Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au

Australia must increase its carbon footprint!

The Abbott government’s plan announced 11 August to cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least 26 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030 is a plan to wreck the Australian economy. The ALP and Greens are calling to smash it even harder.

By contrast China, the world’s biggest energy consumer and producer, is planning to increase emissions by 72 to 96 per cent above 2005 levels by 2030, having wisely decided to expand its economy to end poverty. China has approximately 620 of the world’s 2,300+ coal-fired power stations and for the past several years has been adding 1,000 MW (the equivalent of one large power station) of capacity every week. Australia has built just two coal-fired power stations in the last decade—the 750 MW Kogan Creek Power Station (Queensland) commissioned in 2007 and the 416 MW Bluewaters Power Station (Western Australia) commissioned in 2009. China’s new coal-fired power stations with fabric filters and electrostatic precipitators are helping reduce air pollution as they replace old polluting coal stoves and other coal-burning with little or no emissions control technology.

India also plans to end poverty and expand its number of coal-fired power stations. It is projected to be the world’s most populous country by 2022 and is now executing a mammoth economic expansion including building numerous hydroelectric, gas-fired and nuclear power stations. A report by the Australian government’s Department of Industry and Science entitled Coal in India 2015 states: “India’s investment in new coal-fired generation capacity will support an increase in coal use. India has plans to almost double its production to one billion tonnes by 2020 to meet its growing requirements.” (Emphasis added.)

On 5 August 2011 the Citizens Electoral Council called for Australia to increase its carbon footprint and we reissue and update this urgent call today given the insanity in Australia’s parliament, demonising carbon dioxide—the gas of life and a vital plant food. If Australia is to enhance the biosphere and green the dead areas of the planet for future generations, it is imperative that we pump much larger quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the immediate years ahead. While Australia’s emissions will initially make little overall difference to global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration—being only 1.3 per cent of global anthropogenic emissions—over several decades and in concert with other nations, we can increase the total mass of life on earth. Working in our favour is the fact that this colourless, odourless gas will be an inevitable byproduct of the massive program of infrastructure development that we must undertake in the immediate future to rebuild from the current economic catastrophe.

After a generation of globalisation, our cities are stuck in traffic jams due to lack of transport infrastructure; during droughts we’ve experienced increasing water restrictions due to a lack of water supply infrastructure; for the first time in history, in the last decade electricity consumption has dropped, in large part due to the economic collapse, shutdown of our manufacturing and skyrocketing electricity prices. And the list goes on.

We need a massive rebuilding program and this will require lots of concrete, steel, aluminium and much more.

China is demonstrating the process: now in two years it uses around as much cement as the United States used in the entire 20th century—more than four gigatonnes. Cement, which is used in concrete as a binder, is made by heating limestone (calcium carbonate) in a kiln, in a process known as calcination. Carbon dioxide gas is liberated during calcination and kilns require lots of energy.

Iron, steel and aluminium production all require vast quantities of energy and until we establish a nuclear power industry, most of the power for metals production can only be efficiently generated from coal-fired power stations and other carbon-based fuels.

Many thousands of dump trucks, excavators, bulldozers, graders and other earthmoving equipment will be required to build dams, roads, railways, tunnels, bridges and whole new cities. Forget solar and wind power for an earthmover! They will be powered by diesel engines.

We won’t live in poverty and squalor as the greenies demand. We are going to rebuild our economy and provide a prosperous future for the coming generation.

Happily, this physical economic activity will add extra carbon dioxide to our atmosphere and assist the process of photosynthesis in plants. And with this economic expansion, we’ll also reduce air pollution by freeing up city traffic jams by building electric-powered high-speed magnetic levitation transport. Coal-fired power stations will continue to use electrostatic precipitators as they do now already, which removes particulate pollution from the chimney stacks.

Numerous scientific studies identify the benefits of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and since current concentration is only at around 400 ppm (parts per million)—in other words a mere 0.04 per cent of the atmosphere by volume, our natural environment is craving for more. For most of the last 600 million years of life on Earth, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration exceeded 1,000 ppm and much of the time, including during the era of the dinosaurs, concentration exceeded 2,000 ppm. As German physicist Prof. Carl-Otto Weiss demonstrated to the 13-14 June 2015 Schiller Institute conference in Paris, fluctuations in CO₂ have had no bearing on climate changes, which have always been governed by natural cycles. In America 31,487 scientists (9,029 with PhDs) have signed the Global Warming Petition Project debunking the theory of manmade global warming and adding that “there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”

Australian scientist Professor Bob Carter spelt this out in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27 June 2011: “Extra carbon dioxide helps to shrink the Sahara Desert, green the planet and feed the world. Ergo, carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor dangerous, but an environmental benefit.”

Numerous scientific studies also indicate that the oceans and sea life will prosper from any additional carbon dioxide. Enhanced nitrogen fixation has been experimentally observed in waters exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide. Studies have also identified that elevated carbon dioxide levels boost iron’s positive impact on phytoplankton productivity.

The oceans contain 39,000 Gt C (gigatonnes of carbon), mostly in the form of bicarbonate ions, whereas the atmosphere currently only contains 850 Gt C. Global energy-related emissions are now a mere 10 Gt C per year—a tiny fraction of the 39,000 Gt C stored in the oceans. However, with a global commitment to uplift the bulk of humanity out of poverty—a real moral challenge—industrialising Africa and other poor regions of the world, will fortunately, significantly increase global carbon dioxide emissions.

Over several decades, this biospheric engineering will liberate “locked up carbon” allowing our vegetation and oceans to flourish. Coal is mostly organic carbon made up of dead plant matter. Burning it simply returns the carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere where it was in the first place.

The Liberal/National coalition, ALP and Greens seek to deny nature this life-giving gas, but it shows they also intend to block any plan to rebuild our economy, because there’s no possibility of building major infrastructure and growing our economy without increasing emissions.

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