Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Australian Resources Minister Keith Pitt predicts global demand for Aussie coal will remain strong “long into the future”.
Australia’s Resources Minister Keith Pitt dismisses UN chief’s climate change statement
With Australia isolated on climate change, Resources Minister Keith Pitt has dismissed a global warming statement from the United Nations secretary-general.
Australia’s resources minister has castigated a climate change warning from the United Nations secretary-general as an inconsequential “grand statement”.
Antonio Guterres has warned the world is heading for a catastrophic temperature of rise of more than three degrees by the end of the century unless all countries declare climate emergencies.
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Resources Minister Keith Pitt dismissed the climate warning from Mr Guterres.
“Grand statements are quite simple to make,” he told ABC radio on Monday.
“If they made a difference (Labor MPs) Mark Butler and Pat Conroy made that exact statement in the parliament many months ago and I don’t seem to recall it changing anything.
“It’s about outcomes, it’s about a plan, it’s about knowing where we’re going and what it will cost, and it’s about delivery.”
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Mr Pitt is confident strong global demand for Australian coal will continue long into the future.
He has requested a parliamentary inquiry into lenders and insurers blacklisting companies linked to coal and gas producers.
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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australia-s-resources-minister-keith-pitt-dismisses-un-chief-s-climate-change-statement
Vote in enough politicians with the balls to stand up to the climate bullies, and the climate panic will be a thing of the past.
Three Cheers for Australian Resources Minister Keith Pitt : Climate Hero.
With the “Normalization” (Yuri Bezmenov) comes hard times. My wild guess is that coal will return back into the individual’s heating operators in not so distant future.
Add to that, that many new coal thermal plants are being build. A trend that may, hopefully, also come to the African countries to a larger extend, as the only viable option to modernize Africa.
Although Charles Schwab and Joseph Biden have other ideas, there are still large countries on the upraise, who worship quality of life and productivity.
Coal is easy to ship to any place in the world and there is enough of it for a long time into the future.
But, face mask on when you handle coal 🙂
ACCC should be investigating any company boycotting another company on grounds of not meeting some perceived moral yet unscientific and unqualified demands in relation to climate change action. Boycotting companies based on some inaccurate probabilistic modelling where quantitation of human attribution remains uncertain is akin to thuggery of a voodoo religious nature. Where’s the ACCC on this matter?
China will keep being Aussie coal, Just watch. They have to power their 200 coal fired plants somehow.
Eric
Slightly off topic, but can you explain this article?
Australian government subsidising aluminium smelter
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/australia-rescues-alcoa-portland-smelter-in-bid-to-shore-up-power-grid-2020-12-13
Thanks in advance
With the fraudulent election of Biden in the US, it seems like Australia and Brazil will be the West’s remaining stalwards of sanity against the anti-scientific nonsense spouted by the “climate emergency” cabal. May they hold the torch up high against such leftist fascists.
Just out of curiosity. What does a sack of coal currently cost in the US?
When I toured through the US in 1982 and 1983, I believe a sack of coal costed around $0.50 in Arizona. I may be wrong, but it was cheaper than unleaded gas.
If only, if only we had someone of that calibre in blighty.
We have 650 climate eunuchs all eager to outdo each other’s virtue signalling. And in the other place there are crazies like Lord Deben.
Sounds encouraging. We’ll see what Dominion Voting has to say about that in the next general election.
I hope everyone remembers Whitlam and the “palace letters”? This June?
Stepping out of the Chatham House line does not amuse Buckingham.
What palace letters may be right now circulating, pray tell?
And after all Dominion Voting software from Smartmatic is Lord Malloch-Brown’s sandbox, who just now took over Soros’ outfit. The British House of Lords internal policy document could not tolerate a second Trump Admin. But in Australia’s case a government can simply be dismissed.
China should be paying a premium for any goods purchased from Australia as they are an “unreliable” and “erratic” buyer.
According to “carbon” roolz, if you ship the coal to be burned elsewhere, it doesn’t count towards your own “carbon emissions”. Convenient, that.
Thank goodness we have a politician with the courage to speak out about the climate alarmism spouted by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his continuing attempt to achieve One World Government run by non-other that Antonio Guterres.
It has been known for years that climate data shows changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration lagging temperature changes over time scales ranging from a few months to millennia. Mathematical analysis of modern data reveals that temperature correlates with the rate of generation of CO2 whereby local maxima in the temperature correspond to maxima in the rate of generation of CO2 which, of mathematical necessity, must precede the associated maxima in the CO2 concentration. Consequently maxima in the CO2 concentration always follow after temperature maxima.
As a result, CO2 cannot have caused global warming because it is impossible for the later CO2 change to be a cause of the earlier temperature change.
It also explains the situation over the past century whereby the CO2 concentration has been continually increasing. The temperature range has been such that the CO2 rate of generation has always been positive. This means that the future CO2 level will not stop increasing until the ambient temperature falls to the critical level at which the rate of CO2 generation is zero. The next Ice Age?
The lack of any warming is confirmed by a knowledge of the absorption spectrum for CO2. Planck’s law shows that for the radiation emitted from the Earth’s surface at the average temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, 99% of the absorbed photons that are absorbed by CO2 are in the 15 micron wavelength band. This represents the peak of radiation that would be emitted from the ice and snow in Antarctica on the odd occasions when the temperature falls to -80 degrees Celsius. That definitely cannot warm the rest of the Earth as it is already hotter than -80 deg.C.
Furthermore, at the current CO2 concentration, 413.62 ppm on 10 December, there are 166,000,000 CO2 molecules in the adjoining atmosphere for every photon emitted from a 15 deg.C Earth surface that could be absorbed by that CO2. Consequently all of the radiation that can be absorbed is fully absorbed within a few hundred metres of the surface. Increasing or decreasing the CO2 concentration will make no difference to the climate but merely decrease or increase the distance over which complete absorption takes place.
There is no climate emergency.
Bevan, you have not mentioned the IR leaving through the IR “window”.
Anyway, if the CO2 warming meme was not taught in schools, (instead that sunlight causes evaporation that in turn causes clouds, and cloud cover controls the Albedo and thus the temperature of the planet), we wouldn’t be in the situation of having literally thousands of innumerates marching in the streets because they’ve been told that water vapor will amplify the CO2 warming by a factor of 3….instead of decreasing it by a factor of 3 because of cloud cover/albedo response to a degree of warming……with equally innumerate politicians seeing a vote smuckering opportunity.
Aluminum smelting is an electrochemical process. Alcoa will reduce its power consumption on critical hot days to avoid overloading the grid, thus reducing aluminum output. The state will simply compensate Alcoa for the lost profits from the turndown.
Aluminum smelters are baseload power consumers, essentially constant 24/7. Shutting down Alcoa would likely lead to the closing of a baseload power plant and that would reduce grid stability.
My vote is for Minister Keith Pitt ! 🙂