OKAY everyone, look here. It is time for a mega-thread of just the nastiest, shittiest, most planetarily destructive things that the Australian government has done over the past 3 yrs.
There will be swears. Tears. Charts. Articles. And I'll add to it as we get closer to May 21
There will be swears. Tears. Charts. Articles. And I'll add to it as we get closer to May 21
Sections I'll be covering
- Greenwashing and tricks
- Fossil expansionism
- Delay, obstruction and denial of transition
- Other / just, the batshit wildest most bonkers things that we've somehow lived through
- Greenwashing and tricks
- Fossil expansionism
- Delay, obstruction and denial of transition
- Other / just, the batshit wildest most bonkers things that we've somehow lived through
GREENWASHING
The gov’t falsely declares their projections show 2030 emissions will be 35% below 2005 levels. How they did it: just deadass changed the assumption in the spreadsheet to get a higher number. No shame
It worked: the # is constantly repeated
The gov’t falsely declares their projections show 2030 emissions will be 35% below 2005 levels. How they did it: just deadass changed the assumption in the spreadsheet to get a higher number. No shame
It worked: the # is constantly repeated
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1452953466909954062
GREENWASHING
This one still just drives me up the wall. At the Biden climate summit in April 2021, Morrison + Taylor flat-out invented a new accounting method to inflate emissions reductions.
(by A LOT)
(LIKE REALLY A LOTT)
(DODGY AS HELL FOLKS)
This one still just drives me up the wall. At the Biden climate summit in April 2021, Morrison + Taylor flat-out invented a new accounting method to inflate emissions reductions.
(by A LOT)
(LIKE REALLY A LOTT)
(DODGY AS HELL FOLKS)
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1385551177035702273
GREENWASHING
Before their projections included renewable growth, they has to claim “over-performance” on old targets to ‘carryover’ into Paris.
Just like avoided deaths from the first wave of COVID means you are allowed to kill more people for 2nd wave
reneweconomy.com.au/morrisons-infu…
Before their projections included renewable growth, they has to claim “over-performance” on old targets to ‘carryover’ into Paris.
Just like avoided deaths from the first wave of COVID means you are allowed to kill more people for 2nd wave
reneweconomy.com.au/morrisons-infu…
GREENWASHING
As above, projections were showing Aus would miss weak 2030 targets. Solution: they flat-out lied and said they were going to ‘meet and beat’ them.
Result: repeated uncritically across media for years and years and years
As above, projections were showing Aus would miss weak 2030 targets. Solution: they flat-out lied and said they were going to ‘meet and beat’ them.
Result: repeated uncritically across media for years and years and years
https://twitter.com/AngusTaylorMP/status/1217727406284238850
The gov’t constantly lies about “beating” other countries on climate. They do this by wrongly padding out emissions with land use. It’s wrong: carbon from underground can’t be stored on the surface + the data is shoddy.
reneweconomy.com.au/your-g7-greenw…
reneweconomy.com.au/your-g7-greenw…
GREENWASHING
To illustrate this another way - check out the comparison between Australia and Canada, depending on whether you include 'land use' data (again: you shouldn't - you can't cram carbon from underground into trees and soils)
To illustrate this another way - check out the comparison between Australia and Canada, depending on whether you include 'land use' data (again: you shouldn't - you can't cram carbon from underground into trees and soils)
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1472868961801093122
GREENWASHING
One key extra note on that is that MPs like @KatieAllenMP publish comparisons that use 2019 data for other countries, and 2020 data for Aus
Remember anything that happened in 2020, to the world's economies and societies? So, so dodgy.
One key extra note on that is that MPs like @KatieAllenMP publish comparisons that use 2019 data for other countries, and 2020 data for Aus
Remember anything that happened in 2020, to the world's economies and societies? So, so dodgy.
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1472868208679919616
GREENWASHING
They keep claiming a 20% drop in emissions. Mostly achieved by wrongly including land carbon, the rest = claiming credit for drought, disease and renewable schemes Labor implemented.
They keep claiming a 20% drop in emissions. Mostly achieved by wrongly including land carbon, the rest = claiming credit for drought, disease and renewable schemes Labor implemented.
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1489186263601229825
GREENWASHING
Angus Taylor promised electricity prices would be at $70/MWh by the end of 2021. For 2022, they’ve averaged around $95/MWh and rapidly rising.
The gov only talks about the fall, and the not the rise......
Angus Taylor promised electricity prices would be at $70/MWh by the end of 2021. For 2022, they’ve averaged around $95/MWh and rapidly rising.
The gov only talks about the fall, and the not the rise......
https://twitter.com/dylanjmcconnell/status/1526114135964286976+
https://twitter.com/dylanjmcconnell/status/1521005552868143104
That's it for today! Let me know if I missed any key greenwashing themes. We're not even a quarter of the way through, lol 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Before I kick off today's section, a GREENWASHING I forgot (thx @CA_Latest). The gov over-focuses on solar capacity per capita because (a) Aus already has high energy / capita and (b) obscures continued fossil reliance
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1380459054498205696
https://twitter.com/CA_Latest/status/1525985226027020289
Anyway, onto FOSSIL EXPANSION.
The government is overseeing a huge expansion of fossil fuel mining projects, which will blast the world past climate targets if the fuel they extract is burned (~200 coal plants worth)
australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/upl…) .
The government is overseeing a huge expansion of fossil fuel mining projects, which will blast the world past climate targets if the fuel they extract is burned (~200 coal plants worth)
australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/upl…) .
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1501395579947347972
FOSSIL EXPANSION
Every single quarter since 2005 has seen a rise in Australia's emissions, except mid-2020 to mid-2021, due to the pandemic. Excluding that, rising coal/gas mining and worsening transport emissions have cancelled out growing renewables.
Every single quarter since 2005 has seen a rise in Australia's emissions, except mid-2020 to mid-2021, due to the pandemic. Excluding that, rising coal/gas mining and worsening transport emissions have cancelled out growing renewables.
FOSSIL EXPANSION
Those fossil mining projects - wrecking domestic emissions accounts - are also being exported and are burned. 2019 - 2021 = ~3,500 MTCO2. Comfortably more than double domestic emissions.
Aus punches above its weight when it comes to causing climate disasters.
Those fossil mining projects - wrecking domestic emissions accounts - are also being exported and are burned. 2019 - 2021 = ~3,500 MTCO2. Comfortably more than double domestic emissions.
Aus punches above its weight when it comes to causing climate disasters.
FOSSIL EXPANSION
Ties in w/ greenwashing: hydrogen made from fossil fuels = a new demand source. But Aus' gov't just **has** to do the filthiest, nastiest version of it. My thread below + @CA_Latest -> [climateanalytics.org/media/australi…]
Ties in w/ greenwashing: hydrogen made from fossil fuels = a new demand source. But Aus' gov't just **has** to do the filthiest, nastiest version of it. My thread below + @CA_Latest -> [climateanalytics.org/media/australi…]
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1484455269262401538
FOSSIL EXPANSION
CCS, before we get onto the next few, just needs to be reiterated as a catastrophic and total failure in essentially every regard, *except* as a tool for justifying worsening climate change, for which it has done exceptionally well.
CCS, before we get onto the next few, just needs to be reiterated as a catastrophic and total failure in essentially every regard, *except* as a tool for justifying worsening climate change, for which it has done exceptionally well.
FOSSIL EXPANSION
One of the sneakiest, nastiest little fossil fuel expansion schemes is the generation of carbon credits by CCS. Dreamt up by Santos and written into legislation by the company's gov't representatives
It is utterly reprehensible. Thread:
One of the sneakiest, nastiest little fossil fuel expansion schemes is the generation of carbon credits by CCS. Dreamt up by Santos and written into legislation by the company's gov't representatives
It is utterly reprehensible. Thread:
https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1444965168975433730
FOSSIL EXPANSION
This one is a bit more slapstick: Angus Taylor has been trying to get the gov renewables agency to fund CCS, except it's been implemented and reversed many, many times now.
Sometimes, their own ineptness is a brake on their harmfulness
This one is a bit more slapstick: Angus Taylor has been trying to get the gov renewables agency to fund CCS, except it's been implemented and reversed many, many times now.
Sometimes, their own ineptness is a brake on their harmfulness
https://twitter.com/timinclimate/status/1524151382399279104
FOSSIL EXPANSION
What Brynn said. Everything Brynn says, in this thread.
What Brynn said. Everything Brynn says, in this thread.
https://twitter.com/brynnobrien/status/1427862338875523077
FOSSIL EXPANSION
"Climate inaction" is a phrase I've tried to remove from my content. These people are actively accelerating climate destruction. They're good at this.
"Australian fossil fuel subsidies surge to $11.6 billion in 2021-22"
australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia…
"Climate inaction" is a phrase I've tried to remove from my content. These people are actively accelerating climate destruction. They're good at this.
"Australian fossil fuel subsidies surge to $11.6 billion in 2021-22"
australiainstitute.org.au/post/australia…
FOSSIL EXPANSION
And then, after using a deadly pandemic to justify worsening climate change, the government has been using a deadly war to justify worsening climate change.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
And then, after using a deadly pandemic to justify worsening climate change, the government has been using a deadly war to justify worsening climate change.
theguardian.com/australia-news…
That's it for fossil expansionism today. Tomorrow, actively delaying the transition and stymying progress. Please let me know if I've missed anything out so far! 💕🙏🏽
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