ETS is another tax. It is equal to putting up the GST to

12.5% which would be unacceptable and produce an

outcry.Read the following analogy and you will realize

the insignificance of carbon dioxide as a weather controller.

Pass on to all in your address book including politicians

and may be they will listen to their constituents, rather

than vested interest which stands to gain by the ETS.

Here’s a practical way to understand Mr. Rudd’s Carbon

Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Imagine 1 kilometre of atmosphere and we want to get rid of the

carbon pollution in it created by human activity. Let’s go for

a walk along it.

The first 770 metres are Nitrogen.

The next 210 metres are Oxygen.

That’s 980 metres of the 1 kilometre. 20 metres to go.

The next 10 metres are water vapour. 10 metres left.

9 metres are argon. Just 1 more metre.

A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre.

The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre – that’s carbon dioxide.

A bit over one foot.

97% of that is produced by Mother Nature. It’s natural.

Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left.

Just over a centimetre – about half an inch.

That’s the amount of carbon dioxide that

global human activity puts into the

atmosphere.

And of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in .18 of a

millimetre.

Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a

kilometer!

As a hair is to a kilometer – so is Australia’s contribution to what Mr. Rudd calls

Carbon Pollution.

Imagine Brisbane’s new Gateway Bridge, ready to be opened by Mr. Rudd. It’s been polished,

painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometer length is surgically clean.

Except that Mr. Rudd says we have a huge problem, the bridge is polluted – there’s a human

hair on the roadway. We’d laugh ourselves silly.

There are plenty of real pollution problems to worry about. It’s hard to imagine that

Australia’s contribution to carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is one of the more

pressing ones. And I can’t believe that a new tax on everything is the only way to blow

that pesky hair away.

Pass this on quickly while the ETS is being debated in Federal Parliament.