LATEST NEWS FROM AEF
Closing coal? The real victims are Australian energy consumers.
/If software billionaire Mike Cannon Brookes is Australia’s latest corporate raider, his bid for AGL redefines the whole notion of a corporate raider.
Historically, corporate raiders have sought to profitably reinvigorate under-performing assets
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Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity
/17 February 2022
Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close next year, almost half of New South Wales coal generation capacity will have closed.
Great Barrier Reef: Dying or Thriving?
/On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 the AEF will host a webinar on Zoom to discuss whether recent environmental assessments of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by Australia's reef science organisations properly reflect all the relevant scientific data.
The webinar will start at 7:30 pm NSW, VIC & TAS / 6:30 pm QLD / 7:00 pm SA / 6:00 pm NT / 4:30 pm WA / 8:30 am GMT.
Last June UNECSO tabled a draft recommendation that , if adopted, would list the GBR as a World Heritage site “in danger”. That decision was based on a series of assessments by the organisations in question, which are open to serious challenge based on the data collected up to the present time.
Our speakers will be Dr Peter Ridd, Jo Nova and Dr Walter Starck. All are experts in their field and knowledgeable about the issues to be discussed. Alan Moran will be the moderator.
Further details are available at the Zoom Registration Webpage created for the event CLICK HERE.
Attendance is free of charge but AEF is asking attendees to donate to its Bob Carter Memorial Fund, which is funding the event.
Future Policy Directions: Australian Electricity Supply
/A Submission to the Draft 2022 Integrated System Plan for the National Electricity Market of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Re-enthronement of capitalism: are ‘woke’ investment funds falling behind?
/26 January 2021
Over many years now, superannuation funds have been orientating their investments towards options that avoid unapproved Environmental and Social goods or Governance structures (ESG).
The governance part involves avoiding firms with boards and senior executives containing too many white males and, therefore, inadequate ‘diversity’. The Environmental and Social parts used to mean avoiding firms in the defence and tobacco industries, but the pariahs in the modern woke world are hydrocarbons – coal, gas, and oil.
Is Frydenberg’s post-Covid economic optimism justified?
/21 December 2021
Josh Frydenberg was pleased with last week’s midyear economic review issued by Treasury. He preened himself, opining that the Covid spendathon had kept the economy ticking over and that the future was a deluge of new jobs, higher incomes, and what he described as one of the world’s ‘strongest recoveries’.
There will be a reckoning for renewables
/13 December 2021
With COP26 a recent memory, the looming federal election has again pushed renewable electricity into the limelight.
Despite the campaign promises of federal politicians, electricity systems are constitutionally the responsibility of state governments.
Is the ALP ‘powering the future’?
/7 December 2021
With the collapse of the Soviet bloc came a disenchantment with socialist planning as an alternative to market capitalism.
Environmentalism, seeking to reverse specious damage allegedly caused by market capitalism, became the alternative paradigm.
ScoMo’s climate modelling: dodgier than his climate policy
/14 November 2021
The government went to Glasgow to sell its net zero emissions by 2050 policy to world leaders. The policy was based on heroic assumptions like green hydrogen
COP26 & Climate Cult’s Schizophrenia
/7 November 2021
British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in addressing the fashionable fiction of human-induced climate change used the hackneyed phrase “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now”.
Net-Zero: Why won’t advocates tell us the cost?
/17 October 2021
Nowhere in the world can wind and solar compete without subsidies which drive out more competitive supplies and eventually raise electricity costs and/or taxes. ….. Read more
Much Pain for Net Zero Gain
/13 October 2021
It is this simple: skyrocketing world electricity prices stem from renewables policies. Notwithstanding the avalanche of propaganda we are seeing throughout the country, no wind or solar gets built anywhere in the world without subsidies paid by taxpayers and customers ….. Read more
Australia’s Obscene Green Subsidy Machine
/When an ALP government introduced a “carbon price” on electricity in 2012 it was sold as a neutral tax. It was, of course, nothing of the sort. …… Read more
Farewell ScoMo, hello crippling costs of climate fantasy
/Scott Morrison is heading off to lead Australia’s team at the Glasgow climate change meeting. He goes with a formula that will continue the nation’s shuffling towards diminished income levels from the politically motivated sabotage of the economy.
Like Joe Biden and most other leaders who have decided to attend, Scott Morrison brings nothing extra to the table. Amidst the Conference’s impassioned pleas and scary stories, there will be no dramatic new pledges, no carbon border tariffs, no methane-driven constraint on beef growers and further deferrals in the promised gifting of $100 billion a year “compensation” the rich nations have promised poor nations. Voices from climate realists and alarmists alike will declare COP26 a failure just like the previous UN jamborees.
But such conclusions are mistaken. They are largely conditioned by the woke media’s disappointment that climate alarmists have fallen short of their ambitious overreach. In fact, the outcome of COP 26, like that of its 25 predecessors will be a further inching away of the world’s economies – more particularly those of the Western world – from the low cost, enterprise-driven production processes that have given even the poorest nations living standards that were inconceivable two centuries ago. …. Read more here
The IPCC buries two millennia of fluctuating temperatures
/Probably nobody in the world has read the 3,949 pages of the latest IPCC report. But many people have studied the 41 page politically determined, Summary for Policymakers. Aside from rhetorical conjecture about increased human induced emissions of carbon dioxide bringing more storms, fires and pestilence, the following killer dual chart is placed at the outset of the Summary. …..Read more online …..pdf
Webinar: Reforming Environmental Science
/On 24 November 2020 The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) and AEF hosted what proved to be a stimulating and lively webinar.
You can watch a video of the event on the Forum’s YouTube channel here.
Dr Peter Ridd, Jo Nova and Alan Moran outlined the scientific failures in some of the most critical areas of environmental policy — Peter Ridd on the Great Barrier Reef; Jo Nova on bushfires; and Alan Moran on the Murray-Darling Basin. They then highlighted the problems were systematic and the task of fixing them went well beyond the halls of science.
The post-webinar survey of attendees indicated a high level of satisfaction with the event. So much so, respondent expressed strong support for a future event to discuss the key issues in more depth.
All Models Are Wrong; Some Are Useful
/In “The Australian” of 20 November 2020, the Climate Study Group published an advertorial explaining why the dire predictions from climate models over the years have turned out to be so spectacularly wrong. AEF has reproduced their advertorial here for the benefit of our readers.
Registration Now Open for Upcoming Webinar
/Those who wish to attend the GWPF-AEF Webinar on Reforming Environmental Science, which is to be held on Tuesday, 24 November 2020, need to register in advance at the Zoom website. Attendance is free of charge.
Further details on the forthcoming Webinar are at the Events webpage.
CLICK HERE TO REGUSTER
Zoom will provide each registrant with instructions on how to join the webinar at the appropriate time. It will also remind each one the day before the event, just in case they forgot the relevant details or cannot locate the original email.
Zoom is very easy to use, even for retirees with minimal to no exposure to videoconferencing.
For example, the average member of my Probus Club is over 80 years of age but the large majority are able to participate in our meetings on Zoom. Most of those who do not participate, do not own a suitable device or an email account.
Immediately after a registration has been completed, Zoom automatically emails a hyperlink to the registrant. Simply clicking on that hyperlink connects the device — regardless of what type of personal computer, desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone it is — to the ‘virtual meeting room’ that Zoom has reserved for the webinar.
One of our Zoom hosts will admit you to the ‘virtual meeting room’ and you are good to go.
The Zoom website has lots of online help for novices. This includes an easy-to-follow user guide for those attending a Zoom webinar for the first time [CLICK HERE}.
Among other things, the guide will help you adjust the video and/or audio settings on your device, should that be necessary. It will also show you how to use the Zoom Q & A feature. That’s pretty much all you need to know to enjoy the event to the full.
Should you run into any difficulties, you can email AEF for help at this address: editor@australianenvironment.org.