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THE BOLT REPORT

21 APRIL 2013

INTERVIEW WITH GREG HUNT

ANDREW BOLT, PRESENTER: So, why are we spending billions we don’t have to make no difference to global warming – which paused 16 years ago anyway? Joining me is the Opposition Spokesman for Climate Action, Greg Hunt. What is the answer, Greg?

GREG HUNT: Well, the answer is that we now have the highest carbon tax in the world – we are 5.5 - 6 times higher than the European tax. That means we’re paying massively higher electricity prices. Jobs are being exported, and Australia’s emissions are going up, not down. So there’s no purpose to the way this tax is operating, because it’s not doing its job. It’s completely out of kilter with the rest of the world, and then in 2.5 years time, there’s likely to be a massive Budget black hole the size of the Grand Canyon.

ANDREW BOLT: How big?

GREG HUNT: Well, we think $6 billion to $7 billion.

ANDREW BOLT: A year?

GREG HUNT: A year.

ANDREW BOLT: Unbelievable. But that wasn’t actually the answer to my question. Why are we spending billions to make no difference to global temperatures, which have paused for 16 years anyway?

GREG HUNT: The 1990s had the highest of any of the years. The last decade has been the highest decade on record. So people will have different views –

ANDREW BOLT: But it hasn’t risen, that’s my point, and it won’t make a difference. Why are we spending billions to make no difference?

GREG HUNT: Well, the first thing here is that, as Rupert Murdoch said, we think we should give the planet the benefit of the doubt. But the system that the Government has chosen is the worst of all possible worlds. It simply sends our jobs and emissions offshore, it increases the price of electricity, and it doesn’t even do the job. So wherever you stand on the issue of climate change, you can look at the Government’s policy and say, “That’s a dud.” And it’s all based on dodgy figures.

ANDREW BOLT: Well, talking about figures, I’m still wondering what it’s all for. Professor Roger Jones, right, he’s an Australian, and he’s a warmist.

GREG HUNT: Mm hmm.

ANDREW BOLT: He reckons the cut in emissions, that you and Labor both plan, work out, at best, of a cut in temperature of about four-thousandths of one degree by 2100. Four-thousandths of one degree. He’s right, isn’t he?

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