Contributed by: filbert Thursday, August 13 2009 @ 01:00 PM CST
No, we’re not all-health-care-all-of-the-time here. Via Wattsupwiththat:[*1]
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s Senate[*2] rejected the government’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd[*3] to amend the bill or call an early election.
Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe. Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.
Isn’t it time for some small sense of sanity to start seeping in here in America, too?
That doubles as my daily dose of alliteration for the day. Dang!