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Carbon Facts

The Australian Government has embarked on a course of developing a carbon trading scheme that will see new taxes levied all carbon producing activities. This government claims that this will provide relief from global warming and protect the environment; unfortunately these claims are not supported by the facts. 1. It is not conclusively proved that carbon is the cause of global warming, or that it is even a significant factor. 2. NASA has shown that warming levels similar to those on Earth are occurring on both Jupiter and Mars and neither of these have a carbon emissions problem. 3. Global temperatures are always highest at solar minimum when the reduced solar wind allows higher cosmic microwave radiation to enter the solar system. 4. Cosmic microwaves have been demonstrated to have a warming effect on upper atmospheric clouds. (See U.S. Govt’s “Living with a star workshop”) 5. The Sun is currently at solar minimum having produced few sunspots in the last three years. This is slightl