Salvation lies with Trump
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27 April 2024
9:00 AM
Most Australian politicians, with notable exceptions, treat as infallible the discredited theory of anthropogenic global boiling. Yet few, if any, significantly curb their enormous CO2 footprints. A good number probably doubt the theory.
The situation in the mainstream media is similar, mainly ignoring, for example, the latest powerful exposé, Climate: The Movie, available on demand on ADH TV.
This follows Australia’s best-known geologist, Professor Ian Plimer, who has long pointed out that when all six great ice ages started, there was significantly more CO2 in the air than now. How then could the ice ages have occurred?
Nevertheless, both Labor and the Coalition are committed to unachievable net-zero emissions by 2050, with the ALP committed to a reduction of 43 per cent by 2030 and the Liberal and National parties 26 to 28 per cent.
The Coalition’s reluctance to challenge the theory openly is understandable politically. During the last quarter of a century, the most fashion-prone and richest formerly blue-ribbon electorates have become the nation’s silliest.
(Without my consent, I have been redistributed into one.)
A solid majority in most of those seats endorsed both the worst politicians’ republic ever seriously proposed for an established democracy and putting apartheid into the constitution in the form of the Voice, as well as electing the ultra-climate-catastrophist Teals.
Their only excuse would be if they were targeted for large numbers of fake enrolments in what can sadly be described as the ‘High Court blunder’. This is in the week before the closing of the rolls when the Court invalidated John Howard’s legislation closing off the possibility of fraud.
The Coalition’s ambivalence on global boiling will probably change when they finally adopt the One Nation/UAP/Libertarian position.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has shown himself to be a man of strong principle both over the apartheid Voice and Labor’s tolerance of anti-Semitism. He cannot of course take on everything. Understandably, he is avoiding the issue of climate change by concentrating on reversing the ridiculous ban on nuclear power.
The problem is, if he is too precise on the places for nuclear power stations and not insistent that location is for decision by state governments and especially by the people concerned, Labor will, with media indulgence, launch the mother of all election scare campaigns.
In the meantime, coal-fired power stations along the east coast are closing without governments ensuring the necessary back-up to so-called ‘renewables’, whenever the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
Gas is not available at a reasonable and stable price there because the only politician in the nation courageous and wise enough to insist on a reservation of gas for the domestic market, was former Western Australian Labor premier, Alan Carpenter.
Under this, 15 per cent of WA gas is reserved for the domestic market at significantly lower prices.
A relevant question is that, as our politicians force the closure of our cheap, coal-fired power stations, what are other countries doing?
In a recent ADH TV programme, I took the liberty of showing a superb map on world coal production from the journal News Weekly. (I was once reported in Crikey after being seen reading this on the shuttle to Canberra.)
The map shows the top twelve countries that use coal to produce electricity. They probably chose twelve to accomodate one very small user, Australia.
In percentages of world electricity, the map shows that 41 comes from coal and peat, 22 from gas, 16 from hydro (not much use to Australia for future development since Labor has since Bob Hawke long banned dams), 12 from the government’s bête noire, nuclear, 5 from oil, and despite the subsidies, 2 from wind and 0.3 from solar.
Now you would think from the way Mr Bowen is carrying on, that coal is on the way out across the world. Not so.
An accompanying graph reveals that while net-coal usage did go down between 2005 and 2016, since then it has been rising and rising significantly.
Accordingly, even if the global boiling theory is true, it would be foolish to burden Australians by closing down our coal-fired power stations.
Worse, it would be stupid to allow them, unlike Germany’s, to be destroyed or decommissioned.
Even worse, it would be unforgivable to seize vast amounts of the best farming land in Australia to place solar panels and bird-destroying wind farms all of a very limited shelf life and impossible to safely dispose of.
Only a government of fools or charlatans, or both, would do that.
The map shows Australia uses coal to produce the lowest amount of the twelve, a mere 22K megawatts. And notwithstanding EU criticism of Australia, Germany’s production is almost twice ours.
The third-largest, almost ten times ours, is the United States, notwithstanding Mr Biden’s constant references to fighting climate change. With well over 200,000 MW, and growing, India is second.
Despite the usual protesters’ silence, communist China leads the world at 1.14 million MW, accounting for 53 per cent of the world’s operating coal-fired power stations.
Over the past eight years, the communists have built the equivalent of two coal-fired power stations each week, building six times as many plants as all other countries combined and with more planned.
With the Albanese government restricting ‘renewables’ to technologies where communist China dominates, closing coal-fired power stations and not planning to stop the export of our high-quality coal to China, it is clear Labor believes that only coal burnt in Australia causes a problem with the climate.
Little wonder the bolshevik billionaires who run China are laughing all the way to the bank.
On all this, Hans Christian Andersen’s tale about the vain emperor is more than relevant. Fraudsters successfully tricked him into believing they could make magnificent clothes for him that only fools could not see.Everyone went along with this until, during a parade, a child asked why the emperor was wearing no clothes.
It won’t be a child who exposes the global boiling fantasy. Provided he returns to the White House, as seems likely, it will be Donald Trump.
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