OPINION
Rule of thumb: if the climate cultists are whinging, then it can’t be all bad. In fact, it’s usually downright hilarious.
COP28, the latest of the annual climate cult beanos, has delivered the goods in spades. Particularly delicious is that Australia’s ‘Climate Change and Energy Minister’ has been made to look like just the boneheaded fool that he is. As predicted, of course.
The COP28 summit in Dubai has provided marvellous entertainment. It has illustrated the complete fantasy of so much Australian climate policy and debate for the past 20 years.
The big problem for the climate cult is that their demented hysterics end up colliding brutally with reality at these COP circuses. Back in the day, it was the “ratfucking Chinese”, to borrow Kevin Rudd’s choice phrase, who pissed all over the kumbaya singalong. China may be many things, but suicidally determined to wreck their economies to mollify the squalling brats glueing themselves to roads, they are not.
This year, it was OPEC’s turn to stick the reality boot in.
Holding it in one of the main oil-producing regions meant a couple of disagreeable collisions with reality. For the big energy producers just laughed out loud at the idea that they were going to eliminate fossil fuels.
The only people who believe that are climate activists. I don’t even think governments that say it believe it.
I think you underestimate the ideological lunacy of the Albanese government.
Because anyone who thinks – as Boofhead Bowen so often states – that fossil fuels are ‘finished’ is a blithering idiot.
According to the Energy Institute Statistical Review for 2023, fossil fuels provide about 82 per cent of the world’s energy, which is about where it has been for a decade or more.
Try telling that to the idiots in Labor, though.
But right back to the Gillard government years, we in Australia were constantly berated for what laggards we were and how the rest of the world was switching en masse to renewable energy.
In fact, far from the Coalition years costing the nation by delaying necessary change, they gave us another decade to accumulate wealth. Being a late adopter of technology is smart when the technology in fact has not yet been invented. It’s still true that when the Coalition ran on energy policy it won elections.
The rest of the world was not decarbonising. China is responsible for 30 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Sometime next decade its historic emissions will be so great it will be responsible for the lion’s share of historic emissions as well, so the essentially nonsense argument that the West caused the problem and therefore should pay disproportionately for its solution will not apply in any way.
Not that the mendicant tinpot panjandrums of the Pacific will give up trying. This lot of grass-skirted grifters know they can milk gullible Australian and New Zealand governments for a motza, if they put up a good ol’ sing-sing about ‘climate refugees’.
And, while Australia is shooting itself in the head by shutting down its reliable coal-fired generators, China and India are laughing up their sleeves at us.
China uses more coal than all other nations combined. China and India use two-thirds of all the coal used in the world […]
In 2022, increased demand for thermal coal in China, India and Indonesia more than offset the decline in demand in the US, the EU and Japan. So consumption of coal in 2022 hit an all-time high. So, too, did greenhouse gas emissions.
The US Energy Information Administration reports that on all its realistic scenarios, it expects greenhouse gas emissions to rise until 2050 at least.
Meanwhile, the ‘renewables’ scam is buckling under the weight of its massive costs and catastrophic environmental outcomes.
According to one calculation, achieving net zero through renewable energy would require 80 million kilometres of new power lines, or wrapping the Earth 2000 times.
The Economist, a great supporter of net zero and green actions, dolefully reports in its latest issue on the commercial disarray in green energy and finance. The projects are so expensive that they are falling over, in both the US and Europe.
The S&P global green energy index, it reports, has fallen by 32 per cent across the past year while global stockmarkets have risen by 11 per cent.
The Economist doesn’t say it but what those figures represent is that even in rich countries the gobsmacking cost of moving to renewables is such that they are running out of the money to spend on that type of energy.
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Unfortunately, cretinous socialists like Anthony Albanese ‘know’ that governments can never run out of money. After all, Thomas Piketty said so!