O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Jampie]

We produce 1% of the global emissions so even if we got that to 0% it wouldn't make any difference while countries such as Saudi Arabia, Australia, USA and Canada lead the emissions table yet are doing very little about it.

Yup Australia's emissions are far too high but coming down. We had successive governments who couldn't read a graph so didn't understand the problem. Gone now, vaguely sane people in charge these days.

All of our coal plants are aging out. They wont be replaced, meanwhile solar and wind is basically the only thing getting installed. We need more hydro though or we're going to have serious reliability issues.

But once the power grid's sorted, the biggest things left for us are industry and cars. Cars will all go electric in the coming decades, and industry's reforming too.

Aside from Russia and other assorted holes, I don't know of any major economy that isn't doing more or less the same stuff. Emissions are coming down, despite decades of lies from climate change deniers. Finally.

[BigFatPie]

The improvement in our fortunes on the pitch has been reflected in the quality of the contributions to this thread. Long may it continue.

[ForeignLegion]

Yup Australia's emissions are far too high but coming down. We had successive governments who couldn't read a graph so didn't understand the problem. Gone now, vaguely sane people in charge these days.

All of our coal plants are aging out. They wont be replaced, meanwhile solar and wind is basically the only thing getting installed. We need more hydro though or we're going to have serious reliability issues.

But once the power grid's sorted, the biggest things left for us are industry and cars. Cars will all go electric in the coming decades, and industry's reforming too.

Aside from Russia and other assorted holes, I don't know of any major economy that isn't doing more or less the same stuff. Emissions are coming down, despite decades of lies from climate change deniers. Finally.

Vaguely sane? A bleak picture with buffoons like Blackout Bowen.




https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/a...0230310-p5cr5a

[legs77]

Very comforting to know that China are going to be the knight in shining armour to save the planet, when the introduced the world to covid, LMAO

That’s what our media has told us but is that even 100% true ???

I mean we were told it came from a wet market which we now know is bollox it didn’t.

[ForeignLegion]

Vaguely sane? A bleak picture with buffoons like Blackout Bowen.




https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/a...0230310-p5cr5a

Sorry looks like you need a subscription. The headline says it all.

[Jampie]

Funnily enough I agree with the headline.

The Snowy 2.0 hydro project, for all it's hilariously late and over budget, is also nowhere near enough. We need to be madly building more dams and we just aren't.

We are indeed most likely headed straight to a period of grid instability, where the power goes out during certain weather conditions. Total madness, totally unnecessary.

[Magpies1959]

It didn't take me long to realise it didn't come from a wet market, but engineered in a lab close by.

[ForeignLegion]

Funnily enough I agree with the headline.

The Snowy 2.0 hydro project, for all it's hilariously late and over budget, is also nowhere near enough. We need to be madly building more dams and we just aren't.

We are indeed most likely headed straight to a period of grid instability, where the power goes out during certain weather conditions. Total madness, totally unnecessary.

Our car industry is also dead and if they’re waiting for the electric market, they’ll be waiting a long time. The only industry over here is digging stuff out of the ground and exporting it to China, where they make things and we import them.

[Mapperleypie]

It didn't take me long to realise it didn't come from a wet market, but engineered in a lab close by.

Was it another WEF plot?

[queenslandpie]

Our car industry is also dead and if they’re waiting for the electric market, they’ll be waiting a long time. The only industry over here is digging stuff out of the ground and exporting it to China, where they make things and we import them.

Our car industry was retro funded by the Government for a long long time and eventually and rightly so after the USA manufacturers refused to fund it that funding was pulled. Any model for mass producing and distributing cars in Australia will lose a **** ton. Some things are simply better imported mate.