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AnAl has dug himself into a Coal Hole
Jan 21st, 2020 at 2:53am
 
AnAl is in trouble with his Lunatic Extremist Greeny Senate Coalition partner.

He has said keep exporting coal as he realizes that the income from exporting coal is vital to Australia's prosperity.

But the delusional rubbish being peddled about the bush fires means AnAl is worried about alienating the gullible fool voters who are silly enough to believe in the Greenies' Climate Change SCAM.

And the dumb Greenies are scared silly after they burnt Australia to the ground.

Meanwhile ScoMo has handled it all brilliantly.




As the Liberals rest on their climate laurels, Labor must bite the coal bullet
David Shearman 10:03pm, Jan 20, 2020 Updated: 4h ago

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese needs to lead the revolution against coal. Photo: AAP

As the smoke from our bushfires circles the Earth and other developed countries admonish our indolence on climate change, we are deluding ourselves if we hope for government action on emissions.

Australians are now frightened and anxious, and minds have moved significantly to recognise our dismal future bestowed by government intransigence and denial.

The appalling bushfires and the preceding drought parented by a one-degree rise in temperature should have been a clarion call for the scientific certainty that now predicts two to four degrees if we and others don’t act.

It is not clutching at straws to ask what the opposition Labor Party can do to fill the two-year yawning gap till the next election – by then two of 10 vital years for fossil fuel reduction will have been wasted.

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to limit the world temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, we need a coal phase out in economically developed countries (OECD) by 2030 and overall world total emissions need reducing by a daunting 9 per cent per annum.

To do this, world coal production must be reduced drastically.

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We are deluding ourselves if we hope for government action on emissions. Photo: AAP

There is now a general recognition that our current form of democracy is increasingly incapable of addressing the fast-moving and complex progress of the climate change emergency fast train.

We are helpless passengers on the slow train.

The overarching mantra of current parliamentary behaviour is the maintenance of party unity to ensure their power. Lives, wellbeing and health are often left behind in this quest.

The current role of opposition is to oppose and to expose the malfeasance of ministers on emission data, sporting grants etc, thereby positioning themselves for power by dragging down government credibility.

Should the opposition be playing a different more constructive role in this crisis?

Yes, it should, and it is possible under the present democratic system.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese expects to announce later this year a policy of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, but must do much more about addressing the chastening task for 2030.

Labor has the brains and wordsmiths to educate the public, industry and a few receptive Coalition members on this deepening crisis.

Its gravity would be conveyed by revealing and explaining right now our necessary 2030 targets for 1.5 and 2-degree rises and the measures needed to reach them.


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Protesters at the December climate change rally demand more action. Photo: AAP

This will enable many sectors to do what they can, recognising the task will become harder with every month that passes and some of these pressures will build for government action.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s mind is fossilised on coal and there will be no change in emissions reduction policy.

He said: “I am not going to write off the jobs of thousands of Australians by walking away from traditional industries.”

The Labor position on coal is also untenable and must change.

On domestic coal, pressure from other countries and trading partners will increase with the UK now coal-free and the German government’s plan to phase out coal-fired power stations by 2038, with $45 billion compensation.

Australia is the biggest exporter of coal worldwide; its annual coal exports total about $US47 billion.

The position of both parties on the export of coal is unconscionable.

It is the drug dealer’s position: ‘If I don’t supply it, someone else will, and our drug is cheaper and purer’.

Labor must sit down with scientists and economists, not just the coal industry.

They will find that other nations will supply at increased cost, and that coal and gas exports are delaying the vital transition to clean energy technology in some countries.

No time for denial
Labor has to accept coal is a health hazard nationally and internationally, and health costs and suffering cannot be ignored.

In adopting a similar position on coal, both parties are admitting that in our wealthy, advanced technological country they don’t have the will or ability to transition jobs.

There should be three proactive educative issues for Labor over the next 12 months; they are interrelated issues and deeply concerning to the public.

Firstly, for the next year, Labor’s small step must be to educate the public why their initial policy setting will be no new coal or gas mining.

It will r
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Re: AnAl has dug himself into a Coal Hole
Reply #1 - Jan 21st, 2020 at 4:38am
 
I used to be a Greens Voter.
But ever since they came under the ALP umbrella.
Like Peter Garrett under Kevin Rudd.
Like the Democrats under the NLP umbrella.

...I don't vote for them.

So the True Greens are no more.
The Current Greens are just ALP.

...ALP are to blame.
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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.
 
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Re: AnAl has dug himself into a Coal Hole
Reply #2 - Jan 21st, 2020 at 9:28am
 
JS, actually it is more like Labor is under the Greeny umbrella.

Labor needs the Greenies to control the Senate and so the Greenies would CONTROL Labor through the Senate.

Which is why it was SO important that Labor did NOT get in as the Greenies would have been wrecking Australia through the Senate.
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Re: AnAl has dug himself into a Coal Hole
Reply #3 - Jan 21st, 2020 at 9:34am
 
juliar wrote on Jan 21st, 2020 at 9:28am:
JS, actually it is more like Labor is under the Greeny umbrella.

Labor needs the Greenies to control the Senate and so the Greenies would CONTROL Labor through the Senate.

Which is why it was SO important that Labor did NOT get in as the Greenies would have been wrecking Australia through the Senate.


You're really pushing the lie about the green controlling Labor huh?

I'm surprised, given the level of intellect you've shown, that you don't refer to them as Labour.
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Reply #4 - Jan 21st, 2020 at 9:38am
 
Skippy the sad Greeny Kangyroo just can't cope with reality and keeps digging herself into a hole. Classic Greeny who believes the world will end soon.
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