The Warmists Are Starting to Sweat, by Alan Moran.
Here’s a prediction you can take to the bank: the ABC and Fairfax will be running even more inane climate-scare stories than usual. Why might that be? Because the US has taken its money and departed Paris, threatening climate careerists with the unsettling prospect of finding honest work.
Over the next week the report being finalised at a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Korea, will see an outpouring of alarmist material. Doom-laden factoids and forecasts will be released, all designed to head off an impending collapse in the “consensus” that reached its apogee in the Obama era. …
The Trump victory of less than two years ago threatens the diversion of taxpayers’ and electricity consumers’ money to the warmistas much more directly. The outsider’s triumph is undermining this self-interested assembly, not only because of the size of the US economy itself, but because Trump’s rejection of emission reducing regulations entails consequences in terms of the competitiveness of the US for industry location. The US is proving a magnet at the expense of those that have imposed climate costs on their electricity industries. Especially hit is the EU but also … is Australia.
[The] Morrison government claims Australia will beat its own Paris targets at a canter. The destruction so far of the fossil fuel supply share in Australian electricity production and the high levels of exorbitantly subsidised renewables may well mean this is true for the electricity industry. However electricity supply accounts for only around 30% of emissions, with the rest coming from agriculture, transport and industry.
The activists correctly recognise that achieving such reductions elsewhere in the economy will be even more difficult than with electricity. As if to emphasise this, already there are calls for a culling of national livestock herds by 25% or more.
How about some due diligence before taking such extreme actions? There’s a mistake in all the climate models you know.
hat-tip Stephen Neil
