“The path to net zero is also not a straight line,” he wrote. “In fact, as Bill Gates argues, forcing outcomes by 2030 with unrealistic targets can divert resources from technologies with longer lead times that will be essential to achieving 2050 objectives. So we will keep making sensible commitments and doing our best to exceed them.”Morrison’s political opponents this week labelled his net zero moment “weak” and a “sham”.
“This is a promising moment,” Gates told the virtual summit dressed as always in a business shirt and v-neck knit. “Climate activists – and young people especially – are bringing amazing energy and attention to this issue. They are demanding action, and rightly so.” “Why? Because the things we’d do to get small reductions by 2030 are radically different from the things we’d do to get to zero by 2050.”Morrison’s slow but deliberate shift over the past 18 months on climate has not been influenced by Gates alone.
When asked at Tuesday’s press conference why he would not increase the nation’s 2030 emissions reductions target Morrison told reporters he was keeping faith with Australian voters. And it was back to Gates again. Gates believes firstly that rich nations like Australia need to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies that allow them to eliminate emissions throughout the physical economy.
Gates says nuclear energy is key as is widespread investment in transmission lines and even lab-grown meat.
I rather a PM sought and took advice from technical specialists in the relative technical fields than the musings of a billionaire when considering policy and taking action.
Whatever!! Laughed all the Mining Moguls and their shareholders! 😁😒🤔
Bahahahaha this is so bad that it's funny
Underlined sections of a book? HE'S HAD 8 YEARS TO DO SOMETHING and he underlines some sections?‽? Seriously ? How pathetic 🙄
Morrison is lazy. I doubt he read the book at all, preferring a minion to do the 'research' for him. It's typical Morrison operandi to grab at one 'idea' and stick with that, rather than to read, research and discuss issues widely with experts.
but did he ? or did someone else highlight for him?
Come on everyone, to the tune of 'Hot Potato'.. 🎵 'Propaganda Propaganda' 'Propaganda Propaganda' 'Proganda'🎵 ThisIsNotJournalism
I hope Rob was wearing knee pads while he was re-writing the brief he got direct from the PMO? Pathetic
BREAKING: Courtier blows smoke up climate denier's arse.
Marketing is wot scomo does best.But marketing is like a good lawyer…it never lets the truth get in the way of a good argument
Jounos are meant to bend over backwards to get the story. Not bend over forwards.
Keep an ear out for the plagiarism in his announcements at COP26Glasgow andrewprobyn CroweDM Morrison LNPClimateCriminals
Scomo can read? Joke of 2021 🤙
Keep hanging around Rob and you might get the biographer job when he gets the chop!
This is embarrassing 'journalism'. He's the PM. He oversees actual climate scientists. How low can you set your bar. With coverage like this we'll be stuck with this backwards government another 3 years. Do your goddam job
I feel sure there must be an eagle in there somewhere. We know where Scotty gets his divine inspiration. Pity his plan is such a steaming pile of 🐎💩 20.8% reduction according to Angus almost entirely from land use. Individuals & States doing the work, Full of CCS deception
This is embarrassing 'journalism'. He's the PM. He overseas actual climate scientists. How low can you set your bar. With coverage like this we'll be stuck with this backwards government another 3 years. Do your goddam job
Dear SMH, why am I paying $15 per month to read LNP propaganda? How about Rob investigates why the LNP have gutted and ignored our very own CSIRO.
I suppose for a follow-up article next week, we can look forward to Scott Morrison's browser history leak, which will show he looked up Greta Thunberg's recipe for Ramen Noodles Italiano.
I don’t know when you decided to stop printing news and just publish fan fiction but I’ve got to tell you, it’s terrible! Hire some journalists!
Scott read a book. Only one?
Absolute balderdash. Scott doesn't have the attention span to read, much less to comprehend concepts.
This is pathetic journalism fail
Rob Harris toadying up to Scotty. What rewards does he get ? $$$$$$$$$$$$
So anyway, I cancelled my sub last week and I'm feeling pretty freakin vindicated after seeing this 💩.
Tipping it was something like this.
This book was published in Feb 21, by a guy outside of the field, with access to the same info as our PM. & the PM’s underlining parts of it like he’s cramming for an exam. In Feb of this year. THIS DOES NOT FILL ME WITH CONFIDENCE!!!! Pfft, can’t even do propaganda right.
Shane he didn’t take Gates advice on effective pandemic management eg? 6 months behind the rest of the world. Undermining State at every level. Charlatan. A nothing person in grown mens clothes.
Morrison probably looked up the big words too. Like credible, gullible and mendacious. Looked at his favorite lump of coal and kissed it. Pretty sure there is more to this story.
Get absolutely faaarked he did. Cringe at this utter calf splatter.
This is PR, not journalism. FFS!
Rubbish. If ScottyHasAPamphlet was serious he would have read a climate science book and talked to climate scientists. Not Gates.
Scotty is a QAnon. QAnon believe gates is evil so I doubt sQomo would even read anything by gates.
Nah seriously what the fuck is this shit?
See that folks? When money talks, Scotty is all ears.
And you just happened to get a photo of the underlined bits. ThisisNotJournalism this is propaganda...
Bullshit !
Stop the propaganda & start reading actual scientists' takes on Morrison & Gates. 👇 ClimateAction COP26 AustraliaDeservesBetter
How TF is this news?
This is the most limpd*k pieces of propoganda I have ever had the misfortune to be confronted by in your newspaper. I am a long time subscriber and this level of suck up to the worst PM in the history of Federation does not encourage me to renew....
Three words at a time?
MSMWatchdog2013 So many climate scientists here & o/seas, who dedicate their entire working lives researching the subjects & publishing peer-reviewed materials, have urged him to take ClimateAction seriously... he chose to ignore them. That's the story. NotJournalism AustraliaDeservesBetter
And then he was kicked out of the library.
Bill gates should stick to software.
The last 8 years have corroded our news media into a broken parody of North Korea.
Well, this is a pile of freshly-minted faeces if ever I saw one. ThisisNotJournalism
Hey yo could our PM listen to a fucking climate scientist or something that'd be brill kthx
And you only know about this because he threw the book out?
I'll give you this Rob Harris. You do your best to support dead set dip sticks.
What a heap of bullshit. Morrison wrote that and asked them to print it. We are not stupid. Try harder.
😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪 ScottyTheAnnouncer strikes again. Look at moeee, look at moeeee, I’m doing some last-minute cramming before COP26Glasgow
Wow. I mean... Just wow. I’ll pray for all of you; and I hope y’all will reap what you’ve sown. WereAllStarsNow InTheClownShow
Saying that different strategies are needed for 2030 and 2050 doesn’t mean don’t do anything in relation to 2030. I think his interpretation is moronic.
Bill Gates probably thinks scottymustgo is a C**t also!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 what a load of bs
Shameless puff piece!
Amateur grade prime ministership. Amateur grade journalism.
Well thank God for yellow highlighters and Scott’s in-depth research 😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂😅
While this would seem to suggest the PM has sought the views of others when forging a path towards net zero, all it really proves is that he wanted another photo opp and name dropping session. We all know he is not invested in understanding the need for urgent action on climate.
Rubbish ThisIsNotJournalism
MsRonnyB Opinion: Another classic from The Fable Stables
Wow the PM read a book, how amazing and believes that technology not yet invented will save our future; him who has NOT supported universities during Covid; wants them run like businesses instead of research institutes; defunds anything remotely connected with research. A joke.
So Bill Gates is our Prime Minister
So has Rob been or wanting to be in the media unit for the government?
scottys stenographer....
Done earlier in the day by a staff member.
Wow. He really is fairdinkum isn’t he?
Remember when journalists wrote news articles, and not propaganda pieces for corrupt governments.
He can read?!?
Surely, someone else put in the charge of those underlining. I have heard a few who suggested that ScottyfromMarketing is a close friend with BillGates. Beggars Belief. auspol G20 GlasgowCop26 FederalICAC
Angus Taylor just stated he plans to encourage countries to invest in fossil fuel in Aust... It's crystal fucking clear how serious the govt actually is about this, ie NOT at all.
He's doing his homework NOW? Or is he just going to throw in select quotes to try and fool other COP26 participants that he actually knows something about it? COP26 will be a far tougher audience than the Aussie press gallery and numpty sleepwalking voters.
ThisisNotJournalism. This is cringeworthy, Goebbels would be proud.
What absolute garbage from the PMO, dutifully served up by Costellos Rag the SMH
Don't be pet joournalists It's demeaning
Wow underlining stuff he must be serious
Hi BillGates I’m thankful your book helped our ignorant PM acknowledge the climate disaster we’re facing, but given it took your 2021 edition for him to take note, I’m wondering if you could quickly pen up another book ‘Do the world a favour, quit’
This piece deserves printing out and lining the cats bog box.
journalists never expect accountability from this government. It is all about controlling the narrative to dupe your audience, who you seem to think are moronic. FFS. The man is an environmental vandal and he needs to be accountable. End these embarrassing attempts at propaganda
Of FFS smh just stop the bullshit please We see what you’re doing 😣
What a complete load of fluff.
You know what I don’t believe. That Scott actually read the book. The is bullshit.
Of course. As we all know, Bill Gates is worshipped by Morrison and his QAnon mates. What a load of complete piffle!
He reads? Books written by someone else? Morrison does not take advice. He won’t read anything that “knows” more than he does. He can’t be told.
He was just underlining the words he didnt understand so Jen could tell him what they mean later
Its bullshit said Nature Mankind can never hold power over that.. Ever.. Said the greatest civilisations ever known.. 😁🙃
Do you seriously think anyone will believe this bullshit SMH used to be a quality newsparer but has now become an LNP PR machine ..just stop. BTW this is the answer to why circulation is falling & folk going to Crikey, The Guardian and New Daily. Do better.
This is like when I was 5 hours into labour and my husband sitting down to read the pregnancy book...
is the same guy (Harris) who was gazing lovingly into Slick Dr Nick's eyes last week?
What utter crap
davidbewart Utter bilge ...
Can only assume this is a cut and paste from the press release: ‘Two pages of the book – 196 and 197 – leapt out to Morrison. He underlined key passages with a black pen’ – conveniently supplied with pic of same (note no photographer’s credit). Seriously ?ThisisNotJournalism
Why do you insult our intelligence by expecting us to believe this bullshit?
So he’s a hero now? What a load of garbage. We are witnessing the second coming of Scott as he remakes himself via the media. Not for the good of the planet, but for his re-election.
What a disgraceful shit sandwich of an article.
Sounds more like LNP / IPA propaganda then a news article. The 4th estate in Australia is beyond a joke.
We are not naive. Scott NotMyPM is moving now because he is being forced to move now. Under LNP, Australia appears at bottom of a few international lists of performance. Somehow I don't think Morrison cares abt that so much.
Another puff piece
This government has only had 8 fucking years to do a goddamn thing about it but yeah nah, old mate reads a book and highlights the glowup bits 2 weeks out from a world summit and he's a humble genius all of a sudden? This NetZero plan is bullshit and this is not journalism.
Morrison read a book 😂😂😂😂
This isn’t journalism. Who is the source? Straight from the PMO I bet.
ThisisNotJournalism. Its barely even subtle enough to count as propaganda.
What exactly is this? Not journalism, that's for sure and certain.
I remember when the SMH used to be a reputable newspaper.
Seriously !! do these people thing we are going to swallow this garbage, it's an insult to our intelligence. This is what some foolish teenage school boy would try & present to his class as a science project. I give this an 'F' for fail.
What rot. Morrison wasn’t “converted” by Gates’ book. He’s seen that this is where many seats are being threatened by independents & wanted to prevent a loss of seats - & power - at the next election. His “measures” lack substance.
Not one word of this is true. Complete fabrication by the PMO and regurgitated by the paper formerly known as the ThisisNotJournalism auspol
The only thing that ‘convinced’ Scott Morrison was the prospect of getting his arse handed to him at the ballot box.
Remember, Microsoft is committed to carbon negative by 2030. Morrison and his propaganda lackies will go to any lengths to spin - but this giving a “journalist” a copy of the pages of a book he read 9months ago is a bridge too far.
And anyone who beleives this nonsense, I have a large multistorey building in the Perth CBD to sell you. This is nothing but propaganda from this compromised rag. ☝🏽
More unabashed stenography for Morrison's climate bullshit. If I were a journalist I’d be embarrassed to have my byline linked to this. auspol COP26 ScottyfromMarketing scottyfromgaslighting
Did you give Scott an internship? This shit never fvcking happened, yet another staged photo opportunity, this is political advertising, nothing more, it's an easily disproven lie, as the Economist magazine said when lumping him in with Modi, Scott is beholden to old energy
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Since when is a PR article like this actually NEWS?
Scott read a book! Wow! His 'plan' for NetZeroBy2050 includes increasing fossil fuel mining and is grounded in 'offsets' that are accounting tricks and 'technology' that scientists say won't work. ThisisNotJournalism
Are you really trying to make us believe ScottyHasAPamphlet is interested in halting climate change rather than simply how the best way to get re-elected ?
Ah, Rob Harris Hmmm Is he a journalist? An opinion writer? A propagandist? Blend of all 3? Exhibit A- this article Where's the evidence that pic of Gates' book underlined is actually Morrison's? All hearsay, no supporting evidence, no direct quotes It reads as BS 🐝 auspol
lynlinking Why
What a shit story Well done Rob..you got on the plane Shitrag paper
What a set up. And how pathetically transparent. Is the “s” in SMH for shill?
‘How Bill Gates convinced Scott Morrison on net zero’ They honestly think people will believe Gates rang stuntmo and had a chat to him about climate change
Thisisnotjournalism
Great!! These are ppl we're trusting our lives with!...........?
A nauseating propaganda piece. As if the narcissist in chief ever reads a book; he’s a self confessed non-reader. Where would he get the time? He’s got pamphlet titles to dream up, photos to have taken, rorts to dream up, donors to appease.
LyndaFrench19 So, Gates did put a Chip in the Vaccine...? ScottyHasAPamphlet under his control now...🤮🤮🤮🤮
A totally ridiculous article....!
Lol seriously smh. May as well just start licking his butt in public. You don't truly believe this nonsense surely!
Just stop it. He is the worst PM we have ever had, right when we needed the best.
So he is prepared to listen to Bill Gates on Climate Science rather than the many Scientists. And even then he happened upon that boom and a comfortable narrative. What a joke. He is more a Prime Monster than a Prime Minister. Bring on the election
Sounds like the SMHfrommarketing now
I had hoped the Australia Way might have taken some advice from actual climate scientists. But Morrison, the eternal sycophant …
What a load of nonsense. 😊😁
Stupid follow Bill
He’s plagiarising for his next scottyfrommarketing show… that pamphlet does need padding out!
Should have read this one.
Wow thanks SMH this is totally believable!
The SMH is dead to me. What a pile of shite.
You're dreaming 🥴
Oh FFS such stage managed theatre 🙄. **cough** 🐂💩**cough**
Thanks for this puff piece- before this I didn’t realise scumbag could read.
This stuff is brilliant. The peckerhead was just browsing Amazon one day? Did Australia Post leave a card when he wasn’t home at Hillbilly House when they tried to deliverer it? This is fiction not journalism. 🙄
Participating in propaganda does not make you ‘Independent Always’. It makes you an accomplice to PMO media management. Do better.
Propaganda
Good to know we can rely on the to roll out Scott’s talking points for him
Oh wow this article is hot garbage 1. It is obvious propaganda from PMO's office 2. Just a tip, Morrison not believing all of the scientists at his disposal, but accepts need for climate action based on Gates' book isn't the great look you think it is 3. WTF are lines like this?
This is drivel.
Ohhhh shit now we’re in deep shit…..
This was more likely a backflip by the puppet coinciding with his visit to Rupert Murdoch while in NY.
Not even hiding how ridiculous this article is, “underlined sections”. Why pay journalists if the PMO is going to write for you
Blah blah blah Dumbass
The biggest owner of farmland in the United States has climate wisdom?
Another low for the SMH. And tomorrow; 'How Russia built the Berlin Wall wider after reading Humpty Dumpty'.
Alternate headline “Prime Minister reads book”. Why publish this?
You do realise there is no one in Australia buying this charade outside the mainstream media, don't you?
'Morrison discovered How To Avoid A Climate Disaster while perusing Amazon.' FFS what a touch vignette! The greatest challenge of the last 100 years and a Prime Minister stumbles upon the issue on Amazon? If you believe that I can still get you some Harbour Bridge shares!
So it wasn’t the all the climate scientists, economists or the people of Australia?
He was looking for marketing key words. The Australian public know that the LNP really don’t cate about climate change. They only believe in re election.
The book.
Are you sure Jenny just didn't underline them for him?
How amazing - what an incredible man - the Messiah from the Shire perhaps. Oh sorry, wrong paper. I’m sure you’ll work out a slogan to deify Morrison.
Marketing from a marketing man. How have the press not figured this out yet?
What’s interesting about this is that Gates’ is poorly informed on energy systems. His hubris and market power has enabled him to publish a book that is fatally wrong in key areas of energy systems science and policy. This is accepted among energy systems experts. Of all books?
lynlinking making a virtue of doing nothing now while pretending that something bigger will happen after 2030 is pathetic you have invented an obstacle that is not there work can begin immediately that does not preclude putting in place other things down the track stop pissing around
Deadbeat Morrison will kick climate change action down the road for as long as he can and certainly for the rest of his time in the top job...
lynlinking
Plagiarism is probably not a great idea, having your own original thoughts and research will win more people over, unfortunately Morrison hasn’t had an original thought in his life, so he will probably stick with plagiarism
Preparing to plagiarise?
ThisIsNotJournalism, this is propaganda.
He just uses quotes to add to his spruik and spin
lynlinking Don’t listen to scientists, go read a book by Bill Gates…
As if SloMo is actually 'convinced' on climate. All he was doing with the Gates book was looking for arguments to weasel his way out of actual action. climate NetZero
They say absolute power corrupts absolutely What shall we start to say about proximity to power? Spare us this manufactured regurgitation it only reveals your contempt for us
Replace prepares with pretends.
Yea but did he read any of it ?
Jesus…..
lynlinking Propaganda can be created in many forms …
The climate mantra. You got to have your gurus!
Big week of PR by Rob Harris
idiot ….
Did he colour in the pictures with crayons?