The Lesson from the Death of the Aussie Carbon Tax

When Australia embraced a carbon tax two years ago, global
warming warriors were ecstatic. Australia had gone from environmental laggard, refusing to even the
sign the Kyoto treaty at first (just like the benighted US of A),
to environmental leader. They told the world to watch and
learn.

But two weeks ago, Australia’s newly elected Prime Minister Tony
Abbott scrapped the tax that was as popular in the Land Down Under
as Donald Sterling.

So if anyone needs to learn rfrom the death of Australia’s
carbon tax, and the terminal fate of Europe’s cap-and-trade
program, I note in the Washington Examiner, it is the
enviros themselves. And the lesson is for that “mitigation”
strategies — curbing greenhouse gases by putting economies on
an energy diet — are not winning or workable.

 Instead,  envrios should accept that “the sins of
emission can’t be legislated away and abandon their quixotic quest
for radical cuts in emissions in favor of less economically
destructive coping strategies.”

Go
here to read the whole thing.