Climate Change Arguing

[Ghost Patrol]

Yikes. I think I’ve upset you re Albanese. That nerve hey.

How good would this guy be to get idiotic protestors out of galleries?

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Squirtle soup would probably upset you though.

 

[Del203211]

Squirtle soup would probably upset you though.

 

[Kwality]

'The IEA's annual report on coal forecasts global coal use is set to rise by 1.2 per cent this year, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time.

The previous record was set in 2013 of 7.99 billion tonnes.

It also predicts coal consumption will remain flat at that level until 2025 as falls in mature markets are offset by continued strong demand in emerging Asian economies.

This means coal will continue to be the global energy system's largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far.'
The IEA's annual report on coal forecasts global coal use is set to rise by 1.2 per cent this year, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time.

The previous record was set in 2013 of 7.99 billion tonnes.

It also predicts coal consumption will remain flat at that level until 2025 as falls in mature markets are offset by continued strong demand in emerging Asian economies.

This means coal will continue to be the global energy system's largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far.

The world is burning more coal than ever, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year

High gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, heatwaves and droughts are all drivers leading to the increase in consumption according to the International Energy Agency.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Del203211]

'The IEA's annual report on coal forecasts global coal use is set to rise by 1.2 per cent this year, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time.

The previous record was set in 2013 of 7.99 billion tonnes.

It also predicts coal consumption will remain flat at that level until 2025 as falls in mature markets are offset by continued strong demand in emerging Asian economies.

This means coal will continue to be the global energy system's largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far.'
The IEA's annual report on coal forecasts global coal use is set to rise by 1.2 per cent this year, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year for the first time.

The previous record was set in 2013 of 7.99 billion tonnes.

It also predicts coal consumption will remain flat at that level until 2025 as falls in mature markets are offset by continued strong demand in emerging Asian economies.

This means coal will continue to be the global energy system's largest single source of carbon dioxide emissions by far.

The world is burning more coal than ever, exceeding 8 billion tonnes in a single year

High gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, heatwaves and droughts are all drivers leading to the increase in consumption according to the International Energy Agency.

www.abc.net.au

Bowen reckons we’ll be 82% renewables by 2030. And 8 batteries built by 2025.

 

[Gethelred]

Squirtle soup would probably upset you though.

That's some creepypasta shit right there.

 

[Gethelred]

Well the protesters aren’t saving the planet so the morons are damaging property for nothing need more police horses trampling these flogs.

Bit over the top?

 

[Fadge]

Bowen reckons we’ll be 82% renewables by 2030. And 8 batteries built by 2025.

But that's more than enough to keep the alarmists happy, we all know they just read the headlines and never actually look into the detail...

 

[kranky al]

Generally agree but she seems to have a lot of prior convictions for similar acts including damaging property and fines don't seem to have worked.

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I do hope that this logic starts being applied to corporates doing the wrong thing…

 

[Kram]

Well the protesters aren’t saving the planet so the morons are damaging property for nothing need more police horses trampling these flogs.

 

[Kwality]

I do hope that this logic starts being applied to corporates doing the wrong thing…

What have you got in mind ?

 

[kranky al]

What have you got in mind ?

If you run a corporation, say for instance an asbestos mine and you find out that asbestos is killing people, but you bury it and keep making profits, your assets are seized under proceeds of crime legislation and you are prosecuted for murder / manslaughter.

 

[kranky al]

Paywall



More: In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics







NPR's David Folkenflik reported this story with Mario Ariza and Miranda Green ofFloodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action.

Terry Dunn couldn't fathom why Alabama's residents — among the poorest in the U.S. — pay some of the nation's most expensive electricity bills.

So in 2010, Dunn ran for a seat on the state commission that sets energy prices. He promised to hold a formal rate hearing at which Alabama Power executives would have to open their financial books and answer questions, under oath and in public. That hadn't happened for nearly three decades.

After winning, Dunn says, a top lobbyist for the utility took him aside and promised he could hold his roughly $100,000-a-year position on the commission for years — as long as he remained a team player. (Alabama Power declined to make the executive available to address the accusation; the utility and its corporate parent, Southern Company, declined all comment for this story.)

"They didn't take me serious," Dunn says now.

Dunn, a Republican and Tea Party conservative, plowed ahead. And soon enough, he found himself the target of a political pressure campaign, replete with character assassinations and online smears.





















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Attacks began in online news outlets in 2013. One headline in Yellowhammer Newsread: "Democrats Embrace Republican Public Service Commissioner Terry Dunn."

In a June 2014 column, Alabama Political Reporter's editor in chief, Bill Britt, cast Dunn as a pawn of his own aide, a Democrat.

"For some Dunn is a populist hero; for others, he's a radical environmentalist," Britt wrote. He saw Dunn as manipulated by those who "find companies like Alabama Power a convenient political target."

These were devastating portrayals for Dunn in a deeply red state.

"Mostly everything was all made up," he says. "You get to thinking, 'Why are they attacking me?' I'm just telling the truth and trying to do what's right for the people."

Floodlight and NPR have not been able to independently verify whether Alabama Power directed or had prior notice of the sharply critical coverage aimed at Dunn.

In 2014, Dunn lost his reelection bid by 19 percentage points — to a catfish farmer who had previously served as a county commissioner.

 

[FredLeDeux]

If you run a corporation, say for instance an asbestos mine and you find out that asbestos is killing people, but you bury it and keep making profits, your assets are seized under proceeds of crime legislation and you are prosecuted for murder / manslaughter.

Time for Australian RICO legislation

 

[Kwality]

If you run a corporation, say for instance an asbestos mine and you find out that asbestos is killing people, but you bury it and keep making profits, your assets are seized under proceeds of crime legislation and you are prosecuted for murder / manslaughter.

Got an example

'It will get worse': Whistleblower warns toxic chemicals from failed Linc Energy site are spreading

A petroleum engineer says he warned regulators years ago about the risk of chemicals, such as cyanide and benzene, spreading through groundwater beyond a failed underground coal gasification site in Queensland.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Kwality]

IF your mind is CLOSED, there is no point reading this piece:

The five big energy events of 2022, and what they mean for wind, solar, EVs and batteries

There is going to be a large step up in demand for wind, solar, and EV batteries over the next decade. But trade barriers emerge as a problem.

reneweconomy.com.au

 

[Evolved1]

It must be fake news given it's on Murdoch media. The SRP would clap and cheer for extinction rebellion protesters holding up their ride home!

 

[Kwality]

It must be fake news given it's on Murdoch media. The SRP would clap and cheer for extinction rebellion protesters holding up their ride home!

Really ?

Sky News - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Del203211]

Aristotle Pickett your thoughts?

The Greens supported the federal government’s energy bill earlier this month, but had drawn a hard line at fossil fuel companies receiving compensation. Adam Bandt said his party would oppose any future legislation which would allow that element.

“In a cost of living crisis, Labor should be helping people, not big corporations,” Bandt said.
“This money could be used to stop people’s power bills rising at all, and then recouped by a windfall tax on coal and gas corporations.
“Not a single dollar of public money should go to [them].

Rio Tinto and partners could receive as much as $450m in government compensation for coal price cap

Queensland and the federal government will split compensation costs for the Gladstone plant, under the agreement struck at national cabinet

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Kwality]

Aristotle Pickett your thoughts?

The Greens supported the federal government’s energy bill earlier this month, but had drawn a hard line at fossil fuel companies receiving compensation. Adam Bandt said his party would oppose any future legislation which would allow that element.

“In a cost of living crisis, Labor should be helping people, not big corporations,” Bandt said.
“This money could be used to stop people’s power bills rising at all, and then recouped by a windfall tax on coal and gas corporations.
“Not a single dollar of public money should go to [them].

Rio Tinto and partners could receive as much as $450m in government compensation for coal price cap

Queensland and the federal government will split compensation costs for the Gladstone plant, under the agreement struck at national cabinet

amp.theguardian.com

The nose out of joint that counts is Senator Pocock:
Under the circumstances created by the government, the move makes sense; the power must stay on, even if it will incense the Greens and crossbenchers, who oppose compensation for fossil-fuel companies. ACT independent senator David Pocock, whose vote, along with the Greens’, was essential to passing the government’s energy legislation, said it was “unconscionable that Australian taxpayers should have to pay compensation to companies to put a limit on the record wartime profits they have been making in selling our own resources back to us”.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/taxpayers-to-be-slugged-for-impact-of-coal-price-cap/news-story/30d6628c4345691053359af22e09a7f7

 

[Del203211]

The nose out of joint that counts is Senator Pocock:
Under the circumstances created by the government, the move makes sense; the power must stay on, even if it will incense the Greens and crossbenchers, who oppose compensation for fossil-fuel companies. ACT independent senator David Pocock, whose vote, along with the Greens’, was essential to passing the government’s energy legislation, said it was “unconscionable that Australian taxpayers should have to pay compensation to companies to put a limit on the record wartime profits they have been making in selling our own resources back to us”.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/taxpayers-to-be-slugged-for-impact-of-coal-price-cap/news-story/30d6628c4345691053359af22e09a7f7

“Perverse” he reckons and has stated he didn’t know about it.

 

[Kram]

“Perverse” he reckons and has stated he didn’t know about it.

I can't read that word without thinking of Frank Costanza.

 

[Del203211]

I can't read that word without thinking of Frank Costanza.

Haha spot on!

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

Aristotle Pickett your thoughts?

The Greens supported the federal government’s energy bill earlier this month, but had drawn a hard line at fossil fuel companies receiving compensation. Adam Bandt said his party would oppose any future legislation which would allow that element.

“In a cost of living crisis, Labor should be helping people, not big corporations,” Bandt said.
“This money could be used to stop people’s power bills rising at all, and then recouped by a windfall tax on coal and gas corporations.
“Not a single dollar of public money should go to [them].

Rio Tinto and partners could receive as much as $450m in government compensation for coal price cap

Queensland and the federal government will split compensation costs for the Gladstone plant, under the agreement struck at national cabinet

amp.theguardian.com

It's pretty disgusting. I'm not sure how Albanese can roll over like that and reward the coal bastards.
He knew the Libs wouldn't complain, pragmatic yet criminal.

 

[Kram]

It's pretty disgusting. I'm not sure how Albanese can roll over like that and reward the coal bastards.
He knew the Libs wouldn't complain, pragmatic yet criminal.

They are just Liberal Lite

 

[Kwality]

I do hope that this logic starts being applied to corporates doing the wrong thing…

The corporates supplying demand ? Are those wanting power for their families somehow less entitled than others ?

Virtuous of you Al. Is it simple nominating the unworthy/the entitled.