By Jo Nova
Earth faces a mass extinction, 99.9% of ScientistsTM agree, yet 90% of all nations plumb forgot to update their targets. (90%!)
According to the UN, these “are the most important policy documents of this century”.
Almost all nations miss UN deadline for new climate targets
AFP
Only one country on Earth has a reasonable target to keep planetary temperatures to 1.5C
Nearly all nations missed a UN deadline Monday to submit new targets for slashing carbon emissions, including major economies under pressure to show leadership following the US retreat on climate change.
Just 10 of nearly 200 countries required under the Paris Agreement to deliver fresh climate plans by February 10 did so on time, according to a UN database tracking the submissions.
Only one nation has a plan to keep temperatures to 1.5 degrees above whatever they were 150 years ago, when the weather was supposedly perfect. (That’s the UK — commiserations to the Brits).
Almost all the biggies missed — China, India and even the EU missed the deadline. The US was one of the only big nations that got in early, ….but then Trump axed the Paris deal.
Australia didn’t update its target because an election is coming, obviously, and they don’t want to scare the voters. The same is true for the EU, and they even admitted as much. Elections are such a nuisance:
The EU, historically a leader on climate policy, has been delayed by elections and internal processes and is bracing for fresh polls in Germany and Poland.
Remember, voters want climate action all over the world — they just don’t want to be told about it before they vote.
I’m surprised that the fanatically woke, anthropogenic global warming true-believing country Australia missed its deadline.
It must be because of the imminent election, as you say, Jo.
I can only imagine that whichever faction of the Uniparty win, they have something very sad and bad in mind for us.
All Uniparty factions, Lib/Lab/Green/Teal, are prepared to destroy the economy and country in pursuit of “Net Zero” madness, even though, as some have pointed our, we are already there. (See link below.)
And for those that say Dutton has other plans, unless he is prepared to be a leader and have the moral clarity to state them and believe in something, then they don’t exist as far as I’m concerned. It will be just more of the same of the fake conservative Liberal Party believing in nothing worthwhile. Admittedly the country will be destroyed slightly slower under the Libs than under Green Labor. But it will still be destroyed.
https://www.atlasiron.com.au/australia-has-been-at-net-zero-for-a-long-time-ian-plimer-rowan-dean-the-outsiders/
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Spot on Jo and don’t forget that the NON OECD countries couldn’t care less about the delusional CC nonsense.
In fact they are going to build many more hundreds of coal and gas plants ASAP and laugh at our expense as they further build up their military strength.
What a pity we’ve chosen this period pf our history to ignore very simple logic and reason. Just unbelievable but true.
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The world is warming according to the temperatures but investigations show that it might not be that bad. 103 stations in the UK – nearly a third of the total – no longer exist.
The Scole weather station was originally installed in 1971 It had a short and uneventful life of just over nine and a half years before passing away in the summer of 1980 but it is still reporting 30 year temperatures trends starting in 1960 and still continuing.. The figures from it are apparently from ‘homogenising” data from near by sites, unfortunately they are also no longer in existence.
Heads up for Ray Sanders (on Tallbloke) who has tackled the MET Office.
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/scole-dcnn-3071-experimental-proof-of-the-afterlife-of-a-weather-station/
So the figures for the first 11 years were ‘faked’ as well as those in the last 40 odd years, but we are expected to believe and be afraid, very afraid. I wonder if our Australian BOM does something similar? .
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The world has warned multiple times in historical periods and when it has, Civilisation has thrived.
E g.:
Egyptian Warm Periods.
Second Intermediate Period: A warm period around 1800 BCE
New Kingdom: A warm period around 1600 BCE
Third Intermediate Period: A warm period around 1000 BCE
Minoan Warm Period.
Around 1275BCE
Roman Warm Period
250BCE-400CE
Arguably Rome reached peak Civilisation, at least peak expansion, under Trajan (98 to 117CE), around 117CE.
Medieval Warm Period.
950-1250CE
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G3, years ago the BoM were certainly providing homogeneous temps from a weather station at Sale in Victoria with another station at Rutherglen in Victoria. No big deal, except, Sale is very near the coast on the southern side, Rutherglen just happens to be over a mountain range and on the northern side. Any look at the evening weather will reveal that these weather stations are generally controlled by very different controlling patterns. Rutherglen getting most weather from those westerly systems that also bring heat down from the inland while Sale gets southeasterly controlled weather. Bit like comparing left and right or north and south, but hey, somehow it managed to raise the temperatures in Sale and thereby “prove” global warming was real.
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No target has been missed.
We were the targets.
Time machine theft.
Our future productivity in the form of debt has been stolen from us and given to the elites in the present.
At least in Feudal times they just came and took your craft and farm produce.
Our children and grandchildren will see snow.
Just not the pay off on the loan.
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And that’s exactly where the Left/Elites are trying to return us.
They fundamentally oppose The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. All those movements that resulted in freedom of thought and action, science and reason, education for all and a decent standard of living for all people, especially the “working classes”, then known as the serfs.
Serfs were then in permanent debt bondage and indentured servitude, not unlike many working and middle class people are now due to high interest rates and real estate and rent prices brought about by Leftist policies.
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Can someone remind how Australia is going to “save the planet” by destroying the economy and itself and shutting down 0.1% of the world’s coal power stations?
Meanwhile China is building two coal power stations per week, with no end in sight, each one with an absolute minimum lifespan of 50 to 60 years and China already producing more than twice as much as the next biggest CO2 producer, the United States, not that there’s anything wrong with CO2 (what the Left call “carbon” (sic)).
It’s clearly not about CO2 or the environment. The useless/useful idiots of the Left are trying to destroy Western Civilisation. At least TRUMP will stop these human-haters destroying the US.
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The earth is roughly 4,500 million years old and still keeps going despite the recent avalanche of doom predictions about the climate. Since the earth has endured ice ages and much warmer times than at present you have to wonder about the sanity of those making predictions of coming doom.
WE are, it is true, in a slightly warmer time than, say, 350 years ago but past civilisations prospered when the world was warmer, anything up to 2℃, but there are some dismayed by an increase of 0.05℃ claimed recently. Supposedly the ice will melt and cause all sorts of catastrophes, despite their predictions never happening (despite frequent repeats). Melting in Glacier Bay in SW Alaska has been surveyed since 1794.
These hysterics blame the slight warming trend of the last 250 years on a rise in CO2 despite no proof of that among the majority of scientists. That includes all those scientists among the countries emitting the 70% of human CO2 emissions. That might be China which is planning to open 1171 new coal plants shortly, or India with 446 new one planned. Or possibly Japan (45), Sth.Korea (26) or The Philippines (60) or Turkey (93) but surely not The EU (who have been suffering by the failure of wind for months) with another 27 joining the already 468.
In Australia we don’t want coal nor nuclear but want blackouts?
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This needs to be rammed into the publics conscience repeatedly NOW, before the election date is released.
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But Dutton and the Libs are clueless and asleep at the wheel.
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I have a nasty suspicion that when the Coalition are in office all public talk of nuclear will mysteriously dwindle & die. In fact most CC talk will almost completely disappear.
BUT, the coalition will continue to plod on with Blackout Bowen’s wet & green dreams.
They’re hoping that silence on the subject will silence the opposition to renewables!!
Just keep the peasants in the dark!
Nuclear will be forgotten by 2030.
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Gee Jo, you are starting to sound cynical about this climate disaster. The wheels are falling off and the big talkers are realising their followers aren’t following any more. They might even be awakening to the fact that the chattering classes are not the majority, just the noisiest. I’ll be doing my bit for the climate today by going paddling with some mates (average age 80).
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followers aren’t following
Sales of Electric vehicles is a good example:
https://thedriven.io/2025/02/05/ev-sales-crash-in-january-despite-ongoing-price-war/#:~:text=EV%20sales%20in%20Australia%20have,appetite%20%E2%80%93%20despite%20recent%20price%20cuts.
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Good
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On Their ABC Radio National, 621kHz in Melbournistan (Australian taxpayer funded extreme Left radio and multimedia organisation) yesterday someone was talking about how we have to learn to consume less and lower our standard of living as the standard of living over the last 70 or so years was “unsustainable” (a typical non-sensical Leftist term in relation to our standard of living).
Typical Leftist nonsense. Of course, they are only referring to non-Elites who should lower their standard of living. The Elites will continue to fly on their private jets into the billionaires’ ski club at Davos every year to decide how they’re going to further lower our standard of living.
Already Australia’s standard of living is dropping substantially, mostly due to high “green” energy prices. The Left have achieved their objective, however as they continue to destroy the energy supply, our standard of living will continue to fall to second world and even third world status. Look to Venezuela or pre-Milei Argentina for examples.
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Commiserations.
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It would have been a great time to call in and ask if this reduction of living standards should equate to a reduction in ABC funding and salaries each year. After all, they should lead by example.
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I see the Donald has scored a win for common sense and poked green extremism in the eye by bringing back the plastic straw.
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Wonderful.
A small step but significant.
One of the strategies of the Left is too remove convenience products like straws and plastic bags, even though plastic pollution in oceans comes from Third World countries, not Western countries.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-the-procurement-and-forced-use-of-paper-straws/
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Yes. It’s been quite obvious for some years now that the leftie foot soldiers are constantly scouring our normal living routines to pinpoint attacks on all those normal things we do. Their special emphasis is in deliberately getting right into our faces.
Deliberately malicious and spiteful.
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And this is where TRUMP and his team are so wonderful. It’s not only the big stuff they go after, it’s the “small” but annoying things like the drinking straw ban.
And paper “straws” are straws just like “renewables” are cheap and reliable electricity.
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Since the Kyoto targets were enforced back in 1997, China and the developing world have more than achieved their own targets by more than doubling their emissions. In fact their rate of emissions growth has caused global emissions to double since 1980, whilst emissions of the OECD countries are now the same as 1980. As a result, the non-OECD countries now make up 70% of global emissions and this is rising every year.
Perhaps the most amazing part about this massive emissions increase are the sounds of crickets from the UN, the MSM and the political left. It’s as if this isn’t happening. There no protesters outside any Chinese embassies and there is almost zero political pressure for these countries to do anything other than emit more CO2. And, there are no plans to change the rules set out way back in the 1992 UNFCCC agreement, that allows developing countries to emit as much CO2 as they want without any penalties. Meanwhile, as global CO2 levels keep rapidly rising, pushed up by the developing nations, the hysteria from the climate zealots is rapidly rising, but is directed at western countries like the UK and Australia that have absolutely nothing to do with this massive CO2 increase and whose emissions are so small they are akin to a flea on an elephants back. If you kill the flea, the elephant’s weight will remain the same and it will actually weigh more next year after dining out on green pastures. Despite this obvious reality, the message we’re being fed is to focus on removing our 1% as this apparently is the evil CO2 that causes floods, fires, cyclones, droughts, reef bleaching and any other extreme weather event or negative environmental impact. Any mention of China is seen as an act of heresy to the cause and is met with strong resistance and you’ll be reminded that China has more RE installed capacity than anyone else and makes all of the solar panels that will save the world.
Of course something has to give because not everyone is a lobotomised leftie that watches the ABC news each night and obeys the instructions from the socialist elite masters. And of course, enter Trump, the seemingly sole saviour of the western world who dodges bullets, brushes off endless legal attacks and bats the MSM away like a pro baseball player hitting a home run. There is no doubt that the largest battle in the climate war has just begun and the next four years will possibly determine our future fate as either a free and independent nation or as a captured southern state of China.
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Elections have always been a pest for the left.
That is why they put the global warming fraud in place.
We must suspend democracy ” just for a while” so we can save the planet.
If we can get Israel ethnically destroyed it will be a good start being the only Democracy in the Middle East.
If they succeed you will never hear the term “climate change” again.
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The United Nations: An UN-United mess failing to control climate. The UN is not worth employing. Give them the sack.
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Someone has to call b……t on this whole CO2 emissions charade. I suppose the present US administration is now doing that, thank goodness. What’s the statistic? I think more CO2 emissions have occurred in the last 30 years which sort of approximates to the Kyoto protocol, than in the previous 100 years before 1997. Which shows how utterly useless they have been. But then again, it fits with the whole United Nations vibe. Put in place to stop wars post WW2 and it’s been totally ineffective. Couldn’t even prevent the Ukraine conflict in Europe.
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