New Authorities Funded Fuel Generator Introduced On The Similar Day As IEA’s Finish Of Fossil Fuels Report – What’s Up With It?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
I don’t know if the timing of the Australian government’s announcement was a conscious nudge aimed at international climate efforts, but it sure made me laugh.
The coalition doesn’t want to focus on climate change – but Australia will be forced to
Greg Jericho
Sun 23 May 2021 6:00 a.m. AEST
The announcement of a new gas-fired power plant when a report calls on the world to cut emissions is in keeping with the climate farce
This week we turned the troubled merry-go-round that represents Australia’s climate policy upside down when the government announced that it would be funding a gas-fired power plant just as an international report described the need for the exact opposite has been.
I wish this was a new development, but it felt like a repetition from late 2018 when the IPCC released a report less than a year before the general election saying we are capping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 could, if nations work together, C above pre-industrial levels.
We needed to have zero net emissions by 2050 and a 45% global emissions reduction by 2030 compared to 2005 if we started immediately.
We didn’t do it.
Australia, led then as now by those who do not profess to be climate change deniers but are able to achieve the most amazing imitation, made attempts to limit emissions.
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The International Energy Agency’s “Net Zero by 2050” roadmap report gave some clear information on what to do in five-year intervals by 2050.
For example, it was found that 60% of new car sales should be electric by 2030 and no internal combustion cars should be sold after 2035.
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So it was oddly in line with the farce of climate policy the coalition chose on the same day the report was released to announce that it would spend $ 600 million on a gas-fired power plant in the Hunter region.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2021/may/22/the-coalition-doesnt-want-to-focus-on-climate-change-but-australia-will-be- forced -to
Australians feel much like everyone else when someone tells us that we are being “forced” to do something by external forces, even if that external force is an important ally. So I don’t share Guardian writer Greg Jericho’s trust that Australia will accept being “forced” to bring the knee to Biden’s climate boost.
The new gas system is a perfect demonstration of why I don’t think greens will win. Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to keep his job. The ruling Australian coalition government urgently needs to consolidate support in the Hunter Valley region in order to retain power. Hunter Valley is an agricultural and mining district.
Given the difficult choice between a perfectly coordinated public overthrow of Biden’s international climate boost or winning a major by-election, Prime Minister Scott Morrison decided to curse President Biden.
The announcement of the gas installation seems to have given the political boost we wanted. Hunter Valley had a by-election this weekend and it looks very much like the National Party candidate will win. The Nationals are the long-term right-wing coalition partners of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Liberals. The vote for Labor, which includes radical green policies, appears to have collapsed.
Ultimately, politicians place more value on saving their own skin than signaling a climate virtue, and have always done so. Selfishness prevails. As long as radical Greens use economically painful means to counter their imaginary climate crisis, this conflict between expediency and signs of virtue will continue to be a hard line for their ambitions.
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