“Since at least the 1990s, emissions-intensive industries such as coal and gas and their lobby groups have had an outsized influence on climate policy. This includes groups such as the Minerals Council of Australia, which represents BHP, Rio Tinto and Whitehaven Coal, and Australian Energy Producers, which lobbies on behalf of BP, Shell and Woodside, among others.”

https://theconversation.com/these-voices-are-the-loudest-in-australias-climate-wars-272347

#ClimateWars #ClimateDeniers #FossilFuelIndustry #AusPol #TheConversation

On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.

That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.

There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).

So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).

The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.

#Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

@Highwaytohell @VQuaschning so sehr ich es mir auch wünsche, wir werden höchstwahrscheinlich in vier Jahren auch keine #Grüne Mehrheit haben. Im Gegenteil, da die aktuelle Politik immer weiter spaltet, gibt es auch mehr Unzufriedene die nach rechts driften und meinen "Grüne Ideologie" macht alles nur noch teurer und schränkt sie noch mehr ein.

Der Zug ist also bereits abgefahren, die Ampel war vielleicht die letzte Chance für progressive Politik in Deutschland vor den #Climatewars.

#Climatewars are approaching — and they will redefine global #conflict

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-coming-climate-wars-how-water-scarcity-and-mass-migration-will-redefine-global-conflict-opinion

Oh goodie, now we'll have to compete with dire wolves during the #ClimateWars

#ScienceForTheScienceGod

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/science/dire-wolf-de-extinction-cloning-colossal/index.html

Listening to @thefinalstrawradio where a surprising twist is Australia's exported shame, Rio Tinto, was brought up in the context of the Serbian anti-corruption protests as "comically evil" - as their mining of Serbian lithium in the Jadar valley has resulted in poisoning the drinking water - is garning support from China, Russia the US and the EU to suppress the protests.

"the spice must flow..."

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/23/prefiguring-autonomy-student-led-social-movement-in-serbia-shake-the-government/

#ausPol #capitalism #antiCapitalism #climateWars #climateChange