Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to former UN climate chief and Paris Agreement architect Christiana Figueres, coal exporting Australia is not acting with integrity when it comes to global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.
Christiana Figueres blasts Australia’s “suicidal” position on climate change
Christiana Figueres who was executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016, has slammed Australia’s “suicidal” position on climate action saying it conveys “a lack of integrity”.
“The climate wars that have been going on in Australia for over a decade now are just – honestly they are such a suicidal situation because Australia… holds such promise with renewable energy,” she said during a recorded session for the Australasian Emissions Reductions Summit, which began online today.
Now the director of the global climate movement Mission 2020, Figueres said she had never shied from speaking about her frustration with Australia’s haphazard stance to a pressing emergency.
“I’ve been pretty vocal about my frustration for so many years of a completely unstable, volatile, unpredictable stand and position on climate change in Australia.”
“There is no other country that has as much sun potential as Australia,” she added.
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Rather than extend itself on Paris Agreement commitments, Morrison has instead suggested that Australia’s overachievements on Kyoto Protocol targets could be used as credits– a position Figueres simply branded “cheating” .
“It is just a total lack of integrity and not something that does Australia proud,” she said.
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Read more: https://womensagenda.com.au/climate/christiana-figueres-blasts-australias-suicidal-position-on-climate-change/
I agree with Figueres about Australia having a two faced position on Climate Change.
The Australian government could end coal exports overnight with a single act of parliament. But instead of coming clean about wanting an important carbon intensive industry to continue and grow, or supporting the climate skepticism of President Trump on the international stage, Australian politicians maintain a transparent fiction that they care about climate change, both at home and abroad.
Figueres’ comment that Australia has lots of “sun potential” is just plain wrong.
What is missing from Australia is copious quantities of clean fresh water to wash the solar panels or collectors.
The dust which accumulates in Australia has to be seen to be believed. In the dry inland the dust sticks to everything, thanks to static electric charges which accumulate when the dust is blown by the wind. Covering even a sizeable fraction of Australia’s deserts with solar systems would require cleaning water on a scale which we simply don’t have.
Update (EW): Fixed a couple of typos (h/t Leo Smith)
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The ones who lack integrity are all the so-called climate scientists and scaremongers who use made-up computer data instead of real world measurements. For example, global temperatures:
RCP8.5: 3.7 to 4.8 C per century
Measured: 1.4 C per century
Don’t presume to lecture anyone about integrity, Ms. Figueres, because your lack of integrity is monumentally apparent.
lack of integrity > China
“a lack of integrity” – ?
Kettle -> Pot -> BLACK
Christiana Figueres is talking about integrity.
If I have my memory right, she is the one who came clean that efforts to control CO2 were not really about Global Warming but were an “opportunity” to establish worldwide income redistribution. The old 3 card Monty inflicted on the poor ignorant inhabitants of planet Earth by our natural elite class of over educated morons. She calls that integrity?
Evil and sly and CONniving as they come. !
Both Fred and John:
Plus 1,000!
I Australia really, really wanted to waste nature, money and resources on solar panels, the water needed could be made available.
Build the needed nuclear power plants to facilitate desalination plants for the salty sea water and build pipelines to the solar panel industrial complexes inland.
If time is an issue, then substitute the nuclear with coal as a temporary solution.
Why not just build the nuclear plants and use the power where and when we need it. We could just avoid covering the desert and other fragile ecosystems with toxic chemical leaching solar farms or bird killing inefficient wind towers. The environment would be better off.
Carl,
+100
But you forgot the /sarc 🙂
Ms. Figueres is persistent if nothing else. If she is beginning to feel as though she is beating a dead horse, chances are she probably is. I realize that she is probably very frustrated that the world still hasn’t embraced Marxist-Socialism sufficiently enough for her satisfaction, but that is her problem and not the world’s.
Someday, if and when climatology is actually a branch of science again and not something to be manipulated for a political and eco-activist smokescreen, people like Ms. Figueres will likely be long gone.
and rightly so!
Figueres is not only astonishingly arrogant, she’s also extraordinarily ignorant about history and economics, which is a defining characteristic of every Leftist. The socialist leaders of the USSR and China set themselves the task of intentionally changing the economic development model that has been reigning
for at least 150 yearssince humans began bartering and trading thousands of years ago. It didn’t go so well. Tens of millions starved to death and almost everyone except the political elites were uniformly poor. “Capitalism” as Karl Marx and other socialists like to derisively label it, is simply the freedom to produce, sell, buy, or own what you choose. Every other economic system ever invented by pointy-headed theoreticians and social-justice warriors is the opposite: not freedom.“and almost everyone except the political elites were uniformly poor.”
The MAIN FEATURE of socialism !
Too damn true. It should be remembered that she is the daughter of a former President of a South American country (I don’t remember which), and her brother subsequently became president. In other words, she is the daughter of wealth, power and privilege. If her deluded fantasy ever came about, you could bet money that she would ever give up her privileged status and all that goes with it.
Figueres is the Che Guevara of global warming – and knowing what he was capable of, I don’t mean that as a compliment. If she had her way….
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-global-warming-agenda-really-about-destroying-capitalism
It would appear that Figueres is the one with a lack of integrity on “climate action“. The UN aim is to cripple Australia’s industry and ‘remake capitalism’ in the pattern that Klaus Schwab of the WEF has decreed and all his sycophantic globalist billionaires support. All of it inline with UN Agenda 2030. Suddenly, 2030 is a date that everyone is quoting Boris Johnson wants no internal combustion vehicles sold in UK by 2030
How does a small coterie of unelected bureaucrats and billionaires think that they have the right to decide things for the ~200 countries in the world and their 7 billion population?
One thing is certain Figueres’ Paris Accord has nothing to do with CO2 or a ‘climate emergency’ and is more to do with deindustrialization of the ‘West’. At the same time Paris Accord has a ‘Green Fund’ into which the developed countries of the ‘West’ are required to pay while pauper ‘undeveloped” (?) countries like China are paid from the Green Fund as they continue building coal fired power stations commissioning around 2 a month until the magic date of 2030.
I didn’t vote for any of those cretins and will not do anything they tell me to do. Fortunately we have the 2nd Amendment in the US to protect ourselves from these would-be dictators.
At least we do until the Democrats pack the Supreme Court with liberals who declare that the 2nd only applies to the National Guard and other persons employed by the state.
And that, TTPN, is where this is all going to end, I fear. People will only take it so much but when they see the filthy rich making their fortunes in this new world order – there’s going to be a lot of brown stuff hitting fans – unfortunately mixed up with some red stuff.
Christiana Figueres may not even like Mr. Tesla.
In Brandenburg in Germany Elon Musk plans to build a battery factory (a giant one). Lots of constant uninterrupted power is needed for his Giga Factory.
Due to the unreliability of the German weather dependent power generation, he intend to build his own power plant in Brandenburg.
Not only that, he suggest nuclear, as in this statement:
Taken from this article:
https://www.focus.de/auto/elektroauto/mehr-power-fuer-elektroautos-ja-zur-kernenegie-erst-elon-musk-reisst-die-deutschen-aus-ihren-oeko-traeumen_id_12727192.html
Elon does not like his cars to be called “coal fired or coal charged.”
Eric, how come you’re reading stuff at womens agenda . com?
Is there a declaration pending from you?
Heaps of stuff about climate(s) is unpredictable.
What is consistently predictable though, are the hypocritical press releases from the climate carpetbaggers such as Figueres and her ilk.
One wonders why releases from the carpetbaggers aren’t flagged by the MSM and social media platforms as –
** this content is disputed **
Don’t knock it, ** this content is disputed ** is a very handy way of quickly identifying something worth reading.
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
– [Edward Krehbiel]
If you don’t do your own thinking, others will do the thinking for you – it’s called fascism.
— Jacque Fresco
That woman’s photograph is unfortunate. It’s way too easy to imagine her with horns.
The odd thing is that she puts effort into looking that way … she wants to look like that. All the photos reflect the sameness of the makeup and hair.
The fake smile … am I dreaming or is that fake smile more common on Democrat politicians than on Republican politicians.
Thinking about bad portraiture made me think about good portraiture. Yousuf Karsh was the best. As far as I can tell, he never published a picture of a phoney smile. His portraits seemed to capture the deep personalities of his subjects. Maybe phoney politicians want to avoid that. I wonder what he would have done with President Trump.
Hopefully, Australia will not accept this insult by begging for forgiveness. It’s time for the world’s democracies to stand up to this nonsense.
I blast the ork’s totally lack of integrity or morality or humanity as a person or a human being or whatever he/she/it passes for. !
A deep totalitarian facist/marxist/socialist thug/bully who should she its beak where the sun don’t shine.
She has had two daughters. But that is still not enough evidence for me to accept that (s)he is an actual (human) female.
Can you spell:
Flaming charlatan?
Being that Indonesia exports more coal than Australia, where are its comments about Indonesia?
Meahwhile, China gets a pass on their CO2 output.
‘Integrity’ – wow.
Imagine how freeing it must be to be utterly devoid of shame.
Q: Why isn’t Comrade Figueres calling on Saudi Arabia to stop exporting oil? Or for Russian to stop exporting oil and natural gas?
A: She knows the Saudis and Russians aren’t that stupid.
This is from the same person that stated in January 2013 that Democracy is a poor political system to combat global warming. Chinese Communism is the best model.
I suspect that if Australia cut off shipments of coal to China, they could expect Chinese warships in their harbors within the week.
Hi Mark, China is currently not accepting Australian coal.
China’s ban on Australian coal could be ‘indefinite’ amid heightened political tensions
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3105202/chinas-ban-australian-coal-could-be-indefinite-amid
Just playing a juggling game.
China has to get its coal from somewhere…
Its not having as such of an effect on Australia’s coal market as one might expect.
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2153846-australian-coal-exports-hold-up-despite-china-ban
I like this part. 😉
remembering”pigironBob” theyre taking shitloads of iron ore though
and like before it may well return as missiles planes n ships
Yep coal exports remain steady and Adani coal is set to start exporting next year. The biggest issue is the dollar value of coal stuck off China at $500M, not going to send anyone broke but hurts bottom line.
Sandoaling steam engines and coal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRjBNaknRw
Amazing to watch.
So which way is the world turning…all the headlines read that the CAGW crowd is plowing ahead with success after success and sanity will not prevail in my life time. But wait, maybe perception is not reality! Are the CAGW(ers) winning the headlines but losing the future? Somebody please throw me a life line…who is winning and who is losing. Give me a date I can put on my calendar that says “sanity has prevailed!”
They seem to be ‘winning’ the propaganda stakes because they have devised such a synergy with the msm. Every bit of melodramatic schlok gives the media another segue to shout HOTTEST EVAH, CATASTPOHIC, DEADLY, etc etc day in day out and sex up their otherwise puerile, undergraduate, groupthink/talk drivel.
If the Darwin to Singapore solar powered electric connector is ever built, the lady should be invited for few days to view the daily maintenance of such a structure deep in the Australian hinterland.
Perhaps she will volunteer to do some maintenance there as she apparently knows it so well. 😉
It was odd to see/hear on Skynews in Australia last night a coal supporting Labor politician, Joel Fitzgibbons, claiming that Australia had substantially reduced its carbon omissions since 1990 while his LNP opponent supporting Senator Canavan claimed Australia that was not so over much the same time. Rather, all things considered, Australia had not greatly reduced its omissions. Apparently, there were different reporting reasons for these differing views. However, our coal loving politicians confirmed that Australia’s second biggest export is coal. Great energy low cost transfer at work. Not every country can park 80 odd coal ships off various ports in China and wait patiently for the highly cooperative Chinese to allow unloading. That’s capitalism for you.
UN….integrity?…..pointing fingers at others?……mmmm OK
She wouldnt even see the irony
whats with the crap soft porn adds on this website side bar? Is everyone getting this garbage???
Watts up with this site becoming a geeks closet spank bank.
Nice choice of advertising Anthony, porn porn porn wooohooo!!!
Anthony doesn’t choose the advertising. If anything, Google selects the ads based on your viewing history.
What MarkW said.
If you block ad tracking data, then everything is fair game to be shown as ads, including pornographic content potentially.
If you are not blocking ad tracking data, then that means you’ve been on some naughty websites, whether you admit it or not, or know it or not.
Some ad algorithm somewhere knows I’m an old white guy living in the Mojave desert. I get suggestive ads that there are younger women nearby looking nearby for older men.
Use an ad blocker. I was getting nonsense about how to make millions of dollars and some political party (global warming) not one of the normal parties. I’ve never clicked on political stuff or ‘ making millions’ websites. I, unashamedly, look at porn but don’t get porn ads. Ad placement is big business and a simple answer that ‘you look at porn sites’ is not correct.
Using an ad blocker gets rid of most stuff.
…making millions…
Here too. But… why should I believe or even talk to a person who is clearly lying or an idiot? I mean, why don’t it make the millions itself?
Seen the same, mine had Santa outfits designed by former star twiggy.