Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Greg L; Despite claims of progress, genuine emissions cuts have stalled since 2020.
These six charts tell the story of Australia’s (slow) progress on climate change
By national science and environment reporter Michael Slezak
Mon 9 DecClimate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen recently declared that Australia was “on track” to meet its climate change targets. Shortly after making this announcement, new data challenged that optimism.
As a reminder of what Australia’s targets are — we have pledged to bring emissions 43 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and reach net zero emissions by 2050.
And in the past few weeks the federal government has released four reports on Australia’s greenhouse gas pollution that highlight just how far away we are from meeting those targets.
Also pouring cold water on Mr Bowen’s parade was Matt Kean, chair of the government’s independent Climate Change Authority, who said: “Emissions need to fall faster to reach Australia’s 2030 target.”
…The only really big cuts so far have happened in the land sector — by felling fewer trees, and planting more. (In the jargon of carbon reporting, that’s called Land Use, or more formally Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)).
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Those numbers are actually unreliable. So much so that the government changes its mind about those emissions every single year.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-09/australias-climate-change-policy-problem-in-charts/104689682
Annual revisions to the methodology, government sponsored ABC reporters questioning the narrative. Is it possible the government is just making the emissions cuts numbers up to suit their political narrative?
Surely not, after all they are a group of green politicians who are committed to climate action.
I know how Australia can cut its CO2 emissions – by shutting down the ABC!
They had eight correspondents in the US covering the recent presidential election – eight!
And all doing the same thing – filing hit pieces on Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/BrianBellia/status/1855120588047892843
I used to have respect for Channel 7 but watching the biased Trump take-downs sickened me. Their US reporters were woke enough to held jobs in their ABC.
Leftist reporters are the same the world over. Their main function is not to report the news, but to perpetrate the Leftwing agenda.
I wonder if Australian leftists cried and howled as much over Trump’s election as the leftists in the United States?
The Leftwing News Media is losing its MoJo. They couldn’t keep Trump from being elected even though they tried as hard as they could.
The Leftwing Media in the United States has lost half its viewers. Lots of downsizing going on now. More good news. Fewer leftwing liars on national television.
Sorry, but What The **** is “climate progress” ???????
Climate will change at the rate and in the way it wants to change… naturally.
.. and nothing the UK government, or the Australian government, or any other government, does, will make one iota of difference.
Their policies are making s difference though – making life harder for ordinary people.
Ok… “make any difference to the climate”… I took that as understood… 😉
I know 🙂
In the world of left-wing zealots, anything done with the INTENTION of progress, counts as real progress.
The proposition that any action yet undertaken by any government, much less the Australians, has even slightly affected the global climate is pure fantasy. Only a politician with no understanding of what climate variability entails would make such a claim – out of blind ignorance, one would hope.
They’re just scamming the dumb Miguels-
Miguel bought a car. Then there was a $2000 fee to charge it
You’re stuck with it now dumbo-
‘We’ve seen this before’: Used electric vehicle prices and sales hit rock bottom
He should have said that shutting down parliament and reducing the federal public service by 75% will reach the goal quickly..
Just think of all the trees felled for the benefit of wind turbines..
Nothing has occurred to replace this..
All crock..
“Just think of all the trees felled for the benefit of wind turbines..
Nothing has occurred to replace this..”
Really good point !!
There is no mystery to the discrepancy, government measures progress by how much wind and solar they have built. It has nothing to do with emissions. This huge discrepancy is proof that they are wrong and the longer they hold to their fantasy the bigger liars they must become.
As if Aunty can talk about exaggeration on the taxpayer dime-
Trump secures staggering sum after suing ABC and George Stephanopoulos
Bundle it up with SBS and flog off Pravda and save over a billion a year and we might get a bit for the equipment Bluey and Landline
Wrong ABC