Month: July 2017

Most liberal mps are climate sceptics, says the Fin Review article but I find agreement with Tim Wilson, an IPA acolyte, with his comment that science isn’t a belief structure. it’s a matter of whether or not you accept evidence.

I’ll support a clean energy target if coal is included? Barnaby, you keep using that word. I don’t think you know what it means. Today’s Celebration Bastille Day      France and dependencies …

Craig Kelly, chair of the backbench Environment and Energy Committee advising Josh Frydenberg on such matters, claims that renewable energy will kill people this winter. Such hyperbole is plain silly; regard it along with the python squeeze, the $100 roast leg of lamb and the Whyalla wipeout. What have we done to deserve such politicians?

The powers-that-be ought to think about the views of the energy economics group that says the market for our coal will decline. This is at a time when they are considering the green light for a humongous coal mine in the Galilee Basin that will endanger further the Reef and take jobs from the Hunter region. Perhaps the powers-that-be ought to be the powers-that-aren’t?

Elon Musk and his battery storage has the ‘business-as-usual’ generators on the run. The only relevance the Government has in this is their wilful blindness to the price hikes which might well be the last hurrah of the fossil fools.

The Herald Sun is still carrying Andrew Bolt’s climate change denial rants; Blame your power bill spike on politician’s con. Tell Pacific Island nations that they’re dreaming, Andrew. Tell the insurance industry, the ski industry …..

‘Sonnen battery storage plan to take utilities out of business’ and in this article, it seems that the utilities are helping. They are flailing about trying to find a new business model and it seems that they are yet to find it.

Loan to Adani could be unlawful, says ex-CEFC head Oliver Yates. It could also be stupid!

Mark Butler’s analysis of the decade of disappointment in Australia’s climate policy is a good read. We had a number of opportunities and blew each one.

This fellow Stephen Hawking knows a thing or two about science. I don’t like the idea of raining sulphuric acid and how long after colonising another planet (which? where? how far away? how many colonisers?) before we’ve stuffed it up too?