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Leading car makers and environmental groups have branded the Victorian governmentâs plan to impose a tax on electric vehicles the worst electric vehicle policy in the world.
Volkswagen, Hyundai and Uber have joined 25 organisations, including Environment Victoria and the World Wildlife Fund, in signing a letter that says the tax will mean Victorian drivers will miss out on the most efficient and affordable electric vehicles.
Victoria is set to become the first Australian state to enforce an electric vehicles tax.
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The Andrews government wants to tax electric vehicle drivers, who do not pay fuel excise, 2.5¢ per kilometre to contribute to the cost of maintaining the road network.
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Talks and Presentations - 2011 to 2016
List of talks 2011 to 2016
12 December 2016: AGU Fall Meeting
John Cook presented a talk A Brief of History of Consensus (PPT 6.8Mb), outlining the misinformation campaign against consensus, the studies quantifying the level of scientific agreement and how to neutralise misinformation.
28 October 2016: Conference on climate denial
The world s first research conference on climate denial was held at Linköping University, in the city of Norrköping, Sweden. I recorded a video talk for this conference (here are the Powerpoint slides for this talk).
27 June 2016: Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture
At the University of Tasmania, John Cook presented the 2016 Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture on The psychology of climate science denial , chaired by Her Excellency Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania.