By Jo Nova
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Just to be clear, yet again, the 29th United Nations Conference of Parties was a smashing success, 70,000 people got a free trip to Azerbaijan, millions of dollars were siphoned from taxpayers, nobody was asked any hard questions, and everyone gets to schmooze it all again next year.
In a big win, nothing at all was achieved in solving “The CrisisTM” which means The Gravy Train rides again.
Last year the UN was excited because of the “historic” move to use the phrase “transition away from fossil fuels” for the absolute, first time ever in a global document. It marked the “beginning of the end of fossil fuels” according to the UN. But one year later, and the phrase was quietly dropped. Nevermind. This time, Saudi Arabia and the petrostate allies were able to nix that promise — possibly because the world still needs their oil. Where were the honest headlines: “UN backslides from key historic transition away from fossil fuels?”
The new $300 billion “goal” replaces the last $100 billion target, which achieved almost nothing, and wasn’t reached, except with accounting games, like relabeling foreign aid and rebadging loans. Seven years after the last target was set, Kiribati had received nothing except a half a million dollars to help them write a new application.
The $300 billion goal is just a Grifter Target to aim for in ten years. It’s part of the Psy-Op to gaslight the citizens of the rich world to keep paying billions to unaccountable foreign committees.
The WEF puts the best spin possible on the pork, and it isn’t that big:
A broad target of $1.3 trillion in annual funds by 2035 was adopted, yet only $300 billion annually was designated for grants and low-interest loans .
The deal has tripled finance to developing countries up from the previous goal of $100 billion annually.
The deal has done nothing of the sort. “Has tripled” makes it sound like a done-deal, but the only thing that tripled was the language. It’s just another acronym of a distant promise:
… crucially agreeing on how much money developing countries will get to tackle and prepare for climate change in what is known as the ‘New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance’ or simply ‘NCQG’.
Tony Thomas found the event has become a kind of “Hunger Games” — where businesses in the host nation charge extortionate fees to soak the rich world taxpayers, while third world delegates can’t even afford a meal. The UN was sponsoring some delegates for $291 USD a day, but almost all that was going on accommodation. The top hotel in Azerbaijan was charging $12,000 a night, while delegates from Africa were living off sample cheese crackers and free coffee. A “dinner date” was part of the menu…
The Famished Freeloaders of Baku
Tony Thomas, Quadrant
Nation’s reporter, Leon Lidigu, cited many accounts from famished Third World delegates, including “Isabella” our Brazilian food seductress. She told him, “I’ve been low-key surviving off lunch and dinner date invites from my male global north friends who can afford it here. To be honest, it feels like they are ‘living’ around here while we merely exist.”
Calorie-scrounging was so common that one COP smarty created a WhatsApp group listing all events involving coffee urns and free biscuits and cheese. “The document has spread like wildfire,” said Isabella to Lidigu.
…a delegate from Tanzania told Nation he had been obliged to skip a session, Making Climate Finance Work for Climate Action in Agriculture and Food Security, “because I have to go to a local market that I am told is quite far, to see if I can get affordable food to eat. The cost of food at COP is just too much for me.”
Baku’s hunger games put a new perspective on COP’s hordes. Kenya, for instance, had 288 delegates, Uganda 412 and Tanzania 353. Few, I’d say none, paid their own way: [4] it was all sponsored by First World grants, delegates’ own long-suffering national treasuries, or diverted from charities’ funds meant to conquer poverty.[5]
How many grants does it take to send 288 Kenyans to Azerbeijan, and why did the climate need a planeful of people from Uganda and Tanzania?
Most of the money in “climate change” is not spent changing the climate, it just rains cash in the Believer Tent.
So far my analysis is the only one I have seen that explains what happened in the Finance Game: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/25/cop-29-diplomacy-delivers-perfectly-vague-promises-a-decade-away/
Those huge numbers of delegates are mostly manning the national pavilions in the green zone. This is a two week international trade show with lots of real deals being made. Nothing to do with climate or the UN. Might even be useful.
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Just to be clear on Finance. The 2020-25 goal of $100 billion a year expires next year. This COP was supposed to name a 2026-30 goal. It did not do so as the only 2 goals are for 2035. There is no goal for 2026-30. Not $100 billion, not $300 billion, nothing.
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GOOD.
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Wonderful in fact. I can hardly wait for this yawning gap to surface. I am reminded of the story that the bagpipe is a joke played by the French on the Scots that the Scots have yet to get. These folks are so fixated on the 2035 goals that they have not noticed that the 2026 gravy train is empty.
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Do they sell tractors and other farm machinery? A Eurasian AgQuip.
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Quite possibly. It is huge. Trade reps for almost all the countries in the world under one tent for two weeks. Some of the national pavilions are spectacular.
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Naah! The Henty Field Days were much better.
Tony.
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Gunnedah too. Thanks for the Henty reminder Tony.
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AgQuip was excellent.
Do you remember the Holden red motor with the sump off that they used to run on the Wynns stand?
It was great PR, but the Wynns magic additives didn’t have much to do with it 🙂
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Andrew Bolt and Matt Canavan laughed about the delegates at COP 29 crowding for the normal meat dishes at the food counters and the vege dishes looked a bit neglected.
Again more lefty hypocrisy on display for all to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGz1p_YcxHA
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This is all so offensive. Nothing much has changed at these climate talkfests except the extravagance lavished upon delegates gets worse and worse while the people they are supposed to represent suffer from unaffordable and unreliable energy. Let them eat cake!
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I wouldn’t be confiident of any return next year.
I see reports that a company is in dire trouble, which is the owner of three or four or more rag shops in just about every major shopping mall.
That won’t improve anybody’s living standards. For me that puts the question, who is next?
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if the truth be known the members of those massive delegations from dirt poor nations are probably the only citizens of their country who even know about Climate Change. The rest are too preoccupied with staying alive. Actually, as the delegates, minus expense accounts, forage for free food they experience what many of their fellow countrymen need to do every day.
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Amazing that a welcome to country was performed at the Aussie pavilion at COP 29.
Even Chris Kenny thought this was taking things too far.
Don’t forget silly Chris was a strong supporter of Labor’s YES campaign last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-1puLK_R8
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Kenny invested a lot of emotional capital on the Indigenous issue that he couldn’t think straight. Unfortunately he became bitter about it. There was nothing compelling about his arguments.
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He was probably a little bit premature. When the Australian colonization of Azerbajan is complete he can hold as many “welcome” ceremonies as he wants.
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Welcome to what country, they’re in Azerbaijan.
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Should be welcome to another country…
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The” welcome to country” in Azerbaijan is far worse than any commentator here would believe.
Does nobody read the daily news?
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Comments here tell me that a lot of good people have not been watching the news. Unless my geography is wrong.
If I haven’t got it wrong Azerbaijan’s “Welcome to Country” problem is infinitely worse than ours. I was amazed that Azerbaijan is capable of putting on a major multinational function.
Have they completed their “Unwelcome to country” program?
We should have been studying it, because that is the road that we are on if we continue as we have been going.
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Yes Chris Kenny backed himself into a corner with his silly support of Albanese’s attempted meddling of our constitution all for a legacy. Chris may be at pains to repair his reputation without admitting he was wrong on the VTP.
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It’s our cultural contribution to the world. And giving thanks to leaders past, present and future/emerging.
Past farcical, even in Australia. Thanking people who do not yet exist must be a first in world politics.
But then we sent RAYGUN to compete in the Olympic breakdancing.
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Neville, #4,
____Dunno what Chris Kenny is about. He wrote a book against cooked up secret women’s business being used to stymie a bridge construction here in SA.
Knowing this, I thought he was the one tagged to be the “balance” at Sky for the duration of the Voice campaign.
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Paul, that is surely the explanation for what we saw. Chris must have drawn the short straw.
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I haven’t seen this sort of information in media stories. Perhaps the USA media folks were too busy bashing Trump to send a delegation. Or the room rates were more than the networks were willing to pay.
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Ironically ye olde Mother Country went overboard with BBC reporters of Cockney, Birming-gham, Liverpudlian, Geordie, Scottish and Irish persuasion (the perpetually annoying Matt McGrath) huffing and puffing about money – not about ‘the climate’ – while still bashing Donald in their TDS delusional state.
Mind you, NZ radio is a wasteland of noise, adverts, #1 hits from yesteryear I never want to hear again, anti-Trumpian rants from gender-fluid nobodies, pro-transition preaching from fake ‘Doctors’ of science [sic], incomprehensible Indian & Chinese stations and the usual regurgitated fear-fluff via ABC, BBC, etc.
Thankfully it’s spring and the pōhutukawa are in flower and tui (aerobatic songbirds) are making up for lost time, singing as if their lives depend on it 🎵 music to my ears.
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Do we know who the freeloaders were from Australia at COP29 accompanying Minister Bowen?
Among Bowen’s misinformation:
“In Australia, we believe climate action makes economic sense at every level, from the household budget to the nation’s economy. It makes sense for the family home with cheaper bills, powered by clean renewable energy. It makes sense for businesses to harness the cheapest energy known to us. And it makes sense for Australia’s economy, blessed with abundant renewable resources.”
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B O Bowen is a lazy fool and should know that even their ABC admits that fra-dulent W & S will cost us trillions of $ for SFA change to temperature or climate by 2050 or 2100.
We can only hope these Labor, Greens and Teals parasites are booted out in 2025 and the Coalition follows proper data and evidence for a change.
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Australia had over 300 attendees. That alone is a sign of excess and stupidity. I dont think listing them will add much.
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List them I say, and together with detail of what their role/purpose was in being there.
The public ought to know.
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So, Chris, why are so many businesses here going to the wall and others that survive are leaving the Country?
Affordable, reliable energy is a must.
Welcome to Country – Or what’s left of it.
Time to boot out the Marxists in 2025. Shame we couldn’t have dome it yesterday.
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How lucky we were that Trump was elected and this ensured COP 29 was a bummer for the clueless bludgers and donkeys.
This should set the scene for the next 3 years and hopefully the lazy know nothings will be spitting chips for a while.
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Once Trump pulls out of the Climate Cult Club we’ll find others pulling out & defunding the UN / WEF CABAL.
The whole crumbling fiasco should be gone in 5 years!
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Graham, you’ve made my day! At 12:35 am.
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The McKinsey report tells us that the global cost ( waste ) of net zero will be about 275 trillion $ by 2050. Here’s a quote from their report……
“February 18, 2022How much will the net-zero transition cost? Our analysis of the industry-standard scenario for net zero by 2050 suggests that about $275 trillion in cumulative spending on physical assets, or approximately $9.2 trillion per year, would be needed between 2021 and 2050. That’s $25 trillion more than the current-policies scenario. Every sector and every time frame would see a bigger bill”.
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How much will the publicity about doing something they are never going to do cost?
There is more chance of me becoming president of Russia than getting Nut Zero … I doubt they’ll even reduce global usage of Hydrocarbons.
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Seems like a lot of “climate” tourists attended cop29. Approx 40,000.
On November 20th, 2024, Baku, the conference was marked by the launch of this Cop29 initiative:
COP29 Declaration on Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism.
“Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism), remarked, “According to the latest scientific research available, tourism currently accounts for an estimated 8.8% of global carbon emissions… By prioritising innovation, decarbonisation and regeneration, we can make sure tourism plays a key role in global climate solutions.”
https://cop29.az/en/media-hub/news/cop29-presidency-spotlights-tourism-transport-and-urbanisation-day-ten-urbanisation-transport-tourism-day
So we now have the “Enhanced Climate Action in Tourism” initiative.
Hmm…I wonder if the future “COP climate tourists” are exempted.
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Tony Thomas, is that the guy who is onto that fake aboriginie’s case? I think it is. He does great work.
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Philip,
Don’t guess when you have data available.
Tony Thomas writes books published by Connor Court. Buy one and see the list of earlier ones.
He writes for Spectator. Ditto.
He writes for Quadrant journal, with its Quadrant Online giving free access to a Tony Thomas article each week or two.
Tony is an experienced journalist, about the same age as I am. We share some Life preferences like honesty and journalist preferences like deep research and honesty, not forgetting humour. I find Tony’s writing to be relaxing, fun, and providing views more attuned to mine than to the current ignorant, unrefined, money-hungry political left.
If it would help, I could write an endorsement of his writing. Geoff S
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Please tell me it isn’t true that South Australia is in the running to host COP 31, they must be kidding.
Idiocy and marxism knows no boundary.
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40,000 Climate Tourists in Adelaide when the power goes down for 3 days as the Interconnector is shot, there’s a wind drought and it’s cloudy. How delicious would that be?
I’m praying for it!
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South Australia is the “renewable energy” super power of the world so it makes sense that they are keen to show the world how it is done.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-25/all-sa-power-from-solar-for-first-time/12810366
All of South Australia’s power comes from solar panels in world first for major jurisdiction
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It’s how I worked out who was paying for all the windmills in South Australia. I thought it must be the SA Government, so I downloaded the budget. Not a skerrick. Zero. Zilch. So who? Why? And then found the RET (Renewable Energy(Electricity) Act 2001). The answer is that I did. As did you. We were just never asked or told. It’s all in your electricity bills by Government decree. Which is why it is all illegal.
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The scam was that someone invented a way to label a tax as not being a tax but an “obligation to pay money”. And, because it is not a “tax” you don’t need to be told that you are obliged to pay it, and because you are not paying it directly, the electricity company is not obliged to tell you that you are paying this tax … and it all is a money making scam which went global a few decades ago … almost certainly pushed by a small group of very wealthy people who make most of the money from the scam in all the countries who scam their electorate by implementing it.
And no doubt there were huge kick backs to any politician who obliged with pushing this scam.
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From the article above (2020 BTW).
Spectacular. 1 hour out of the 7×24 hours requiring power.
Hard to believe they were using this to spruke the title pf ‘Renewable Energy’ superpower. I would be more impressed with 1 hour at night, without those terrible fossil fuels. Or better yet, 1 hour at night on solar power. 🙂
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Apart from all their Monopoly money games and other unmentionable shenanigans, the seething (hungry?) mass of warm-faux escaped Baku in the nick of time: freezing snow which has been falling on the Caucasus Mountains and eastern Turkey on/off for the past week, finally drifted eastwards to begin falling on Sahdag (2,500m) and Tufandag (1,920m) ski areas in the host country yesterday, with 2 more days of ‘light snow’ and sub-zero temperatures in the offing (Azerbaijan snow-forecast.com).
Can’t have the press showing images of ‘literally hell’ Baku with snow-covered mountain ranges providing a chilly alpine backdrop & it’s not even winter yet.
And what have those gazillions of dollars (gods) done for our climate? Storm-force NW gales in Fiordland thanks to your ‘heatwave’, before switching cold SW with heavy rain & cooler temps later today: same as it ever was. PLUS snow is forecast early next week for Mt Cook and surrounding peaks – providing yet another year of 12 months’ snowfall for NZ. Will the ™️newsreaders you can trust™️ report this belief-shattering occurrence, or will they hyperventilate with warm-faux as they announce to the jab-addled masses a new world-record of 31*C in somewhere town due to… orographic foehn winds.
*warm-faux adapted from mo-fo
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Yep, and that huge carbon footprint from the Gravy-Planes transporting the junketeers to and fro and also from the infrastructure to keep the Gravy-Boat full of the brown stuff. Meanwhile, in the real world of working for a living, we plebs avoid carbon footprints by mostly doing our meetings and conferences on Zoom.
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Kenny invested a lot of emotional capital on the Indigenous issue that he couldn’t think straight. Unfortunately he became bitter about it. There was nothing compelling about his arguments.
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Here’s Chris Wright the USA new Energy Secretary talking with Dr Steve Koonin in 2021 and it’s enjoyable listening to two sane scientists discussing CC and energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nizA7hjZg9c&t=1018s
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‘NCQG’. Another alphabet collective! I’d send them to the farq to join all the other invertebrates!
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Lets name and shame the Baku Bandits from Australia.
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Sky News interviews Blackout Bowen this morning – And he lies through his teeth.
Bonehead Bowen is saying that the latest drama on the Electricity Grid front was saved by the Batteries. LOL. Then later in the morning, I watched Ross Greenwood being interviewed and he said ‘TOSH’ (or words to that effect). He showed that COAL saved the day. Diagrams, etc.
So, the MisInformation and DisInformation being shown by the Feral Guv’ment once again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BMgU_5z38U
The video goes for 21 minutes if you can stomach looking at Bonehead for that long that is.
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Thank you for your service to the site. I cannot stomach a second of Blackout. He is worse than any of their ABC smarmy know-it-alls.
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And Bowen blamed the fossil fuel power stations because they are old and unreliable.
Surely they’ll be even more unrelable when they are closed down!!
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“The least reliable part of our energy grid at the moment is coal-fired power,” he told Sky News.
“That’s just a statement of fact. There hasn’t been a day in the last 18 months when we haven’t had a breakdown in a coal-fired power station.”
No, a few are out for scheduled ‘routine maintenance’ something which is near impossible for Replaceables.
Elsewhere he talks of ageing coal power stations. But they are infinitely maintainable. Like the axe with three new heads and five new handles. Replaceables are not maintainable.
Shutting Hazelwood and now Liddell are disastrous decisions. And now we are in a near national Canberra run grid, not State run, the whole country can stop at once. That’s visionary.
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My solar panels blackout every day as well. Although there was one day this week that they hardly fronted at all. So do you count a continuous blackout over two days as a single event or two events. Sometimes they blackout multiple times a day. Very confusing.
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Yes and blowing up Coal Fired Power Stations is crazy stuff. BTW, Germany is looking at firing up its Nuclear Power Stations again. Their Solar/Wind/Battery experiment has not worked. Bonehead Blackout Bowen please note. In fact, go over there on a fact finding mission. You may well learn something. Even some German and not the Gobbledygook that you speak.
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And now we are in a near national Canberra run grid, not State run, the whole country can stop at once. That’s visionary.
Fortunately the Nullarbor Plain has so far successfully meant the true national grid is still a physical impossibility.
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There is that expression –
“Splendid isolation”
But only while it is splendid
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“Like the axe with three new heads and five new handles.”
I had one of those. Best darn axe I ever owned! 🤠
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I have two of the new improved version –
One Hytest, one “Plumb”
Original heads, several new handles for each
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And I worry that all this is on orders from China.
Daniel Andrews was clearly controlled by China. His unexplained solo trip to China before he resigned said as much. No press. No explanation. And he shut down a great Federally funded underground freeway which would have taken 30,000 cars off the road and ready to go. Then started building the world’s biggest tunnel under the Maribyrnong River (aka the salt water creek). Most of the ‘tunnel’ is in the air, a massive structure of elevated roads and flyovers for many kilometers, but this time Chinese steel and Union control.
But the confirmation comes from the people coming forward, the Japanese Ambassador and more to say that Penny Wong was dressing them down for insulting China, even when she was in opposition and had no legal standing to summon people.
The whole Chinese Windmill and Solar panel scam stinks. Australian electricty users paying directly for Chinese imports and paying twice for Chinese owned power generation. And now 35% tax on all large companies for CO2, all to be turned into Carbon Credits and those turned into cash by friends of the government.
Australia is being bankrupted by China’s allies in government. Starting with Albanese, Bowen, Chalmers, Wong and Gallagher and Bandt.
How many communists and opportunists do we have in the Federal government?
It’s nothing to do with saving the planet. Emissions of CO2 have zero impact on total CO2. And total CO2 is the alleged problem, not emissions.
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Wikipedia page on this is West_Gate_Tunnel
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I can’t find the number of delegates that Australia sent to this party but there are some names of senior officials plus the various presentations Australia did at the pavilion here. Yes, we have an “Ambassador for Climate Change”.
https://unfccc-cop.dcceew.gov.au/cop29pavilion
And also, there was an “Acknowledgement of Country” ceremony. Apparently the Australian Officials were unaware they were in someone else’s country 13,000km away. It must have been the fatigue of all that private jet or business/first class air travel.
Note to overseas readers not used to stupid woke things Australians now do, the ceremony is defined from the SA Government website as follows:
I was not aware that Australian Aboriginals were “custodians” of Azerbaijan. The history books will have to be rewritten, yet again.
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As I said in the previous thread, here in Nepal I have seen no useful project whatsoever that the UN has done. Your money is thrown away on useless virtue signaling fantasy projects
If Leftists want to do something useful for the Nepali (and other Third World people) here are some projects that they can help with that come to mind:
1) GO up into the mountains and help the local people with “Net Zero” fuel for cooking. PERSONALLy devote two years of your lives to making cow and yak dung cakes WITH YOUR BARE HANDS like the locals do and relieve them to do other duties. Also, collect firewood for them (but not from local protected forests). You may have to walk for many hours or days to find an appropriate source and carry the wood up on your back, maybe 2000 metres in elevation.
2) Again, devote two years of your lives working on litter. Here in Nepal there is a behavioural problem of the locals littering, everywhere, including high in the Himalayas. Unbelievable amounts of rubbish are dropped indiscriminately. Your job, come here and pick up rubbish, then sort it to recycle what is recyclable and put the rest in appropriate landfill, just like you expect us to do. Also run lessons in schools and elsewhere teaching people not to litter. DON’T ban plastics, this is a behavioural problem, not a chemical substance problem. Incidentally, much of the rubbish is thrown into rivers. THIS is how plastics end up in the ocean. Banning plastics (not that you could define what a plastic is, as anti-plastic activists make extensive use of plastics themselves) in Western countries will make no difference to the behavioural problem of Third World people littering.
None of the above costs the billions or trillions of the taxes of hard working people of the West being thrown away on useless virtue signaing Leftist fantasy projects.
Incidentally, these are just two things that come to mind about how Leftists can help redeem themselves for the enormous damage they have done to our Civilisation. I will be compiling lists of further, actually useful, things you can do.
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You can settle one matter. Are the Nepalese scared of Climate Change? And if so, which is the scarier, vanishing snow on Mt Everest or rapid sea level rise?
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Maybe they expect their reincarnated selves to pick up all the litter? On behalf of the UN. Jobs for the future.
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And it proves Jordan Petersen and others right. If you want no pollution and beautiful clear vistas, make people rich. Then and only then will they care about the environment. Otherwise they have more important things on their minds, like survival.
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Obviously, it is a rapidly rising sea level rise. /sarc
Not so for Dim Flatulence, OhBummer, Al Gormless, Blackout Bowen, UpGrade Albo and all the other Spongers on the Taxpayer. The Gravy Train is great when you get a ride and the gravy.
What happens when the sea levels drop? LOL. Down goes the value of that property.
We are in a period of Global Cooling and not Warming.
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Get the World Bank to finance Hydro Projects. All excess electricity can be exported to India and China. Nepal will then make money and pay off the World Bank Loans. Simple as.
For this suggestion I demand a 10% Commission Fee for my analysis and my hard work.
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David, I see Chomolongma Everest is scorching on -30 today with a -55 windchill on the summit thanks to 55 km/h breezes wafting by at 30,000ft, even though it’s clear and the sun is shining: am still waiting to see a selfie by some young Western ‘climate activist’ dressed only in a bikini atop the planet’s highest peak – which of course used to be seabed in a previous incarnation.
Enjoy the yak butter tea and charas, aum…
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“which of course used to be seabed”
I’ve been to a similar place at 5,500 feet in the Washington Cascades. Having lunch while sitting on a piece of an ancient seabed is a mind-expanding activity. My elevation gain to get there was about 3,000 feet.
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Speaking of Yak butter. When I was there we’d been having Yak milk and then one day on our trek I saw a rest house that had a sign saying “Nak milk”. So I asked what Nak milk is and they told me a Nak is the female. So I did a mock spit and wiped my mouth saying, “Oh yuk. I’ve been drinking Yak milk”. They thought that was very funny. Some jokes are universal.
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Can’t wait for windmills and solar panels on Mt Everest.
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I saw a children’s book here in Nepal at a guest house.
It was printed in English but I assume other languages were available. I would be willing to bet it was funded via COP, UN, WEF or subsidy harvesters.
It was shocking Leftist/Warmist propaganda.
Title: “Global Warming and its Effect in the Himalayas” – Climate Change Handbook.
ISBN 978-9937-0-7744-6
Go this link to download a free copy.
https://thepartnersnepal.org/books/
On page 50 of the pdf the entry says:
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Meanwhile, the COP Out attendees in Baku recently were eating lots of red meat and drinking lots of red/white wine. Nice.
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You could almost respect the COP crowd if they put up a sign above the entrance to the conference reading: WELCOME, GET ON BOARD THE GRIFTER GRAVY TRAIN
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One of COP29’s lunch menus.
https://www.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/1goup8l/lunch_menu_from_todays_cop29/?rdt=37903
The lamb stew with cherries looks appetising… or perhaps you’d prefer the Caspian pomegranate fried sturgeon?
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Nepalese subsistence farmers can only dream of such luxuries… Whatever happened to equity?
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Great. Not Russian, Azerbijiani!
“The primary and official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, a Turkic language closely related to and partially mutually intelligible with Modern Turkish. Together with Turkish, Turkmen and Gagauz, Azerbaijani is a member of Oghuz branch of southwestern group Turkic language family.”
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Sign left exit doors COP OUT
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Exit Stage Left…………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6k_in6cv4
LOL
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The COP-29 attendees from Australia include these people whose names were extracted from the official list by a search for “Australia”.
There could be about this number again, of unofficial attendees from Australia who did not make the paid for list.
The names are in an Excel spreadsheet format, so gplease give a little time to load.
No, I was not there in person. I had to spread some snail bait on the home garden, now that we have had some steady rain.
Geoff S
https://www.geoffstuff.com/copaust.xlsx
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This may have been covered elsewhere but 11 US states are taking Blackrock and other leeches to court.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/11-state-attorneys-general-led-ken-paxton-take/
Hopefully this is the beginning and I hope our woke banks take note; refusing to fund coal should have consequences.
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Wow!! Great news.
Pity it’s a rather slow process.
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Just now, for indolent scientific inquiry, I have clicked trough 35 female names from the Cop-29 list and perused their images on the Net. I got sick of it by 35 looks.
I was not impressed. It this is a sample of the female talent that predatory males were anticipating at Cop-29, then I fear it is time to alert our Customs people to screen the males who come home from there. This is because their own attending secretaries offer few candidates for seduction, so the males will have been inclined to sample internationally. Who knows what exotic diseases were lurking?
In my younger days of International Conferences, I would take my wife with me because she was reliably the loveliest girl in the room. This gave me leave to cast an accurate assaying eye over the fields of fillies, with later casual conversation to indicate the success rate of recreational couplings. Internationally, as classes, Iranian women were lovely, Dutch girls had unshapely legs, French girls were snobbish and naïve, US girls were all teeth, hair and talk, etc etc. Bondi Beach denizens would beat most competitors.
Try it yourself, my fellow men. Google through the names and their images to see what is typical of the Australian female wedded to a life of Environmental Protection. Most do not have to Protect themselves, for the Environment selects for their exclusion from eroticism.
Seriously, if these folk are calling the Environmental Policy shots for Australia, then we face an ugly future. I would prefer that the female input into our policy came from feminine figures able to walk and talk like beauty contest ladies, with hair in place, with cosmetic accents, with smiles, not from a group off to the side that would be hopeless at providing candidates.
Vive la Difference! Geoff S
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That’s refreshingly sexist. But maybe DFAT is trying to discourage mass migration to Bondi. There have been a few riots at Cronulla and we do not want more at Bondi.
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are they real people – after the minister there were some very strange names – Blong! Binge! Brine! Every? Jugovac- Really?
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Most likely DEI placements. That is a fair assumption for any women in senior public “service” positions these days. Gone are the days of merit placements. And it shows.
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How many of the 70,000 paid their own way?
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TdeF,
No, not sexist.
It might be sexist if I compared women with men, but I did not even look at male images, so far as I could ascertain.
Geoff S
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