By Jo Nova
The World’s Renewables Crash-Test-Dummy has officially set new magical emissions-reductions-targets. It’s just a different shade of impossible, so nothing’s changed. But the labels on the staircase to Green Heaven have switched from 43% to 62%. The UN and President Xi will be happy.
It won’t change world temperatures but it might be enough to bribe the UN with to “win” the Olympics of Climate Conferences — the junket to end all junkets. The annual private jet party of bureaucratic celebrities.
When our PM was asked why Australia should set targets for global weather control when the three biggest countries on Earth are not, he whipped out a “fun fact” to run a nation by — as Graham Lloyd noticed in The Australian.
[Anthony Albanese] hit out at Coalition MPs who argue Australia should not adopt ambitious targets when there was a lack of action from big emitters the US, China and India.
“The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined. Just a fun fact there,” he said.
It’s almost like the PM is managing the country like it’s his Tik Tok account. Sadly for him (worse for us) it’s like a conversation with a troll. Before we spend a trillion dollars, and fry the national grid, we’d hope Anthony Albanese could answer our questions. Just because China is installing lots of useless wind and solar plants, doesn’t mean we should too. (They’re also cutting Taiwan’s subsea cables, leaking bioweapons, and harvesting organs from prisoners. Just say “No”. OK? ) China has also sacked one third of their solar manufacturing workforce. Perhaps they’re just installing all the left over solar panels they can’t sell to anyone?
China might be installing all that wind and solar, but their emissions are off with a rocket
Doesn’t that matter, and isn’t it sort of the whole point? (And will the ABC ever ask?)
Lloyd points out that China’s emissions grew by more than Australia’s total annual output.
Looking at all the energy sources used by China we get a clue why their emissions are not falling:
Likewise, here’s Australia’s total energy use by source in TWh on the same scale as China’s:
These graphs include all energy sources including industry and transport and not just electricity, that’s why oil is higher than coal in Australia.
For the record, assuming the numbers are accurate (though I don’t know why we would) China has 30 times as much wind power, and 19 times as much solar power as Australia does — and burns 61 times as much coal. The figures below are TWh for China and Australia from OWID.
| … | Fuel source | China | Australia | Ratio |
| … | Coal | 25,599 | 423 | 61 |
| Oil | 8,964 | 620 | 15 | |
| Gas | 4,344 | 370 | 11 | |
| Hydro | 3,303 | 37 | 107 | |
| Wind | 2,432 | 878 | 30 | |
| Solar | 2,046 | 123 | 19 | |
| Nuclear | 1,099 | – | ||
| Biofuels | 37 | 1 | 29 | |
| Other renewables | 652 | 9 | 70 |
China also has 107 times as much hydropower. (And we thought the Snowy Hydro Scheme was big. )
But seriously, cherry-picked glib inanities is hardly a way to run a country. It is an insults to hardworking Australians. If the media and opposition hounded him on the sheer pointlessness of our Net Zero piety, he would have never been elected.
That’s why billionaires buy the media. isn’t it?
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REFERENCES
OWID and the Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy (2025)
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