If you were to believe the mainstream media and the green-left… well, more fool you. But if you’re fool enough to do so, you’ll almost certainly believe in the imminent demise of coal. After all, renewables are cheap and plentiful and more than enough to power us into a clean, green future.
Sure, and I’ve got shares in the Sydney Harbour Bridge to sell you.
Of course, the Australian left-media also firmly believe that everything in our power must be done to stop the Adani corporation from developing a gargantuan coal-mine in the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland. To mine 10 million-tonnes per year of that coal that no one supposedly wants any more.
Why don’t I throw in an option to buy the Sydney Opera House, while we’re at it?
Meanwhile, the real world continues to thumb its nose at the delusions of the green-left echo-chamber.
Australian thermal coal exports had defied China’s export bans to “deliver an additional $6bn in annual export earnings”. The result not only defied the Chinese but also the tens of thousands of words written by Australian journalists in the past year forecasting the imminent collapse of thermal coal exports […] China’s share of our total exports is actually growing.
Not that the latter is anything to exactly crow about. We should be concentrating on shrugging off the Chinese shackles, not fastening on new ones. That export growth especially came from two-faced iron exporters, who blither about “ending slavery” with one tongue, while the other remains firmly stuck up the rear end of a genocidal, slave-owning dictatorship.
Nonetheless, the facts once again give the lie to the conventional wisdom – not just from the left, sadly, but from plenty of gutless Quislings in the business class – that China would bring Australia to its economic knees and we’d better apologise to the Chinese Communist Party, quick-smart.
You won’t read about supreme leader for life Xi Jinping’s failure to bring us to our knees in the Global Times, which in April described Australia as chewing gum under China’s boot. Neither will you hear about coal’s resurgence in much of the media here. Many journalists swallowed green propaganda that mistook slowing sales and prices in a pandemic-induced global slowdown for the beginning of the end for Old King Coal. Thermal and coking coal remain Australia’s second biggest export earner after iron ore.
Much of the media underplayed another terrific energy story in the past fortnight: the collapse of the power system in Texas in a cold snap during which wind turbines froze and people found out years of warnings in the “Murdoch Media” about the unreliability of wind and solar power were not “fake news” after all[…]
It was the winter equivalent of blackouts that hit California during last northern summer’s bushfire season.
That’s nothing. Five years later, and the legacy media are still lying through their teeth about the South Australian state-wide blackout, caused by a sudden failure of its much-vaunted wind power.
Like clockwork, Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton chimed in last Tuesday suggesting five of Australia’s remaining 16 coal-fired power plants could be unviable by 2025. The amount of renewable energy about to come on to the market had been underestimated, he wrote[…]
The Guardian said renewable energy would power between 40 and 50 per cent of the market by 2025, forcing reductions in coal and gas generation by 28 and 78 per cent respectively in seven years. The Australian Energy Market Operator warned loudly last year that all this was making the grid unstable. Texas here we come.
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This is utopian nonsense, of course. In any case, whatever gains renewables are making are the completely contrived artifice of idiotic government policies. But the market is not the only thing that climate-deranged governments are bending to breaking-point. As South Australia and Texas have so brutally shown, even a small penetration by unreliable renewables puts delicately-balanced grids on the knife-edge of cascading failure.
When even AEMO, run as it is by climate alarmists, is sounding warnings about grid reliability, the jig really is up.
Meanwhile, the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters are laughing up their sleeves at the climate-deranged West. Just the annual increase in India and China’s emissions dwarf Australia’s total emissions. The EU – Germany especially – loves to pontificate about its renewable virtue, but it’s all smoke (literally) and mirrors. The EU passes off burning wood – perhaps the oldest, dirtiest and least-efficient energy sources known – as “renewables”.
And it’s still falling short of its solemn promises on emissions reductions.
The whole “climate emergency” circus is a scam on a global scale and the legacy media are its bumbling, ignorant clowns.
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