Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Following the recent election of a deep green federal government, and offlining of coal stations, Australia is being slammed by a double whammy of skyrocketing green energy bills and extreme cold.
Proof you aren’t going soft: Australian city is now shivering through its coldest start to winter since 1904 – as cold weather records tumble, snow falls on beaches… and it’s not over yet
Antarctic cold snap is sending record tumbling as temperatures plummet
Brisbane braced for its coldest day since 1904 as polar winds blast Australia
Sydney and Melbourne also set for their coldest start to winter in decades
By KEVIN AIRS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
PUBLISHED: 10:39 AEST, 9 June 2022 | UPDATED: 13:40 AEST, 9 June 2022
Brisbane will shiver through its coldest start to winter in more than 100 years as Australia’s brutal big freeze sends records tumbling.
An icy polar blast will see forecast temperatures plummet int every major city except Perth to lows not seen in decades.
Bob Hawke was in power the last time Sydney got this cold in 1989, and Brisbane is braced for its worst cold snap since 1904.
There’s not even an escape in the tropical Top End with both Darwin and Cairns forecast to be noticeably cooler than normal this week, while some of Tasmania’s beaches could even see blizzards.
In the snowfields, the history books are being rewritten with the best start to the season in years and more snow on the way thanks to a freezing Antarctic ice storm.
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Why do I describe price rises as “skyrocketing green energy bills”? That is because Australia’s deep green politicians are directly responsible for the energy prices Aussies are experiencing, as they try to stay warm through this Antarctic blast. Green political hostility towards coal and gas development created Australia’s energy shortage problem, by discouraging investment in affordable energy resources, and choking off the supply of bank finance for building and maintenance of coal plants.
The result of this foolishness a shortage of dispatchable energy, and no systemic resilience to deal with heat waves and cold snaps.
The funniest part is, within days of promising “real action” on climate change, the new deep green left wing Albanese government has started begging coal stations to ramp up electricity production, as the full scale of Australia’s energy disaster has become apparent. But coal plant operators know the climate war will be on again, as soon as the current crisis has passed.
Bring back coal NOW: Labor BEGS the energy industry to turn on MORE fossil fuel-powered plants to help ease the soaring cost of bills – just days after declaring they’d take ‘real action on climate change’
- A quarter of Australia’s electricity power supply is offline as east coast shivers
- Labor has now begged industry bosses to fire up all coal-fuelled power stations
- Dramatic u-turn comes just days after promising ‘real action’ on climate change
- Fuel crisis sparked by Ukraine war has upended international climate policies
By KEVIN AIRS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA AND AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 11:36 AEST, 7 June 2022 | UPDATED: 12:35 AEST, 7 June 2022
Labor has begged industry bosses to fire up all their coal-fuelled power stations at full capacity to ease the national energy crisis in a dramatic policy u-turn.
Just days after promising ‘real action on climate change‘, Labor today demanded the nation’s coal power stations are all brought back into service as soon as possible.
At least a quarter of Australia’s coal-fired electricity production is currently offline while the east coast shivers through a freezing winter amid soaring price rises.
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A part of me feels like laughing and saying “you idiots” to my fellow Australians who supported the political green whackery which led to this disaster, and who are now reaping what they sowed. Even when Albanese was in opposition, the threat of the sanctions everyone thought he would impose when he won power, along with hysterical state government opposition to fracking, wrecked our coal and gas power industries.
But jeering at people doesn’t fix anything. Real people are suffering, struggling to afford their heating bills in the midst of soaring inflation and skyrocketing energy prices. Children in under heated houses don’t deserve to suffer because their parents made a mistake.
The important outcome, the only outcome I want to see, is that the lesson is learned, and that the green political stranglehold on our energy policies is broken. But I fear it will take more than a single severe cold snap to overcome decades of relentless green propaganda, aided and abetted by our state funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“Electricity prices will skyrocket”: President Obama, the last green politician to display some honesty about the true cost of renewable energy.
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There you are, Albo is already reversing Global Warming! The man is obviously a genius – Nobel time surely!?
Many people fail to understand the difference between weather and climate. Early in the global climate panic, 30+ years ago, even climate activists took pains to say that short-term weather events — storms, floods, etc. — should NOT be interpreted as climate indicators, because climate is measured in centuries, not days, weeks, or years. That has all fallen by the wayside over the last 20 years for three reasons.
1. Few journalists are climatologists or scientists of any kind. Journalism’s job is to grab eyeballs. The best way to do that is to come up with doomsday scenarios. Facts and complexities be damned. Cherry-picking anecdotes to serve an agenda attracts more attention than tedious explanations, or any admission of uncertainty.
2. Few readers are climatologists or scientists, either. They prefer to chant nonsense like “Believe the science!” or exchange scary tales on the intellectual level of 12 year-olds telling ghost stories at a slumber party.
3. Climate alarmism presents irresistible opportunities for charlatans eager for publicity, and rent-seekers eager to exploit subsidies. AOC, Greta Thunberg, Albert Gore, and Bill McKibben would NEVER be taken seriously, or richly rewarded by a truly educated, dispassionate public.
Poorly educated people whipsawed by passions, and exploited by yellow journalism, have trouble distinguishing between cause & effect, or mere sequence of events. Cold spells in Australia right after a “green” election result, might well be applauded as, “See? Our cool-the-earth policy is working!”
Greens on the Renew Economy website yesterday claimed Rio Tinto believe they can use 100% renewable power to supply aluminium smelters in Australia.
Rio actually said
MELBOURNE, Australia–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Rio Tinto has called for proposals to develop large-scale wind and solar power in Central and Southern Queensland to power its aluminium assets, help meet its climate change ambitions and further encourage renewable development and industry in the region.
Renew Economy changed their Farcebook post now to moderate their ridiculous claim and now pile on to anyone who rubbished their false headline statement.
This is where the debate sits in Australia; absolute ignorant false statements followed by abuse to anyone who corrects their lies.
Not much hope for anything to change under our new left / green federal government.
Tongan Volcano will usher in a very cold winter for southern hamisphere
as predicted
In Chilling Documentary “Don’t Look Down, ” World Ignores Abundant Fossil, Nuclear Fuels Under Their Feet As Everyone Slowly Freezes To Death
It will likely take some mass casualty event caused by replacing reliable energy with unreliables to finally wake up enough people to turn things around. If the pain and suffering could be inflicted only on those pushing this nonsense, I would be all for it. Problem is, a lot of innocents and others who actively fight against the lunacy will be harmed as well. Here in the US, it appears that CA and NY are looking to see who can do the most damage to their state the quickest, and MI seems to be joining the race now also.
Australia has enough coal and gas to last hundreds of years and 1/3 the worlds uranium but the Labor/Greens want to close it all down to save the world from global warming .
Aust. must have the most stupid voters in the world .
Must be the radiation from all that uranium in the cranium.
I used to think Aussies were sort of Texans with a British twist; you know, practical no-nonsense people. But with how they handled (and people there just placidly accepted) the complete suspension of civil liberties for Covid knocked that out of me. Now the Australian people elect a green govt that promises to freeze them to death in the dark. Why? What is going on down there?
This could be labeled immediate results from the election and great leadership of a new administration-except results are really not part of the political plan. It’s style and positioning that counts-not science or reality.
Well, they could import coal.
Poland’s PM pushes for more coal to lower heating costs – ABC News (go.com)
You don’t talk about vulgarities like storage but a capacity mechanism that needs supercharging-
Energy ministers want “supercharged” Integrated System Plan and capacity mechanism | RenewEconomy
as well as hanging their hat on ever more spaghetti and meatballs grid design after trashing the traditional hub and spoke inheritance. You can have ever more spaghetti connecting up all those multiplying meatballs but it doesn’t help if the meatballs aren’t dispatchable. That’s the capacity bit they don’t get or they’re wilfully hiding because it’s the astronomical cost part.
Essentially these renewables freaks are either technically illiterate morons or deliberately lying shucksters or some combination of the three. It doesn’t really matter what combo as their impending train wreck is their unifying signature.
Stupid decisions need to be severely punished, otherwise lessons will not be learned. This is actually the best thing that could happen to Australia.
re: “Cold weather in Australia”
A typical and disingenuous cherry pick. Focus on little short term blips, ignore the obvious long term warming trend. So shamefully biased.
Just taking our cue from the weather catastrophists and don’t forget landowners want their cut to save the planet from the dooming connecting up all the unreliables-
Farmers, renewable energy advocates call for more compensation for hosting transmission lines (msn.com)
Don’t worry about struggletown and if they can weather their power bills as you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette or scrambled eggs or whatever. Those North Shore Sydney Teals know what’s best remember 😉
I don’t have the data at my fingertips but record cold has been reported in Australia repeatedly during their winter seasons …especially during neutral ENSO and La Nina conditions. Why is this news!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t last winter also cold in the Southern Hemisphere?
I do remember stories about cold reaching the Amazon, snow in places that hadn’t seen snow in decades, etc.
Just wait until the AMO enters its 30-year cool cycle from around 2025…
The PDO has already entered its 30-year cool cycle, which explains why there hasn’t been a global war’ it trend in almost 8 years…
CAGW is so screwed…
That explains the urgency more than anything and agenda science knows that.
The southern hemisphere’s 2022 ski season – the first that looks like it might be close to normal since 2019 – has got underway with some huge snowfalls.
Excitement levels are particularly high in Australia where most ski areas opened a week earlier the planned, last weekend after a big pre-season snowfall last week. The snow has now started falling again and several areas have now had more than a metre of snowfall in the past week, making it now one of the snowiest weeks of all time in the country.
Huzzah! Proof that their efforts to fight global warming are effective.
Speaking of cold take note of the current temps in the Arctic. They are the coldest in the entire record for DMI. … http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/meanTarchive/meanT_2022.png
Here is the current DMI look at Arctic temps. … http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/meanTarchive/meanT_2022.png
1958
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/meanTarchive/meanT_1958.png
Flip Flop Albo declares climate capital of the world, then seeks gas reservation policy and then the new ALP energy minister wants to turn coal power stations back on for base load power. You can’t make this stuff up. Step 1 climate capital, Step 2 dude where’s my gas, Step 3 dude where’s my coal.
Don’t you just HATE it? You have an artfully crafted fantasy agenda complete with rainbows, unicorns, and pixie dust, then G@d comes along and punishes the pathetic schmucks who voted for you. Oh well, it’s supposed to hurt when you are stupid, that’s how you learn. Same in our Republic, inflation springs to mind.
Nobody seems to have noticed the “since 1904”. BoM official records start in 1910.
just received letter telling me my new prices.
Current Charge New Charges Difference
controlled load 2 13.713 p kwh 16.181 p kwh 2.468
general usage 18.364 p kwh 21.670 p kwh 3.306
feed in Cr -5.50 p kwh -5.50 p kwh no change
Daily Supply controlled 2.096 per day 2.469 per day 0.373
daily supply solar 6.700 per day 8.526 per day 1.826
daily supply 91.453 per day 107.910 per day 16.457
Even though we have solar panels, we are being charged for suppling power to the grid and being paid a pittance for that supply. We are pensioners so this increase for us is going to be a problem.
I very much would welcome some warming here in Sydney. I am wearing two jumpers, a scarf, I have two heaters on and wrap myself up in a blanket. Now, I am from the UK originally and used to cold winters but I guess I am too used to warmer weather in Australia now.
During the 1990s I took four teenagers skiing every school holidays in July at Thredbo NSW, at that time of the year the resorts were reliant on overnight machinery manufactured snow however around school holiday times in July natural snow did start to fall.
This year there is over one metre of natural snow already fallen and much more forecast.
I am looking forward to my builder son delivering a trailer load of hardwood from city projects, house renovations and extensions this weekend.
It won’t be breezy for Albanese and gang-
‘Climate change cult’ has created ‘so many victims’ (msn.com)
The demonised and condemned coal fired power stations running on sticky tape and string to eke the last revenue out of them will face even more stress in summer heat waves when we experience the highest peak aircon demand on the NEM grid.