{"id":9774,"date":"2011-06-12T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9774"},"modified":"2011-06-12T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T15:39:48","slug":"bureaucratic-details-of-the-wild-camel-slaughter-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/bureaucratic-details-of-the-wild-camel-slaughter-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureaucratic details of the wild camel slaughter proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the deliberate destruction of the massive bison herds that used to roam the central plains of North America? Australia&#8217;s environmentalists are looking to do an Outback version of their own. <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2011\/06\/11\/craziest-carbon-credit-scheme-yet-shooting-camels-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viv Forbes<\/a> looks at the details included in that Australian government &#8220;climate change&#8221; proposal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Think this is all a hoax? Then check this out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechange.gov.au\/government\/initiatives\/carbon-farming-initative\/methodology-development\/methodologies-under-consideration\/management-of-feral-herbivores.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.climatechange.gov.au\/government\/initiatives\/carbon-farming-initative\/methodology-development\/methodologies-under-consideration\/management-of-feral-herbivores.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, our bureaucrats have put together a 62 page proposal to issue carbon credits for killing feral camels. They note that there is not much use in killing an old camel so the cullers will be required to declare the age of each camel killed, so that that the Government auditors can determine how much pollution will be saved. To help this complex calculation the government is researching the average life expectancy for feral camels.<\/p>\n<p>The document is full of endless dribble, including how the cullers discount the credits they will get by the amount of pollution that is created by the culling.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are two options for measuring fuel consumption for EV<sub><em>c,j,y<\/em><\/sub> as detailed below. Option 1 is preferred.<\/p>\n<p>Option 1) Recording of all fuel purchased or pumped for use in these vehicles during the management activities.<\/p>\n<p>Option 2) Recording of all ground vehicle and fuel types and odometer readings before and after management activities.<\/p>\n<p>For Option 2 the amount of fuel consumed is calculated by taking the fuel consumption rating of the vehicle as a litres per kilometre figure and multiplying this by the kilometres of travel undertaken as part of the management activity, then divided by 1000 to convert to kiloLitres, as per the equation below:<\/p>\n<p>Where:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>GD<sub><em>gv,c,j,y<\/em><\/sub><\/td>\n<td>=<\/td>\n<td>Ground distance travelled by vehicle <em>gv<\/em> using fuel type <em>j<\/em> in undertaking the management activities <em>c<\/em> in year <em>y<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LPK<sub><em>gv,j<\/em><\/sub><\/td>\n<td>=<\/td>\n<td>Litres of fuel type <em>j<\/em> combusted per kilometre for vehicle <em>gv<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtobearetronaut.com\/2011\/06\/killing-the-american-buffal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Retronaut<\/a> has some photos from the near-annihilation of the buffalo in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the deliberate destruction of the massive bison herds that used to roam the central plains of North America? Australia&#8217;s environmentalists are looking to do an Outback version of their own. Viv Forbes looks at the details included in that Australian government &#8220;climate change&#8221; proposal: Think this is all a hoax? Then check this out: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,8,65,84],"tags":[245,240,39],"class_list":["post-9774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-government","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2xE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9779,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9774\/revisions\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}