Guest essay by Eric Worrall
A few days ago, Nancy Pelosi praised Aussie PM Scott Morrison for “Leading the Way” on climate action. Now, just a few days later, ScoMo is considering not attending COP26, and a group of diplomats are warning “climate inertia” is undermining Australia’s international reputation.
Scott Morrison may snub the COP26 climate talks as Australia becomes more isolated
By Helen Regan and Angela Dewan, CNN
Updated 1358 GMT (2158 HKT) September 27, 2021
(CNN)Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday he might not show up at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November, as his government becomes increasingly isolated in international efforts on the crisis.
More than 100 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, have confirmed their attendance at the talks hosted by the United Kingdom, a close ally of Australia. Leaders of the G20, which includes Australia, will be convening in Rome a day ahead of the climate talks. While it is not yet confirmed if Morrison will be at that summit, many G20 leaders are likely to take the short flight from the Italian capital to COP26 in Scotland.
“We haven’t made any final decisions about (attending COP26). I mean it is another trip overseas and I’ve been on several this year and spent a lot of time in quarantine,” Morrison told the West Australian newspaper.
Morrison said he needed to focus on the country’s reopening after an extended lockdown. His government is aiming to relax its hardline border restrictions in December.
“Australia will be opening up around that time, there will be a lot of issues to manage and I have to manage those competing demands,” he said.
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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/27/australia/australia-morrison-skip-climate-cop26-glasgow-intl-hnk/index.html
The diplomats warning on Australia’s “climate inertia”;
Coalition inertia on climate undermines Australia’s credibility in region, ex-diplomats warn
The group, including former ambassadors and high commissioners, says urgent action is an ‘ethical and moral responsibility towards future generations’
Katharine Murphy@murpharoo
Mon 27 Sep 2021 03.30 AESTA group of 70 former diplomats has warned the Morrison government that failing to sign up to a commitment of net zero emissions by 2050 imperils Australia’s strategic interests and “undermines our credibility as a regional partner”.
The group has written to the prime minister and relevant portfolio ministers arguing that a scientific consensus about the risks associated with runaway global heating renders urgent policy action an “ethical and moral responsibility towards future generations”.
“As former diplomats we are deeply concerned that Australia’s key strategic and economic interests are at risk because of our failure to date to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050,” the joint letter says.
“This lack of commitment is particularly concerning to those regional partners for whom climate change already poses a clear existential threat. The United States and other key partners in Europe and around the globe are increasingly voicing concerns that Australia is not pulling its weight on climate action.”
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“We fear this inertia will undermine many of the strong international relationships we have built up over decades,” the letter says.
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While metropolitan Liberals want the government to adopt the mid-century target, and two senior ministers, Josh Frydenberg and Simon Birmingham have argued the economic case to sign up – ructions continue in the junior Coalition partner.
Some Nationals are implacably opposed to net zero. On Sunday, the Nationals deputy leader David Littleproud said he expected any colleagues who opposed net zero to fall into line if the party room ultimately adopted the commitment.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/27/ex-diplomats-warn-morrison-government-inertia-on-climate-undermines-our-credibility-as-a-regional-partner
I can understand why Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison is undecided about attending COP26.
Barnaby Joyce, deputy Prime Minister and leader of the junior coalition partner National Party, recently stated he will not support legislation which harms coal mining jobs.
With the nationals thankfully digging their heels in on this issue, all that would be left for Aussie Prime Minister Scott Morrison to do at COP26, would be to keep apologising to everyone, and explaining that he is powerless to change anything.
h/t Bob Tisdale – Australia’s Sky News Andrew Bolt expressing concern Scott Morrison could cave on setting climate targets and attacking the coal industry, criticising Britain’s self inflicted energy crisis, and criticising academic and media indoctrination of young people.
Maybe he knows they are close to a deal with China.
China energy crunch triggers shutdowns, pleas for more coal (yahoo.com)
REALLY?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/must-see-one-best-videos-ever-new-world-order-starring-disgusting-aussie-prime-minister-scott-morrison/
“Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday he might not show up at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow this November…”
Probably because someone has told him what the weather is like in Glasgow in November. It’s not exactly Wordsworth and nodding Daffodils.
Scott really should not be bogarting that humongous lump of coal, and should instead send it to the UK. I hear they could use it this winter. We are all in this together. Share and share alike!
One man’s hero is another’s zero
Ya know what undermines Scott Morison’s credibility? Letting Australia turn into a police state with mass in home incarceration in the name of COVID zero.
That make him a zero in my book.😡
I wish politicians who are still immune to the climate hysteria would just clearly call out the idiots who run around wailing about ‘runaway climate change’, wetting themselves and bullying anyone with enough sense to disagree. Even someone who believes that CO2 is a magic climate button has no evidence to justify a runaway prognosis.
“just a short flight”. That’s all right, then – those emissions are good emissions.
I have just emailed my Prime Minister to congratulate him on his consideration of not attending.
With the switch to nuclear subs producing no more than a yawn from the electorate it’s clear the electorate has had a change of heart with nukes and the MSM are beginning to get where ScoMo can take the running at the next election-
Nuclear power could be the ‘rabbit in the hat’ the PM pulls out for net zero (msn.com)
It’s Time for Nukes!
Particularly if this summer causes industry shutdowns or blackouts due to unreliables.
Actually it doesn’t have to be nukes definitively just that the Gummint is committed to having a National Energy Summit with net zero nukes on the table given the power crisis emerging around the globe with UK EU and now China. Labor would have to decide if they want to go full ballistic with the Greens or go along with it just like the nuclear subs deal.
I would have thought that not signing up puts our PM into a class of international heroes who are prepared to resist the extreme bullying of the climate alarmists
Reality is a wonderful leveler.
Scott Morrison will stay home in a futile attempt to save his government at the next election.
The nation’s brutal response to Covid-19 is paying dividends, but not the dividends he was hoping for. The attempted “cure” has been far worse than the disease.
Even though the diplomats are telling the Prime Minister to join the Climate Change band wagon, the conservative voters hate the idea and promise to not vote for him if he goes the way of former Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
Finally, Germany, the UK and other European nations are facing an energy-free winter because they closed down base load power stations in favour of “Green” renewable methods. Unfortunately for many Europeans the “level place” will be permanent and six feet under.
I have a bad feeling that throughout the northern hemisphere, a lot of people alive today will have frozen to death before spring of 2022. Sacrificial victims of the Khmer Vert.