By Jo Nova
For your sake, the Australian government took at least $440 of yours this year and spent it on electrical hobgoblins that claim to make nicer weather in a hundred years. That’s $1,800 for each family of four, in order to reduce world temperatures by nothing in our lifetimes.
How many families would willingly give up that kind of money on the witchdoctor weather quest?
The IPA has done what the Labor Government is too dishonest to do, and the Opposition was too scared to do. Adam Creighton added up the bonzana the government has spent on climate change since 2022 — and it’s exploded like a tanker of polyurethane-policy-filler. It sticks to everything, can’t be removed and if we burn it down, it fills the room with cyanide.
Back in 2021 the nation was throwing $1.7 billion dollars a year on certified weather voodoo. But after Labor won in 2022 that figure ballooned until now the federal budget spending on “climate change” and ‘Net Zero’ has expanded to $9 billion. But this is barely the start of the true cost Australians have paid — The transition bonfire added about $150 to most electricity bills in Australia this year. For some Australians electricity has risen by as much as 50% since the Labor government was elected. Then there’s another $3b in electricity rebates each year to hide the true cost of the electricity horror show. Someone has to pay those rebates, and since it’s borrowed money, that’ll be the kids. Then there are the businesses that folded, the jobs that were lost, the factories that moved away, and the higher cost of frozen everything in supermarkets.
How did we go broke — gradually then suddenly.
Climate change spend surges to $9bn a year
By Matthew Cranston, The Australian
“The array of ‘programs’ and ‘funds’ related to climate change and net zero, which are typically piled on top of one another, year after year, has become ridiculous and almost impossible to track. It raises serious questions about how effectively and efficiently public funds are being spent,” Mr Creighton said. “Despite all this soaring spending on net zero, Australia’s emissions have fallen only 2.8 per cent on the government’s own figures compared to 2005, once you exclude creative accounting with trees.”
What do we call it when the government commands the economy — communism?
The construction of electricity generation and distribution, which is dominated by renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, has now reached a record share of total engineering construction.
Westpac economist Pat Bustamante said that since 2020, work done on renewables had grown by 250 per cent from around $2bn a quarter to around $7bn, “with a significant portion of this growth driven by the public sector”.
It’s a scandal that the Labor Government doesn’t come clean with a single figure cost for climate spending
Australian voters had no idea how much of their money is being squandered turning our power stations into fake weather control machines.
It’s another scandal that the ABC never demands to know the answer. Isn’t that exactly what we pay them for — to ask the hard questions? What did we get for $500 each —as it happens, more emissions.
It would take a PhD to estimate what the real cost is, but 100% of our academics are too busy trying to scare more funds out of the public to add up something we actually need to know. As a bucket estimate, $9 billion in public spending plus $3b in electricity rebates equals $12 billion annually. That’s $440 for every man, woman and child, and by the time we add in extra electricity costs the figure would easily be $500 to $600 each. It’s a level of spending that only 2% of Australians say they are happy to pay.
At no point did they ask you if you would rather keep the money yourself. That’s because they know Australians don’t want the Carbon Sky Whale.
Who do the politicians, the ABC and the Academics serve? The Chinese Communist Party?
Given the last election result and the poor quality of the Opposition I refer to Argentina and wonder how much worse it needs to get here before it can get better.
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It could even get even worse than Argentina did before Javier Milei.
At least we haven’t (yet) needed to start eating the zoo animals like they did in another resource rich country, Venezuela.
Like Australia, both Venezuela and pre-Milei Argentina are victims of socialist governments.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/17/thieves-stealing-venezuela-zoo-animals-to-eat-them-say-police
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The weather this year in sunny Radelaid has been wonderful so I for one think that $440 is money well spent.
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Perhaps correlation is not causation after all.
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Sorry I forget the virtual men’s shed participants here cant recognise a joke when they see one, congratulations to 3 of you for passing the IQ test LOL
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I was just thinking about all the politicians we have wasting our taxes and it occurred to me how many of them will always mention ” and we have to get emissions down ” or some closely associated phrase when being asked about climate change, energy generation or why we are wasting trillions of dollars and achieving nothing after demonising CO2 and fossil fuels and going full tilt on the unreliables train wreck. This started way before Liebor came along to really pour money into a totally pointless exercise.
I cannot think of one present politician that has actually stood in front of a camera and stated that AGW is a scam and that emissions reduction is nonsense. Not one politician of recent times has said that we should build some more coal fired energy generators, backed up by gas peaking and thereby produce cheap, reliable energy. The LNP, after a recent thrashing, have said that they will remove the nuclear moratorium if elected..nothing about abandoning the unreliables boondoogle and getting back to coal/gas as the logical solution to this madness.
So…why will not one politician that I can think of state the obvious ? Matt Canavan and Barnaby Joyce come close to letting the cat out of the bag, but the rest of them are so vote captured that they seemingly cannot bring themselves to tell the truth.
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Look at the current situation in Victoria where the Liberals are trying to lose an unwindable election by paying the debts run up by their current “leader” in fighting a losing battle with some member who said the right thing.
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Jeff Kennett wants the Liberal Party to pay Pesutto’s bills. The problem is that Pesutto was given numerous opportunities to withdraw his lies and he kept on repeating them. It’s never nice to see someone go bankrupt but to what extent should stupidity be rewarded?
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I read that Liberal rules are that party money can’t be used for personal purposes.
Kennett has backed the wrong horse in Pesutto and I have lost any respect I had for him.
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You have taken the words right out of my mouth. I had a lot of respect for Kennett but I now feel nothing but disgust at the sight of him.
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And he is a Bachelor of Laws
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I cannot think of one present politician that has actually stood in front of a camera and stated that AGW is a scam and that emissions reduction is nonsense. Not one politician of recent times has said that we should build some more coal fired energy generators, backed up by gas peaking and thereby produce cheap, reliable energy.
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I agree that there are a few standouts that have called out Net Zero for what it is. Far too few though. It’s a pity that so many of our politicians lack the cojones to do so.
The “conservative” liberal party is nothing short of a rabble at the moment.
They didn’t deserve to win the election, neither did the Labor party though.
The obsession with Net Zero will destroy our once reliable and cheap electricity grid, destroy businesses, and hinder our future prosperity.
The voters still insist on voting for either Labor/Liberal – aka the uniparty.
They want a different outcome but refuse to change who they vote for.
Utter madness.
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Around two thirds of voters didn’t give a first preference to Labor or the Coalition.
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Labor gained only eight seats on primary votes.
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Malcolm Roberts and Matt Canavan have.
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Malcome Roberts has said in the senate that CAGW is a scam.
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$12bill!! That’s an awful lot of money laundering.
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Our electricity cost per hour (residential, night rate, and service charge) in regional Qld since 30 June 2022 has increased by exactly 47.5%. This has been somewhat hidden by various rebates and subsidies for old farts.
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You mean there’s no subsidies for young farts ?
How unfair …
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This is only direct visible costs.
The high cost of electricity (and gas) is built into just about everything giving a massive true inflation rate and much higher costs contributing to the climate scam and those who profit from it.
No one I know believes the official inflation rate of 2.4% which is highly manipulated to keep it low. Ask anyone who actually does their own shopping, especially in the supermarket, and most people agree Australia’s true inflation rate is more like 25-30%. I frequently ask housewives this question and that is a typical amount they state.
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David:
Also the supermarkets do change prices as against electricity costs, employee salaries, rent costs?, insurance costs etc. but also manipulate some prices. e.g. two days ago I was in a supermarket where I hadn’t been for over a year – a somewhat upmarket area and no close competitor – glad I didn’t rely on them. Idly I glances at 2Litre orange juice listed as a reduction to $8.46. A few weeks ago I know Coles had the same (2Litre) brand at $8. My 2 closest supermarkets have had the same brand at $6.49 or $6.50 for all that time.
I wonder how many items go up and down in price SAVE! SAVE! but the profit margin remains the same.
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“Who do the politicians, the ABC and the Academics serve? The Chinese Communist Party?”
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck – it probably IS a duck.
As we all know.
Draw your own conclusions about politicians, their ABC, and academe …
Auto – suggesting that the $440 -as a minimum figure – gets pushed …
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Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism Paperback – 30 November 2024
by Trevor Loudon (Author)
New Zealand author Trevor Loudon has conducted a deep dive into the communist affiliations of the current Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese. In Comrade Prime Minister, Trevor Loudon meticulously excavates Albanese’s previously-hidden forty year alliance with the tiny – but extremely influential – Australian revolutionary movement.
From his involvement in militant student activism during his time at the University of Sydney, to his current choice of personnel and policy direction, Prime Minister Albanese consistently follows the “line” of the former Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and its even more dangerous successor, the Sydney-based SEARCH Foundation.
Albanese has been propelled to prominence by influential Australians whose true allegiance belongs to Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, not Australia.
Trevor Loudon’s Comrade Prime Minister – backed by 46 pages of references and direct communist and socialist sources – exposes the true Anthony Albanese. Throughout his decades-long career, many of the Prime Minister’s closest comrades have worked in the interests of Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and various “Third World” revolutionary movements and regimes.
Does Prime Minister Albanese really have Australia’s best interests at heart?
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Albo started at the bottom & is busy working his & Australia’s way down to the lowest levels yet seen.
All this for an ideology that even the USSR walked away from!
The future is looking very grim indeed for one in particular.
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Oh, did you know he was raised in a housing commission flat (apartment)? LoL.
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Yes David, I did hear that and by a single Mum too ! WoW
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And the tenants providing the accommodation were his mother’s parents.
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Someone who has made bludging off others a very satisfactory and rewarding lifestyle!
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And with due regard for Uluru Statement to be implemented in full stated by Prime Minister Albanese, the committee members and fellow travellers history spans back to 1960s university activist student periods and Communist Party of Australia mentors who introduced the activists here to the US Black Panther movement.
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Jo’s question ends with “The Chinese Communist Party?” It should not end with a question mark. It should simply be the answer to the first question. Everything that Albanese and his coterie of incompetents do definitely undermines Australia while increasing Chinese profits. Judging by his attitude to Australian defence he is openly treacherous. I was a soldier for 28 years but while critical of many government defence policies I never felt that they were setting me up for failure. Albanese is hanging our defence personnel out to dry and making Australia an easy target for whomever wants us. His best friend is China while our greatest threat is also China. Albanese cannot be trusted.
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Well, it’s possible he serves the UN, the WEF, or the Bankers. I mean, there are other options as well. Hence the question mark. But since the CCP control the UN, and the bankers want access to China, it all becomes a bit redundant doesn’t it?
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Developmental psychologist reveals how schools are causing climate anxiety in kids as young as five
A leading developmental psychologist has revealed how education about climate change has become a major driver of rising rates of anxiety in kids, with children as young as five being inundated with “emotive” messages that leave many terrified.
A new report by educational and developmental psychologist Clare Rowe claims alarmist content in Australia’s National Curriculum is causing an “epidemic of climate anxiety”, with primary-school-aged kids being bombarded with “emotive” messages about climate change that are not developmentally appropriate.
Ms Rowe said mental health experts like her were seeing increasing numbers of children “gripped by fear” about climate change.
“I have had seven, eight, and nine-year-olds in tears in my office because they do not think they’re going to make it to adulthood. They think the older generations have failed them, the government’s not listening, and no one cares about them,” she said.
“We went and looked at the curriculum in detail. And the fact is, sustainability – aka climate – is what they call a cross-curriculum priority. It’s got to be embedded in every single subject from five years old,” Ms Rowe said.
“So in music, they’re writing rap songs about climate. In English, they’re writing poetry about climate change. It’s mandated, so teachers have to teach it across the curriculum.
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What is being done to young children by the climate fanatics is not just wrong. It is evil, and the same thing is happening in other countries too.
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Australia’s demand for cheap clothing, cars leaves huge polluters China, India off the hook in emissions targets as they speed ahead in coal power plant production
Australia and the West’s addiction for cheap imports leaves nations like India and China off the hook in the race to net zero, writes Robert Weir – SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator
The net zero emissions targets paradox of western democracies to that of two of the world’s largest economies, India and China, has never been clearer as we have experienced some of the highest energy price hikes – while China and India pursue higher GDP’s per year.
Australian gas prices have gone up 34 per cent and electricity up 32 per cent since Albanese took office and there is an expected price hike of around nine per cent for some Australian households to come.
Back in 2007, Kevin Rudd declared that climate change is our “great moral challenge”, and although it is definitely one of humanity’s moral issues, energy policies that are put forward around the world are shrouded in hypocrisy and an uneven playing field.
Australia has the third largest reserves of coal in the world and is the second largest exporter of coal and natural gas, exporting to many of our Asian neighbours.
Yet, Australia, like many European countries, are paying the highest electricity prices in the world.
According to a Statista report: “China has the highest installed capacity of coal power plants in the world. As of July 2024, it operated coal plants with a combined capacity of 1,147.23 gigawatts. This is more than five times the operational capacity of coal plants in the United States”.
As of 2024, India has the second highest coal power output with just over 293 gigawatts.
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This is a huge issue across the developed world.
We have evolved into a ‘planned obsolescence’ and economy, where nothing lasts anymore and are transitioning to a ‘subscription’ economy where nothing can run without regularly purchased software updates. Cars, clothes, household appliances, etc. are now short-term assets that quickly lose their value and need to be thrown away or ‘upgraded’ every couple of years. The days of ‘stuff’ that actually lasts for decades is largely gone, the ‘fixing things’ industries have largely disappeared. Now we just chuck the TV in the bin every few years and get a new one with a bigger screen, nobody darns clothes anymore or gets shoes resoled rather than buying new ones, we buy a new car every 3-5 years rather than driving it until it dies, or buy a ‘smart’ ‘internet of things’ linked refrigerator or a new ‘eco friendly’ washer/dryer rather than keeping the old analog/mechanical ones that are 30 years old and still do the job just as well if not better.
Buying all of that new ‘stuff’ every few years keeps the economy humming and greenwashed corporate profits rising, but it also keeps the landfills overflowing with a bunch of crap and makes it difficult to save for a rainy day and drives fix-it professionals (like cobblers and TV repair men) out of a job. IMO, that is a far bigger economic and environmental issue than the ‘climate apocalypse’.
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[Let’s forget for a moment we’re in the month of June] But all those $BILLION$ must be working hard because your BoM is prophesying ‘widespread frost’ today then from tomorrow until Wednesday (and beyond?) a very high chance of snow showers & sub-zero temperatures for VIC/NSW alpine areas.
Money well-spent, no? Who needs to wait a hundred years for a reprieve from scorching heat and wildfires when you can rely on June to come around – then you can crank-up your home-heating equipment (if it works at all) or fly north or overseas.
The last one leaving Australia won’t have to turn the lights off – they flickered and failed long ago. /s
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Like -5.8C here at 0742? Citrus trees are in trouble.
Thank goodness for wood stoves! Better stock up on candles and hurricane lamps.
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Thanks Jo, a brilliant presentation of the situation and supporting posts above.
A small thing, which on analysis everyone would agree with, is the idea that the money is “wasted”.
I’m sure that Sun Tzu and his students would disagree and acknowledge that our “hard-earned” is going exactly to where it was intended and is greatly appreciated.
Obviously Sun Tzu’s local brigades get to cream off some of it, but they’re bringing the whole nation down and all of us, including their families, will soon be wallowing in the putrid swamp that they’ve created.
https://joannenova.com.au/2015/02/weekend-unthreaded-67/#comment-1684297
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That’s not a fraction of the total ripoff. $12billion? That’s just budgeted spending.
• Driving the Nation Fund.
• Powering the Regions Fund.
• Rewiring the Nation.
• Carbon Farming Outreach Program.
• Commonwealth Climate Risk and Opportunity Management Program.
• National Health Sustainability and Climate Unit.
• Household Energy Upgrades Fund.
• Hydrogen Headstart.
• National Reconstruction Fund.
• Future Made in Australia.
• Southeast Asia Investment Financing Facility.
As before, much of this new spending has been overseen by CEFC, CER, and the AREA, with the
government adding a new agency in 2024, the Net Zero Economy Authority.
But the real river of money money is in Carbon Credits/Green Certificates/STCs/LGCs. 35% of all the CO2 emitted by everyone, all buried in our costs of doing business. Even the MMBW sewage. The Safeguard Mechanism. And of course it does not mean CO2 goes down. It means the money goes up as people ‘cancel’ out their CO2 obligations with Australian Agricultural Carbon Credits. Enforced by the government but the tens of billions will never be seen.
So when you flush the toilet or get on a plane, the service provider is paying 35% on CO2 and methane. Where does the money go? Good question but the government does not have to report on this scheme. It’s a marketplace with the Federal police making sure people pay real money for fake Green certificates.
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And I wish Chief Economist Adam Creighton actually finished the job and reported on the huge river of money in Green Certificates. As usual, they are not mentioned. Just explicit expenditure reported to the public. That’s partly because what is being done is prima facie illegal.
It’s as if the 35% CO2 tax which applies to the ‘250 biggest polluters’ did not exist. Creighton did the easy bit. Check the budget. No one knows how much money is being stolen off budget. It has been illegal since Magna Carta to order the enrichment of third parties. But that is what successive parliaments have done for 25 years. None of it is in the press. But the cost of everything will soar as the ‘biggest polluters’ pass on their costs of doing business in a Federal Mafia state.
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Climate Change? Global Warming. There is so much off budget. $12Bn for Snowy II alone. To make windmills seem reasonable. Which will fail because so much money is lost pumping uphill what used to be free.
The Drought which will never end. “even the rains which fall”. Who knows that 5 desalination plants cost? We borrowed the money from the French suppliers. I have seen estimates of $100bn over time. 3 of them have never been used.
Plus all those windmills, paid not by the state, not by the ‘investors’ but by the public. And the public have to pay again to use their own windmills, doubling the cost.
$98Million of public money alone on Flannery’s ‘hot rocks’. “The technology is straight forward” said the PhD in ancient giant wombats.
You would be talking of hundreds of billions. For nothing we didn’t already have as we blow up what was working and refuse nuclear, fracking, coal, gas, exploration and even wood fires. It is illegal to pick up sticks for firewood in Victoria’s parks in case they release CO2.
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Plus Malcolm Turnbull’s gift of $444million to his wife to ‘save’ the Great Barrier Reef. There is an annual amount of $14millio in interest on this borrowed money, likely now having added $140Million to the cost. And what did we get for it? Nothing. No one even wants to talk about where the money went. Unbelievable theft ordered by the Prime Minister. Or Albanese ‘investment’ of a billion of our money in an American company experimenting with Quantum Computers. What was he drinking? The waste of money is quite incredible, double the cost of a new jumbo aircraft.
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TdeF:
The Adelaide one is used – about 1 hour per year (Contractual for maintenance purposes) but the diesel generators get a good run when there is no wind or sunny days.
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Don’t forget the largesse applied by local councils to “climate change”.
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I am lost for words on this net zero nonsense. I can’t believe the stupidity of it all. In my opinion the architects of this scam should end up in jail. How dare they economically ruin our once great country.
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The fastest growing sector for “renewables” is the household sector. That sector now produces estimated 12% of the power but an increasing proportion is invisible to grid as zero and negative FITs encourage households to install batteries and heat pump hot water to shift solar energy use.
The various governments are contributing to the household “renewables” using OPM but each household is paying the bulk of the costs of their transition. The annual installation of new rooftop capacity is running at 3.3GW. That is at least $3.3bn just for household solar.
Labor has offered $2.3bn for batteries. The subsidy diminishes to zero by 2030 so you can bet households will pile in. I expect the bulk of the $2.3bn to be spent in a couple of years and households will triple the total spent to $6.9bn over those couple of years.
In Victoria, there is government aided support for “getting off gas”, The government contributes 30 to 50% of the cost under the various programs and it is still not cheap.
These other programs add to the “transition” cost so there is more involved than just solar panels and batteries.
The emerging business model in Australia is to set up a call centre to offer households government subsidies; secure a pool of contract electricians, plumbers and labourers; establish supply lines with Chinese manufacturers and go about harvesting the government subsidies. The tradesmen can earn $1000 per day but they have to work for it. It also means that it is difficult to find electricians and plumbers willing to show up for a small job for under $500.
I have a nephew who was sub-contracted to make a small number of specialised road drying machine for roadworks in Queensland. They force dry the cleared ground in preparation for road base so they can meet compaction spec if the weather is not ideal. After he built them, he found out the operators working night shift were getting paid $1000 for an 8 hour shift. He is now a road worker. And I expect the next batch of road dryers will cost more than the first batch.
The capital intensity and wastefulness of “the transition” has caused a dramatic drop in labour productivity and a serious shortage of tradesmen. But that means it is a good time to be a tradie.
Australia is building an electricity grid three times over. The one it has and will continue to need. The grid scale wind, solar batteries and stabilising hardware – increasingly useless. And households. Households are winning. Tough luck if you do not own a roof. Labor will dole you a few dollars now and then.
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Labor’s “Pink Bats” 02
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No-one here has yet cottoned on to the fact that Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions isn’t an option but a necessity sometime this century. The longer the delay in reductions occur, the quicker it has to happen. Mass extinction events due to runaway global warming caused by high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has happened before and it can happen again. There are tipping points coming which will be very difficult to retreat back from.
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How do you know the “mass extinction events due to runaway global warming” were “caused by high concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere”? The proxy records from ice cores suggest the rise in CO2 followed the rise in temperature. If those proxies are correct then the rise in temperature was not caused by the rise in CO2.
Assuming you are 100% correct and we face a disaster from human caused co2 increases in the atmosphere. How do we make a difference to that while the rest of the world doesn’t do their bit? Our efforts are futile. And no, the argument that, “Well if we don’t do it, how do we expect to convince China and India to do it?” doesn’t wash. Because if there is a looming crisis, then those two countries doing nearly 50% of emissions and growing should have their own good reasons to cut emissions rather than needing our lead to do so.
I say, if you’re correct, given our emissions won’t make a difference (as stated by our chief scientist who thinks we should cut emissions) then we can afford to wait and do it in a hurry much later this century if necessary, if it will make a difference.
Ironically it’s Labor and Greens delaying it because it can’t be done without nuclear.
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These “tipping points” are often mentioned but never clearly defined. Care to clearly define them, and explain exactly how they will be avoided?
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Oh,gawd. Simon’s trying to bring tipping points back into vogue. “Oceans boiling” didn’t do it for you? Gotta keep scaring the kiddies, eh?.
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Well, according to IPCC we have a fair bit of time before we see any real changes:
The IPCC’s own Table 12.12 from AR6 maps climate-related drivers: heatwaves, floods, cyclones, and droughts… and shows that even under the worst case scenario (RCP8.5) NONE of these are expected to be detactable by 2050 and 2100.
(from IPCC 5th Report 2021. It is replaced by https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-12/ released in 2023, with tables simply showing ‘risk relevance’ without indication of timing, and with discussions on each impact driver, without discussion on timings.)
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You’d better cover the sun and cap all the volcanos Simon.
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And exterminate Termites, and other sources of natural emissions.
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Looks like the prediction time lines have been updated and the vocabulary has been expanded, they must have added a few lines of code to its programming.
No I am not a programmer, its a joke in response to Simons comment for those that have no sense of humour on this site
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Where is all our tax money going? 🔥💰🔥💰😱😱😱
Not to the health system our because our hospitals are failing and in desperate need of funding.
Not to the defence forces which are unable to find and track a Chinese warship in plain sight.
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Lots of funds are wasted on Public Servants.
Years ago I knew a doctor who had been persuaded into a partnership in a new hospital. Fortunately he had a mutual friend who knew about costings etc. and was suitably pleased that with in 3 years he had recouped his investment.
Never mind things like pans, bed linen etc. the chief Matron was given approval to get rid of damages and buy new ones. The refreshment for staffs was just approved in petty cash.
Compare this with another hospital where there was a system where each morning coffee/tea needed a token handed to the Tea Ladies. These could be purchased by a clerk employed specifically for this, who tallied up income and reported to another clerk who checked the stock and filled in a request for replacements from a head office section.
Guess? which was the public hospital?
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Achieving Net Zero, a UK Report with contributions from Australian scientists.
Read the summary at the end of the report, exercise in futility and economic vandalism (my words).
https://www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2022/03/Kelly-Net-Zero-Progress-Report.pdf?mc_cid=3de10e3d7a&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
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Personal View from report end …
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Around a third of them must know. They implicitly voted for Boondoggle Bowen when they voted for Albo the Trot. But these dolts also surmise that Albo spends his Labour Party’s money on these renewable energy superpower fiascos.
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Stumbled over this definition while looking for something else just now.
Ineptocracy
(in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.
Seems to fit the articles theme I think
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The latest weekly data from the Mauna Loa Observatory for the atmospheric CO2 concentration reveals that it has risen at a steadily increasing rate for the 67 year period of data collection. For the 5 year interval 29 March 1958 to 23 March 1963, the rate of increase was 0.705 ppm pa. For the 5 year interval 30 May 2020 to 31 May 2025, the rate of increase was 2.816 ppm pa, that is an increase by a factor of 4 in the 67 year period. Hence the policy of Net Zero has had no measurable effect on the Earth’s atmospheric CO2 concentration for the simple reason that mankind’s effect on atmospheric CO2 is insignificant on a regional scale.
Furthermore there is a clear seasonal variation in the CO2 concentration revealing that it is the climate change between the seasons that is the cause of the CO2 change not the CO2 change causing the Seasons because the Seasons are caused by the annual orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
People throughout the World have been misled into thinking that CO2 causes climate change by a malevolent group of would-be despots intent of achieving ‘One-World Government’, that is, Communist dictatorship by them, of course.
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The beauty, simplicity, and inevitability of truth.
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This is behind everything.
This is being driven strongly in many sectors.
Economy
Health
Net-zero
And so on…
Everything is explained in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GykzQWlXJs
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A great article thank you Joanne.
PS check Trump Tries to Save Science – https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/7070/trump-tries-save-science
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“to fix the weather”
Yes, that’s the idea. Sure but anyone really believe it? Then given this vast expense, when will we see results?
And how can we tell it’s working? What exactly will be better? No one is even promising lower world CO2.
So what do we get for the money? And if we get nothing, why are we spending anything?
Cui Bono? Not Australia.
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It does appear that the industrialized west will have to suffer a catastrophe of epic proportions before
the mass of people ride the climate charlatans & their communist enablers, tarred and feathered, out of town on a rail.
Some unfortunate municipality will discover how quickly civilization deteriorates when the electricity fails in the dead of winter, and the stressed grid
cannot be restarted.
While most lives will likely be saved; using carbon fueled vehicles as emergency warmth pods while trying to manage an emergency diaspora to
still functioning regions and dealing with both multiple hundreds of fatalities and angry mobs using the military will likely force policy change….
only to discover that it may take as long to fix the problems as it has to create them, and the entirety of economic circumstances may suffer seriously during
reconstruction.
The “good news” is that we may stop trusting the people who created the problems to fix them.
If the problem happens in one of the feral cities of the world that contains a large, unassimilated minority, all bets are off.
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