Climate change a hoax, Jones tells tax protesters

Well according to radio announcer Alan Jones climate change is a hoax ! Well that’s what he told protestors on the weekend.

Here’s the story courtesy of the SMH.

THE world didn't end yesterday but Australian democracy died, according to protesters who gathered to make their voices heard in opposition to the carbon price.

About 2000 people marched from Hyde Park to Belmore Park to hear Bronwyn Bishop speak against the government's Clean Energy Bill, while a much smaller group in Melbourne heard the broadcaster Alan Jones refer to climate change science as ''propaganda''.

''The notion of global warming is a hoax,'' Jones told a group of about 150 people on the steps of the Victorian Parliament. ''This is witchcraft. Commonsense will tell you it's rubbish; 97 per cent of all carbon dioxide occurs naturally … 3 per cent around the world is created by human beings.''

Jones's station, 2GB, was reprimanded by the Australian Communications and Media Authority last month, after he made multiplication errors in his calculations about atmospheric greenhouse gas levels.

In Sydney, Ms Bishop said the government was trying to use climate change to hold onto power. ''The government is trying to frighten the nation into accepting the need for it, but the Australian people are saying no, they don't want it,'' she said.

''Australia doesn't have too many international advantages, but one place it does have an advantage is cheap electricity.'

Comment from a reader.

“How dare they scare the kids? Far better to let them grow into complacent, ignorant adults like their parents.

I listen to people like Abbott & Jones telling me the world is going to end because of a Carbon Price (not tax, fools), and I ask myself: just who is using scare tactics? “

Have you got any thoughts, how will you cope?