When Tony Abbott was prime minister, he ordered more Australian strike aircraft and troops into Iraq. Not because Australia was big enough to turn the tide of battle against the barbarians of Daesh, so-called Islamic State or ISIL. But because he believed in the fight."It's absolutely vital that the world sees and sees quickly that the ISIL death cult can be beaten," he said in 2014.
And no, despite the public impression of such things, it wouldn't have been because of renewable energy. "The contribution from coal generation was significantly less than expected and renewables was slightly more than expected" thanks partly to breakdowns in Australia's ageing coal-fired generator fleet, in the words of the Australian Energy Market Operator.
We got into this endless war as a matter of political choice. The broad bipartisan consensus was shattered when two politicians – first the Nationals' Barnaby Joyce and then Tony Abbott – decided that they had more to gain by exploiting the problem than exploring a solution. Only 13 per cent of voters consider the Coalition to be doing a "good" job of dealing with climate change, according to an Ipsos poll this month. In a head-to-head comparison, 42 per cent of voters prefer Labor's climate policy and 25 per cent prefer the Coalition's. This is a decisive margin.Internal Liberal polling shows that it is one of the party's biggest liabilities, together with its chaotic handling of its leadership.
Labor has a policy to cut carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030, and the Coalition by 26-28 per cent. A study for the Coalition by the well-regarded economist Warwick McKibbin found that the economy would continue to grow under both plans, but that Labor's more ambitious target would cut about $60 billion more from national GDP in the year 2030 than the Coalition's.
PeterHartcherAO Australia 'energy super power'? Apparently the media believe in this political spin started by JohnHoward. Oil production in decline. Conventional gas production on East coast peaked. Australia is exporting itself gas poor, plans LNG import terminals
PeterHartcherAO National Academy Of Sciences President Claims Climate Change A Hoax It’s Time for us all to Recognize the 97% Con Game By Dr. Jay Lehr Source:
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PeterHartcherAO The Climate is always changing and there is nothing mankind can do about it.