Australian opposition finally abandons ‘Net Zero’ Targets
After spending six months wallowing in the pain of indecision, the Liberal Party has done the obvious and only thing they could do and stepped back from Global Weather Control
Party members in nearly every state had been pleading for this.
The polls show it has been a buried goldmine for votes in Australian politics for more than a decade (Tony Abbott won a 90 seat landslide in 2013).
Minor right wing parties were stealing the conservative base out from under their feet.
The Nationals, their partner party, had leapt off the ‘net zero’ Zeppelin while tied with a military-grade kevlar-lead to the Liberals. Shadow Ministers had resigned in protest, and competitors were circling the leaders position.
Could Sussan Ley have left it even another day?
We are scraping the bottom of the barrel of Australian democracy. When asked who would be better to manage the cost-of-living-crisis, last week more than half of Australia voters aged 35 to 49 didn’t say Liberal or Labor. They said “neither“.
In August, eighty three percent of Australians didn’t want the higher emissions targets the Labor Party forced on the country in September. But who could 83 percent of the voters vote for?
So this is democracy working (very slowly), via handicapped carrier pigeons, limping through mud in the darkness.
The Liberals will axe the ‘carbon’ tax, lift the moratorium on nuclear power and drop the emissions program back to whatever most like-minded countries are doing. They might even consider building new coal plants, and are talking of keeping the old plants running for longer. Hallelujah.
Liberals capitulate to Nationals and reignite climate wars
By Phillip Coorey, Australian Financial Review
The Liberal Party has reignited the climate wars by releasing a carbon copy of the Nationals’ energy policy which claims to be able to reduce emissions and energy prices while abandoning all current targets, including net zero emissions, and extending reliance on coal and gas-fired power.
Under the new policy, the Liberals have copied every measure announced by the Nationals. These include abandoning any pursuit of net zero emissions by 2050 or any other date, and pledging to tear up Labor’s 2030 and 2035 emissions reduction targets and replacing them with much lower targets aligned with the average reductions of “like-minded countries”. The Nationals will pin their targets to the OECD average.
The Liberal policy also adopts the Nationals’ plan to abolish all emissions reduction policies, such as the Safeguard Mechanism that applies to the nation’s top industrial emitter, and the New Vehicle Efficiency Scheme designed to force down transport emissions.The Liberals will also lift the moratorium on nuclear power and expand Labor’s Capacity Investment Scheme, a subsidy scheme for renewables, to include coal, gas and nuclear.
Some great news — Axing a ‘carbon’ tax, and a free market for cars
This policy change by the Liberals was ten years too late, and cost the nation untold billions. The good news is that the new National-Liberal policy gets the big things right.
Finally the Coalition says it will abolish all emissions reduction policies, such as the “Safeguard Mechanism” which is a de facto ‘carbon’ tax on our largest companies effectively ratcheting up by more than five percent a year.
They will also abolish the New Vehicle Efficiency Scheme — a way to force farmers, families and tradies to subsidize inner city EVs. Car manufacturers would have to raise the prices of popular ‘fossil fuel’ cars and use the proceeds to subsidize uncompetitive EVs.
If manufacturers don’t sell EV’s they just end up subsidizing Chinese ones.
The new Coalition policy still panders to climate sorcery, but mostly in symbolic ways. They will stick with the Paris Agreement which means turning up to the annual UN COP party and speaking in tongues but not actually doing anything.
This is what most of the world does. Staying in Paris costs very little — the penalties are imaginary, the compliance is voluntary, and half the signatories aren’t meeting any of their targets anyway.
It is a great shame the Liberals don’t have the courage or intellectual wherewithal to lead Australia out of the ‘net zero’ crony-religion. That would be real leadership.
They hope by pandering on the Paris Agreement, that they won’t be called anti-science, or climate ‘deniers’, but it won’t make any difference.
They might as well free themselves of the socialist shackles and make jokes about how the Labor Party think they can stop storms and hold back the tide with bug burgers and bicycles.
That act of bravery and rebellion would win them the youth vote.
The Liberals need to start translating the true meaning of the cheating word games those frightened of the weather use.
Translating Teal-speak:
“Certainty on energy” really means “certainty on subsidies”. This is what parasites do — demand a free meal. Teals talk about ‘certainty’, but in practice they mean locking in subsidies so their billionaire backers don’t lose money.
And “evidence-based policy thinking” apparently means doing whatever the UN bureaucrats and foreign bankers tell them to do. The Teals can’t name evidence that shows carbon dioxide causes a catastrophe, they can only name climate simulations.
But they don’t realize that they don’t know what evidence-based policy thinking even is.
All the Prime Minister has is name-calling
The only thing Anthony Albanese can say is to call the opposition deniers and unbelievers. (It’s all so religious, isn’t it?). The federal Coalition was walking away from climate ‘action’, Albanese said, “because they fundamentally do not believe in the science.”
[Sky News] However, Mr Albanese claimed at a press conference on Thursday that the Liberal Party were climate ‘denialists’ and were ‘lurching to the right’.
“The lesson that the Liberals have learnt from their (election) defeat… is that they need to be more right-wing, more sceptical, more in denial about climate change,” he said. “Australia needs to move on”, resorting to vacuous cliches as a substitute for any actual scientific or economic point.
In other psychological tricks, ‘net zero’ is just “two words”
To make the Liberal revolt over ‘net zero’ sound less important, the ABC and others refer to it as “two words” — as if the Liberals are just getting hung up over a couple of syllables rather than a reassessment of a policy that affects national productivity.
We are in an information war and petty word games are the ammunition the cheating team uses to cover their tracks and distract us from the real issue.
Every time the cheating team is exposed avoiding debate, using namecalling, petty insults and mindless cliches they look like manipulative pettifoggers.
The trick is to make sure the public notice the mind games.
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Editor’s note: The British Reform and Tory parties say they will ditch the lunatic climate idiocy if they win the next election, and now the same is happening down under. If any of these parties gain power and fail to do what they promised here, we may well see civil uprisings, which in my view, would be justified.