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Chris Bowen gathered a crowd to discuss the future of energy. Then the future switched itself off.

Australia’s climate catastrophists are always in the dark. And now, quite literally.

In a moment of almost supernatural comic timing, the lights went out at the Australian government’s $150 million Pre-COP climate summit in Fiji.

Climate Summit Goes Dark

The power disappeared for between 10 and 30 minutes, taking the lights and air conditioning with it and leaving thousands of delegates temporarily sitting in the tropical heat.

You could hardly script a better metaphor.

A conference devoted to lecturing the world about energy transformation could not even keep the lights on.

Perhaps every speaker ought to have a spare — call it a back-up — bicycle to pedal, producing electricity while they speak.

At least then the delegates could feel they were personally contributing to the energy transition.

Zali Steggall was reportedly speaking when the lights went out.

So, on the plus side, the audience could at least snooze without being noticed.

When the lights finally came back on, Stegall told journalists:

A power outage is trifling when across the Pacific, people are facing the loss of homes, land, cultures and traditions because of climate impacts they did little to cause. That’s the context we need to focus on.

Er, tell me again why Zali Steggall needed to fly from her office on the North Shore of Sydney to a five-star hotel in Fiji to preach to the choir about the need to cut emissions?

Like I said, she’s always in the dark.

Fiji’s Unplanned Energy Lesson

As for Australia’s Climate Change Minister, Blackout Bowen can’t even get through a renewables conference without a blackout.

Imagine the confidence this inspires in those of us doomed to rely on the national electricity system he is busily designing with our tax dollars.

The great renewable transition has always required Australians to have faith.

Faith that the sun will shine when the solar panels are needed.

Faith that the wind will blow when the turbines are required.

Faith that batteries will be available when neither do.

And, apparently, faith that the lights will come back on when the climate delegates have finished explaining why everything is going exactly according to plan.

If nothing else, Fiji has provided the delegates with an extremely practical demonstration of the importance of reliable electricity.

They just had to turn the lights off to demonstrate it.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Image courtesy of Adobe.