Green Libs: from Copenhagen farce to Paris targets
Meet Paris targets. Greg Brown, The Australian, October 21:
Trent Zimmerman, Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson (Liberal MPs in blue-ribbon electorates) … say the government needs to do more to show it is serious about combating climate change and … (meeting) the Paris targets … “There is a justified expectation we take reducing emissions seriously and develop a credible policy that … reduces prices and … emissions … a view I share,” … Wilson said.
Target sceptic. Tim Wilson, Quadrant online, December 9, 2009:
(The prospect of reducing emissions) at Copenhagen appears decidedly bleak. But the vacuum … has quickly been filled … (by) young people singing … “all we are saying is cut greenhouse gas,” … (and) activists dressed up as aliens asking to be taken to a “climate leader” who is committed to a “real deal” … My favourite was the unsuccessful “Offset Magician” who attempts to make the carbon footprint of plane travel disappear through carbon offsets but just can’t pull off the trick. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether climate activists were actually interested in listening to the impact of their policies on those who couldn’t afford the plane ticket to Copenhagen.
Fossil farce. Tim Wilson, Quadrant online, December 10, 2009:
The “Fossil of the Day Award” … is announced at 6pm … for the country deemed by activists to have done the most to hold back global emissions reduction cuts … If (it) weren’t such a farce, it’d almost be funny.
Capitalist coffee. Tim Wilson, Quadrant online, December 13, 2009:
There was a much greater presence of anti-capitalist sentiment amongst protestors today with placards … decrying “toxic capitalism” and “change the system, not the climate”. Clearly these protesters have never looked at the rising emissions from centrally planned economies. But opposition to capitalism clearly only went so far with a little coffee stall where you could get a “green bean” coffee. I presume the protestors turned a blind eye to the fact that beans were imported from the other side of the world by a carbon emitting shipping line and traded on globalised international markets. But considering how cold it is in Copenhagen I can understand putting ideology to one side especially when the objective is to warm up. Oh, except when it is the climate.
Serious about emissions? Copy USA. Jeff McMahon, Forbes, July 4:
(The US is the) … world leader in reducing carbon emissions … coal-to-gas switching played a major role … renewables reached … (17 per cent).
Power costs? Ben Potter, Australian Financial Review, August 4, 2017:
Australians … (pay) the highest electricity prices in the world — two to three times more than (the) US
ABC’s 7.30, October 22:
Leigh Sales: How much time now do you spend thinking about what happened to you in 2010?
Kevin Rudd: Literally none …
The Shovel, October 23:
“I rarely Think About the Leadership Coup against me 1,946 days ago,” Rudd says at launch of 600-Page memoir.
ABC News online, October 16:
Ecuador has ordered Julian Assange to … (clean) his bathroom … (and look) after his cat … if he wants the internet reconnected.
The Australian, October 24:
(Julian Assange is suing) Ecuador to provide basic human rights …
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