Federal and State moves are alarming

Melbourne parks will be dug up to
make way for the new east-west
road tunnel.

The idea that the Tony Abbott led Federal Government will repeal carbon tax legislation is alarming.

Almost equally alarming is the intent of the Denis Napthine led Victorian State Government to build an east-west road tunnel in Melbourne.

Both are political ambitions that defy thoroughly understood science about the damage caused by carbon dioxide which accumulates in earth’s atmosphere for many reasons, among them what comes from the exhausts of cars that Premier Napthine intends to pump through the new tunnel.

Commentators from all corners of the world had praised Australia for its stance on carbon dioxide emissions, at least until the recent election of the Coalition Government.

Both the Federal and State decisions are short-sighted in the extreme and even the most conservative climatologists encourage decision makers to prepare for at least a two degree rise  in temperatures above what existed in pre-industrial times.

Temperatures are bordering on one degree Celsius and already much of the world has experienced, and is experiencing, events never seen before and yet Australian MPs, federal and Victorian, seem to think it is a scenario that doesn’t apply to them or their constituencies.