Australia

Green Folly locked up 11% of Australia in a tinder-box of bushfire fuel, much of which is now burnt or burning.

Greens know that Australia could not electrify our cities, farms, mines, refineries and factories, nor power our road, rail, air and sea transport with just solar, wind, hydro and batteries.

What has happened to Australia’s once-bipartisan policies favouring decentralisation?

The Saltbush Club, an Australian group whose members include scientists, scholars, environmentalists, farmers, and business people, among others from a variety of disciplines and walks of life, was formed out of concern the Australian government’s energy policies and its participation in the Paris climate agreement were harming people and the economy, and is calling on Australia’s prime-minister to follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead and withdraw Australia from the Paris agreement.

The climateers are celebrating their 24th annual shindig in Poland – COP24.

The Australian electricity market has become a stinking swamp covered with a tangled net of treaties, laws, rules, obligations, prohibitions, targets, taxes and subsidies.

Gov. Jerry Brown (CA) has told numerous fibs about the harm fossil fuels are allegedly causing the environment.

For at least 50 years Australian taxpayers and other innocents have supported a parasitic industry in academia, bureaucracy, law, media and the tax-exempt Green Alarm “Charities.”

Let’s test the convictions of Canberrans.

POETRY FROM DOWN UNDER: For yonks they waged a war on coal And painted miners black; They threw explorers on the dole, And shut the gates outback.

Al Gore’s bombast and hypocrisy, an energy debacle “no one saw coming,” lessons for USA.

Because of many problems with wind and solar power individuals are drifting back to diesel powered generators for their electricity needs.

Google proves the adage that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely