By Jo Nova
And then the climate pledges evaporated
The Tech-Giants are backing away. Microsoft and Google have given up — they’re not bragging about their carbon neutrality anymore. Not now that their emissions have increased 29% and 50% respectively in the last four or five years. Over 500 companies pledged to get to net zero by 2040, but 96% of them are failing to stay on track. To distract us from talking about how the Climate Bubble has popped, some are blaming “AI”.
The world is facing mass death and boiling oceans, and wind and solar are still as cheap as they never were, but Big Tech are sneaking away from saving the world, wait, because Artificial Intelligence uses a lot of electricity? It’s like, these CEOs were saviors of Mother Earth not long ago, but the ice-caps be damned, there’s a race on to capture the AI market? Apparently, the planetary heroes just turned back into robber barons doing business.
Dr Jemma Green, who sells software for renewables markets, is trying to sell us a bad-luck story, as if it makes any sense. The truth is that if net zero technologies were cheap and useful, and the CEO’s ever cared about the planet, they wouldn’t be abandoning them. But they are…
Why Big Corporations Are Quietly Abandoning Their Climate Commitments?
Jemma Green, Forbes
AI’s energy hunger and corporate climate hypocrisy
…corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Shell once positioned themselves as leaders in sustainability, setting ambitious net-zero goals to align with global environmental efforts. However, the rapid rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence is forcing these companies to reconsider—or even abandon—these commitments…
Corporate climate pledges surged recently, with over 500 companies globally committing to net-zero emissions by 2040. This momentum continued between June 2022 and October 2023, with a 40% increase in new net-zero targets. Yet, as the AI revolution gains traction, cracks in these promises are beginning to show. Recent analysis reveals that only 4% of these companies are on track to meet their goals, highlighting a disconnect between corporate rhetoric and reality.
Despite the headline, Jemma Green isn’t even trying to explain “Why” the end is here. After a few paragraphs blaming AI she laments how other giants like Shell, or Gucci, or EasyJet are stepping away too from their goals too, poking a hole in her thesis that it was only due to AI. It’s not like Gucci want to sell you AI programs to wear.
What she’s documenting is the corporate world quietly erasing their mistakes:
Shell, for instance, has abandoned its 2035 target of a 45% reduction in net carbon intensity, citing “uncertainty in the pace of change in the energy transition.” This target was a key milestone towards Shell’s broader goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
The same goes for luxury fashion house Gucci, which once committed to carbon neutrality through verified carbon offsets and in May 2023, quietly removed its claim of being “entirely carbon neutral” from its website.
The truth is that if the Earth was in danger, smart CEO’s and billionaires, who have to live on the planet too, would be pushing nuclear power like their children’s lives depended on it.
Instead it was all an intellectual fashion contest and a quick subsidy buck, and maybe a few even believed wind and solar power did something useful, but they don’t anymore.
Public companies pledging insanity are beginning to see “activists” on both sides of both climate change and dei. It seems that the new activists against both are actual shareholders. In some cases they are obviously also aligned with customers. People who run companies (as opposed to those in government vis a vie their voters) listen to their shareholders and customers. The newly invented “stakeholders” proved to be will-o-the-wisps. The most interesting accounting will be when public employee pension funds sue folks like Black Rock over suboptimal results due to DEI/ESG. Without shame or even a sense of irony. Bring popcorn.
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Public companies pledged climate targets to get grants. Same as universities. Will do it again and again.
When will the government hold them to results?
Never. The government wants to be “popular” by printing money.
What would happen if any of these pledges actually resulted in lower costs? Lower inflation. More competition.
Can’t see any university or corporation being too happy.
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“and maybe a few even believed wind and solar power did something useful, but they don’t anymore.”
Could they – all – tell Edstone ‘Ed” Miliband.
Please?
Pretty Please!
Auto
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The reality has nothing to do with AI, but with engineering and economics. Google’s green young billionaires tried to get renewables to work iwith a program called RE<C, but they quietly shut it down in 2011:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/google-engineers-explain-why-they-stopped-rd-in-renewable-energy
Then they tried again using AI in 2019, by purchasing AI researcher, DeepMind and starting research into whether AI could better control or predict renewable output. It too was quietly shut down.
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Google built a large facility in my area serveral years ago – adjacent to a 1.7 GW gas fired power generation facility.
Server farms and bitcoin mining use more power than some cities but hoi polloi can bake or freeze in the dark.
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Isn’t it wonderful how reality has this nasty habit of revealing truth. We here always thought that the bubble would burst one day simply because we believed in real science with data and old records then the rest of the world found that despite the frothing of UN bureaucrats the oceans weren’t boiling nor were they rising all that much, that one year was much like the last weatherwise but power bills were certainly going up. In Australia we had the added bonus of the failed referendum where we found the majority agreed with us that big corporations were led by stupid people and that government could not be trusted to tell us the truth on this and many other subjects; vaccines and viruses spring to mind. More than one bubble may be bursting or about to burst.
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I always wanted to live long enough to see the climate scam collapse. God willing I will.
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But for Al Gore and Clive Palmer it would have collapsed. Ten years ago!
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Me too, Laurie. I am 84 and fit and I am damned if I am going to die before I see the Net Zero dragon slain.
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My ambition too.
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That I’d also like to see
Around that area – late last year at another blog I started a thread on EV’s. Two suprises –
It is still going
And it looks like it might have captured “peak EV”
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The Corporate world is/has abandoned net zero…….when will Governments wake up to the lunacy.
Oh that’s right, it is not their money they are wasting.
Ready when you are Mr Bowen….
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Every single government policy/program, should have to pass a rigorous cost-benefit analysis before it is adopted, and every single government agency should have to pass an annual cost-benefit review to justify it’s existence. If they fail, the policy gets binned or the department gets shuttered (Afuera!). That’s the only way to bring government spending back to some semblance of responsibility.
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Sorry to be pessemistic Steve but …
You are going to need a lot more public serpents and consultants to do those cost-benefit analyses.
And not many departments will conclude that their own departments fail their own cost-benefit review.
The only thought I have is to impose an upper limit on career public serpents. You get 5 years on the government teat and then you are off to private industry – FOREVER.
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Obviously, the analysis would have to be done by an independent body.
I’d even be down for offering them a bounty for every department they give the axe. That should give them incentive to be brutally honest.
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Independent? It’s all about terms of reference.
As Yes Minister observed so many years ago railway trains are independent but lay down the tracks and that’s where they go.
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After five years of public ‘service’, they would be unemployable in the private sector.
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Yep.
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In Ontario, there was no cost/benefit analysis before wind turbines were forced on rural residents.The Auditor General revealed this after the fact and nothing was done about it There also were no scientific studies to ascertain that residents whose homes were surrounded by them, because financially desperate landowners signed leases for as many as possible on their land, for the maximum payment annually for 20 years! This was all part of the net zero agenda.
Didn’t Mark Carney publicly say that money lending would be withheld for anyone who did not sign on to net zero.?
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“… when will Governments wake up to the lunacy.”
It wasn’t (or isn’t) lunacy.
It is a sophisticated, central coordinated, psychological propaganda offensive decades in the making.
It is the origin ideology and gospel of Globalism.
It is one of the main wealth transfer mechanisms by which the new feudal elite acquired control of public resources which they are using to take total control.
Framing the ‘Climate Change’ issue as a scientific debate is one the great tactical distraction feigns of all time.
“Believe and Follow Science” or be judged heretic.
The only waking up governments are doing is that the feign is no longer working.
But the objective is likely very nearly achieved.
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Honk,
I have reached 32 pages of a new article on The Establishment and its capture of science for money and power to a few.
There is simply so much material to work with. It is hard to shorten it.
Take just one sub-topic, the popular press losing individual journalism skill after the canned article generators like Covering Climate Now got hundreds of takers paying money for these canned articles instead of writing their own. Dig deeper to find evidence that the biggest customer group looks like youngish women with no science background and simple journalism or arts degrees, not adequately qualified to write let alone contribute new research. Then note that this fits the form of Aussie Teals who knocked off some Lib candidates at last Fed election. Note the link with Greens candidates and balance of power with our electoral system. Tie in the academic women from the big east Aussie unis, the ones who have captured the global heatwave narrative but are wrong …..
You can see how long, tangled webs lead to long, tangled articles.
Geoff S
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Where oh where is The Guardian Of The Public Purse?
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I have severe doubts about the financial (investment) feasibility of AI. It has multiple areas of application depending on the type :-
i) anime \ cartoons \ pop art.
ii) movies.
iii) advertising.
iv) search engines.
v) answer engines.
vi) nudging – advertising.
vii) societal control – nudging & collating \ aggregating.
viii) medical analysis.
ix) scientific research.
I think that in the much more broad market areas people will become very sick of it very quickly.
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No offense, but much of the benefit is totally non-sexy and is already delivering results. We never think about the cost of
the odd data entry or routing error, or the costs of fixing same. AI is doing yeoman work. Remember in the dark ages it cost
a couple of bucks to type and mail a business letter….then Email reduced the cost to near zero, then the bulk of emails brought
the cost up again? It’s going back down. I once did some programming for a company that had to keep track of it’s fertilizer…
where it went, how it worked, field by field for years for regulatory purposes. AI ate the data and made the process trivial
for an order of magnitude less cost. AI will yield lots of tiny incremental improvements…that’s how most “learning” works….
heck in a couple of centuries we may have a uniformly applied tax system, and no govt munchkins needed to run it.
I expect within a decade AI will be managing our traffic lights adding considerably to our road capacity and doing lots of other tasks
helping us do more with less. In business, saving a fraction of a cent on something you do dozens of millions of times a year is a big deal.
You won’t think about the “AI” part any more than you think about the cell towers when you make a cell phone call; yet all that cell infrastructure
got built out and largely displaced wires in the same way AI will enhance ordinary processes.
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Interesting post. The use of AI to deal with regulatory problems could be negated by getting rid of the regulations given that many of them are pointless political dictats that do nothing of any benefit. If AI makes it easier to deal with regulations would there be a concern that more would be introduced on the basis that they don’t inconvenience? When it comes to taxation, since having taxaholic Gordon Brown as chancellor and then PM, the UK tax guide Tolley’s has become so large it would take you most of your working life to actually read. The sensible answer is to simplify the tax system and dump 90% of the pages not just use AI to make sense of the nonsense. Being able to generate a better model to control traffic lights would be good although driverless cars will never happen. Driverless trains have many advantages – in the UK we could get rid of our overpaid striking train drivers for a start. Infrastructure costs drop as no signals are required and without signals trains can be closer together and not placed by signal sectors.
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All very fine,in theory.
When “Skynet” becomes “self-aware”, all bets are off.
Just ask HAL.
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Chiefio on that
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/08/10/w-o-o-d-10-aug-2024-yen-unwind-m-e-war-looms-debby-does-se-dims-love-spin-im-doing-nothin/#comment-172204
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What about the court system? There is surely nothing that judges have to do that could not be done by AI.
BTW, I think my debit card company uses AI: I paid by card for a coffee at a nice little cafe in Wiltshire called St Arbucks. It appeared in my account as Starbucks with the Starbucks logo, but the recipient account name was clearly St Arbucks.
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What about the court system? There is surely nothing that judges have to do that could not be done by AI.
AI does not think. It does not feel. It does not have any morals. It has no sense of compassion. Do you really want to trust the legal system to an automaton that is programmed by people who generally lean towards communism?
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In other words propaganda.
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Jo,
Please pardon me for raising a touchy topic, but let me start by writing that you have consistently shown objectivity and reliance on data in your comments on climate change.
Many other young females have not.
I am writing an article about the growth of The Establishment and its capture of climate “science”.
I find public article after article, typically from known news organisations here, in GB and US mainly, authored by a youngish woman with no science background, but with some fairly ordinary journalism/arts tertiary qualifications. This increase, if it is real, has happened most in the past decade.
In that decade, Australia has grown its Greens and in particular its Teals. As well, there has long been a clucky clique of emotional mums at major East Aussie universities, the ones who cry about having children who face a world of terror from climate crises. Sadly, they figure big in the Aussie and global heatwave discussion through a few early influential papers. (Never mind the cherry picked start dates rejecting most data before 1950 and custom-made heatwave definitions).
I am signalling a problem, that some public perceptions of climate are now being swayed by a flood of reading from youngish women qualified in arts but poor in science, using emotion where science/measurement is required.
Is this what we want? Geoff S
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I like how you mention climate science as “ science”. Probably should have also added (sic) as well. There is no science in climate because it’s devoid of any large scale experiments confirming the link between CO2 and climate. At best, it’s climate data analysis which is not very good anyway. Or climatology, because it’s more like a religion.
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Geoff, no pardon needed. It fair to ask — has our civilization lost core masculine values to our detriment, and been taken over by toxic feminism?
I think it has, and I think it would be sexist to assume that women are not capable of wrecking a civilization.
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Kate of Small Dead Animals has a recurring thread heading (IIRC)
“If women ran the world we’d still be living in caves with nice curtains”
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Aristotle
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A lot of it is climate computer games that give the answer you decide you want at the start and with no validation to show any output is worth having.
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‘Is this what we want?’
Its an unmitigated disaster, the Communication courses at university should have been attached to some other discipline like atmospheric science.
Let us think strategically, we first have to get the australian brainwashing company to admit, on the available evidence, that CO2 does not cause global warming.
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You mention “article after article, typically from known news organisations” by what seems to be “youngish XX chromosomic” persons. The fact is reporters these days write what their Editors tell them to write. “give me a 1000 words on…..”. If they want to retain their job they often readily comply. Likewise Editors print what their owners tell them to print, for similar reasons. AI prints what its programmed to write. We just have to be more discerning!
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I wonder – when ‘reporters these days write what their Editors tell them to write’, does that include a name? What if the reporter is AI?
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Yet Aus’ Big 4 Banks have been in Canberra this week all spouting their Net Zero commitment and insisting that “wealth” (ie. savings and owner housing) must be taxed, rather than income and consumption, to help this along.
Certainly they are most unwilling to fund any energy project that has the slightest whiff of usefulness to it.
So while these self-selected prigs hold power, I’ll keep my powder dry.
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ianl,
In essence, that crazy green supertax rests on the false assumption that governments know better how to spend money than the companies that generated it.
What a simple howler.
Geoff S
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What they say, and what they do, would appear to be opposites.
“ANZ, NAB, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac loaned $3.6 billion to fossil fuels in 2023, including $2.5 billion in funding for companies expanding the coal, oil and gas industries, despite all four banks committing to global climate goals.”
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Fancy floating around the sea for the rest of your life?
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Who is paying for this development in a mendicant state? Also, Tassie doesn’t have any power to spare, so how would they provide the initial charge to move the ship out of its dock?
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This is a surprise to absolutely no one who reads ‘climate denier’ websites like this one. It was obvious from the start that all of these climate pledges were physically/financially/logistically impossible from the get-go, and that they were nothing more phony-baloney corporate green-washing bovine fecal matter.
Of course, none of that will ever convince climate apocalypse true believers to admit that maybe ‘the science’ isn’t settled, or even get them to stop and consider that there is no such thing as ‘settled’ science. The very nature of science is to be skeptical and to try and disprove theorems, not to prove them.
Sadly, science really does advance one funeral at a time. Until warmunist watermelon scientists are removed from positions of power in the scientific community by natural attrition (retirement, death), no amount of contrary data will change the narrative.
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Steve if you truly believe this a is “climate denier” site I you misunderstand it!
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There were apostrophes.
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“Recent analysis reveals that only 4% of these companies are on track to meet their goals, highlighting a disconnect between corporate rhetoric and reality.”
It’s not only the aim of reducing their carbon (dioxide) output that is a disconnect between rhetoric and reality but the entire concept that the modern world can run on ruinables
While we have the likes of BOBowen, with no accountability for dragging us into the 18th century, there is little we can do except wait for the ballot boxes to appear.
Unfortunately, as Mr Sherrington mentions above, we are being gazzumped by emotion and feelings that have nothing to do with science and engineering
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It hardly matters for Australians. For 25 years we have passed laws to impoverish ourselves and they are all in place. I doubt anyone in government cares if the laws are illegal, wrong, hidden. It’s hard to turn off the cash because all the critters have bought homes based on salaries based on lies. Is there any large company or department without Climate Change people on the payroll?
And it’s hard to fix the problems with outback aboriginals because the $42Billion a year is going to other people, obviously. Otherwise every outback aboriginal would be a millionaire many times over instead of the hordes of people who actually get the money.
I cannot beleive we have a 35% CO2 tax on our largest corporations which is in turn a tax on every Australian. How are airlines going to reduce CO2 output. Or trucking companies? Or sewage? Or chemical manufacturers. One thing certain is that those who can will move all their money and offices overseas. Just as the ABC now has all its people as much as possible on the harbour in Sydney. Once a public service job has been created, it cannot be destroyed.
You have to admire Argentine President Xavier Milei who fired half the public service and has stopped runaway inflation in a month.
We will be the new Argentina. Everyone paid to do nothing, at home and disconnected not only from their jobs but any source of income except the miners and farmers they are trying to run out of the country.
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This is unlikely to ever happen but wouldn’t it be good to implement a required CRITERIA for Politicians and Senior Government Employees from ALL political persuasions, like
1. pass IQ test
2. pass basic business knowledge test
3. pass Logic test (pass mark at least 75%)
After passing ALL 3 of the above tests, then political parties (and government/public service human resources) can use a personality criteria (for the dumber voters to make their selections)
Then, no Politician or Senior Public Servant should be allowed to represent a portfolio that they have no expertise in.
For example, a Treasurer should have some economic or finance background/training – not just a communications degree
For example, an Energy minister should have some relevant science background/training
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And for the President of the United States, be reasonably up to date about countries overseas. Perhaps one trip to Mexico? Even Tijuana in 30 years in California?
Or go to Europe once?
And a simple test on whether you knew where Afghanistan was or Israel and its neighbours.
The US has 50 states and 50 governments and 50 Governors. The US President is supposed to be the expert on economics and foreign affairs and geography.
I doubt Kamala knows where Italy is. Perhaps pick it out on a map?
Here’s Kamala’s explanation of the Ukraine/Russian war.
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And predictably, Labor in the UK argues that people working only 4 days a week (and disconnecting) will Improve Productivity. I think the argument is more that if you are doing nothing anyway, it can’t be worse. And will create 20% more jobs for illegal migrants.
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There are many jobs particularly in the public sector that are just another form of the dole. When NSW Government Railways did its own track maintenance they would sent a team of a dozen or more out to our railway crossing to install a short length of rail line equipped with sensors. For the next week a train would be driven over the line at different speeds and the results recorded. The sensor rail would then be replaced with a normal rail and up to twenty men would be requires, usually on a Sunday. ARTC took over the maintenance of rail tracks and the same task was handled by two men and a hiab on a ute. I am sure there are numerous government jobs that could be done more efficiently by many less people. Administration uses more than 50% of the NSW Health budget. We need more workers and less administrators.
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The famous one in Victoria was the fireman. This job was preserved even when diesels replaced all steam engines.
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Lawrie,
The Robe River Iron mine was one of ours some years ago. There was a rail line to the coast, as with all the big mines. We companies worked hard to be at the global leading edge of design, economics, automation, efficiency, etc., because that is what companies do to maximise profitability.
Designated employees are commonly assigned some degree of accountability – make a bad mistake and tomorrow you are driving a cab for a living. Make important advances and you get promotion, share allocations, etc.
This used to work well in the 1980-90 era before I lost connection through retirement. What has happened since?
For one thing, there has been an increase in the number of bureaucrats like regulators who are paid to tell industry people what they can and cannot do. They enforce distractions like Aboriginal affairs and DEI, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. They forever fiddle with rates of taxation and levies and tariffs and have quasi-judicial bodies for enforcement.
Industry does not need this interference.8
I had to spend an unholy part of my career fighting this insensitive, ignorant intrusion. It was as funny as kicking treacle.
The nonsense continues. Greens have announced favour for a super tax on corporate profits. Stupid. It assumes that government people know how to spend money, more effectively than those corporations that generated it and rely on it for growth.
I do not have easy remedies. The bureaucratic load has to be cut, perhaps to 30% of the present bloat. Requirements for university degrees have to be cut back. The poor standards of academia deliver only a few years of delay for people who should be doing productive work.
Most of us have suggestions for improvement.
Sorry for the rant. Geoff S
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Climate Change, City of Port Phillip. (115,000 people, bayside, Melbourne)
ORICA/ICI Climate Change
BHP Climate Change
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TdeF,
Weird, is it not?
A big slab of Orica business is selling high explosives to make big mines bigger. Alfred Nobel did similar, but seemed to feel guilty, hence big money grants Nobel Prize to assuage.
Orica assuaged by pledging conformity with schemes that reduce efficiency and raise costs of electricity, which are unrelated to its core business. People see through this pledging. Some do not, so they think they have to align their own preferences with influential and authoritative Orica. All so synthetic, devious, superfluous waste of time and effort.
Geoff S
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Jo, your header artwork is outstanding: presumably it’s yours as you’ve ©️ ‘signed’ it.
Biggerer… Betterer… Bubblier… POP!
Their phantastical utopian hallucination dissolves into a barren, lifeless, toxic, frozen wasteland. Excuse me, can we have our money back?
As that meme from a few years ago extolled: We need new coincidence theories as all the older ones have come true!
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You have to hope that Tim Walz does not become Vice President of the United States of America.
Just when you thought Climate Change could not get crazier. Tianamen Tim is Kamala’s Fun Guy who wants to power the US navy with algae.
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I don’t see Komrad Kamala lasting the pace much longer, she not even as articulate as JB which case her 2 I/C may be setting himself up for a run?
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We’v already seen certain big corporations pulling out of deals with government, for example the hokum Twiggy Forest-Albanese Labour government ‘Green Hydrogen’ project . I think we’re headed for an industrial and economic disaster featuring unfinished renewables projects and crippled energy infrastructure created by fumbling, incompetent Labour government. As a result, most people will be left hardscrabbling for basic needs like food and energy. Certainly not a pleasant scenario with which to be liable for government incompetence but time for tough and prudent decision making by thinking and loyal Australians who cherish our country’s natural beauty and economic assets. A complete turf-out of the current Federal Government along with the TEALS and Greens would be a great and necessary start. But replacing them with a (hopefully pro-active) coalition government would lead to that government having to deal with the onerous and costly task of how best to salvage the wreckage from the Albanese government’s Renewables Energy Superpower megalomania. Will they be up to the task? Here’s hoping!
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From the Daily Skeptic a portentious article by The Australian’s Nick Cater:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/08/26/the-end-of-australias-renewables-romance/
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This is how most of these things dissolve , at least that has what’s gone on most of my adult life.
Big made up problem, MSM hysteria, govt panic and waste, gradually becomes clear that it’s all nonsense. Just quietly back away, don’t talk about the topic anymore, hide or relabel the waste and perhaps throw in a look squirrel.
Peak Oil, Ozone layer, acid rain, melting ice caps, CO2 driven climate, Covid…..next!
PS: when posting the name and email was pre-filled with someone elses email
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Had a friend who worked in the infant wind power industry. Even then back up fuel generators were required.
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Won’t somebody just squeeze that big ugly thing?
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once upon a time corporations were headed by people with socially conservative values. There was noise for social justice within political circles, but it was ignored as the business world just got on with things.
Then Gen X came along. And ruined everything. But alas, just when all seems lost, is the idealistic haze wearing thin, crippling under reality?
Quicker than I expected if so.
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“Why Big Corporations Are Quietly Abandoning Their Climate Commitments?”
Even Forbes doesn’t know how to use question marks.
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Well spotted.
Obviously never taught English grammar. It’s the same with “it’s” and “its”. The number of times I have seen those words misused is without compare.
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Not as bad as Your and You’re. The latter has been replaced by the former. Drives me nuts. And people get so angry when you point it out – which I do constantly.
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But it was a ‘vaccine’, that saved us from the ‘Pandemic'(of the Unvaccinated), which was totally real and might have killed us all if not for the heroic efforts of ‘Science’ and ‘Public Health’.
Maybe grammar is being abused, but at least the dictionary remains sacrosanct.
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>but at least the dictionary remains sacrosanct
No
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They have always been lieing, they were lieing in the beginning and they are lieing now . .
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It’s the liars and their lies that annoy me more than anything else. What about Guterres and his “boiling oceans”? How much untruth is one prominent person allowed before they are made to pay the price for their deliberate dishonesty?
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It’s encouraging to think that the climate scam could end quietly, instead of a sudden crash wiping out companies, superannuation funds and jobs on a broad scale.
Meanwhile there’s still a wall-sized sign in our local Coles supermarket spruiking “Net zero”. Perhaps they mean nett zero service to customers, or nett zero dividends for investors.
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Good to see some eyes opening.
It is your eyes that matter>
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Just like their big brothers hedging on their virtue signals, universities are following along. Their tax-free status and heavy subsidies free them from many of the exigencies of corporations, but their heavy energy use persists and is encouraged by their free ‘virtue’. Similarly, many are abandoning DEI and other woke symbols, but not enough. Learning is behind woke still.
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