Essay by Eric Worrall
“… Mr Albanese said on Sunday (AEDT) it was “a good thing” and “a very positive sign that the world wants to get on with co-operating” …”
G20 declaration rebuking Trump ‘a good thing’, PM says
Anthony Albanese says a declaration rebuking Donald Trump is “a good thing”.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
November 23, 2025 – 2:22PM…
Despite the White House calling the G20 declaration “shameful”, Mr Albanese said on Sunday (AEDT) it was “a good thing” and “a very positive sign that the world wants to get on with co-operating”.
“It’s about what the world has committed to – the Paris Agreement and to action on climate change,” he told reporters ahead of his departure from Johannesburg.
“Of course, Australia signed up to the Paris Agreement, under Tony Abbott, and signed up to net zero under Scott Morrison, and with Angus Taylor as the energy minister.
“There is overwhelming support for action on climate change.
“People are very conscious of the fact that the increase in extreme weather events, the impact of climate change, is here right now.
“The impact on this continent here in Africa, the impact in the Pacific of course, is something that we’re very conscious of as well.”
Pressed on potential backlash from Washington, Mr Albanese said the declaration was “signed up by all of the countries who are participating here”, highlighting the US’ absence.
“And Australia, as a sovereign state, makes decisions based upon our own national interest,” he said.
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Read more: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/g20-declaration-rebuking-trump-a-good-thing-pm-says/news-story/1e935ff61f5a6c7f80d963a4209714a7
In spite of these expressions of unity and common purpose, nobody seems to be announcing significant new climate ambitions or targets. There was massive delinquency in submitting plans for concrete climate action.
New climate pledges only slightly lower dangerous global warming projections
Photo credit: Karsten Würth on Unsplash
- Under a third of Parties to Paris Agreement submitted new NDCs by 30 September 2025
- Global temperatures now predicted to reach 2.3-2.5°C, down from 2.6-2.8°C last year
- Lack of ambition and action means exceedance of 1.5°C is approaching
Nairobi, 4 November 2025 – A UN Environment Programme (UNEP) assessment of available new climate pledges under the Paris Agreement finds that the predicted global temperature rise over the course of this century has only slightly fallen, leaving the world heading for a serious escalation of climate risks and damages.
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Read more: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/new-climate-pledges-only-slightly-lower-dangerous-global-warming
Other commentators have noted the lack of COP30 progress on agreeing climate finance, or rather closing the “ambition gap”, which is activist speak for making good on all those wild climate finance promises.
UPDATES / PRESS RELEASE – Climate Action Network International
COP30 TAKES A HOPEFUL STEP TOWARDS JUSTICE, BUT DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH
22 November 2025
Climate Action Network International (CAN) welcomes the adoption of the Just Transition mechanism as one of the strongest rights-based outcomes in the history of the UN climate negotiations. At the same time, CAN warns that COP30 has produced weak outcomes in the very areas that are critical to ensuring justice for vulnerable and frontline communities. A dangerously weak outcome on Adaptation finance leaves little hope for impacted communities.
Further adding to this injustice, governments did not deliver a concrete global response plan to address the ambition gap, and only agreed to have further processes to address this gap including on a just, equitable and orderly transition away from fossil fuels – while welcome, we need more than a process. We need implementation that includes finance to urgently address the root cause of the climate crisis.
The real faultline running through COP30 was the refusal of developed countries to agree to the provision of finance across all areas. Their blocking of commitments on Adaptation finance, mitigation ambition, and the transition away from fossil fuels directly weakened the overall outcome. By once again failing to meet their climate-finance obligations – obligations grounded in historical responsibility – developed countries have undermined trust and fairness in the process and limited what this COP could have achieved.
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Read more: https://climatenetwork.org/2025/11/22/cop30-takes-a-hopeful-step-towards-justice-but-does-not-go-far-enough/
Sooo – they are all united in climate ambition, but nobody is moving forward. There are plenty of promises on the table, but nobody is receiving any money.
What are they waiting for? Why do they care so much about the USA’s position on climate change, when leaders like Albanese claim the entire rest of the world is ready to forge ahead with saving the world from climate change?
I think the answer to what they are waiting for is obvious. G20 nations excluding the USA are ready to “get on with co-operating”, just as soon as the USA gives them some money.
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Other people’s money is a basis of socialism.
““… Mr Albanese said on Sunday (AEDT) it was “a good thing” and “a very positive sign that the world wants to get on with co-operating” …””
He mispronounced capitulating.
That’s what it’s all about.
Trough fillers are on vacation ?
😉
“We need implementation that includes finance to urgently address the root cause of the climate crisis.”
The climate crisis is in the head.
The root cause is that propaganda, based on unsound claims, enters the head through media consumption.
Elon Musk purchased Twitter for an amount north of $40B, IIRC, to urgently support free speech using finance.
Now X is available as a platform to address the propaganda.
We’re getting there.
“Aussie PM Leads G20 Rebuke”
Silly spin. The G19 simply affirmed their support for the Paris agreement. They don’t have to change their policy because Trump. Australia supported the communique (which was unaminous among attendees), and Albanese said so. He didn’t lead any rebuke.
Nice try Nick. The press gallery noticed Albanese was talking like he led the rebuke, like he was its strongest supporter, that’s why they asked about whether Albanese was concerned about a potential backlash from Washington. Notice he got cold feet at that point in the conversation.
“The press gallery noticed Albanese was talking like he led the rebuke”
Where? Not in what you quoted. They noted that he supported the G20 declaration (can’t see where they said he “led” it). But it was some Murdoch guy who said it was a rebuke. Not Albo, not even the Press Gallery.
The fact he said anything against Trump was amusing as perhaps he got his balls back. This is the guy who along with Rudd handed Trump there balls and crawled and grovelled at there recent meeting.
“The fact he said anything against Trump”
Not a fact. He didn’t.
Right so you are claiming these statements below are fake news?
So can we hold all media that publish them as lying pieces of trash?
Pressed on potential backlash from Washington, Mr Albanese said the declaration was “signed up by all of the countries who are participating here”, highlighting the US’ absence.
“And Australia, as a sovereign state, makes decisions based upon our own national interest,” he said.
The backlash about statements Albo didn’t make is just brewing so could get interesting in next week.
The statements are simply true and proper.
One minute you are claiming “Albo said nothing” and then next minute “what he said was true and proper” … get your story straight!
“True and Proper” you think Trump is going to care about your true and proper 🙂
Eric, I find it interesting that Nick appears to be as delusional as Albanese.
I get the impression, he is a cheerleader
He said he did it, now punish him as if he did. That piggy will start squealing and denying what he is so proudly claiming toot-quick.
Nick,
What do you suppose Mr Albanese thinks about these guys?
h/t/ Dave Burton
Plot the data, semi log, and compare coal to the sum of geothermal, solar, wind, biomass, waste. The lines cross a little before 2030….
To expand, the 2014-2023 data
Assumes the next percent is as easy as the last percent. The cost/effort might not be linear.
Also – by looking only at coal one can see the trouble with assuming next year will be the same as last year.
Extrapolating large increases from essentially zero baselines usually turns out to be a fool’s errand. Have at it, Bob!
Tell the origjnal charter. I am merely proposing an extension more realistic than what Frank is inferring.
You are proving your mathematical ineptitude.
And your lack of grasp on reality.
I’m not inferring anything about the future, Bob. I’m just pointing out the reality that over the past 25 years or so, China’s central planners appear to have made better energy sourcing decisions than ours.
Facts not in evidence. It’s why one needs to look with a jaundiced eye at regressions into the future.
Coal, heavily taxed and in many places banned.
Renewables, heavily subsidized and in monster place mandated.
What is it about socialists and their belief that government diktats are the equivalent to market forces.
If it crosses, it crosses semi-log or not. I don’t see it crossing if you extend the trend lines out 7 years.
Nick, I have a project for you. Shown in the chart (See below) are plots of temperatures at Gabo Island from 19xx to 19xx, which was obtained from the late John L. Daly’s website: “Still Waiting For Greenhouse”. Note how flat the plots are which shows that the increasing concentration of CO2 in air does not warming of air. This chart falsifies the claim by the IPCC that greenhouse gas CO is a cause of global warming.
I went to the BoM but I could not figure out how to get temperature data for any weather station in Oz. Gabo Island is a remote site so we don’t have to worry about UHI effects.
If we get lucky there should be no warming of air at this site. You could post the results here.
Here is the chart for Cabo Island. The chart starts in1880 and ends in 1993. in
NB: If you click on the chart it will expand and become clear. Click on the “X” in the circle to return to comment text.
A plot ending in 1993 isn’t much use. Here is the BEST plot of raw TAVG anomaly. It isn’t rising as fast as some others in the region, but definitely rising. The trend from beginning is affected by the change in about 1890, which would involve the installation of a Stevenson screen.
https://data.berkeleyearth.org/auto/Stations/TAVG/Figures/151826-TAVG-Raw.pdf
Good job by stokes not taking up the task – Pierce picked a data series optimized for not containing warming features like UHI or airports and ended it before it would have shown a bump up in the late 90’s.
Thank you. The plot shows a slight increase of ca. 0.5° C starting in 2000. The plot ends in ca 2010. Why is an anomaly used fora plot of temperature?
Being 81years old and old fashioned, I really like John Daly’s temperature plots for these are simple and uncluttered.
The reason for anomaly is that otherwise monthly change would be obscured by seasonal variation.
Seasonality variations of absolute temperatures can be simply removed by using a stat package added to excel.
Here is the GISS version. It is annual, so avoids seasonal change, and is in temperature, not anomaly. It goes to more recent times. Again, clearly warming.
Would it be better if the temps had dropped?
Why is all GISS once was data homogenised down in the past ??
Again we see the effect of the 1998 El Nino.. and nothing else. !
No it doesn’t. Seasonality is simply hidden in the average.
You can’t tell if Tmax or Tmin are changing.
You can’t tell if summers or winters are warming/cooling.
This is simple data mining to get a result you want. Why don’t you show the fundamentals used to obtain the average?
Just the mean temperature. Can’t compare to a min, mean, max chart at all.
Highest Temperature Gabo Island BoM, 30 years 1991-20250
https://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/ncc/climateStatGraph.pl?g=A&p0=40.8:38.2&p1=39.1:33.0&p2=38.6:33.6&p3=36.5:36.5&p4=26.6:26.6&p5=22.5:22.5&p6=23.3:23.3&p7=26.7:26.4&p8=34.6:31.2&p9=35.6:35.6&p10=37.2:34.5&p11=38.4:37.0&p12=084016&p13=1991-2020&p14=1&p15=1&c=-882337103212&t=SP&p=D&pStart=null&pEnd=null&pStartComp=null&pEndComp=null
Highest minimum temperature –
https://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/ncc/climateStatGraph.pl?g=A&p0=22.1:21.9&p1=22.8:22.0&p2=22.5:20.8&p3=19.6:19.4&p4=18.3:17.8&p5=16.6:15.4&p6=14.9:14.9&p7=14.5:14.5&p8=18.7:16.3&p9=18.9:18.8&p10=20.2:20.2&p11=20.6:20.4&p12=084016&p13=1991-2020&p14=10&p15=10&c=-882336382459&t=SP&p=D&pStart=null&pEnd=null&pStartComp=null&pEndComp=null
If that is ‘rising’ then I constantly run a fever.
You haven’t answered anything just as climate science doesn’t either.
What is increasing, Tmax or Tmin.
Time series of temperature are auto-correlated. Differences need to be taken to remove it.
Seasonality can result in changing variance which appears to be growth.
An anomalies chart.
Not min, mean, max as what this is supposed to counter.
Thank you. It looks like there is only slight increase in temperature after 2000. Why is an anomaly used for a temperature plot?
I really like John Daly’s plots because they simple and uncluttered.
Albanese is trying to get COP31, which appears to be heading to Germany. They made a pledge 10 years ago and achieved very little. This pledge is more of the same. Silly politicians doing what they do best … being silly.
Albanese is the idiot then.. Deserves a strong rebuke,
The Paris Agreement is a non-entity, and a waste of everybody’s time and money… a soggy paper tiger.
Only the most STUPID of nations, or those hoping for free money, pay any attention to it.
And a few commenters on blogs….
Come on Australia, you are better than this, fire this guy.
He can have my boosters.
I’d love to, sadly the Opposition is in no fit state to win an election. Anyway, being told off by Albo is like being slapped with a wet lettuce leaf.
What a dick. Albo is Stammer Jr. Dragging Oz down the rat hole. You can vote yourself into Communism, but you have to shoot your way out of it. Too bad Ozzies surrendered already.
Bull shit
I was just thinking “mild start to winter” less than an hour ago.
People are very conscious of the fact that alarmist media are blasting 24/7/365 that the increase in extreme weather events, the impact of “climate change,” is here right now.
Kinda sorta improved your statement.
The propaganda slogans are all false flag Orwellian doublespeak. The woke idiocy of justice to virtue signal compliance is a power trip. What they mean by co-operating is co-opting national sovereignty in favor of authoritarian slavery.
And here comes the tariff hammer yet again. Every country and organization signed on that needs a good, solid rectum reaming. AlGore:The Goreacle twice, with a handful of sand.
Trump is wrong to call “Climate Change” a hoax, Albanese is equally wrong to say the G20 outcome is a step in the right direction.
Fossil fuels are not the problem, the amount of fossil fuels used is and growth has increased our use of fossil fuels.
If third world countries are to get to our level or even close, they are going to have to use fossil fuels, that’s how we got to where we are, be that good or bad.
Of course “Climate Change” is a hoax.
Club of Rome: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill… It does not matter if this common enemy is a real one or… one invented for the purpose.”.
From their 1991 report The First Global Revolution.
Others have said similar things – Maurice Strong, Al Gore, Ottmar Edenhofer, Christine Stewart, Tim Wirth, eg.
Link to original book – also download available
So tell us where and how climate change is having a detrimental effect on life on earth. If you actually are able to identify something then please explain how the effect was caused in clear and precise terms.
So tell me where I have stated “climate change is having a detrimental effect on life”?
Can I suggest you read and not dream.
“Fossil fuels are not the problem, the amount of fossil fuels used is…”
Why is it a problem?
More mining, more drilling and if in fact fossil fuels are finite, we’ll run out sooner. I would have thought that was obvious, even to you?
Even to me. How condescending of you. I wanted to know why YOU thought it was a problem.
More mining and more drilling aren’t problems. And if fossil fuels begin to run out, we’ll figure something else out. That’s what we do, we figure things out.
Mining and drilling will need to occur even more for the EV “revolution”. That is much dirtier than oil and gas extraction. It also incentivizes poorer people to do dangerous mining without safeguards.
I understand that when you write “Trump is wrong to call “Climate Change” a hoax you might mean that he is incorrect because climate has always changed so its change can’t be called a hoax. The question should be, what does Trump mean when he says climate change. I notice that you yourself used two capital letters, “Climate Change”, implying a different meaning than simply weather conditions changing naturally over very long times.
How exactly is it a problem? There’s a lot of it about, and we’ll keep finding more while it’s worthwhile.
Trump also called it a scam and a con job as I recall.
Maybe the G20 folks should just boycott/refuse any and all cash from any and all US sources (pubic or private)?
That’ll teach the US!
It’s not just ‘we want money’. It’s worse than that. Much worse. Anthony Albanese is in Xi Jinping’s pocket. He says what China wants him to say. The next federal election will be a loooooong wait. We can only hope that Australia won’t collapse before we get there.
You credit Albanese with being corrupt instead of stupid. He’s a leftist, so by definition he is galactically stupid. That’s why every leftist-run country, state, and city descends into chaos and madness over time and corruption follows. Leftists get elected by a critical mass of stupid people. Or rigged elections.
“People are very conscious of the fact that the increase in extreme weather events, the impact of climate change, is here right now.”
We sure are and we want the climate to change right now bozo-
Sunrise host Nat Barr loses it over $96million government blowout: ‘Can we get some kind of refund?’
Minister for COPout kneesups and greenouts might be having nightmares about pink batts as the usual kneejerk slushfunding creates a veritable gold rush of untried/untested Chinese coal fired spy technology-
“Risk of fire:” Australia’s top-selling home battery brand issues energy controller recall – One Step Off The Grid
Albanese is disingenuous Abbott later regretted signing, Albanese knows that.
Tony Abbott was always dubious about emission reduction targets after all as prime minister he abolished the Climate Commission a government-funded outfit set up by a previous Labor (leftist) government to promote ‘fighting climate change’.
After his Caesar-like betrayal Abbott changed his mind on Paris claiming he was misinformed by advisers viz. that the Paris targets were ‘aspirational’ rather than binding commitments.
For an Oz temperature check, I went to:
https://www.extremeweatherwatch/countries/australia/average-temperature-by-year.
The Tmax and Tmin data from 1901 to 2024 are displayed in a long table. Here is some selected temperature data:
Year—–Tmax—–Tmin—–Tavg Temperatures are °C
2024—–29.7——15.9——22.8
1901—–28.6——14.5——21.6
Incr.—–+1.1——+1.4——+1.2
In 1901 the concentration of CO2 in air was ca. 295 ppmv (0.58 g CO2/cu. m.), and by 2024 it had increased to ca.420 ppmv (0.83 g CO2/cu. m.), a 30% increase from 1901. After 123 years the temperature of the continent has increased by only a small amount. Thus there is no need to reduce the emission of CO2 from the use of fossil fuels, and Premier Anthony A. and the Canberra Climate Cartel should abandon their draconian climate agenda and goal of Net Zero by 2050.
When Albanese claims the world wants to get on with co-operating on taking climate change action, what he really means is that it should continue with its previous fruitless and unnecessary gimmicks that entail new taxes, regulations and mandates. These have proven to achieve almost nothing, but they appear to be good publicity while simply increasing consumers’ living costs.
Albanese is a man seeking a legacy by handing out money to those wanting to pass responsibility of their own nation’s failures to look after their country. Bowen, Albo’s right hand minister of delusion, is of the same ilk. Hero’s with taxpayer money grovelling to the UN for status and global recognition. Similar to New Zealand’s former PM Jacinda Ardern who now has mulitiple positions with climate activist organisations cosying up to the UN elite and left political propagandists.
It is all so transparent it is disgusting.
Albo making it clear that it was the Coalition that signed up to Paris seems to be preparing for a change of direction given Labor generally blames every current failure on them irrespective of how far back they have to go.
“There is overwhelming support for action on climate change.”
Rubbish Albo as not even the shill MSM can ignore the bleeding obvious anymore and they’re calling out the delusion-
The age of the EV is over |Opinion
On top of the fire risk recall for Chinese home batteries you pumped up like pink batts now you’ve got the dreaded asbestos in their wind turbines nobody wants-
Renewables operator Goldwind issues update after asbestos discovered in imported wind turbine parts | Sky News Australia
White asbestos matters!
You get the feeling Albo and Bowen’s inbox is filling up fast just as the Coalition has ditched targets-
AEMO wants 5 years’ warning on coal plant closures to fix “fundamental mismatch” in pace of energy transition
You can’t force coal power stations to stay open when they’re running on sticky tape and string caused by fickles dumping. Well not unless you slushfund them like Eraring you can’t.
Hey, if Oz wants to focus big on solar energy, go for it. You are geographically in one of the best places on Earth for it. Just try not to rely much on Mainland China for it.
Australia really is the Land of Oz.
Back when it was the G7, the group had some relevance.
The G20 is just another meaningless accretion of talking heads.
“There is overwhelming support for action on climate change.”
Translation: Give us the money!
How many wonkers live in Australia or Canada or New Zealand? None of them would be bigger than our biggest state in population. In fact, that is a good idea, they should just vote to become a US protectorate, and subject themselves to our laws rather than their own. It might save them.