The ABC and the Guardian think they are onto some hot scandalous leak, but they don’t seem to realize the awful truth they are accidentally revealing.
This is not the story of an evil miner failing to make commitments, it’s the story of their technology fantasy busting. If wind and solar power were cheap, the profit hungry miners would be doing it wouldn’t they?
Instead all their ambitious plans are coming undone.
BHP is the largest mining company in the world, it has shareholder approval to spend millions on wind and solar projects and on the conversion to electric trucks. They also had an enthusiastic management and Net Zero targets, yet somehow the company has decided to drop or delay the wind and solar projects, and the low emissions processing plant too. It’s all been put in the deep freeze, delayed until 2031 before it even starts.
The truth is that the big electric haul trucks are not even close to being ready, and without the batteries to soak up the unreliable power, there was no point in spending a billion dollars on the wind and solar projects either yet.
Everything hinged on the electric trucks being ready but they weren’t:
By Christopher Knaus and Adam Morton, The Guardian
In a statement, BHP said its progress towards net zero emissions was dependant on technological shifts in trucks, trains and bulldozers, which were not yet ready to be deployed.
“For example, no Australian mining operation is currently utilising critical 240-ton battery-electric haul trucks as the technology is not advanced enough to scale to an operational fleet,” a spokesperson said.
The company is trialling battery electric trucks…
“The technology simply does not exist:”
The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia, an industry group, said the shift to electrified haulage was incredibly complex and required a whole-of-sector effort to pioneer technological change.
“There is currently no mining operation anywhere in the world with the scale, complexity and operating conditions of the Pilbara running a fully electrified haulage fleet, because the technology to do so simply does not exist,” said its chief executive, Aaron Morey.
The ABC make out that BHP is being deceptive, saying it would cut emissions, while “locking in fossil fuels” yet the ABC has been deceptively telling us that wind and solar was the cheapest form of energy, while pretending they are real journalists, and not bothering to find out the real cost, something ten thousand engineers could have told them.
In their news stories the ABC didn’t have the honesty to mention that the failure of the “urgent” BHP plans shows that wind and solar obviously weren’t cheaper or more useful than diesel.
BHP put in a sincere effort, but the ABC was deceptive all along
The only thing that the ABC “caught” BHP doing was plotting how to manage the reputational hit from making realistic business decisions. In a normal world they shouldn’t need to do that. But when the media-commentariat is fixated with trying to control the weather, then sensible companies make plans to put out those reputational fires. The fact that reporting is so irrational reflects badly on the ABC and The Guardian, not on BHP.
It doesn’t appear to have even crossed the minds of the ABC-Guardian team that their story puts renewable energy in a dismal light. They seem to believe that the higher costs are irrelevant and companies should spend the extra dollars out of charity for the planet, even though they’d be depriving their shareholders to do it. How about those ethics, eh?
The ABC reports that another thing that foiled the BHP plan was that diesel trucks got cheaper (the tragedy!):
They were working to a tight deadline — about 80 per cent of BHP’s Pilbara trucks were due to finish their operational life between 2024 and 2027.
A temporary fix was hit upon. BHP would overhaul its current fleet of diesel trucks to extend their life by a few years. This would buy the company time so it could start going electric in the late 2020s. But once again, the company had a change of heart. And once again, cost was a factor.
In 2023, diesel trucks from its main supplier Caterpillar suddenly became cheaper. The internal documents show rather than $5 million each, the price had fallen to $3 million.
So BHP went back on its plan. It purchased 62 new diesel trucks for its Jimblebar mine, locking in diesel use at one of its biggest mines until at least the late 2030s and potentially to 2041.
When diesel trucks became $2 million dollars cheaper each, should BHP have bought the expensive electric trucks anyway, and thus reduced their profits, providing less money for mums and dads superannuation accounts, and charged more for the ore, eventually depriving Mum and Dad of cheaper steel too?
The ABC reports on companies as if they are a failed wing of a government department, not a mass of independently organized people working together to serve millions of other people who willingly pay for these goods and services.
Astonishing polls in the AFR today point to a wipe-out of the old centre-right
The message is clear, the voters on the right side of politics don’t want to pander to the climate police and they don’t want mass immigration (which is also true of some voters on the left). It ought to be a snap for the Liberals and the Nationals to figure this out and win them back, but they are not even trying.
One Nation could win a blockbuster tally of between 46 and 59 seats in the Australian Parliament. The Liberal Party would be reduced to between 7 to 21 seats and the Nationals to zero.
It’s the Blob versus The People, but the Liberals are on the Blob’s side. One Nation voters know this is a fight for the country against corruption and globalist power, and they’re hardly going to be won over by a team that says they’ll stick with the UN because they’re a bit busy to just say “No”.
What is Angus Taylor thinking?
The Coalition’s half-pregnant policy position is that Net Zero absolutely has to go, but the Paris Agreement absolutely has to stay. This leaves Angus Taylor, the head of the Coalition telling us he won’t pull out of the Paris Agreement because it’s… irrelevant? How is he going to sell that — We’re sticking to all the international agreements that don’t mean anything? If a law achieves nothing, we will leave it on the books? There is no principle here except something else is going on and the Liberals don’t want to tell us what it is.
Does he think anyone will be fooled by this?
“We will get rid of net zero,” Mr Taylor told Sky News host Paul Murray. “We’re not proposing to get out of the Paris Agreement because frankly, it’s not going to change anything we’re going to do.
Taylor doesn’t even try to explain any miniscule theoretical benefit. Like maybe we get to sell more cheese to the French? He’s so unconvincing the only point he mentioned was: “I’m not a big believer in being dictated to by any international organisation…” he said, lamely giving us a reason to get out of it.
And poor Matt Canavan looks like a turkey, because he has to eat his own words. In the past he’s said we should get out of the Paris Agreement but now suddenly, it’s just a piece of paper:
“‘Net Zero is not in the Paris Agreement at all. We signed up to the Paris Agreement in 2015. Net Zero didn’t come along until years later … it’s just a piece of paper.’ — Matt Canavan to Lee Hanson from One Nation.
Senator Malcolm Roberts of One Nation explains that “No, Angus Taylor & Matt Canavan, it is not just ‘a piece of paper'”. That’s just a word game, and it’s clear the spirit and intent of Net Zero lives in there.
The phrase ‘Net Zero’ was deliberately left out of the Paris Agreement, as it was deemed too politically charged. Instead, they inserted the legal definition of Net Zerointo Article 4.1:
Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible … so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century…
According to Onassis, Farhana Yamin is credited with ‘getting the goal of Net Zero emissions by 2050 into the 2015 Paris Agreement’ and was a key IPCC architect. She later joined Extinction Rebellion. Even Wikipedia says, ‘Net Zero was basic to the goals of the Paris Agreement’ with the IPCC’s follow-up to Paris, the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5*C, popularising Net Zero as a short-hand for the phrase already used in the original document.
This is not in dispute by anyone except, perhaps, the Coalition, who are afraid that admitting the Paris Agreement’s role in tying Australia to Net Zero weakens their political chances against One Nation.
It’s a legal weapon
The Paris Agreement is a legal tool to pave the way to cement the intent in domestic legislation.
As we already know, groups of malcontents and foreign interests use these international agreements in lawfare as a weapon to wring out more money from the hapless taxpayer, or delay useful projects. If we have signed The Paris Agreement, they will say, and we are not living up to our own agreements, somehow, somewhere there will be an aggrieved party who will sue to win millions for their favourite island charity or grifting business.
Even if the UN hasn’t succeeded yet in legally bombing a nation back to the stone age, we know it wants to.
Is any One Nation voter going to be converted by this (below)? If the Liberals keep pushing these contradictory messages which are obviously hiding their true intent, they look weak. If they are just doing this so the Liberals in Teal seats have a safety line, it isn’t worth it. Give the Teal voters the full force of the UN quagmire and failures and the fence sitters will be all yours.
This is the sort of Uniparty waffle that will lose even more voters to One Nation.
Henceforth and verily, a witless economic model stacked on top of a skillless scientific one says that eating beef steaks makes the interest rate rise. But, don’t worry, if you spend thousands buying heat pumps, windmills and EVs from Matt Kean’s friends, you’ll pay less on the mortgage (trust us) and Wollemi Capital, who Matt Kean works for, will make more money.
Right now, interest rates are a hot topic, so bingo, Climate Change causes that too:
Natural disasters fuelled by a failure to curb global warming will make higher interest rates a permanent feature of Australia’s economy, the government’s climate change tsar Matt Kean has claimed, as analysis shows the extent to which climate inaction will harm the nation – in particular in NSW and Queensland – and reduce households’ income.
The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority has relied on economic modelling by Oxford Economics Australia to inform its first stress test of how a changing climate could affect home insurance, with the data showing the economy fares better – albeit still with challenges – when strong climate action is delayed and taken in the 2030s rather than not at all.
Mr Kean said Australia’s prudential supervisor had put a scenario estimate on the cost of climate inaction that dwarfed the cost of acting.
“We’re talking about household incomes potentially 20 per cent lower than the status quo, persistent inflation, and rising interest rates driven not by policy mistakes but by floods, fires and other disasters made worse by climate change,” Mr Kean said.
We already know both types of models are wrong. Despite humans emitting a trillion tons of CO2, Australian climate disasters aren’t costing us any more than they were 60 years ago*. This is despite rampant population growth from 11 million to 27 million people at the same time, with so many extra houses to burn, and a lot more cars to wash away. Globally, the more CO2 we emit, the less we spend on weather disasters.
Matt Kean is the “fundraiser” for a team dedicated to profiting from Climate subsidies — it’s his job to try to scare you out of your cash. How else will Wollemi Capital make money?
Now he’s paired up with APRA, which is a statuary authority supposedly regulating the bankers, but which really works for Minister Jim Chalmers and is totally dependent on the largess of Big Government for it’s 844 salaries. It’s a pure Blob machine, and we can assume their lives are easier if they do things that make Jim Chalmers happier, and also do things that make voters think that Big Spending Governments are worth voting for. (ie, The Labor kind).
As for their ability to predict the economy, let’s just say APRA didn’t see the GFC coming. It was the biggest event in APRA’s economic lifetime, and they didn’t warn us.
The thing that makes interest rates rise is Big-Spending Governments with fantasies that they can change the global weather. Jim Chalmers not only has an interest in selling his renewable policy, he has an interest in blaming the rises on someone else.
Modeling is the legerdemain by which con artists separate you from your money. An obedient model will find whatever the modeler wants it to find.
The big solar storms of 1201-1204 might be oldest historical records of extreme space weather.
It turns out the Sun was far more active than we thought during the warm late Medieval era — which is jolly awkward for the climate modelers who need to believe the sun is just a irrelevant ball of light that has no effect on Earth’s weather. If high solar activity correlates with warming on Earth (which it seems to) the modelers can’t keep ignoring the sun.
The crux of the matter, is if they add in more solar factors, the models might accidentally actually work without needing CO2. That would be a disaster (for the modelers).
On February 21 and 23 of 1201 AD, a Japanese poet wrote of seeing striking red auroras near Kyoto Japan. Someone nearby described the same thing on Feb 22, which makes it an intense three day solar storm. So researchers started looking for carbon 14 in buried wood in Northern Japan, and, voila, they found a huge spike in carbon 14 that suggest a “sub extreme solar proton event”. They rate this is “about 20% of the Miyake event in 774/775, a legendary solar storm.
The carbon 14 data was so detailed they were able to piece together three solar cycles from 1190 – 12:20. Which means the solar cycles then were only 7 – 8 years long, and were extremely active. In modern times we know that longer cycles are slower quieter ones. During the Little Ice Age the cycles were as long as 16 years and there were long periods with no sunspots at all.
Variation of the solar modulation parameter for the past millennium obtained based on carbon-14 data (Brehm et al., 2021).1)
The team found a whole new solar cycle peaking in 1204 that we didn’t know about.
From the paper come the descriptions of many solar observations recorded from 800 years ago:
For example, in Meigetsuki, the diary of Fujiwara no Sadaie, a Japanese courtier famous for his poetry, there are descriptions indicating the occurrence of low-latitude red aurorae in Kyoto on February 21 and 23, 1204.6) The sighting of a red aurora is also recorded for February 22 in another historical document, Omuro Soshoki, which remains in Kyoto, suggesting that the intense magnetic storm continued for three consecutive days, making it one of the oldest extreme space weather events documented in historical records. During these three days, red and white stripes were observed toward the north and northeast. This event may be associated with the appearance of a large sunspot with the size of a date palm, as recorded in a Chinese document on February 21, 1204.3) There are also recordings of the sighting of aurorae in the following month in Meigetsuki as well as in a Chinese document2) and a French document.8) In Meigetsuki, there is a description that aurorae were seen over three nights,7) although it was hearsay within the imperial court.
This suggests that solar activity was higher for longer than we thought during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). It’s more evidence that solar activity correlates with the global temperatures.
It’s remarkable to see how many space weather events are recorded:
Hiroko MIYAHARA, Ryuho KATAOKA, Kazuaki YAMAMOTO, Fuyuki TOKANAI, Toru MORIYA, Mirei TAKEYAMA, Hirohisa SAKURAI, Motonari OHYAMA, Kazuho HORIUCHI, Hideyuki HOTTA. Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period: Intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2026; 102 (4): 156 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.102.011
The WHO is itching to trigger the climate and health “Emergency” Powers Act or whatever legalistic bomb our patsy governments signed on our behalf.
Apparently millions of people will die if we don’t have a UN rubber stamp called “Emergency” to save them — because, obviously the big rich countries would never think to send boatloads of fuel, food and clothes all by themselves. (And if they did, Lordy! Without being a conduit for millions of our dollars, how could the UN run its own grift and graft machine?)
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent, The Guardian
The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.
Presumably the “Emergency” declaration gives them the tools to declare mandatory vaccination, or ban drugs they don’t like, or to funnel lots of cash.
So the WHO set up a committee to tell the WHO to declare an emergency, eh?
The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it “a public health emergency of international concern” (Pheic).
So not independent at all.
And the thing that makes this year so awful is a tsunami, asteroid, volcano,… is a bunch of things which are the same every year:
The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission’s report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO’s world health assembly starts on Monday.
Don’t miss the lingo — a Pheic is a “public health emergency of international concern”. Thats the highest level of health alert. So when Ebola goes global or an asteroid lands in Nevada, that’s it, they get the same rating as chikungunya.
Let’s all just call it a Pheic Emergency…
The committee includes former health and science ministers — so they’re complete Blob-devotees who know what side of the bread their organic-dairy-free-nut-margarine goes on.
It says something about them that they have to tell their fans that a rubber stamp can’t actually reverse climate change:
Pheics are the highest level of health alert. Previous declarations include infectious diseases such as Covid and Mpox. While declaring one would not on its own reverse climate change, it would trigger the kind of coordinated international response that the scale of the health crisis demands but has not yet materialised.
This is pure stone-age sorcery:
[Sir Andrew Haines] added: “If we carry on emitting at current rates, that will accelerate the risks to health for both current and future generations including: more people suffering and dying from excess heat, floods and infectious diseases, air pollution from wildfires, more preterm births and more food insecurity.”
Hello? Our wild increases in emissions in the last century have left us safer than we’ve ever been. The more CO2 we emit, the less people die of heat, floods, cold and frostbite.
There is no saving the WHO. Nothing it does couldn’t be done better by us directly. The demands it puts out are dangerous unaccountable, and infringements on our rights. It should be disbanded for even suggesting these reckless proposals.
Site has had two outages today. These are not the usual sort. Hopefully will be resolved soon.
Thanks for your patience. This is a problem with the large Australian server that also hosts many huge retail sites. They must be extremely busy today…
Walking in the Valley of Political Death, after Trump, Farage, and One Nation took all the risks and paved the way out of the Climate Swamp, the Liberals have finally been dragged into saying a definite “No” to Net Zero, including repealing the toxic Safeguard Mechanism.
What they haven’t done as a party is show leadership.
A few brave souls in the party have spoken out (like Andrew Hastie and Alex Antic) but the official Liberal policy, as explained last November, is still that lowering emissions is a worthy thing for no good reason other than being pagan weather controlling witchcraft. Do the Liberals still think that they should pander to the Paris agreement blob? That’s what they said last year.
The thing about “playing it safe”, as the Liberals have done, is that they were waiting for The People to figure out Net Zero was a pile of voodoo before they would risk being called names by the teenage girly monsters. The problem is that once the people realize Net Zero is an international parasite thriving on grift and graft, it’s about a nanosecond before they want a real leader who will take a blow-torch to the parasites. In that nanosecond they flip to the party of true leaders — the ones who took a position based on principle and led the way.
Until the Liberals take some risks and face down the namecalling vipers, the voters won’t believe they have the mojo to take on the whole cartel of Blob Bankers, Blob Bureaucrats, vested Blob industries and foreign interests who depend upon our climate-patsy compliance with the fantasy.
The Liberals need to start to sell the absurdities of “Net Zero” with conviction. The way to win the Teal seats is not to pander to the fantasy, it’s to mock it mercilessly.
Every day the Liberals wait for the polls to shift they are that much closer to extinction.
It was a good speech, but it could have been a great one…
Extracts of Angus Taylors’s Budget Reply Speech
Second, prioritising net zero and emissions reduction above all else has seen cheap, always-on power dismissed for expensive, sometimes-on, industrial-scale renewables – mainly sourced from offshore.
Power prices have soared – causing households to struggle, businesses to close, and industries to move offshore. Far from a future made in Australia, our future is being made abroad.
Australians have been fed the lie that our economy can function on solar, wind, and batteries alone. But the truth is fossil fuels continue to drive our economy and our prosperity.
In this Budget alone, Labor has $18 billion in new net zero spending. Labor’s net zero obsession is driving up inflation and destroying our economy. That’s why net zero must go.
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The Coalition will also abolish Labor’s great big carbon tax – the so-called Safeguard Mechanism.
This tax jacks up the price on essential building materials like steel, cement, and glass – driving up the cost of new homes.
If the Liberal Party have a rebellious spine, or courage under fire, it’s been excised. Those brave souls who spoke out when the costs of saying something was high were often pushed sideways or right out of the party (like Craig Kelly and Gerard Rennick, or Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson).
If the Liberals hadn’t tossed out people like this, they wouldn’t have wasted half a year voting for Susan Ley as a leader in a doomed holding pattern.
The party is a shadow of it’s former self. They did drop Net Zero targets last November, and promise to get rid of the Safeguard mechanism, but then they still thought the Paris Agreement was useful.
So many great companies fell into the climate sink hole
Such was the cultural vibe that giant corporations all collectively jumped off a cliff together hoping to invent a new technology fast enough to be able to land.
In the case of Honda, after 70 years of endless profits, they burnt at least $9 billion dollars, and have given up the idea of trying to get EVs to make up one fifth of their sales by 2030. The demand just isn’t there. They also thought they could shift their whole fleet to electric or fuel cells by 2030. That’s gone too.
TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) – Honda Motor (7267.T), opens new tab posted its first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a listed company on Thursday, hit by more than $9 billion in costs to restructure its electric-vehicle business, and the firm scrapped its long-term EV sales target.
Revealing its worst financial report since Honda listed on the stock market in 1957 underscores how risky an aggressive bet on EVs can be for a legacy automaker when it slams into weaker-than-expected demand. Toshihiro Mibe, CEO of Japan’s second-largest automaker, on Thursday said Honda is scrapping its goal of having EVs make up a fifth of its new car sales in 2030 as well as a target of a full shift to electric or fuel-cell vehicle sales by 2040.
And remember, the oil crisis is making things as good for EVs as it possibly can.
The Experts said eggs were high fat foods with too much cholesterol, and egg consumption halved for twenty years in Australia, and still hasn’t recovered. Though in the last ten years egg consumption is increasing in places like the USA and Canada.
Egg consumption per capita in Australia and the UK. OWID
[StudyFinds]: But now researchers have tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for more than 15 years, and found that people who ate eggs regularly were far less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease than those who never or rarely touched them. The most frequent egg eaters, those having five or more servings a week, showed a 27% lower risk.
In this graph below, it’s almost like eating less than 10 grams a day of egg is a deficiency….
The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition, and drew on data from the Adventist Health Study-2.
The results show there is an association between eggs and dementia, but this sort of study can’t prove causation. It’s always possible that people who have some high risk of dementia for some reason choose not to eat eggs. But on the plus side, the results were dose dependent — the more eggs people ate, the lower their risk of Alzheimers, which is about as good as it gets in this kind of study. And they did exclude all the obvious factors, including vegans, and still found the strong link.
There are reasons…
Eggs are some of the richest sources for choline which is essential from brain and liver health. We know people taking cholinergics (e.g. some antihistamines) may be at higher risk of Alzheimers, and the condition is associated with a loss of cholinergic neurons and a drop in acetyl-choline levels.
Two eggs provides almost as much choline as a 3 oz steak but cost a lot less. Eggs also have antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, and they have some DHA fat that is more common in fish oil (especially if the eggs come from free range chickens.)
The study was funded by the American Egg Board, so there’s a potential bias, but it begs the question — why wasn’t this study done in 1980 before the experts tossed eggs under the bus? Where was the government?
For forty years people thought they were doing “the scientific thing” and were following the experts, but potentially thousands of people suffered with a form of dementia that might have been prevented?
Jisoo Oh, Keiji Oda, Gabriela Chiriac, Gary E. Fraser, Rawiwan Sirirat, and Joan Sabaté, affiliated with the Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyles, and Disease Prevention at the School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, and related departments at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California “Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist Health Study-2 Cohort Linked with Medicare Data. . The Journal of Nutrition.” DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2026.101541.
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BHP is the largest mining company in the world, it has shareholder approval to spend millions on wind and solar projects and on the conversion to electric trucks. They also had an enthusiastic management and Net Zero targets, yet somehow the company has decided to drop or delay the wind and solar projects, and the low emissions processing plant too. It’s all been put in the deep freeze, delayed until 2031 before it even starts.
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