Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australian Prime Minister has upset greens by suggesting Australia has no significant impact on global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, though he accepts there is a link between bushfires and global CO2 emissions.
Scott Morrison says no evidence links Australia’s carbon emissions to bushfires
PM suggests Australia could increase emissions without worsening current fire season, and says government finalising plans to crack down on environmental protests
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At first, Morrison appeared to accept that climate change was affecting the severity and frequency of bushfires.
“These are things that are very well known to the government – the contribution of these issues to global weather conditions and to conditions here in Australia are known and acknowledged,” he said.
“In February I acknowledged the contribution of those factors to what was happening in Australia – amongst many other issues.”
Morrison then said “the suggestion that any way shape or form that Australia, accountable for 1.3% of the world’s emissions, that the individual actions of Australia are impacting directly on specific fire events, whether it’s here or anywhere else in the world, that doesn’t bear up to credible scientific evidence either”.
“Climate change is a global phenomenon and we’re doing our bit as part of the response to climate change – we’re taking action on climate change,” he said.
“But I think to suggest that at just 1.3% of emissions, that Australia doing something more or less would change the fire outcome this season – I don’t think that stands up to any credible scientific evidence at all.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/21/scott-morrison-says-no-evidence-links-australias-carbon-emissions-to-bushfires
The Aussie Prime Minister is right, that even if you accept a link between CO2 and bushfires, Australia’s contribution to global CO2 is so insignificant nothing we do can affect outcomes.
As for me, I like the bush fires.
Didn’t Scott Morrison once say ‘Come on baby, light my fire’… maybe not. What is up with the Morrison’s and fire?
” he accepts there is a link between bushfires and global CO2 emissions”. I say, show me the evidence. Hmmm?
There is none.
The link is that bush fires release vast amounts of CO2
I voted for the Liberals here in Oz because I thought Morrison had some nous. This guy is clueless and has lost me. He is just a spinner like most of his parliamentary colleagues.
On e of PM Morrison’s earlier jobs wasin Advertising. He still thinks that way.
Tip the hat towards the Green end, then tip it towards Coal, lots of needed votes in Queensland.
But way South in Inner Melbourne lurk Greenies, and they hate coal.
Hopefully this hot Summer we will see brown or even total Blackouts in Victoria, followed by South Australia.
MJJE VK5ELL
It’s a well known fact that all Australian CO2 is produced by barbies……..
A lot is created by yeast and released into the atmosphere from beer cans. Aussies are not alone in promoting this planet destroying activity in this but are responsible for their fair share.
…In the course of evolution, eucalyptus trees (70 % of all trees in OZ) have ‘learned’ to multiply only after a fire. Wehre the huge amount of CO2 did come from in the past, to trigger such an development in last x-hundred thousand years? Are the aboriginis to blame?
China has 19% of the world’s population, but consumes 53% of the world’s cement, 48% of the world’s iron ore and 47% of the world’s coal. And the majority of just about every other major commodity.
In 2010, China produced 11 times more steel than the United States.
There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined.
China currently has the world’s fastest train and the world’s largest high-speed rail network.
China is currently the number one producer in the world of wind and solar power, but don’t use it themselves.
Whilst they manufacture 80% of the world’s solar panels, they install fewer than 5% and build a new coal-fired power station every week.
In one year they turn on more new coal powered electricity than Australia ‘s total output.
China currently controls more than 90% of the total global supply of rare earth elements.
In the past 15 years, China has moved from 14th place to 2nd place in the world in published scientific research articles.
China now possesses the fastest supercomputer on the entire globe.
At the end of March 2011, China has accumulated $304 trillion in US foreign currency reserves! — the largest stockpile on the entire globe.
Chinese people consume 50,000 cigarettes every second.
They are already the largest carbon dioxide emitter and their output will rise 70% by 2020.
We think we’re saving the planet?! It will not make one iota of difference what we do in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States or anywhere else in the world for that matter.
All that the politicians in the West are doing is increasing our cost of living and making Western manufacturers noncompetitive in the world market, whilst China is growing and consuming at these extraordinary rates.
There is one aeroplane that can carry more than 250 tonnes of water , (but it does not ) it has 3 unassembled brothers in the warehouse , what is needed is a fleet of such like aircraft to “clean-up ” the air, if you believe the press releases Germany alone has spent (and is spending on subsides ) enough money to buy and operate hundreds of such firefighting monsters . BUT !!! with politicians involved name me one case where there is logic ,,,,
or could save the money on the planes and get the unemployed working on strip fires all through parks in winter.
thin out by logging the better trees under 50yrs old for wood
and stop thegreen inspired nature corridors that simply funnel fires right to the farm houses and to suburban fringes.
the amount of wildlife maimed and burnt by the greens stupidity in stopping clearing and burning lies directly at their door.
Maybe a bit nit-picky, but… “Analogy: China, India, Russia, Africa and the rest of the impoverished world.”
and ” To extend the analogy, not only do China, India, Russia, Africa and so on not pay their own taxes, they use the fact that they pay no tax and hence have a lower operating cost to compete against those countries (us if you will) who do pay.”
You can’t consider China, India and Russia as impoverished nations, ranked, second, fifth, and eleventh respectively in terms of GDP according to the World Bank. They do pay taxes, and Africa is a continent, not a country. Just sayin.
Re. Ozssspeakup, the Greenies are not into “”Saving the Planet”” They want to destroy the economies of the mainly “”Western” countries so that they can then “”Offer”” their version of Communism mark 2. The one they say will work.
They seem to think that they the true believers will automatically become
the new bosses.
I would suggest that they look at the history of the Communests t in the old USSR, and the fight for power. Lenin warned that Stalin was dangerous before he died.
Todays true believers would be the first to be kille3d off in their “”Brave New World””.
MJE VK5ELL
Perry ums it ups perfectly . So why are the politicians who preach Green ideas not telling us about India and China ? Such b ad examples, so tell them off.
Greta where are you.
MJE VK5ELL
Worldwide phenomenon: The Green Believers –
heute-show vom 22. November 2019 – ZDFmediathek
Nachrichtensatire mit Oliver Welke
Oliver Welke berichtet über den Bundesparteitag der CDU, die Lichtgestalt aus dem Sauerland, Zukunftskompetenz, die Modernisierung der Bahn und das grüne Fest der Harmonie.
https://www.zdf.de/comedy/heute-show/heute-show-vom-22-november-2019-100.html