Australia seems to actually *have* a response to global warming, and the US doesn't.
Though the US is a bigger polluter than Australia total, it also has more people, so I think the per capita rates are similar.
And you really shouldn't lazyweb your homework...
It’s clear global warming/climate change is real. It’s equally clear the > current < warming cycle has been going on since the last ice age and that’s why the Sahara was grassland 10,000 years ago but is desert today + has been desert for centuries. The fact the current warming trend started long before there was any industry and when there were hardly any people is good evidence humans are not the cause. It also means humans are not the solution.
The Earth goes through constant climate change cycles and has done so throughout its history. The exact mechanism is not well understood but appears to be related to solar activity and the axial tilt of the Earth as it orbits the sun - not human activity. Note that the Earth is apparently at the end of the current warming cycle and should begin cooling soon (“soon” in geological terms).
All of the carbon tax/carbon offset BS is just robbery or extortion disguised as science. Countries like China and India LOVED the idea of carbon taxes/carbon offsets – but only when they could pretend to be “undeveloped”. Once it was pointed out both are horrific polluters of > every type < they suddenly were not so keen on the idea. Only the global Left and countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe still love the idea of carbon taxes.
The Left loves the idea because they are dedicated to destroying the West in general and the USA in particular. Getting the developed world to wreck its own industrial base is something they want. Having the West simultaneously give free guilt-money to countries like North Korea & Zimbabwe would just make it better.
Unfortunately, scientific research has been compromised by the politics of the subject. The academic community leans far to the Left, so researchers who “prove” human-caused global warming (AGW) are rewarded with more grants, but researchers who don’t “prove” AGW find themselves cut off.
The politics of the issue are a problem because we really do need to understand how the Earth works so we can anticipate, predict, and adjust. We also need to reduce actual pollution that is poisoning our environment, and countries like China & India shouldn’t get a free ride.
Australia has conned its people into a tax.
Billions of dollars raised by Australia's carbon tax will end up overseas, helping poor countries battle climate change.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard's new tax will be used to allow Australia to meet its share of a $100 billion-a-year United Nations fund to transfer wealth from rich countries to help undeveloped nations adapt to global warming.
Even when Ms Gillard was denying there would be a carbon tax last August, her government had committed to spend $599 million on climate change handouts over the current three-year Budget period, mainly in the Pacific and South-East Asia. About $470 million has already been allocated.
Ms Gillard skated on the claim that the total amount carbon tax would stay in Australia by saying the amount given to the other countries via the UN was taken out of other funds. The unmistakable fact is that the Australian people are out money anyway you look at it.
What a scam!
In the US, President Obama just dipped into the discretionary funds and gave the UN $100 billion of the taxpayers money. In the US we don't have enough money for keeping our airways safe or keeping the tours through the White House open, but we do have money to give to the overly rich UN.
What a scam.
The US is world's second largest polluter. Much of the US population seems to think that is something to be proud of. U S A! U S A!
Australia is not and the population doesn't.
compare and contrast the responses of US and Australia to global warming
