By Jo Nova
Firstly, all that money we spent — it’s done nothing (shh!)
It turns out Australia’s economy has been decarbonising at the same rate for decades regardless of how many windmills and solar panels we install, or how many UN speeches we give. Carbon taxes can come and go, coal plants can close, and we can fill up the roof with pink batts. But in the end, the Australian economy, our GDP, is decarbonising at about 2% a year, and has been since 1992. All the frequent flyer carbon schemes, carbon certificates, waste management plans and electric cars amount to a cake decoration.
Roger Pielke Jnr, graphs 30 years of government failure.
Mission Impossible
By Roger Pielke Jnr, The Honest Broker
For all of the sound and fury of Australian climate politics, which have claimed the careers of a few prime ministers, there is no evidence that Australia’s emissions reduction policies have done anything to meaningfully accelerate the rate of decarbonization over many decades.
We see how Labor, Liberal, makes no difference. The dinosaur era where we used mostly coal power had nearly the same reduction as the Rudd renewable era where we started out quest for “renewables”, and the “Decade of Denial” that followed that was as successful as anything the Labor Greens ever managed.
At it’s peak, our Australia emissions reduction per unit of GDP reached nearly 3%. But if we are to reach even the lower end of the new 2035 goals Pielke calculates we need to double the reduction to nearly 6%.
Not only are the implied rates of decarbonization far in excess of anything ever accomplished in Australia, they are also far in excess of any annual rate of decarbonization achieved by any country — ever.
We know they can’t do it, they know they can’t do it, and they know we know.
Pielke Jnr calculates we should be rushing to install 25 nuclear reactors, if we were serious.
And we are serious, of course, just not about carbon dioxide. We are serious about converting the free market to a socialist paradise.
When every business is dependent on the State, none of them will criticize the Party. Hallalujah.
When energy is unaffordable here, Australia will be the perfect quarry for China, and happy clapper for the UN. …Almost there!
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