Angus Taylor ignores investors when he passes the buck on climate policy failures | RenewEconomy
34 trillion dollars available rejected by Taylor who bought $80 mill worth of nothing from his rowing mates and tried to have grasses redefined for the family. The man who works for himself while we pay.
Except, despite what Taylor has claimed, investors are actually calling on governments to put in place policies that will support a transition away from fossil fuels, including the reintroduction of a carbon price, a phase-out of fossil fuel subsidies and an end to thermal coal.A collection of 477 global investors have issued a joint statement ahead of a meeting of G20 leaders in Osaka, calling on governments to do more to tackle climate change and plan for a world without coal.
Specifically, investors have called on governments to “put a meaningful price on carbon” and to “phase out thermal coal power worldwide by set deadlines.”
The group of investors, that manage a combined $US34 trillion in investment assets, with signatories to the statement including Australian investment managers, including Australian Super, Cbus, Hesta, First State Super, IFM Investors and BT Financial Group.
During his tenure as federal energy minister, Angus Taylor has overseen a period of increasing greenhouse gas emissions in Australia and has raised fears among members of the COAG energy council that he has no plans for reducing emissions in the electricity sector and may disengage with the council altogether on the issue of emissions policy.
Christopher Pyne called out for taking defence job within 18 months of leaving Parliament
Self-Interest always comes first in the LNP's Church; it's simply a Conservative Entrepreneurial and Free market principle. Me before We. (ODT)
Key points:
- The Statement of Ministerial Standards says that for 18 months after they leave office, former ministers will not lobby members of the Government on matters they had dealt with as a minister
- Senator Patrick said Mr Pyne's new role did not pass the pub test
- He said Mr Pyne was hired due to his insider knowledge
Going for gold in the Bastard Olympics - » The Australian Independent Media Network
There’s plenty of international competition for the top of the medal count for outstanding achievement in bastardry so how does our own contingent of awfulness stack up against the might of Team USA led by a ludicrous, tangerine blowhard and Team UK who’s grooming a dishevelled, bloated smurf as their Chef de Mission?
'Hell is coming': Europe braced for record June heat
You never hear this from Bolt
Hot air from the Sahara will send temperatures above 40 in several locations on the continent.
Yet Bolt is suggesting Nuclear Power is the cheapest source of power today despite economist estimates of renewables being 40 times less and going down. Have we heard him say that the Russian scientists were overcompensating the damage and figures he still quotes from 1987 and as a result should remove the protective cover that was put over "the still burning reactor" today?
Bolt uses what we only know was reported at the time of the accident and immediately after 32 years ago.
Well given science has direct knowledge of what occurred when the bombs were dropped over Japan and the long term consequences of that event and given that Chernobyl was much bigger than that as the equivalent of 40+ times more comparisons and probable extrapolations can easily be made that are far more accurate than any denial Bolt has to offer.
What Bolt is doing is the same as the deniers model used that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Unless a 100% connection can be established, the anti-smoking argument remains unfounded, and he's applying it to Chernobyl. Lobbyists for Tobacco made fortunes for years and still do. Science and Epidemiology base their conclusions on the most likely outcomes being the most probable, not Bolt's required 100% causal evidence. Guess he doesn't care if his kids smoke?
The opinionator is little better than the Round-Up salesman who claimed it was safe to drink and when offered some ran for cover. Sorry, Bolt is a braggart and blowhard whose arguments for Nuclear Power carry no weight based on his safety rationale. He also claimed Fukushima is safe pounding his chest and saying he'd holiday in both those places without the need for any extra precaution defying the general consensus of science yet again that they remain far more dangerous than we all think.
So much so the Trump Administration has stoped American scientists to even publicly reporting their research findings on issues like Climate, Pollution or the most effective or ineffective sources of energy production.
It's no coincidence that Murdoch Power is only a success in Australia and the US they exist in the UK but don't have the traction the have there to resist the onslaught of the money supporting renewables. In fact, among the OECD countries and the world, we are known for being the most self-interested resisters.
(ODT)
Marxism sure isn't dead - not at Melbourne University, where it is now wearing the clothes of the global warming movement."Bolt
Of course, it is as is Islam and Capitalism; that's what universities are about, and we have 10% of what is regarded as the world's best. But Bolt wh never got a degree somehow hints they aren't. How and what does he actually base his opinion on? What establishes him to be above world opinion judged on established criteria and internationally recognized? A Walter Mitty complex it seems along this Tony Thomas whose reputation is no greater than Bolt's. Karl will be remembered well after these two's bones have melted and their graves have grown over and no visitors. I doubt even Bolt's children will keep visiting his.
The USA is imprisoning people it finds undesirable. Australia has already lived this
Australia lead the way to this global shame and application of concentration camps (ODT)
Neither country is a stranger to indefinitely imprisoning innocent or untried people. Australia’s innovation – one taken up in Europe as well as the United States – was in beginning in earnest to dismantle an always-fragile global consensus on the proper treatment of refugees.
Australia turned that on its head when it started down the road of arbitrarily punishing those fleeing war, violence and persecution. When conservatives then aggressively politicised that fact, they created a model.
The Australian experience suggests that once established, such camps are difficult to dislodge within the routines of national politics. To disestablish these camps anywhere, we need to oppose them everywhere.
Bolt proves that he's simply a hypocrite choosing cases that suit him to defend others to attack. His so-called "free speech" argument doesn't hold water given his history of calling for the sacking of people for voicing their opinions. Where was Bolt when Yassmin posted her opinion on Twitter Bolt was busy calling for her sacking from the ABC and any other contract she had. So much so he was a voice that hounded a very bright and educated Australian out of the country. (ODT)
Donald Trump, with no evidence, accuses Robert Mueller of crimes
Trump made the remarks ahead of Mueller's scheduled testimony before lawmakers next month about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election and whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.
Trump seems to be locked in a closet of his own making with little more than a shotgun he keeps firing. Yet he still keeps missing the walls. (ODT)
Andrew Bolt's Tip for today shows how he thinks
TIPS FOR THURSDAY, JUNE 6
THE LIBS FUNDED RUGBY AUSTRALIA. SO SACKING FOLAU IS MORRISON'S BUSINESS
Quadrant notes the Federal Government has given Rugby Australia $28 million of our money over four years. That makes it the Government's business when Rugby Australia sacks Israel Folau for quoting the Bible. So why does Prime Minister Scott Morrison refuse to comment? That is not just dodging a fight for free speech. It's dodging responsibility.
Bolt throws some figures in the air, and they are the "facts" facts which in fact nobody has researched other than the Russians or then the Soviets for political reasons. The Soviets were really the only ones to know what the death numbers really were. Andrew Bolt today swears by them.... how hypocritical don't you think? We know they were concerned because they have a 30k restricted zone from Chernobyl in place today even after they sealed off the reactor which will be required to be sealed and resealed off for the next 600+ years.
ABC PROVES IT HATES THE TRUTH ABOUT CHERNOBYL
COLUMN The ABC’s new chairman, Ita Buttrose, admits the state broadcaster may be biased after all. And on Monday came more proof. Last week, I wrote that the new HBO series on Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear accident, falsely claimed the 1986 explosion killed up to 93,000 people. Boy, did that article - and that truth - upset the ABC's Media Watch.
Yet Bolt is suggesting Nuclear Power is the cheapest source of power today despite economist estimates of renewables being 40 times less and going down. Have we heard him say that the Russian scientists were overcompensating the damage and figures he still quotes from 1987 and as a result should remove the protective cover that was put over "the still burning reactor" today?
Bolt uses what we only know was reported at the time of the accident and immediately after 32 years ago.
Well given science has direct knowledge of what occurred when the bombs were dropped over Japan and the long term consequences of that event and given that Chernobyl was much bigger than that as the equivalent of 40+ times more comparisons and probable extrapolations can easily be made that are far more accurate than any denial Bolt has to offer.
What Bolt is doing is the same as the deniers model used that smoking doesn't cause cancer. Unless a 100% connection can be established, the anti-smoking argument remains unfounded, and he's applying it to Chernobyl. Lobbyists for Tobacco made fortunes for years and still do. Science and Epidemiology base their conclusions on the most likely outcomes being the most probable, not Bolt's required 100% causal evidence. Guess he doesn't care if his kids smoke?
The opinionator is little better than the Round-Up salesman who claimed it was safe to drink and when offered some ran for cover. Sorry, Bolt is a braggart and blowhard whose arguments for Nuclear Power carry no weight based on his safety rationale. He also claimed Fukushima is safe pounding his chest and saying he'd holiday in both those places without the need for any extra precaution defying the general consensus of science yet again that they remain far more dangerous than we all think.
So much so the Trump Administration has stoped American scientists to even publicly reporting their research findings on issues like Climate, Pollution or the most effective or ineffective sources of energy production.
It's no coincidence that Murdoch Power is only a success in Australia and the US they exist in the UK but don't have the traction the have there to resist the onslaught of the money supporting renewables. In fact, among the OECD countries and the world, we are known for being the most self-interested resisters.
(ODT)
Marxism sure isn't dead - not at Melbourne University, where it is now wearing the clothes of the global warming movement."Bolt
Of course, it is as is Islam and Capitalism; that's what universities are about, and we have 10% of what is regarded as the world's best. But Bolt wh never got a degree somehow hints they aren't. How and what does he actually base his opinion on? What establishes him to be above world opinion judged on established criteria and internationally recognized? A Walter Mitty complex it seems along this Tony Thomas whose reputation is no greater than Bolt's. Karl will be remembered well after these two's bones have melted and their graves have grown over and no visitors. I doubt even Bolt's children will keep visiting his.
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