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Yea I know I can't spell...Prespective
Maybe our Aussie friends can elaborate on this. I jut find it comical... Don't know if any of it is true.
Subject: Carbon Tax Is Seriously Hairy!
Interesting read
Regardless of your political persuasion, the article below is carbon pollution put into simple perspective so that anyone can get their head around it. The article explains in simple lay-mans terms the incredible significance of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Imagine visiting a 1 kilometre band of atmosphere from which we want to isolate all carbon pollution produced by man.
• The first 770 metres of the band of atmosphere is nothing but Nitrogen • The next 210 metres are made up of pure Oxygen That's 980 metres of the kilometre gone…… 20 metres to go …..
• The next 10 metres are water vapour Bugger! But there’s still 10 metres left to make a difference, however small or inconsequential….
• The next 9 metres are argon Jesus Wept! Only 1 metre left. Talk about a waste of bloody time! Here goes nothing… • Gases make up the first 62 centimetre of that last metre • Only 38 centimetres of a full 1 kilometre band is carbon dioxide – that’s a little more than a foot • 97% of this 38 centimetres is produced by Mother Nature - ‘natural carbon dioxide’ Damn it’s not easy being green when reality has got the odds so stacked in its favour!
• Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left • Just over a centimetre - about half an inch, surely that’s still significant • A half an inch, 12 mm is the total amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere • Of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in 0.18 of a millimetre • Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre!
Bob help me! As a hair is to a kilometre - so is Australia 's contribution to what Julia Gillard and Bob Brown call Carbon Pollution and see fit to want to wreck our economy over. We need a tax on everything to blow that pesky hair away….!
Imagine Brisbane's new Gateway Bridge, ready to be opened. It's been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometre length is surgically clean. Except that Julia Gillard says Bob’s found a huge problem, the bridge is polluted – they’ve identified a human hair lying on the roadway.
We'd laugh ourselves silly by such a scenario obviously but that’s exactly what is happening with the Carbon Tax debate.
There are plenty of real pollution and other problems in the world to worry about. Australia 's hair width contribution to carbon dioxide in the world's atmosphere is about as far from being one of the more pressing ones as imaginable. Let’s move on from this sick joke!
The carbon tax is just another elaborate excuse for a massive tax. The effect it will have on households and the economy is equal to putting up the GST to 12.5%. Doing that would be a much simpler way of raising the money the government wants (and increasingly given their spending
needs) but because doing this would be so unpalatable (and would cost the government office), we have to have this elaborate scam that plays on people’s sensitivities (and which stands to make vested interests vast fortunes) thrust upon us to try and bring about a similar outcome for the government.
Pass this on to people in your address book if you wish. If however you have gone so far down the wrong road that you can no longer accept reality, then that’s okay. Just delete it and keep tell yourself that Bob and Julia are both really quite sane. No one will know……..
Ken Madsen
Director
Madsen Partners
Level 1, 1890 Ipswich Road, Rocklea, QLD 4106 P.O. Box 774, Archerfield, QLD 4108
P. 07 3274 8950
M. 0417 100 850
F. 07 3277 0478
E. ken@madsenpartners.com.au
To view our latest 'Heads Up" magazine and properties, click here
www.madsenpartners.com.au
Maybe our Aussie friends can elaborate on this. I jut find it comical... Don't know if any of it is true.
Subject: Carbon Tax Is Seriously Hairy!
Interesting read
Regardless of your political persuasion, the article below is carbon pollution put into simple perspective so that anyone can get their head around it. The article explains in simple lay-mans terms the incredible significance of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Imagine visiting a 1 kilometre band of atmosphere from which we want to isolate all carbon pollution produced by man.
• The first 770 metres of the band of atmosphere is nothing but Nitrogen • The next 210 metres are made up of pure Oxygen That's 980 metres of the kilometre gone…… 20 metres to go …..
• The next 10 metres are water vapour Bugger! But there’s still 10 metres left to make a difference, however small or inconsequential….
• The next 9 metres are argon Jesus Wept! Only 1 metre left. Talk about a waste of bloody time! Here goes nothing… • Gases make up the first 62 centimetre of that last metre • Only 38 centimetres of a full 1 kilometre band is carbon dioxide – that’s a little more than a foot • 97% of this 38 centimetres is produced by Mother Nature - ‘natural carbon dioxide’ Damn it’s not easy being green when reality has got the odds so stacked in its favour!
• Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left • Just over a centimetre - about half an inch, surely that’s still significant • A half an inch, 12 mm is the total amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere • Of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in 0.18 of a millimetre • Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre!
Bob help me! As a hair is to a kilometre - so is Australia 's contribution to what Julia Gillard and Bob Brown call Carbon Pollution and see fit to want to wreck our economy over. We need a tax on everything to blow that pesky hair away….!
Imagine Brisbane's new Gateway Bridge, ready to be opened. It's been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometre length is surgically clean. Except that Julia Gillard says Bob’s found a huge problem, the bridge is polluted – they’ve identified a human hair lying on the roadway.
We'd laugh ourselves silly by such a scenario obviously but that’s exactly what is happening with the Carbon Tax debate.
There are plenty of real pollution and other problems in the world to worry about. Australia 's hair width contribution to carbon dioxide in the world's atmosphere is about as far from being one of the more pressing ones as imaginable. Let’s move on from this sick joke!
The carbon tax is just another elaborate excuse for a massive tax. The effect it will have on households and the economy is equal to putting up the GST to 12.5%. Doing that would be a much simpler way of raising the money the government wants (and increasingly given their spending
needs) but because doing this would be so unpalatable (and would cost the government office), we have to have this elaborate scam that plays on people’s sensitivities (and which stands to make vested interests vast fortunes) thrust upon us to try and bring about a similar outcome for the government.
Pass this on to people in your address book if you wish. If however you have gone so far down the wrong road that you can no longer accept reality, then that’s okay. Just delete it and keep tell yourself that Bob and Julia are both really quite sane. No one will know……..
Ken Madsen
Director
Madsen Partners
Level 1, 1890 Ipswich Road, Rocklea, QLD 4106 P.O. Box 774, Archerfield, QLD 4108
P. 07 3274 8950
M. 0417 100 850
F. 07 3277 0478
E. ken@madsenpartners.com.au
To view our latest 'Heads Up" magazine and properties, click here
www.madsenpartners.com.au
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