2018 saw a global revolt against climate change hysteria

[Anonymous]

Climate change is the best tool in the prog arsenal to w destroy the Western working classes.

2018 saw a global revolt against policies aimed at fighting global warming

Australia, Canada, France and the U.S. have all seen push back against global warming policies

That included weeks of riots in France against planned carbon tax increases

Despite increasingly apocalyptic warnings from U.N. officials, 2018 has seen a number of high-profile defeats for policies aimed at fighting global warming. Politicians and voters pushed back at attempts to raise energy prices as part of the climate crusade.



It started in June with election of Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ontario residents overwhelmingly voted Ford's conservative coalition into power on a platform that included axing the Canadian province's cap-and-trade program.



Ford said his first priority upon taking office would be to "cancel the Liberal cap-and-trade carbon tax." Ford then joined a legal challenge led by Saskatchewan against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's policy of a central government-imposed carbon tax on provinces that don't have their own.



Carbon tax opponents called Trudeau's plan an attempt to "use the new tax to further redistribute income, which will increase the costs of this tax to the economy."



Roughly ten thousand miles away in Australia another revolt was brewing. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull saw his power base crumble within days of failing to pass a bill aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions.



Turnbull's so-called National Energy Guarantee to reduce energy sector emissions was opposed by a group of conservative members of Parliament led by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.



Turnbull tried to delay the vote on his climate bill in response to the opposition but was too late. Turnbull stepped down in late August and has since been replaced by Scott Morrison.



Back in the U.S., $45 million was being pumped into the battle over a Washington state carbon tax ballot measure. Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, who has 2020 presidential ambitions, supported the measure though refiners, but other opponents outspent carbon tax supporters.



The Inslee-backed measure called for taxing carbon dioxide emissions at $15 a ton in 2020, which would increase at $2 a year above the rate of inflation until the state meets its emissions goals.



However, Washington voters rejected the carbon tax measure in the November election despite Inslee's support. It was the second time in two years that Washington voters rejected a carbon tax ballot initiative.



The November elections also saw the defeat of a group of Republican lawmakers in the House Climate Solutions Caucus. Among those defeated was caucus co-chair Florida GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo, who introduced carbon tax legislation in July.



Curbelo's legislation called for a $23 per ton carbon tax that would primarily fund the Highway Trust Fund. Despite this, environmentalists funneled money to his Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell.



Shortly after the U.S. elections, it became clear trouble was brewing across the Atlantic in France. French President Emmanuel Macron's economic reforms, which included planned fuel tax increases, were not winning over much of the population.



Macron spent years styling himself as a staunch supporter of efforts to tackle global warming, including the Paris agreement. Indeed, raising taxes on diesel and gasoline was part of Macron's plan to meet France's Paris accord pledge.



It backfired. Angered over the new carbon taxes on fuel, tens of thousands of protesters, called "yellow vests" for the vests drivers are required to have in their cars, took to the streets calling for an end to the taxes and for Macron to resign.



Macron initially resisted, arguing France needed to do more to address global warming, but the French government capitulated in December and scrapped the planned tax increases. Macron also said he'd increase the minimum wage and begged companies to raise salaries, if possible.



Macron's backpedaling on climate policy couldn't have come at a worse time for the climate-conscious president. The U.N. annual climate summit was being held in Poland as Macron conceded to the "yellow vests."



France's carbon tax revolts sent a clear message to Democratic lawmakers across the Atlantic Ocean. Democrats will take control of the House in 2019 and want to make global warming a central part of their agenda.



Democrats and even environmentalists distanced themselves from carbon taxes in the wake of French riots. However, far-left Democrats are pushing "Green New Deal" legislation, which could become the largest expansion of government in decades.

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[Anonymous]

We have a punitive carbon tax in my province..



People see it as all pain and no gain..



My husband and I wouldn't mind paying a little extra if we knew it was making a difference.....it's not at all.

[Bricktop]

Have you written to your local representative to lodge a protest?



Try it.



It has an effect.

[Anonymous]

Have you written to your local representative to lodge a protest?



Try it.



It has an effect.

Both my Provincial MLA and federal MP are opposition Conservatives who oppose carbon tax grabs.

[Bricktop]

But submitting your concerns is important...it's how they gauge how hard to push on certain issues.

[Anonymous]

But submitting your concerns is important...it's how they gauge how hard to push on certain issues.

We will have a provincial election in a few months and the Conservatives are expected to defeat the socialist NDP..



Federally, Justin Trudeau is expected to keep his job and he has no time for anybody who disagrees with him.

[Bricktop]

Don't forget that the one thing that keeps the idiots in power is apathy.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget that the one thing that keeps the idiots in power is apathy.

That's true, particularly in Canada..



But, our prime minister doesn't care what we the people want.

[Bricktop]

Trust me...if the emails start to flood in, they will take notice.



If he doesn't care, it's because YOU, the people, don't care.

[Anonymous]

We have a punitive carbon tax in my province..



People see it as all pain and no gain..



My husband and I wouldn't mind paying a little extra if we knew it was making a difference.....it's not at all.

There's no such thing as a carbon tax. It's just a tax. It makes everything more expensive for consumers and reduces the competitiveness  of exports. It reduces living standards.But, like you say it doesn't budge the climate needle.

[Bricktop]

Governments everywhere that have fallen for the "carbon tax" scam will pay a price not too distant in the future. It will be another nail in the coffin of Western democracy.

[Anonymous]

Governments everywhere that have fallen for the "carbon tax" scam will pay a price not too distant in the future. It will be another nail in the coffin of Western democracy.

Canada and the new US congress seem to be swimming against the tide.

[Anonymous]

By Kris Sims, B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation



Don't expect climate change reparations from Venezuela anytime soon





Let's hope the bean-counters at Victoria city hall understand some cheques just aren't coming.



Victoria's mayor, on the other hand, may be losing perspective. She seems to think some of the poorest people in the world owe her city money.



British Columbia's capital city is sending letters demanding "climate adaptation compensation" from oil producers such as Chevron and Shell, but the letters are also going to government-owned oil companies in China, Iraq and Venezuela.



Entitled "Victoria's Climate Accountability Letters," and signed by Mayor Lisa Helps, they're posted on a webpage with a photo of cyclists pedalling along a sunlit street with transit buses, leafy trees and street lamps.



The webpage says: "the City of Victoria joined other cities in British Columbia to write to fossil fuel producers around the world to ask them to contribute a tiny fraction of their profits to offset the costs our residents will have to bear..."



The letter says global warming could eventually threaten some edible plant bulbs in a Victoria green space and that Venezuela should send Victoria money to help save the meadow that's ringed with million-dollar homes.



Victoria city hall and the people of Venezuela both have an interest in roots. While those in Victoria enjoy the view of the urban flora from their verandas, the people of Venezuela are foraging for roots in forests because they are starving. Venezuela is in a full-blown crisis. Hyperinflation has hit unimaginable levels and a ban on foreign currency has meant that food, medicine and everything else most Venezuelans need to survive, have become scarce. Some Venezuelans have resorted to butchering their pets for meat and selling breast milk.



If Venezuela manages to get its oil sector operating again, maybe Victoria's mayor could let the ravaged country restock grocery shelves before demanding imaginary environmental reparations.



It's an absurd example of a reality many of Canada's disconnected elites refuse to recognize: Canada's posturing doesn't resonate on the world stage. B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insist that taxpayers pay ever-increasing carbon taxes to reduce emissions, while Canada produces just 1.6% of global emissions. The prime minister acknowledges an obvious fact:



"Even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, and the other countries didn't have any solutions, it wouldn't make a big difference," Trudeau said on a Quebec talk show last October.



What these politicians should notice is that everyday people can only be abused for so long before they put down their tools, step away from their tills, climb out of their trucks and fight back.



In France, ordinary people are donning yellow vests and battling in the streets against their government over hiked fuel taxes. France's President Emmanuel Macron pushed his people a tax too far after getting fawning approvals from his friends at the Paris accord soiree and he's now bowing to the masses and delaying planned carbon tax increases.



Closer to home, voters in Washington State have overwhelmingly rejected a carbon tax in not one, but two referendums.



Down Under, Australia imposed a carbon tax in 2012. After power bills soared and multiple prime ministers lost their jobs, Australia abandoned its failed carbon tax experiment in 2014.



In Canada, people are pushing back against high fuel taxes and attacks on our natural resource industries across Western Canada and in a reawakened Ontario. They're telling Trudeau to cancel his forced carbon tax and are fighting him in court. Truckers have been rolling in convoys, sometimes a thousand rigs long, to demand the completion of promised pipelines. Politicians need to listen. At very least, they could recognize that it's unseemly to demand climate change reparations money from Venezuelans while they literally starve to death.

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