If you squint, you can see Matt Kean loitering in the shadow of the outrageous Simon Stiell during his fear-mongering, ‘there will be no fruit’ sermon on the very tiny ‘mount’ of the Smart Energy Council stage.
‘“Shine, baby, shine!” and “Store, baby, store!” should carry an Australian trademark and be hollered from our rooftops – perhaps with an Aussie accent.’
Or so said Mr Kean, in a case of peak cringe.
Matt Kean is the former Liberal (?) NSW Energy Minister and Member for Hornsby. I was living in the area during Mr Kean’s last election and watched voters snatch how-to-vote cards and screech at the poor volunteers about how they didn’t want to vote for Kean because he was ‘worse than a bloody Green’.
At the time, his re-election served as the living embodiment of our ‘least worst’ drain of Australian politics and, fittingly, he now heads up the Climate Change Authority – an organisation that lives off the fumes of alarmism and political absurdity.
The Climate Change Authority is another mistake of the Julia Gillard era which the Liberals failed to correct, mostly because they’re cowards who allow Labor’s problems to pile up until they accumulate into an insurmountable wall of consensus. If you want to drive yourself insane with tedium, try reading the Climate Change Authority’s publications in which they argue against adopting nuclear energy.
Not to worry though, Mr Kean was quickly outshone in the headlines by his guest, Simon Stiell.
It takes a while, but after Mr Stiell’s waves of exaggeration and doomsday rhetoric about wrecking balls wash over, he moves onto the give us more money pitch at the heart of Net Zero. Or, more politely put, climate finance.
‘We welcomed Simon Stiell, the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change body, to our shores, to our stage, and, we hope, into the hearts and minds of every Australian ready to step up…’ wrote the Smart Energy Council, on its Facebook page. ‘It’s not every day we get to stand alongside one of the world’s most important climate diplomats.’
Climate diplomats. Yes. One of those globe-trekking climate diplomats with a carbon footprint larger than your average Pacific Nation.
Hypocrisy? Never.
The UN has sent out its climate envoys in the style of those winged-monkeys from Wizard of Oz. They exist to suck the finances out of Western middle powers like Australia after Donald Trump withdrew $4 billion from the UN Green Climate Fund.
Belief in Climate Change is dwindling, and so UN envoys have flooded airport lounges around the world to help boost the morale of Climate Change Ministers, like Mr Bowen, who was feeling a bit threatened by the uprising led by Barnaby Joyce.
When describing Australia, Mr Stiell said:
‘One the other side of the ledger? A renewable-powered, electrified Australia that shines, stores, manufactures, and exports at scale. One that builds real prosperity, regional resilience, and national security.’
I’d love to hear how making Australia’s energy grid reliant on a dangerous expansionist communist power that likes to build military bases on coral reefs is, in any way, helping us achieve our national security goals…
No, seriously.
UN reps come here and make claims that are simply not true, and no one challenges their remarks. Most journalists sit there, blinking adoringly, as though the word of God himself were being uttered.
Let us remind the Climate envoy that China controls 95%+ of the renewables industry, from mining to production. It is a nation our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is too scared to ask if we can have our Port of Darwin back. Being reliant on Beijing for our solar panels and wind turbines is, in no way, beneficial to our national security and while the UN climate preacher may not know this, the Australian climate bodies certainly do.
‘I think Australians get it. From Cabinet rooms to boardrooms, from farms to factories to kitchen tables … you know unchecked climate change is an economic wrecking ball. You know half-measures will destroy property and infrastructure, hammer households, bankrupt regions, and punch holes in public budgets.’
If you believed that, you’d be in China, not Australia. But China has no intention of listening to the UN. China wants coal-fired plants, cheap energy, and dirty mines in the third-world with morally bankrupt regimes turning a blind eye to environmental damage. China has bought and paid for the support of developing nations and knows those nations will not vote against them at the UN on climate or human rights violations.
Australia is one of the few nations left, governed by idiots, still ‘following the rules’ and allowing the Treasury to be exploited by fear-mongering doomsday cults that cover themselves in the robes of international bureaucracy.
It never ceases to amaze me that the left-wing government in Australia obsesses about misinformation and disinformation and then cheer when UN reps come to this country and make nonsense claims such as fruit being a ‘once-a-year treat’.
These comments are a total, utter, fabrication.
Politicians say they want ‘sensible’ and ‘adult’ conversations about energy transition, and then host nonsense like this.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Energy Australia sent me an email last week titled: Changes to your Energy Rates.
‘We’re writing to you about rate changes coming up that will affect you. While we understand that some of these changes may not be ideal, we have support available if you need it. Your electricity rates will increase. Your gas rates will increase.’
Listed as one of the reasons costs have gone up is this: ‘These costs are charged to us to comply with government-mandated schemes. For example, the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme or Large-scale Generation Certificates are schemes administered by the Commonwealth and State governments, which EnergyAustralia is required to participate in as an energy retailer.’
I’m considering switching to candles.
Has anyone else had enough of foreigners being entertained by politicians and organisations funded by the taxpayer?
This whole green apocalyptic nonsense has outstayed its welcome. No more money. Ditch Net Zero. Dismantle any and all climate authorities. Sack all of the hangers-on in the green industry. Withdraw all public funding for renewable projects.
We’d save a fortune.
These green energy projects are destroying our beaches, rainforests, and farms. They are disgusting, greed-driven, future landfill, short-lived monstrosities.
Enough is enough.
