Carbon not the same thing as CO2

herald Sun ^ | March 09, 2011 | Terry McCrann

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ASTONISHINGLY, the PM, the Cabinet and members of the Canberra Press Gallery don't know the difference between carbon and carbon dioxide.

There are two great lies told about the need to "put a price on carbon". Lies which I can't recall a single member of the gallery ever confronting the liars with -- far less the prime liar herself.

And it'll be a cold day in hell before you see a critical commentary from any of the supposed leading lights of the gallery such as Fairfax's Michelle Grattan or Peter Hartcher applying a critical analysis to the claims.

Now these two lies are in addition to Julia Gillard's "there will be no carbon tax" lie. They precede it and will be told again and again after it.

The first is that "climate change policies" are aimed at "carbon pollution". No they are not; they are aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide.

There is neither the need to abbreviate carbon dioxide to carbon; and the exercise of abbreviation renders it inaccurate. A bald-faced, quite deliberate lie.

For if carbon dioxide can be called "carbon pollution", in this or any other universe, in this or any other reality, well then rain has to be called "hydrogen pollution".

The reason the term is used by Gillard is an exercise of quite deliberate despicable dishonesty. It is the modern political form of those subliminal advertisements that are banned.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

H/T to the JoNova website a comment made to this article there:

The Big Scare Campaign looks set to claim another political victim

[UCANSEE2]

Hydrogen not the same as H2O.

[ml/nj]

Nor is Sodium the same thing as salt.

Ignorance abounds.

ML/NJ

[MrB]

Some are ignorant, some are deceptive.

[Celtic Cross]

Its...Its not??? Why, I've been sprinkling it all over my eggs, and, and on everthing! What will happen-hap-Gaaaaag-auguhhhh-ugh-....(Thump)

8^)

[ml/nj]

Not only that but not all salt is table salt (NaCl). (Somewhat complicated because not all table salt is NaCl. There usually is a small percentage of other salts mixed in.)

ML/NJ

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Do you expect a liberal to know anything except official liberal dogma?

[MaxMax]

And we're all being pummeled with trillions of tons of Carbon each day!
Anybody have a headache yet?

[TigersEye]

There go my plans to crush the bubbles in a Pepsi into a diamond. I guess I’ll file them with the blueprints for a space balloon that takes advantage of ozone holes to escape the atmosphere.

[Foolsgold]

I wonder how much co2 is produced to make artificial grass that does not eat co2 or produce oxygen ?

[mountainlion]

Humans contain carbon and politicians cause damage so politicians should pay carbon taxes!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !