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Kofi “let them eat insects” Annan thinks Australia is not imposing sufficiently draconian climate policies on her citizens, to qualify as a leading green power.
According to Annan;
“Despite the known threats, far too many countries are failing to take decisive action. Several countries including Australia and Canada appear to have withdrawn entirely from constructive international engagement on climate,” the report said.
It is particular scathing about the direction in which Australia’s climate change policies are headed.
“With one of the world’s highest levels of per capita emissions, Australia has gone from leadership to free-rider status in climate diplomacy. Repeal of the Clean Energy Future Plan effectively abolished carbon pricing. Current policies will result in emissions increasing by about 12-18 per cent above 2000 emissions,” it said.
“End the free rides: Australia, Canada, Japan and the Russian Federation should set a clear course for zero emissions by 2050, with deep reductions by 2030. These countries might consider the far higher level of ambition set by Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.”
I’m sorry Kofi – if only we Australians had known, that the politicians we supported in the last election wanted to keep our household energy bills under control, instead of offering us the opportunity to be green economic martyrs. We could have maintained that all important green leadership.
Rent-a-Kofi has a deal for you and any dumb comment is available as an add-on option. So come on down to Kofi’s used car policy dealership. We know dumb. See us about soccer events also.
Rwanda being used as the paragon of virtue is a new one! I assume the slaughter of a million Rwandans is what turns Kofi on. A much reduced carbon footprint one imagines.
http://survivors-fund.org.uk/resources/rwandan-history/statistics/
We had Swartzenegger on TV tonight going off the Terminstor promotions script to help the CAGW hype. Such a shame. I suppose everyone has to have at least one major flaw.
Big Arnie, a true solipsist who enjoys erecting multiple statues of himself … how does this foible imbue him with such moral righteousness on a scientific issue? Only an idiot journalist would ‘think’ so.
According to The World Coal Association, worldwide about 15% of annual coal production is used to make steel. The 10 biggest steel producers in 2013 out of the total 1606 Mt (Million tonnes) were:
Note that China produces more steel than the remaining 9 together.
Each tonne of steel requires about 770 Kg of coal when using the Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) method – which accounts for about 70% of steel production.
I’d like to know just how any industrial nation can be headed for zero emissions, while worldwide steel production (and therefore consumption) grew by 28% from 2006 to 2013. Actually, I can believe if of Japan: they are headed for zero population if current trends continue, although they won’t reach that by 2050. Current population is declining by 0.2% annually.
So do you want a future without steel? Or a population with 40% 65 and over and most of the rest fully occupied taking care of them?
That is the definition of green and sustainable energy.
You can’t run a blast furnace with it.
Kofi Annan talking ‘leadership’.
Alphonse Gabriel Caponee might have been a better ‘rep’ than ‘oil for food’ Kofi. Alphonse certainly killed orders of magnitude less people during his brief reign. Employing a local gangster rather than global gangster might have been a better bet for the UN.
“These countries might consider the far higher level of ambition set by Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda.”
That is just code for genocides and population reduction.
come on US we will let you join us, we are happy little vegemites
Its gotta sting when you come to realize that nobody is listening anymore, even more when the money starts to run out.
So by following Spain, we would be “leaders”?
I can’t for the life of me understand why a single Australian would feel the slightest concern about being criticised by the UN for following policies that we as a country voted for. Different story for the 8% of mentally deficient people who actually voted for the suicidal policies of the Greens, but for the semi-sane 92% we voted for the repeal of the World’s Biggest Carbon Tax (yes, all parties except the Greens took that to the election) and to stop people smuggling (ditto – only the Greens had a people-smuggler friendly policy). For anyone to squirm when the UN say “we don’t like that” is truly shameful.
Regard bugs: Anyone who has ever kept poultry and bred meal worms as treats will be able to tell you that whilst meal worms(probably the easiest insect to raise) are high protein food, they do live in their food and once that has too many droppings mixed in, the worms get sick. Result: you still use roughly as much, if not more feed as if you feed the birds directly, and throw away much more than your birds waste.
And that is before we factor in the constant warmth(24C/75F) the insects need to progress at a viable rate, which birds don’t.
Finally: poultry is far tastier than meal worms. Even in an extra strong curry.
We have expressions here in Australia for W$%^$#s like Annan. However I don’t think this website will allow them.
Kofi is not exactly visionary. After all he said “Obviously, this should not go as far as governments telling people what to eat.”, meaning of course there is a market opportunity here. Why not lead Ghana into the area of bug farming and bug exporting?
‘Despite known threats’….. well, the biggest known threats come from politicians, as David Archibald in his TWILIGHT OF ABUNDANCE states bluntly: “Global warming did serve a couple of useful purposes. The issue has been a litmus test for our political class. Any politician who has stated a belief in global warming is either a cynical opportunist or an easily deluded fool. In neither case should that politician ever be taken seriously again. No excuses can be accepted.” — not even from all at G7 in Bavaria at the moment.
“far too many countries are failing to take decisive action. Several countries including Australia and Canada appear to have withdrawn entirely from constructive international engagement on climate”.
Withdrawing from your stupid talks IS the decisive action that we all need to take.
Australia has decisively decided to stop punching themselves in the nuts. Nobody should try to become a world leader in smashing up their own economy.
And Canada has one of the highest proportions of low carbon electricity production of any developed nation in the world, since it already has 60% hydropower. It even sells hydropower to the U.S. So, really, why is the U.N. picking on Canada? Just because they won’t kowtow to a bunch of technically illiterate bureaucrats?
Honestly? Well done to Canada and Australia.
We need more decisive world leaders.
And fewer morons blindly following Kofi into his personal nightmare plans for the people of planet earth.
Kofi’s world
I wonder if he could make his own coffee in the morning?