OPINION
As the weather warms up, it’s time for Australians and New Zealanders to gird themselves for the annual emergence of the Climate Cult from their long, winter semi-hibernation. By all accounts, this one is going to be a doozy. After a disappointing (for the Cultists) run of mediocre, wet summers, El Nino and his Indian pal, IOD, are going to be getting together and partying like its 1998. Australia is yet again bracing for a periodic long, hot summer.
And it’s going to be hotter than the pampered Millennials glueing themselves to roads have been accustomed to, when the air-con goes off, thanks to renewables-induced blackouts.
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan said the “mad rush to renewables” will cost Australians over the summer amid warnings of blackouts to hit across the country.
Even during last year’s mild, damp summer, parts of the country hovered on the edge of widespread blackouts, thanks to renewables.
Because, as even the Bureau of Meteorology is shuffling its feet and quietly admitting, wind turbines tend not to work when you really need them.
Mr Canavan said we need to “think twice” about renewable energy, as Bureau of Meteorology chief executive Andrew Johnson said the looming El Nino summer will pose a challenge to Australia’s energy grid.
Dr Johnson said due to the “penetration of renewable energy”, lower than average wind forecasts would present a challenge for parts of the country.
By “challenge”, he means that there will be no power on the hottest, stillest days.
“The fact that we have to have these warnings now just shows the dire state of our electricity grid and it raises the question, why, why have we moved our electricity to one that is so dependent on the weather,” Mr Canavan told Sky news today.
“We need something that can be turned on and generate power during these times, wind can’t do it, solar can’t do it, we need to therefore look at coal, gas and yes nuclear too.”
Mr Canavan said he is “old enough to remember when hot dry summers in Australia didn’t coincide with warnings of blackouts.”
The Australian
Same. And when hot dry summers didn’t set loose the squawking flocks of demented Climate Cult budgies. Oh, happy days, they were.
Still, at least if the air con isn’t working, we’ll be able to read books by the light of a roaring fire.
Anthony Albanese said a “real challenge” looms for Australians facing the most brutal bushfire season since the 2019-2020 Black Summer crisis.
The Prime Minister has wrapped up at a press conference in Adelaide and is due to speak at the disaster preparedness summit in Canberra later today.
Mr Albanese said “We have spent billions of dollars on natural disaster support from floods here in South Australia, in Victoria, in New South Wales.”
“We have a real challenge ahead of us with the summer that is coming. That’s why my government is having this summit to bring together different authorities to make sure that we do what we can to prepare,” he said.
They know what they have to do. They’ve been told the same thing, over and over, for nearly 100 years. Ever since the inquiries into disastrous bushfires in the 1930s — when the climate was likely even hotter than now — inquiry after inquiry has sternly warned governments to prepare for the inevitable bushfire season with widespread fuel reduction burns in winter.
And they never do it.
This winter has been no exception.
Queensland and NSW fire and emergency services have spoken out ahead of the bushfire summit set to resume in Canberra today […]
Sydney was covered in a blanket of smoke over parts of the city last week from hazard reduction burns.
[NSW rural services commissioner Rob Rogers] said wet conditions hindered hazard reduction burns in NSW: “We only got 24 per cent of planned activities done.”
They can blame it on the wet weather all they want, but what’s their excuses for every other year, when they’ve failed just as dismally to conduct the burns as prescribed by their own targets?
This comes as The Australian reported that Queensland’s government has done less mitigation burning this year than in the lead-up to the devastating 2019 bushfires that destroyed 49 homes.
Both Queensland and NSW fire and emergency services said they welcome more volunteers ahead of the bushfire season.
The Australian
They’re going to need them.
They just won’t get them.
Because today’s woke generations are too busy glueing themselves to roads or “striking for climate” to do anything actually useful, like get off their arses and join their local brigade.