Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Aussie PM Scott Morrison appears to be quietly betting the Biden climate insanity will be a one hit wonder, that the economic devastation unleashed by Biden’s tax hikes, carbon pricing, and giveaways to other nations while Americans suffer, will unleash a tsunami of voter fury which will wash the Biden administration into the dustbin of history.
The feds have ditched us on climate change, it’s time we ditch them too
Jan Fran
Journalist and presenterApril 23, 2021 — 7.30pmTowards the end of last year, I attended a panel discussion on climate change in Sydney. It was a fairly unremarkable evening, except for one thing. There side-by-side on stage, wedged between a host of other panellists, sat the NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean and his Labor counterpart Adam Searle.
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It occurred to me that this was the first time in recent memory that I’d seen both government and opposition blatantly publicly agree on the issue of climate change and how best to tackle it.
Why – I shook my proverbial fist at the proverbial sky – why can’t Canberra be like this?
When it comes to climate change and energy policy the last decade in federal politics has been a sh*tshow! Ten years, five prime ministers and zero comprehensive national climate policies later, we find ourselves among the few developed economies yet to commit to a 2050 net-zero emissions target (even China, whose mammoth emissions we use as a smokescreen for our inertia to act on climate change, has committed to carbon neutrality by 2060).
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There’s “going to have to be a shift” say Biden’s people and Morrison is being urged to get on board.
But do they really need him? We don’t.
The world has forged on without Scott Morrison’s government and so has Australia. Every state and territory has individually committed to the 2050 net-zero emissions target and the country’s largest state is pulling no punches about its plan to become a renewable superpower.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/the-feds-have-ditched-us-on-climate-change-it-s-time-we-ditch-them-too-20210423-p57lsh.html
My question – why do greens need special government policies to make their dream happen?
Greens regularly claim renewables are the cheapest energy option.
Surely somewhere out there is a financier greedy enough to defy the big oil conspiracy which leading greens allege is holding renewables back, and cash in on the cheap green energy bonanza, without any further government intervention.
One possible explanation why this is not happening, is that green claims renewables are affordable and environmentally sustainable are a total pack of lies. Activist film maker Michael Moore threw a lot of accusations about renewable energy lies, in his documentary “Planet of the Humans”.
Surely somewhere out there is a financier greedy enough to defy the big oil conspiracy which leading greens allege is holding renewables back, and cash in on the cheap green energy bonanza, without any further government intervention.
Like this, you mean?
Submarine cable to connect 10.5 GW wind-solar complex in Morocco to the UK grid – pv magazine International (pv-magazine.com)
It should be titled … “Green temper-tantrums … “
Climate ambition is ruthlessness with a more palatable moniker. It’s inflicting pain and suffering on the working class through CO2 reduction schemes that send jobs to developing countries, have poor fossil fuel vehicle drivers subsidize the Rich’s electric toys, solar panels and wind farms.
One good way to achieve net-zero (or whatever crap that entails) is to shut down the press. No more newspapers, TV news, journalists, etc, etc. If they want to go fully green just shut down completely, that’t the only way to contribute, and, frankly, they will be living their dream.
“The feds have ditched us on climate change, it’s time we ditch them too
by Jan Fran
Journalist and presenter April 23, 2021 — 7.30pm”
Just to be clear, Ms Fran is not a journalist, but an propaganda-spewing activist. Journalists report news and facts, quote opinions of experts, and the opinions of politicians on public policy they may be pursuing, but leave their own opinion out of news journalism.
Giving her own opinion on climate science policy, she doesn’t seem to have the educational or professional background to understand the science or economics of climate change policies.
Her education:
Francis studied journalism and international studies at the University of Technology Sydney. At 36, all she has ever done is try to be a media personality, now apparently her path to fame is going woke of climate and fashion. You shouldn’t trust Jan Fran’s opinions on climate anymore than you should trust any uneducated Hollywood celebrity spewing the latest woke-ster fad for virtue signaling acceptance.
I love me some “Green Fury”.The more the better, because it means we’re winning.
Envy, naivety, greed? Green eggs and ham?
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
Thomas Jefferson
Ex Irish president and now “Elder” has just called bullshit on Justin Trudeau’s new, improved global warming commitment.
She points out that NONE of these past emissions reductions targets since the 1980s has been achieved, yet carpetbaggers like Trudeau just keep upping the ante.
Anyone would reasonably conclude that there are NO repercussions for not meeting these proclaimed targets, nor any accountability for uttering them in the first place.
Good call. The lab rats in the U.S. agree, except we can’t get out of the cage with the Californians to watch from a distance.
I almost didn’t catch it but realized in time that “Jan Fran” is actually “San Fran Nan”. These Green Crazies think China is serious about 2060 carbon neutral? Let’s legalize pot, before it’s too late, so these people can chill out and forget everything.
Wake me up when all the mining equipment, smelters, factories, trains and ships run on DC battery packs. Thanks.
Fortunately the people currently in charge of the Nation are as ignorant as the people that put them in office; therefore their ignorance will assure their failure. Even though they assume we are a nation of fools, their results will initiate the rapid return of common sense to the masses of American voters.
The election in 22 will initiate a transformation of votes that will seem minuscule compared to a 1994 or 2016 election; the material losses BLM and their advocates have loosed on America, plus the Biden reversals of all things previously successful will put the Biden legacy into the dustbin of history.
Bill Gates has established an organization called Breakthrough Energy.
He says, “It will raise money from governments, philanthropy and companies to make the large
capital investments needed to bring down the cost of emerging technologies.”
Further “By taking steps like this to create the financing structures that will allow
green products to succeed, we can build new industries and companies that support
communities around the world with good jobs, while making the transition to the
clean economy.”
Notice he does not say, “I will contribute $100 billion from my vast fortune and encourage the 100 wealthiest billionaires to match this” but “It will raise money from governments . . .”
Let Gates and these 100 billionaires invest and prove this can be done profitably.
Then he can credibly invite the general public to become involved.
Not before!!!
10 US states a sueing Biden over the new rules he imposed to those sates in January. Kentucky and Louisiana are particulary affected. They described in the document how the would suffer and how it impoverish their citizen. 10 States Sue Biden Over Climate Order – DocumentCloud
I have encountered a new malady
Climate crisis boredom
Fed up of hearing the same old tosh being ramped up to 11
I suspect that PM Morrison knows that Biden is not going to get any of that destructive stuff. It is all up to Congress and the radical greens do not have the votes. Morrison knows first hand the limits of the leader’s power. In fact that poweris far less in America than in Oz. Our President is not even an MP much less PM. It is checks and balances and Biden is checked.
“why do greens need special government policies to make their dream happen?”
The special dream was for government change all along. Once they get into power, as party leaders of the new privileged class, they will discard the screaming ideology as a dispensible means to an end — just like
PoohXi, or Lenin, Mao, or Ho Chi Minh, Fidel, Kablahblah…Whoever goes for Biden’s green insanity will look like a right royal goose WHEN it is revealed that the US election was riddled with fraud. The limp “leaders” will have been caught with their pants down, appeasing a totally FAKE president that was a puppet of our mortal enemy, the CCP.
It is in the “interests” of the CCP to destroy the west economically by deceiving them in to imploding their economies and destroying society from within.
Hopefully, the Maricopa County election audit will be concluded by mid May, which is not far away. It may transpire even early on during the audit (all rather suspicious that the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the audit-if the election was clean, you would think they would want to put the issue to rest) that there are major discrepancies.
If the audit reveals significant fraud in Maricopa County, it will trigger other audits. If the swing states conduct audits and also find major fraud that has resulted in a stolen election, the Military will be under sworn oath to step in and take temporary control. They will either conduct a full recount or conduct a new election under their control.
As even 50% of Democrat supporters recognise that the election was stolen, the result of a new election will be a total annihilation for the Democrats. They will possibly have only a handful of members of Congress. They could even lose their safe states.
Australia only has to hang out until mid May – skirt around licking green backsides for 3 more weeks. Whoever can defy green fascism has some hope of avoiding the political fallout when the proverbial hits the fan with the US election.
I just watched all of ‘Planet of the Humans’. I’m going to shove that at every greenie I run across in the future.
The takeaway that I got from it is that all ‘green’ energy costs more in fossil fuels than simply burning the fossil fuels directly.
Matt Kean is a deep-green left-wing loon who ..along with other activists such as former PM Malcolm Turnbull… infiltrated the conservative side of politics.
In terms of swing voters I think climate change is irrelevant.
Here in Australia the Leaders of the federal and state governments have had various hits and misses with the way they handled COVID.
The way each leader markets their success at being the saviour will probably decide who wins the next election.
Why should Australia with a population approaching 26 million do more to lower emissions than already committed to doing via the Paris Agreement?
Given that Australia is one of the very few nations that achieved earlier emissions reduction targets, Kyoto Japan Agreement for example, and is on track to achieve or exceed the present Paris Agreement targets?
The US President has a hide to demand more from a close ally and friend of America.
China increases emissions every year by more than Australia’s total annual emissions.
China continues to construct and commission new coal fired power stations in China and for foreign aid recipient countries. As those power stations have an operating life of at least 50 years and well maintained could easily exceed 80 years it is obvious that China’s emissions will not be reducing in the foreseeable future regardless of what the CCP pretends to be their intention.
However, nobody can explain why CO2 is being targeted, essential for life on Earth, invisible and odourless gas that at present amounts to a tiny 410 ppm in the atmosphere (0.041%), if the amount increased above 1,500 ppm the world would be a greener place and crop yields would increase markedly.
Climate justice?
I nominate Mother Nature for appointment to the court.