Essay by Eric Worrall
Former nationals leader Barnaby Joyce stirring the greens.
‘Lunatic policy of Net Zero’: Barnaby Joyce puts UN on blast in New England snow rant
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce used a rare Aussie snow event to push his campaign against Australia’s “lunatic policy of net zero”.
Jack Evans @Jackevansreport
August 3, 2025 – 8:04AMNationals MP Barnaby Joyce has used a snow event in his electorate of New England to push his campaign against Australia’s “lunatic policy of net zero”.
Mr Joyce, on Saturday, published a video on social media as thick snow fell on the town of Bendemeer.
“A day like today, I don’t know which one is more ridiculous: [UN Secretary-General] Antonio Guterres talking about global boiling, or [Tim Flannery] – the river’s in flood – saying, it’s not gonna rain anymore,” he said in a video on his Facebook page.
“What’s sad about this really is there’s people in this little village I’m in, Bendemeer, who can’t afford to keep warm because we’ve got this lunatic policy of net zero where apparently we’re going to make it snow even more.”
“We’re not doing anything, all we’re doing is being completely cruel and hurting people.”
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His “Repeal Net Zero” bill, backed by several Coalition rebels, proposes scrapping Australia’s carbon-neutral target by 2050, a goal in line with most other developed nations.
Read more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/lunatic-policy-of-net-zero-barnaby-joyce-puts-un-on-blast-in-new-england-snow-rant/news-story/44bb25cf988ba4b8079eff39dd88b3eb
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Barnaby Joyce’s Facebook video;
Barnaby Joyce disappointed us in 2021, when as leader of the National Party he caved to demands to support the coalition Net Zero policy, going into the failed 2021 federal election campaign;
Since then Joyce has worked hard to redress this lapse of judgement, by organising a farmers revolt against big government and corporations steamrollering their cruel renewable agenda across Australia’s primary agricultural land;
Land owners join forces to protest at compulsory purchase of land for renewable energy transmission linesarmers from Far North Queensland through NSW and into Victoria are forming a single coalition to fight the compulsory purchase of their land for high voltage transmission lines.
Matthew Benns@MatthewBennsJuly 23, 2023 – 6:50PM
Farmers from Far North Queensland through NSW and into Victoria are forming a single coalition to fight the compulsory purchase of their land for high voltage renewable energy transmission lines.
Former deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce united the farmers at a Zoom meeting last week to try and stop the 500 kilovolt cables passing over prime agricultural land including his own at Danglemah near Tamworth.
“All these farmers have to deal with transmission lines going across their land from Queensland to … southern NSW, New England, the Upper Hunter and into Victoria,” Mr Joyce said. “But none of them were talking to each other.”
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Read more: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/land-owners-join-forces-to-protest-at-compulsory-purchase-of-land-for-renewable-energy-transmission-lines/news-story/2869f7572d7fb6856bd953cec580c9e8
I’ve got to say I agree with Barnaby Joyce. Wasn’t snow supposed to end years ago? Weren’t all the snow field entrepreneurs already supposed to be bankrupt?
There is quite a lot of snow – heaviest snowfall in 40 years, according to some sources;
Australian towns blanketed by heaviest snowfall in decades
A cold air front brought snow to parts of Queensland for the first time in 10 years
Peter Hobson
Monday 04 August 2025 08:31 BSTSeveral towns in Australia’s east have experienced their heaviest snowfall in decades, causing floods, stranding vehicles and cutting power to thousands of homes.
A cold air front dropped as much as 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
Snow also settled in areas of the neighbouring state of Queensland for the first time in 10 years, she said.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/snow-in-australia-weather-nsw-b2801367.html
Barnaby’s point that renewable energy poverty, unaffordable home heating is causing far greater hardship than any problems caused by global warming is spot on. Expensive climate virtue does not help low income people shivering in cold weather which wasn’t supposed to happen.
Alarmists are quick to jump on every heatwave, claiming every bead of sweat as a sign of the end times, but they have no explanation for why this alleged global boiling has failed to stop the snow, other than to shamelessly claim global warming causes MORE snow, whenever they are embarrassed by an excess of the white stuff.
Global warming even sometimes causes heavy snowfall in July – in Europe. From a week ago;
Let’s not forget North America and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. From 2018;
Perhaps the truth is, global warming just isn’t a big deal, in the context of far larger natural seasonal and annual temperature variation. And global warming is far less of an issue than being unable to afford home heating, because renewables drove up your electricity bill.
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The old bossys need to be put out to pasture .
😉
How do they say “freeze your balls off” down under?
Probably the same way!
Chilly Dog with Chilly Nutz?
The 2021 St Valentines Day storm in Texas
was not all that long ago.
He tends to get a chilly reception wherever he goes…did Edward Snowden show up?
Dont you mean Julian Assange
No, I thought things were Snowed-in
I think the great profit Al Gore may be visiting…
So Oz has now become
“the land of doubt and flooding rains”?
Barnaby is one of the few sane, realistic politicians in Australia.
It will be ignored by the Climate Syndicate.
After all, it’s just snow. The earth is still burning up.
Like debating with a brick wall.
We don’t have a climate problem, we don’t have an energy problem we have a government problem. Force the government to stop screwing with climate and energy, we will all be better off.
When the Eastern Seaboard of Australia gets a lot of snow, we on the other side of ‘The Ditch’ (the Tasman Sea) miss out. Only the lower part of the South Island of New Zealand has had regular snow this winter. In central New Zealand, the top of the South-bottom of the North, we are well below the long term means for mountain snowfalls (it is very rare for snow to settle below 100m/300ft a.s.l. here). Locally the long-term mean is 14 falls per annum over the past 50 years (my own records). Today (Aug 6th) is mid-winter’s day and there have only been 4 ‘mountain’ snowfalls so far. By ‘mountains’ I don’t include the strato-volcanos across the central North Island that are much higher than the spinal mountain ranges that average between 1,500 and 1,700m in altitude. Often, but not always, this occurs during El Niňo Neutral winters. Somehow the standard patterns are shifted eastward with the strong Antarctic driven, southerly flows pushing up over eastern Oz rather than over NZ.
Here ya go:
The Prediction, September 5, 2012
“End of Australian snow’ by 2020.
From GriffthNews, quote: “Griffith’s Associate Professor Catherine Pickering has researched the effects of declining snow cover and hotter summers on the Australian Alps. […] ‘We’ve predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60% of the snow cover of the Australian Alps,’ she said. […] ‘In a few years the amount of water that ski resorts will need to make snow is going to exceed the amount of water that’s used by Canberra. And it looks like we are heading back towards dry conditions, so where will they get the water?'”.
The Reality, August 3, 2025
“HEAVY SNOW IN AUSTRALIAN SKI RESORTS 3RD AUGUST 2025
LAST MODIFIED ON AUGUST 5TH, 2025
Resorts in Australia are enjoying the fresh snow and there have been further falls in South America.
Parts of New South Wales saw their heaviest snow in decades over the weekend.
Areas in the north of the state saw 40cm of snow – the most since the mid-1980s according to Australia’s weather bureau.
Officials said around 200 vehicles were stranded as roads became impassable in places.
The ski resort of Perisher in New South Wales now has all of its terrain open.”
They can’t help themselves, their models say the world is burning up.
I have a new catastrophe for the climate cult as there next disaster … I am looking at you Nick Stokes.
It started with a funny question on a physics forum will the earth ever run out of oxygen. Lots of us had a crack at at but some really did there homework. Scott Stoll took it to the next level
https://scottstoll.com/how-long-before-the-earth-runs-out-of-oxygen/
So the answer is as low as 272 years the median answer is around 200 years.
This is on a whole other scale than the usually quoted millions of years from current earth sciences.
So now NASA has joined in the calculation and there answer is about 10,000 years
https://www.voxnews.al/english/lifestyle/shkenca-ngre-alarmin-tokes-po-i-mbaron-oksigjeni-me-shpejt-nga-sa-mend-i97288
So there you go if climate change doesn’t get you then you will run out of oxygen and die …. so we are all doomed.
Story Tip ?
Just saw something on X indicating the net zero scam might be about to explode in the ALP’s face
https://x.com/qbccintegrity/status/1952631632525205563
Yuck, definitely one to keep an eye on.
But a chief climate ‘expert’ of the Bureau of Meteorology said SE Australia was in a permanent drought. An old slide of mine to show that the ‘climate expert’ knew nothing of past climate cycles, or, going further, ocean oscillations.
According to the global warming alarmist, BoM, it has been a cooler than average 3 months over most of Australia.
Alarmists who claim global warming causes more snow ought to be taken away in straitjackets by men in white coats.
This can’t be true. Australia has no seasons or weather. Their solar panels have maximum output every day of the year. /s
Likewise California is having a very mild summer, with only one day over 100F in July … very mild. Yet the East coast is complaining of excess heat.
Its almost as if there is a warm/cool wave which passes around the Earth longitudinally.
Yep, it’s been a mild, pleasant even, summer up here in the north Mojave Desert. Prediction for the next 7 days are highs of 107 (42C), that’s June temps.
Weren’t we promised an unseasonably MILD winter in Australia this year? It has been the coldest winter for quite a while. There are still a few weeks to go in winter this year, so the weather gods will have to put on quite a heat wave to compensate for those many very cold days. To get those averages up, we will need a string of 26 degree days in Sydney.
Sounds rather nice.