Fairfax claims the magic pudding has been
invented: a scheme to make us use expensive green power and SAVE
MONEY "The Turnbull government is sitting on advice that an emissions
intensity scheme - the carbon policy it put on the table only to rule
out just 36 hours later - would save households and businesses across
the country up to $15 billion."
Here we are again the dog with it's dream bone. It's not even a real one the once spoken of REVIEW by a Democratically elected committee which is a check has been turned into Policy going forward by Turnbull and then turned around by Bolt whose put the cart before the horse for the benefit of rhetoric
. Remember the days when horses were cheaper and better transporters of goods from A to B. When Ford came up with an idea that trucks could best them. Bolt along with the stable owners and horse farms would have railed against the idea of progress and reminded the electorate just how stupid fossil fuel energy was. The cost was the dirty word back then too after all roads had to be built. Horses and rail were far cheaper. Now the word Clean is the dirty word and Elon Musk is ahead of the race. He is today's nutter like Ford was back then?
Forward costing has been the weapon of clean energy deniers has been done declaring it would cost $2000 for households to meet the reduced CO2 targets envisaged by 2030. Hey I know Aussies are fast becoming backward in math but that's only 0.36cents a day at today's tech levels for clean energy production. Clean energy for the future and the price just keeps dropping. What's at stake is a cleaner future for our kids much cleaner than one Bolt says we need. That alone makes Bolt a regressive.
On my shows - the Muslim rival to Peppa. Plus a report card on top pollies
On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm -
a report card on our top politicians. Who gets an A, who a D? Plus the
activist teachers wearing political T-shirts in classrooms. And Rowan
Dean on the Muslim-backed alternative to wicked Peppa the Pig.
Here is a truth that can't be denied Paul Hogan helped make Australia famous Andrew Bolt and Rupert Murdoch along with Tony Abbott decided to to shrink the world's admiration of Australia to oblivion. Welcome was this country's second name since the 1950's and a place worth coming to. John Howard turned that around domestically Abbott and Bolt have accelerated it. They have not only taken the prawns off the barbie they are now the only things we are allowed to import.
Andrew Bolt is a great fan of Breitbart trusts them implicitly. The post Bolt made here Ridd on Reef has a link to the Bolt Report which has no date attached to it. Furthermore it has a mountain of unacknowledged information missing that lends more light to what is really happening here.
Bolt is using a very old post by Ridd on which he was severely censured and nearly sacked for using James Cook University's renowned school of Marine Biology as his accredited official support base when in fact Ridd was seen by James Cook other colleagues a as rogue. However he is regarded as the pre-immanent expert on the reef by Bolt.
Who is Ridd
"While going to great lengths to construct the
story, The Australian left out a couple of bits about Professor Ridd
that might seem relevant.
Ridd is the “science director” at the Australian Environment
Foundation, which claims that wind farms make make people sick and that
climate change might not be caused by humans but, if it is, it probably
won’t be all that bad. The AEF has historical links to the Institute of
Public Affairs, the Melbourne-based free market think tank and key
pusher of climate science denial in Australia."
"At James Cook University, Ridd also runs the Marine Geophysics Laboratory, which seems to spend a lot of time working on projects related to fossil fuel export terminals.
The most recent scientific paper posted on Ridd’s university publications page was a paper he co-authored in the journal PLOS One.
According to the paper, which found that dredging can impact corals
at distances of 20 kilometres, the research was funded by Chevron
Australia, Woodside Energy Limited and BHP Billiton.
Last year in an interview with the ABC,
Ridd responded to questions over a potential for conflict of interest
relating to his laboratory’s work on fossil fuel projects."
"Do I have a vested interest? Well, all the money that’s
raised through the university goes into PhD scholarships, into
developing more instrumentation, funding research. If you think that’s a
vested interest, then it is. I’ll let you make that decision."
" Peter Ridd raises almost all of his research funds from the profits of
consultancy work which is usually associated with monitoring of marine
dredging operation (http://www.jcu.edu.au/marinephysics/services/JCU_103139.html)
. Work has recently been done at Hay Point and Abbot Point as well as
at Barrow Island in Western Australia. The general philosophy is to use
the instruments and analysis methods which are developed by the Marine
Geophysics Lab to give a competitive edge for tendering for contract
work. Funds pay PhD scholarship and the staff of the MGL (usually
around 7 scientists and engineers)."
So much for the arms length credentials of Prof Ridd and why he was severely censured by his peers and Bolt's silence on all of this
James Cook University is seen as alarmist here by Bolt along with the Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. I suspect today's post isn't even a response to the latest evidence that Coral bleaching on the reef in fact has got even worse. Bolt is simply applying the same old tactics as Breitbart. It's no coincidence that Bolt's videos aren't dated and are posted under the guise of being "hot off the mark" when they aren't It's another example of his lazy Susan approach to old ideas being recycled. What Bolt fails to acknowledge are Ridd's true credentials. I guess Ridd is a substitute for how Abbott hoped to use Lomborg. Below is a response to Breitbart and it's use of "data" by a scientist it could be also a response to Andrew Bolt and other climate deniers who dominate the media but not peoples trust, go Kait Parker.
“Here’s the thing: Science doesn’t care about your opinion." Kait to Breitbart (and Andrew Bolt)
Source:
Weather Channel Destroys Breitbart Over BS Climate Change Story
Weather Channel Meteorologist Calls Out Breitbart: “Please Stop Using Our Video to Mislead Americans” On Climate Change
Atmospheric Scientist Kait Parker: “To all my fellow scientists out there: Let’s make the facts louder than the opinions”
Why does Andrew Bolt hate Hoges Paul Hogan so much he made Australia so admired and less than down under Bolt makes us so shrinkable and truly takes us back underground.

Jobs and (no) growth
The promise was "jobs and growth". The
Turnbull Government has just delivered no growth instead, and the Budget
is in more strife.
Yes Turnbull has inherited the trajectory that Abbott and Hockey set us on. Rather than punish the poorest Australians using the jackboot tactics we experienced Abbott doing Turnbull has been travelling the same path but far less eratically. Bolt seems to prefer the Abbott and Hockey style economics of panic panic panic we fooled you there's nothing to panic about. We fixed the economy we fixed the economy now panic . Bolt's conveniently forgotten that trip Abbott took us on while spending at a rate faster than Gillard. However back then it was always Gillards fault that Abbott was out of control. Turnbull took over after the election and instantly everything has been dumped on him as if Abbott was teflon coated."Moody’s said yesterday it believed the poor GDP result did not mark
the beginning of a weakening trend, and predicted investment would
recover." Uren
Nevertheless the Abbott panic as delivered by Andrew Bolt hasn't stopped it's only changed and delivered at Malcom Turnbull .