Albo’s 2035 Climate Target is Political Grandstanding
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s announcement that his government was committed to cutting CO2 emissions by 62–70 per cent by 2035 has everything to do with political grandstanding, and nothing to do with saving the planet.
It was no coincidence that the announcement was made on the eve of the visit to the United Nations General Assembly, where Mr Albanese announced that Australia would recognise the state of Palestine and hopes to host the next international climate conference in 2026.
This was before jetting off to London for photo ops with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and assorted leaders of other social democratic parties, to address the UK Labour Party Conference where an unpopular British PM is staring down his critics, and to visit King Charles at Balmoral. Not bad for a staunch republican!
Figure It Out
It is significant that in global terms, Australia releases around one per cent of the world’s emissions, which are now running at about 40 billion tonnes per year. The countries with the largest emissions include China, India, the United States, the European Union and Russia, and in most of these, emissions are rising rapidly. China alone produces over 30 per cent of global emissions, and its emissions are rising while Australia’s are falling.
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You would never get these facts from the report of the Climate Change Authority, which Mr Albanese and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen used to justify the further cutbacks in Australian energy use over the next decade.
When Labor came to power in 2022, it set an interim target to reduce greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) by 43 per cent by 2030.
According to the Climate Action Tracker website, Australia will fall far short of reaching its 2030 target, and its emissions will be around 10 per cent higher than the official target.
Sceptical
Even the ABC is sceptical of the government’s latest announcement. One of its journalists wrote recently:
“Annual carbon pollution remains more or less at the level it was in 2022.
“New sources of fugitive emissions (which account for about 20 per cent of the national total) are being approved in the form of new mines and extended gas projects.
“There are ad-hoc policy frameworks in place to manage those emissions, such as the safeguard mechanism, but these are still largely articles of faith, too new to have demonstrated any real performance in cutting pollution.
“Similarly, vehicle emissions look unlikely to fall any time soon in a way that you’d notice in the national carbon account.
“EV sales seem stuck below 10 per cent of new vehicles sold – putting a serious question mark over the Climate Change Authority’s advice to the government last week that half of all cars between now and 2035 need to be emission-free (i.e. electric vehicles).”
New Target, More Spending
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Republished with thanks to News Weekly. Cartoon by Brian Doyle.
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And they claim.that no one’s above the law .As if they don’t know anything We know nothing
etcetera etcetera
Satan the father of all lies , the murderer.
join that to the case of Aeryn Gillern .His mums a American cop and he disappeared from a up market gay sauna and has never been found again There’s a move about it that was aired at Cannes a few years back .They’re trying to bury it .It’s worth seeking and joining dots .
He’s Sir Keir Knight companion of the Bath i believe Meaning intimate of the royals Thats the highest order I think .
He’s in bed with them one could paraphrase.
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a n d the police are not allowed into Buckingham Palace or Windsor Balmoral etc ,not allowed into the grounds just as the Italian police aren’t allowed into Vatican City without permission which can be denied.
Just as in Australia state police aren’t allowed onto university campuses without permission.Only federal can enter.
It’s all done by rule of law .Everything.
when you’re doubtful just read chapter 21 and 22 of the Revelation .
It’s all there .If you just read that and aren’t Greek cleopatra queen of de nile , then that’s all you should need if you know the 10 Commandmdnts .
There is no night. no thirst no hunger
wakey wakey hand off snakey ,” my kingdom is not of this world “
The impossibility of all this seems obvious to many Australians, but very sadly, Albo and Bowen are oblivious to the facts.
and it’s not political grand standing They’ve taken an anti nuclear stance ,which is BS ,because they’re backing AUKUS , and they know slashing carbon and fossil fuels will leave no alternative but to fill Australia with nuclear reactors esp since they’re determined to make everyone totally dependent on electricity for everything .
And it’s about who owns the uranium and who will own the reactors .While they pretend its all about communities chipping in to buy batteries for their rooftop solar panels .Well that’s not going to be of any use in cities for a start .And if they think they will be able to have millions of city dwellers charging their EVs ,for hours each time , without needing tens of millions of outlets they’re bonkers .