down below to see responses to our questions as The Sunday Age answers them each week.
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Can we have faith that renewable energy will finally take a leading role in Australia with this climate tax?
Can we have faith that renewable energy will finally take a leading role in Australia with this climate tax?
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Why is so much of the rhetoric around climate change about economics? Is it not also about other values? People's lives and livelihoods, forests, barrier reefs, rare species, food security, avoiding war and famine, etc. Yet much of the discussion is about the ability to maintain current consumption patterns which probably bring relatively little value in terms of happiness.
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How can the government justify the vast cost of buying Carbon Dioxide permits, rather than investing that money in renewable resources?
How can the government justify the vast cost of buying Carbon Dioxide permits, rather than investing that money in renewable resources?
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What is the value of The Great Barrier Reef to Queensland's and Australia's economy.The Oceans have acidified considerably since Industrialisation and continue to do so due to the increased CO2.In 50 years or maybe less the reef will be an empty shell devoid of a thriving ecosystem.The question to NQ politicians and others is what are you doing to protect the Reef from this problem and as a consequence the Businesses and Employment that flows from it.
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If this Carbon Dioxide Tax is designed to "make big polluters pay", rather than individuals, then why is it necessary to offer so-called "compensation" to all-and-sundry?
If this Carbon Dioxide Tax is designed to "make big polluters pay", rather than individuals, then why is it necessary to offer so-called "compensation" to all-and-sundry?
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The Government insists on repeating that Australia is "the worlds biggest polluter per capita". This may be the case, but we have a very small population compared to, say China, or India. Why does the Government not make it clear that Australia contributes only 1.5% of human-produced CO2 annually, and that a 5% reduction in Australias CO2 production will be a global CO2 reduction of 0.075%
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Those who believe in human influenced climate change are dissenters of the science.
Those who believe in human influenced climate change are dissenters of the science.
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Why does the media allow deniers to dominate the debate, both by providing a false 'balance' in climate science reporting, and in allowing denier comments, often a coordinated campaign of so-called denier-bots, to run roughshod over others? And will this forum become an avenue for such campaigns?
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Considering that lots of people seem somewhat misinformed about climate change and the carbon tax, for instance saying "carbon dioxide is not a pollutant", and considering that they probably pick such lines up from media outlets, what is the best way to actually educate people about how climate change works?
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Why is it that Julia Gillard and for that matter the Fairfax press continually fail to mention the miniscule contribution to world CO2 by Australians and avoid answering any question about the expected reduction in world temperatures arising from the implementation of a carbon tax? Could it be that both are aware that the proposed carbon tax will do absolutely nothing for world temperatures?
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