By Jo Nova
The Net Zero tipping point is here…
Even Boris Johnson can see the inevitable grinding collapse of Net Zero is imminent. If he thought it was the way of the future, and was just delayed, he wouldn’t be saying this. But with the writing so obviously on the wall, he’s getting in ahead with the mea culpa — astutely ducking some future barbs and arrows and looking slightly like a leader of relevance still, but only because he’s ahead of the Labour Party. (And the Australian Liberals).
Years ago I said the day is coming when everyone will say “I was always a skeptic”. We’re on the way.
h/t Andrew Montford who says “We can’t afford politicians who ‘get carried away’.”
Boris got carried away…
Mr Johnson told Lord Elliott: “I think net zero, we went far too fast. And I’ve got to be honest about that, I got carried away by the idea that sustainable and renewable forms of energy could fill the gap.
So he’s known since 2022, but said nothing until now:
“When the price went up and the Ukraine thing happened, it was obvious that that wouldn’t work. And I think we did allow some more hydrocarbons but I think what you’ve got to do now is just say, you’ve got to see. You’ve got to be like St Augustine. You’ve got to say, ‘we will be chaste, but not yet’.”
The wild prices of fossil fuels showed Boris that during a crisis everyone needed coal, oil and gas. It was the grand test. If windmills and solar panels were even slightly useful, everyone would have rushed to order them in 2022 instead of paying nosebleed prices for fossil fuels. Worse, it showed that countries that already had wind and solar had no protection against the price rises, because they needed gas, oil and coal too.
Boris’s comments come five months after former British PM Tony Blair dropped a bombshell saying “many leaders know the current approach is unworkable but are terrified of voicing that view for fear of being labeled a climate denier. “
Thus Boris agrees with Blair (belatedly). Yet he still can’t help putting in a plea not to junk it completely:
Mr Johnson said: “Blair was completely right. It’s too expensive for ordinary people. It’s too fast. But I think we should be careful about junking net zero altogether, because I think a lot of people out there do worry about the environment and don’t want to feel their government is just completely abandoning the [agenda].
So what do we make of his avid fanatical support for Net Zero in late 2022?
Boris Johnson: U.K. Must ‘Double Down’ On Green Energy To Weaken Putin
By David Vetter, Forbes
Britain will “double down” on investments in renewable energy as a way of achieving energy independence while weakening Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed this week. But in a newspaper article sketching out a revised energy strategy, Johnson also called for additional fossil fuel exploration in the British isles, as well as further investments in nuclear power, leaving some commentators nonplussed.
Writing in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Johnson noted that “Putin’s strength—his vast resource of hydrocarbons—is also his weakness. He has virtually nothing else.”
He went on: “If the world can end its dependence on Russian oil and gas, we can starve him of cash, destroy his strategy and cut him down to size.”
Johnson argued that renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, offered the best path to achieve this, saying his government would “double down on new wind power” and “do more to exploit the potential of solar power,” which is “remarkably cheap and effective.”
Thanks to Tom Nelson on X
“According to Boris, the price rise in gas and coal during the Ukraine War was the moment he knew Net Zero “wouldn’t work”.”. Huh? A price RISE in the fuels that renewables are supposed to replace makes renewables unworkable??? We have a logic problem here.
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Not at all. Boris could see that when everything hit the fan, everyone wanted oil and gas. The price rise showed that oil gas and coal were essential, because everyone was fighting to get them. It also showed that countries with wind and solar had no protection against the price rise, because they needed gas, oil and coal too.
But fair point — I didn’t explain that in the post. I’ll fix that!
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I’ll believe Boris, the Tories, and even Reform are completely off the green bandwagon when they stop being terrified of barely measurable ‘earthquakes’, rescind the UK’s silly fracking ban, and start tapping into the UK’s shale gas resources.
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I think you will find that Farage has no problems with fracking, but he will need to change the legislation that demands that if there is a “butterfly’s wing” of a tremor (totally undetectable except by special equipment) fracking may not continue.
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Farage does not need to change legislation just repeal it. 100s of Acts and 1000s of Regulations need dumping. One useful new Act would be one that allows Acts to be updated with all amendments without going through the process for a new Act. I was able to do it with traffic regulations and it is also done by the BSI with British Standards.
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IIRC it has been intimated that he was originally persuaded to go for Net Zero by a certain person and their relatives who were keen, green activists.
Justin Rowlatt seems to know something about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59114871
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Was it that crazy green woman of his. ?
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Is Boris doing a play on words there? His other half being “Carrie”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Johnson
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I think it more than likely – she is a serious Green.
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He was —,.. Oh nevermind..
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We’re all thinking that Dave!
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FWIW
Way back in BC a term for a sheep that had become hooked on Darling pea was “pea struck”.
There were a number of others built on that “struck” foundation
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His Wife was greener than Kermit
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I see Justin Rowlatt has got really excited about renewables outdoing coal fired electricity generation.
Renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po
How reliable are Ember as a source of data, and are they quoting nameplate as opposed to actual generation?
Apparently, in the US, electricity demand grew faster than clean energy output, increasing reliance on fossil fuels, while in the EU, months of weak wind and hydropower performance led to a rise in coal and gas generation.
I can’t see the tech giants running AI on “unreliables”.
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I see Justin Rowlatt has got really excited about renewables outdoing coal fired electricity generation.
Renewable energy overtook coal as the world’s leading source of electricity in the first half of this year – a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank Ember.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po
How reliable are Ember as a source of data, and are they quoting nameplate as opposed to actual generation?
Apparently, in the US, electricity demand grew faster than clean energy output, increasing reliance on fossil fuels, while in the EU, months of weak wind and hydropower performance led to a rise in coal and gas generation.
I can’t see the tech giants running AI on “unreliables”.
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Boris J is a ‘chancer’.
This is the man who had a boozy party at No. 10 when the UK was in Covid lockdown. Then he lied to the Investigation. And there was QE2 at her husband’s funeral having to sit all alone miles away from everyone else.
Who cares what he says anyway. He just blows with the wind and should be stuck on top of a UK wind turbine right out in the North Sea.
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Yes, Boris was a huge disappointment.
He is irrelevant now.
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I would have thought that Tony Blair was long ago irrelevant but that horrible man has more political lives than Freddy Krueger.
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Nicely said.
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I take a different view, and agree with Jo’s making a big deal of it.
Johnson was, and remains, responsible for the tremendous damage to the UK’s economy and even sovereignty through his stance, and more widely to the increasing stagnation of Western democracies. That he has now, belatedly, recanted is hugely significant as a counter argument to the boiling ocean arguments we get from prominent warmists.
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Carried away? He avoided exposure. Got to wonder where those video tapes are.
Ditto his killing peace in Ukraine.
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Mistakes were made on both sides.
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His behaviour & attitude was / is completely irrational & behaves as though someone/ something is forcing his dumbass decisions. Same as the current idiot, Starmer! Neither of them are capable of changing a light bulb, let alone use a screwdriver, yet preach about electricity generation when they haven’t a clue about the industry or the intricacies of a planet & it’s evolution, that has been around for billions of years. A witch doctor in deepest, darkest Africa knows more about the weather & its cycles than these jumped up leaders!
Who is force feeding them information they’re too bloody stupid to realise is a fantasy. More important is WHY it’s being done in the first place.
Last & not least come the gullible electorate who have been misled & follow these wannabe messiahs! It’s a bit of a mess & all self inflicted. There really needs to be severe penalties for politicians that constantly & knowingly lie. If there was we probably wouldn’t have politicians!
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We know why Graham. The communists could not defeat the West with bombs and missiles so contrived to have the West destroy itself from within. The drivers of this catastrophe were groups of very wealthy socialists who convinced the United Nations that there could be a one world government which the UN has dreamed of for decades. The march through the institutions, another assault on the West by the communists, began in the 70s. It was very effective and the result is the biased media and corrupted academia we have now. Those of us who grew up to trust scientists and journalists were taken in, initially, by reports that excess CO2 would cause major changes in the Earth’s climate. Some of us came to realise that we were being lied to by those we respected. Many did not and, unfortunately, among their numbers were our scientifically ignorant politicians who cashed in on the votes of fellow ignoramuses. It has been a 50 year long campaign by communists/socialists to destroy the West by other means and they have been very successful.
Jo has led the fightback since about 2007. We always said that eventually the people would rebel, not because they became scientists, but because they would feel the pain in their wallet and lost opportunities.
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Why not both?
Like all politicians, you can tell Boris is lying when his lips are moving.
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Politicians are professional liars, just like lawyers.
They are trained to engage in pedantic wordplay and their get out clause is plausible deniability.
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What he really means to say is that the days of raking in donations from the wind and solar companies are nearly over. It’s like an empty well and politicians will have to give it 40 years to fill up again.
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More of the same, only slowly.
Let me know when he acknowledges Carbon Dioxide is not the demon witch of the 21st century.
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Boris belongs in gaol for “crimes against humanity”.
A good cell mate for all of their prime ministers.
Not forgetting Al and Black-Out Bowen.
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As politicians start to realise the people hate them, they are trying to find common ground where man made CO2 Armageddon is a bit slower than they hoped, but nothing else has changed.
So they have simply been ahead of their time, foolishly wise, not utterly and completely wrong and uncaring. St. Augustine is a good analogy. A total hypocrite and opportunist.
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Boris Johnson is highly intelligent. He did not just get “carried away”. He should not and cannot be allowed to get away with such lies. They made calculated decisions, and they have cost us probably the largest misspent fortune in modern history.
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This is true, and important.
A few decades in Asia brought me the realization that when intelligent pollies and businessmen seemingly hold absolutely illogical beliefs, they, or someone they know, is profitting behind the scenes in one way or another.
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is profiting behind the scenes in one way or another.….absolutely agree with you markx. Pollies retire with insane benefits & $$ funds in secret accounts & are unanswerable to the socio-economic damage waived by the enforcement of the lunatic regulations, legislations etc during their time in public office.
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APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED.
This will be a new trend among the slightly less deranged politicians as they realise the infeasibility of their anti-energy plans.
It’s impossible for them not to have known that what they were doing was wrong. It was all documented in these pages and numerous other places.
We’ve had enough of their anti-science BS.
No excuses. They got caught out.
Same goes for covid “vaccines”.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
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We should make it clear to any anti-energy politicians and activists that they will NOT be forgiven for their lies and WILL be prosecuted if possible.
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Fit wind turbine blades with harnesses to hold the likes of Bowen, Gore, Johnson and their acolytes.
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A prime minister with initials B.J.,
On Net Zero got carried away,
Went too far and too fast,
With his climate bombast,
Though he is more mea culpa today.
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That’s excellent Ruairi!
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Boris proved to be a clueless donkey and we shouldn’t care less what his thoughts are today or in the future.
Again, the CSIRO tells us that the SH is already a NET SINK of co2 and the NH is a NET SOURCE of co2.
Here’s the CSIRO quote……
“Seasonal variation”
“Carbon dioxide concentrations show seasonal variations (annual cycles) that vary according to global location and altitude. Several processes contribute to carbon dioxide annual cycles: for example, uptake and release of carbon dioxide by terrestrial plants and the oceans, and the transport of carbon dioxide around the globe from source regions (the Northern Hemisphere is a net source of carbon dioxide, the Southern Hemisphere a net sink)”.
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Again, here’s the CSIRO Cape Grim site link and co2 level now at 423.7 ppm and see under Seasonal Variation for the quote for NH a NET SOURCE of co2 and SH a NET SINK of co2.
https://capegrim.csiro.au/
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Such a rise of CO2 concentration over such a short time and the result is – not much. It is so “not much” that the media hype any day over 33 degrees or any rain of over 100mm per day. We never had such wild weather in the past or so they say.
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Staggering isn’t Neville, this information proving Australia is Net Zero has been available for quite some time yet so called conservative politicians, major or minor party, who should be hammering it at every opportunity, in parliament and in the press, never utter a squeak about it. They’re either to stupid,dumb and moronic or pathetic and timid to be voted into power to run this country. God help this poor blighted land of tribes
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Is Boris still married to the zealot who made him temporarily insane.
Maybe Shakespeare would have asked him the same question.
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My knowledge of Shakespeare is not adequate to quote, or even find his quote which adequately covers BJ. Any suggestions?
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Meanwhile Blackout is preparing for Australia’s onslaught at COP30. Big contingent primed for Australia’s pitch for COP31 in Adelaide.
South Australia is the global poster child for the energy transition. The region regularly gets 100% of its electricity from wind and solar. But on closer inspection the problems of intermittent generation are now quite obvious. Fossil fuels remain the only essential source of generation in South Australia. At 6am today, wind and solar combined served 9% of the demand. Gas supplied the bulk at 60%; imports of lignite generation at 13% and battery at 16%.
The gas and lignite generation remain essential generators while the wind and solar are non-essential suppliers. The greatest failure is to recognise the difference. Adding non-essential generators to an essential service has degraded the service. It has added huge cost thereby driving down wholesale demand as heavy industry expires and consumers add solar panels and batteries to make their own. So ever increasing cost on ever reducing demand means prices spiralling out of control. South Australia has the most expensive grid prices in the world.
So if Australia manages to beat out Turkey for COP31 I hope some of the visitors ask – and how much do you pay for grid power in South Australia?
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The visitors do not care about the price of electrickery, they only care about the never ending gravy train that they are on.
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How ironic if Adelaide does host COP31 and there is a blackout while Blackout Bowen is on stage…………
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They won’t risk a blackout.
They will have the back up diesel gens out the back, and they won’t even try to hide them.
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Maybe we can have Albozo & Blackout Bowen explain to the enthralled audience how well the Sth Australian Whyalla Steel is doing on subsidy bail outs due to unreliable & hugely unaffordable green energy.
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It will be interesting to see how Adelaide handles a pulse of 60,000 plus visitors for a week.
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Perhaps that 60,000 estimate might decrease somewhat as the boondoggle budget evaporates.
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The very same people are responsible for mass unvetted immigration yes? And for both COVID, and the shots.
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Again, even Wiki tells us that Aussie Solar capacity factor is 15% and Wind is now 24%.
So over 12 months Wind can supply an average 2.9 months of generation and Solar on average supplies generation for 1.8 months.
But these unreliable, toxic W & S electricity supplies must have batteries support + other GENUINE, RELIABLE baseload support. So to supply the grid (on average) for 10.2 months for Solar and 9.1 months for Wind. That’s on average for every year.
Again, why do we need toxic, expensive, unreliable W & S + batteries when one source of reliable, cheap BASELOAD energy can easily do the job until 2100?
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And the Big Battery for storage is Snowy 2.0 now at 20 Billion South Pacific Pesos (latest rubbery estimate) and still not finished. Can only go until the pumped water flows down the hill. How many hours will that be? Started off at 2 Billion and should have already been completed by now according to the highly accurate TurnBull rubbery estimate.
TurnBull Nation Building at its finest.
Where are the Batteries that can provide electrical power for a few weeks? Do they exist? Only in Blackout Bowen’s thick head.
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Its funny how we can always find money to build stuff we dont need (wind/solar, SH2, some of the desal plants, Victorias “big build”) but dont spend money on what we do need (dams, nuclear power, modern coal generation, value adding resource industries and a divided Bruce Highway)
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You won’t find an argument here Neville. Simple logic says the idea of renewables replacing baseload sources is ridiculous. The problem is the politicians are not driven by logic or what is best for the country but what is best for themselves and those who fund them. I gave up on the so called scientists long ago.
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Refer to markx comments @12.1 above. That’s what it’s about!
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What Wiki cannot tell us is when the 15/24% of generation will be available.
Albo and BOB are fond of spouting big numbers regarding generation with no consideration that electricity needs to be available 24/365, not just 15/24% of the time
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Yep. AEMO stated electricity reliability is 99.98%.
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What a shame Morrison (Scott Morrison, ex PM of Australia) couldn’t see through the hype and bluster of Net Zero. He just wanted to be in the club. Yes, apparently Scotty only talked about aspirational targets, but he also fronted a media conference holding up a document titled “Australia’s fastest way to Net Zero”. Hollow man was our Scotty from marketing.
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ScoMo was a member of the Pentecostal church who pandered to the Climate Evangelists. Instead of citing the devil as their main adversary, they demonised CO2. Indeed, some climate alarmist doctrine nowadays sounds more like the Book of Revelation than it does science.
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He can say what he likes but Boris conversion to being green, aligned with the arrival of his new squeeze, who was definitely a believer.
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Why couldn’t he just say he was wrong? Except he is still holding that he was right. So this is a lame apology for wrecking the joint for nothing. The whole thing is a hoax. And as Donald Trump also says, the people pushing it are evil.
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He wouldn’t dare, if he wants to stay married.
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That’s real cowardice. But common.
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the Yanks have a term that includes “whipped”
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Admission of fault seems to be a thing of the past. Don’t admit fault, just shift your position and try to save face, as was seen with John Pesutto and his issue with Moira Deeming.
He was a pathetic leader, seeking to ingratiate himself to the Left rather than posit a true conservative/alternative POV. Then he was bailed out by retired Vic Liberals for court costs to save his seat and avoid a by-election.
Brad Battin is doing the usual counterpoint BS, he needs to provide a distinct alternative, one that is unafraid to contradict the prevailing climate change narrative.
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A little-known fact is that electricity consumption only accounts for about 23% of our Aussie total energy consumption.
Here’s the quote……..
“Approximately 23%”
“In Australia, electricity consumption accounts for approximately 23% of total energy consumption. This figure reflects the significant role of electricity in the overall energy mix, which includes all forms of energy used in the country”.
energy.gov.au
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So in other words the deliberate destruction of our electricity supply is hugely more pointless than most people ever imagined.
Wrecking the place for what?
What “they” want is the re-establishment of a primitive pre-Enlightenment, pre-Scientific Revolution, pre-Industrial Revolution society where the serfs (us) are ruled over by feudal overlords (the Elites of the Left).
Hence the push by the Left to reduce the standard of living of non-Elites and lower economic and housing standard expectations, high unaffordable energy costs, removal of convenience products (e.g. plastic conveience products), censorship, universal tracing and tracking via digital IDs and cashless transactions, heavy taxing of energy (e.g. the 35% Safeguard Mechanism), removal of access of alternative points of view for children via social media ban, dumbing-down of the education system, heavy land use restrictions and taxes, etc. etc. etc..
I think Australia is far further down the track to this dystopia than even most other Leftist-infested woke countries. Australia started as a free range jail and it looks like that’s how it will end IF CONSERVATIVES REMAIN SILENT.
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We began as a free range prison and have now morphed into the world’s largest free range mental asylum.
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This is the second time the Poms have used Climate change / global warming as a tool to achieve political gains. Thatcher was an early convert to the CC/ GW religion because she wanted to break the power of the coal unions. Boris thought he could hamstring Putin by going with Net Zero. Seriously, what use are mainstream politicians? They’re supposed to be the people’s representatives at government level. Keep an eye on the indiscretions of bureaucracy. In the end, they all just become slaves of the system.
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All Politicians in OZ are inbred oafs.
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FWIW
“Needs To: In The UK The Net Zero Consensus Has Crumbled”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/10/06/needs-to-in-the-uk-the-net-zero-consensus-has-crumbled-n3807528
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Amazing that the UK is the only country that has reduced their primary energy use per person since 1965 and worse than the EU or Germany.
Norway and Canada are still the highest, then the USA and Australia.
Will the so called wealthy OECD countries ever wake up? Certainly not if we follow the UK’s last 60 years example, but China, Boris and Starmer will be very pleased.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab=line&country=AUS~OWID_WRL~CAN~GBR~USA~CHN~OWID_ASI~JPN~OWID_EU27~DEU~OWID_SAM~IND~NOR~SWE
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You’ll also see that petrol MPG plummets as you run out of petrol. The problem is not starving an economy of fuel and temporary getting a drop in energy usage, the problem is the consequence of starving an economy of the essential cheap energy that built the modern world.
We are now cruising to a stop.
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Transition away from coal, gas and diesel fuels, renewable energy target of 32% since 2007-2013 and since 2022 now 82%.
And now gas is the transition fuel!!!
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I am not happy with the idea that he meant well. It is more likely that he couldn’t care less. Like Albanese. It’s one of those apologies which is not an apology at all, just deflection of incoming blame and recrimination.
At least the promoters of the total destruction of adequate, totally reliable, commandable and very cheap energy can see a wall of recrimination on the way. And the people responsible like Boris Johnson and Anthony Albanese hope to be on great government pensions by the time the blame is being handed out and it is someone else’s job to fix their disasters. Their only fault, according to Boris, was being too enthusiastic.
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“I am not happy with the idea that he meant well. It is more likely that he couldn’t care less.”
Bingo grasshopper.
Impossible to mean well when you are empty of meaning.
Tonite we’re gonna party like it’s COVID Lockdown ’99.
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Politicians are such flipping cowards.
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‘ … someone tell The Liberal Party in Australia …’
Hastie is our best chance, he is taking flack but should survive.
‘Hastie blasted in Liberal partyroom meeting.
‘A Liberal MP has taken aim at Andrew Hastie, who quit the frontbench last week and is vowing to loudly campaign on cutting migration and junking net zero.’ (Oz)
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How long before the Liberals realise they can pull a switcheroo and get Hastie elected and then throw him out, just as they did with Abbott? Like Boris, the current crop of Leybor Lite are apologists for extreme socialism including the destruction of all farming, manufacturing, transport, defence. If they are not working for China, I would be disappointed because it means they are just idiots and our political system is completely broken.
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‘ … our political system is completely broken.’
The West Minister system might need upgrading, but its still better than the hybrid Singapore model. One party rule.
‘ … as they did with Abbott?’
Not this time because Hastie is coming from behind and what he has to say will be shocking. He thinks like us, Net Zero is a hoax and he can prove it.
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He needs a way to control the extreme left in his own party. The attack on his leadership may be terminal. Maybe Tony Abbott gave up? He might have survived if he had stalled.
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They say you get the most flak when you are over the target.
At least he has two of the necessary targets front and centre, Immigration and electricity, or junking Net Zero.
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Yep, all of those and he is free to talk about them.
This is good news because the MSM will be out to destroy him and his views will be aired. That is all we ask, a champion to make the electorate sit up and take notice.
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I doubt the disinclination to declare Anthropogenic Global Warming a scam, as Trump has done, has much to do with being declared a sceptic. Let’s face it, that’s basically what Boris is doing now.
What these so called leaders are really fearful of is having to face up to their nations, declaring they have misled the people by their decisions declaring true science dead, opinion science fact and acting against those speaking the truth as though they are medieval witches who should be shut up by any means possible. Imagine the payouts possible should the aggrieved get into the Courts and fight to be heavily compensated by taxpayers in general and the politicians in particular. Worse for the politicians of the supposed democracies is the well deserved derision with which history is going to treat them. Then there is the impoverishment they have brought down on their people.
They’ve all acted as little Hitlers, enforcing a baseless, unproven and concocted theory. The theory had already been called out by many people that took the time to read the UN draft. They declared it nothing but a wealth redistribution plan from the democracies along with handicapping of their ongoing economies. The manipulating activists of the UN who put this together wrapped it up as a morality play for non-first-world nations they say had provided much of the largesse for the first world without advantage. Beware of such self interested movers and shakers when they wrap their plans up in plays about ethics.
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I’m never ever voting Tory again after their behaviour during covid and their destruction of the country via the climate scam.
The simple stats tell it all: just ONE MP asked to see the background papers before they all nodded through the most damaging act in all parliamentary history: the climate change act.
ALL OF THEM either directly or tacitly supported it. Only one MIGHT have been a real sceptic.
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Always remember the UK slide into oblivion started with Tony Blair and “ New “ Labour!
It’s been a slippery and increasingly fast slide into oblivion. Farage is well intentioned but Starmer is busy cementing the tipping point of “ no return “! Too little & far too late!
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It started with Thatcher. The left wing Unions, many of whose leaders were trained in the USSR created havoc in the energy industries of the UK. I think it is clear that the USSR were using the unions to attack UK energy and industry.
Thatcher then decided to get rid of the unions by shutting down UK energy (coal) and UK industry.
We are now in a position where the USSR have achieved all they wanted: the UK is incapable of fighting a war against Russia, because we lack the necessary heavy and chemical industry, that are critical to fighting war, and the independent energy supplies for that industry.
Whether or not she intended it, Thatcher was working for the Russians, and it was her people (or her), that started the insanity of fixating about the climate.
Bliar just built on what Thatcher started … although he did make lying, deception and treating the electorate with contempt into an art form.
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Also it was Thatcher that started the academic ethos of “more is better” and ensured that low quality unreplicatable papers became the norm. Because it was no longer the quality just the quantity of papers that mattered.
That ethos was the one that allowed the political activists to take over the area of climate research and turn it into a weapon against industry. So basically repeating what the USSR-funded unions had been doing.
And of course, what were the UK “intelligence” agencies doing all that time? They are now part of the climate cult. And so basically working for the Russians against the UK!
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“Was he lying then, or is he lying now?”
Both… He was lying then AND he’s lying now, both times he’s saying what he thinks the majority want to hear. Back then, he was convinced the people wanted to hear that he had the answers in “green” energy systems, and now he’s saying the things that he suspects is the winning side.
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Quote:-
“Johnson argued that renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, offered the best path to achieve this, saying his government would “double down on new wind power” and “do more to exploit the potential of solar power,” which is “remarkably cheap and effective.”
Which shows he is still as deluded and uninformed now as he was then. His wife is an out and out green nutter, and allegedly that is why he is also?
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Those who told me that Johnson would be an appalling PM were right. He went along with the covid scam as he went along with the climate scam all the time being more concerned about partying than the damage he was doing to the country. It was his ego versus reality.
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The significance of this is that it is a tacet admission that there is no global warming crisis. You cannot believe in a global warming existential threat … and then decide not do anything about it.
Its like Australian Labor Party that wants us all to believe in a global warming existential threat that we should worry about … and then sell coal and gas to China or buy cars, batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines made with Chinese coal-fired power. Its just not a credible scare any more.
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He got ‘carried away’. That must have been by his third wife Carrie Symonds, decades his junior and a green activist.
It is clear where his brain was when he made climate policy and it was not in his skull
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A failed leader is realizing why he failed.
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You have to question the Tory party members as to how they ever thought this ignorant lying moron was ever suitable to be the Prime Minister of this country given his track record. More worrying is those that still think all would be great if he came back.
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