Essay by Eric Worrall
Former nationals leader Barnaby Joyce stirring the greens.
‘Lunatic policy of Net Zero’: Barnaby Joyce puts UN on blast in New England snow rant
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce used a rare Aussie snow event to push his campaign against Australia’s “lunatic policy of net zero”.
Jack Evans @Jackevansreport
August 3, 2025 – 8:04AMNationals MP Barnaby Joyce has used a snow event in his electorate of New England to push his campaign against Australia’s “lunatic policy of net zero”.
Mr Joyce, on Saturday, published a video on social media as thick snow fell on the town of Bendemeer.
“A day like today, I don’t know which one is more ridiculous: [UN Secretary-General] Antonio Guterres talking about global boiling, or [Tim Flannery] – the river’s in flood – saying, it’s not gonna rain anymore,” he said in a video on his Facebook page.
“What’s sad about this really is there’s people in this little village I’m in, Bendemeer, who can’t afford to keep warm because we’ve got this lunatic policy of net zero where apparently we’re going to make it snow even more.”
“We’re not doing anything, all we’re doing is being completely cruel and hurting people.”
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His “Repeal Net Zero” bill, backed by several Coalition rebels, proposes scrapping Australia’s carbon-neutral target by 2050, a goal in line with most other developed nations.
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Barnaby Joyce’s Facebook video;
Barnaby Joyce disappointed us in 2021, when as leader of the National Party he caved to demands to support the coalition Net Zero policy, going into the failed 2021 federal election campaign;
Since then Joyce has worked hard to redress this lapse of judgement, by organising a farmers revolt against big government and corporations steamrollering their cruel renewable agenda across Australia’s primary agricultural land;
Land owners join forces to protest at compulsory purchase of land for renewable energy transmission linesarmers from Far North Queensland through NSW and into Victoria are forming a single coalition to fight the compulsory purchase of their land for high voltage transmission lines.
Matthew Benns@MatthewBennsJuly 23, 2023 – 6:50PM
Farmers from Far North Queensland through NSW and into Victoria are forming a single coalition to fight the compulsory purchase of their land for high voltage renewable energy transmission lines.
Former deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce united the farmers at a Zoom meeting last week to try and stop the 500 kilovolt cables passing over prime agricultural land including his own at Danglemah near Tamworth.
“All these farmers have to deal with transmission lines going across their land from Queensland to … southern NSW, New England, the Upper Hunter and into Victoria,” Mr Joyce said. “But none of them were talking to each other.”
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I’ve got to say I agree with Barnaby Joyce. Wasn’t snow supposed to end years ago? Weren’t all the snow field entrepreneurs already supposed to be bankrupt?
There is quite a lot of snow – heaviest snowfall in 40 years, according to some sources;
Australian towns blanketed by heaviest snowfall in decades
A cold air front brought snow to parts of Queensland for the first time in 10 years
Peter Hobson
Monday 04 August 2025 08:31 BSTSeveral towns in Australia’s east have experienced their heaviest snowfall in decades, causing floods, stranding vehicles and cutting power to thousands of homes.
A cold air front dropped as much as 40 cm (16 inches) of snow on parts of northern New South Wales on Saturday, the most since the mid-1980s, said Miriam Bradbury, a meteorologist at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).
Snow also settled in areas of the neighbouring state of Queensland for the first time in 10 years, she said.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/snow-in-australia-weather-nsw-b2801367.html
Barnaby’s point that renewable energy poverty, unaffordable home heating is causing far greater hardship than any problems caused by global warming is spot on. Expensive climate virtue does not help low income people shivering in cold weather which wasn’t supposed to happen.
Alarmists are quick to jump on every heatwave, claiming every bead of sweat as a sign of the end times, but they have no explanation for why this alleged global boiling has failed to stop the snow, other than to shamelessly claim global warming causes MORE snow, whenever they are embarrassed by an excess of the white stuff.
Global warming even sometimes causes heavy snowfall in July – in Europe. From a week ago;
Let’s not forget North America and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. From 2018;
Perhaps the truth is, global warming just isn’t a big deal, in the context of far larger natural seasonal and annual temperature variation. And global warming is far less of an issue than being unable to afford home heating, because renewables drove up your electricity bill.
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