By Jo Nova

Deception and lies — the only way the government can get more renewables

The Labor Party  was supposed to tell the whole world their 2035 renewables target in February, but they knew the voters would hate it, so they hid it until after the election. If Chris Bowen thought the voters wanted more renewables spending, obviously, he would have said so to win more votes.

As a part of the sacred Paris Agreement Australia was supposed to announce new Nationally Determined Commitment every five years. That deadline was late February. The world is bursting into flames around us, but the UN didn’t mind if the Labor Party were late, and hid their intentions, and nor did the Greens, or the “Climate Change Authority”. They all sat silent because they all know the voters don’t want it. Ipso Fabricato, all of them serve “The Blob”, not the voters.

Climate Change was virtually invisible during the election, yet the dishonorable Chris ‘Blackout’ Bowen now suddenly says the ‘silent majority’ support him.

by Geoff Chambers. The Australian

Emboldened Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has doubled down on Labor’s rollout of offshore wind farms, ­renewables and the phase-out of coal-fired power plants in a post-election attack on critics of his green power agenda, who he declares were rejected by Australia’s “silent majority”.

He wasn’t turbocharging anything two weeks ago:

After being sworn in on Tuesday for a second term, Mr Bowen will turbocharge Labor’s clean-energy revolution to achieve the government’s ambitious goal of 82 per cent of renewables in the electricity grid by 2030.

It’s such bad luck?  The Climate Change Authority (CCA) just happened to need a few extra weeks of work after the election, before it could reveal the horror show to the hapless Australians who pay their salaries:

The Australian understands the Climate Change Authority is weeks from finalizing its advice on an upgraded 2035 emissions-­reduction target, which will be more aggressive than Labor’s current 2030 pledge to slash emissions by 43 per cent.

Close down these fake agencies of industrial lobbyists like the CCA who serve themselves and not the people. Be gone, o’ parasites of the people!

If Bowen cared about what the people think, he could just poll them…

As it happens Essential polling out yesterday shows one issue dominated the election, and it was “cost of living”. More than half of Australian voters ranked it their number one issue, and renewables are the opposite of that. Every time the people are polled, “how much do you want to spend on climate change” the answer is next to nothing. An IPA poll in 2022 showed 70% of Australians don’t even want to spend $1 a week to reach Net Zero. (If they knew the real cost they already pay, they would riot in the streets).

Essential poll May 13, 2025.

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Asked another way, voters want the government to reduce the cost of living, solve the housing crisis, fix medicare, crime and immigration more than they want Labor to fix “the climate”. 80% of Australians didn’t even put climate in their top three issues.  Essential Poll

How’s that for a mandate for you Chris? If you didn’t talk about turbocharging the targets before the election, you are either stupid, or a liar? Or both.

Essay by Eric Worrall

Micrsosoft’s recently admitted their carbon footprint has risen 30% since 2020.

Global Net-Zero Targets in Jeopardy as Rich Countries Lag Behind

By Felicity Bradstock – May 11, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT

• Bill Gates calls for wealthy nations to prioritize net-zero emissions, emphasizing their responsibility to combat climate change.
• Despite global net-zero pledges, rich countries lag in decarbonisation, risking the goals of the Paris Agreement.
• Gates highlights the need for innovation investments and stronger climate commitments from high-income nations.

Alongside environmentalists and climate scientists, Bill Gates is the latest public figure to call on high-income countries to do more to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. While reducing emissions in developing countries can be difficult, due to a lack of funding and infrastructure, meaning it could take several more years to expand the renewable energy capacity of certain regions, Western nations have no such excuse. 

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This week, Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, said that rich countries “owe it to the world” to achieve net-zero emissions, during the opening dinner of the Ecosperity sustainability event in Singapore. Gates is the chairman of the non-profit Gates Foundation, which provides funding for a wide range of causes, including climate-related projects. 

Speaking with Singapore’s Ambassador for Climate Action Ravi Menon, Gates stressed that high-income countries must achieve net zero even if the entire world cannot. “The notion that the entire world is going to get [to net zero] by 2050 is at this point not realistic,” said Gates. “There are levels of emissions that are small enough that the temperature worsening actually is not a problem,” he added. However, if rich nations can reach net zero, it demonstrates to other countries the potential to tackle the effects of the climate crisis. 

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Read more: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Global-Net-Zero-Targets-in-Jeopardy-as-Rich-Countries-Lag-Behind.html

Back in the real world, Microsoft’s carbon emissions are skyrocketing, up 40% since 2020.

To be fair, Bill has apparently sold most of his Microsoft shares, and now owns around 1% of Microsoft – though that 1% is still worth billions of dollars.

But given Bill is responsible for creating Microsoft, and people at Microsoft still pick up the phone when he calls, he could have said something in his speech to Ecosperity about how he personally financially benefits from the profits of a company with a soaring carbon footprint.

Bill could also have explained to Ecosperity why he appears to think it is OK for him personally to make money from a company with a skyrocketing carbon footprint, but believes that everyone else should knuckle down and make sacrifices to reduce their carbon footprints.

If anyone has a link to Bill Gates’ Ecosperity speech please post in comments. Ecosperity has so far published a playlist of four videos related to the event.