Nobody could have predicted the consequences of Ian Plimer’s latest book, Heaven And Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science, when it hit the shelves in Australia.

Unknown to most American’s still under the spell of the junk science known as global warming, this book’s impact on the Australian public is quite surprising. As I write this, the Australian Senate is on the verge of rejecting its own version of cap-and-trade. As a possible sign of things to come, the collapse of this legislation in Australia offers a glimpse of what the future shape of this debate might take in our own country and provides possible insight into the fate of similar legislation in the U.S. Senate. That is, if the House passes what will amount to the greatest tax increase in American history. It seems the whole global warming hysteria could be on the verge of collapse.

Recently, The Australian described the general trend and its leading cause:

There is rising recognition that introduction of a carbon tax under the guise of “cap and trade” will be personally costly, economically disruptive to society and tend to shift classes of jobs offshore. Moreover, despite rising carbon dioxide concentrations, global warming seems to have taken a holiday….

The same is about to happen here in America. From the Wall Street Journal:

The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change. What comes out of the computer is a function of what politicians type in. A better indicator might be what other countries are already experiencing. Britain’s Taxpayer Alliance estimates the average family there is paying nearly $1,300 a year in green taxes for carbon-cutting programs in effect only a few years.

Americans should know that those Members who vote for this climate bill are voting for what is likely to be the biggest tax in American history. Even Democrats can’t repeal that reality.

Wondering if senators actually take the time to read actual facts, I sent an email to my state’s senators asking them to read Mr. Plimer’s book. In Australia, so great is the popularity of this book that it is now into its third print run in as many weeks and is now up to the fifth printing. I encourage my readers to do the same for your representatives in both houses of Congress, although it may be too late for the House.

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