The Saltbush Club, Australia’s defenders of coal, cattle, and cars, says that PM Morrison should not attend COP26 unless he also takes some high-energy Australian black coal to show the energy-starved Europeans the best source of stored solar energy.
(In 2017, Scott Morrison took a lump of black coal into the Australian Parliament to show those members wearing green goggles what a real solar energy storage battery looked like.)
As European winter approaches, just a few days of cold, quiet, cloudy weather will see electricity rationing or blackouts.
Already, old coal plants are being fired up as wind, biomass and solar underperform and gas supply is limited. What happens to COP26 if France cuts the nuclear extension cord to the UK?
“Britain’s boasts of low carbon leadership are collapsing in humiliation. Our foolish and badly engineered green policies show the world that we have nothing to offer, except a grim warning. The Prime Minister should cancel COP26 and focus on saving Britain from a deepening energy crisis.”
Dr. Benny Peiser,
Director, the Global Warming Policy Foundation
The World suddenly needs Coal and Gas
Many energy-consuming notables plan to attend COP26 including Pope Francis, British Royals, Greta Thunberg, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Sir David Attenborough.
Not one of them will bring a bucket of coal or a bottle of gas, so it is up to Scott Morrison to keep the European home-fires burning. Maybe a gas-fired Ski-doo may also prove invaluable.
Boris Johnson should also get a fracking expert from Colorado to attend COP26 to teach the UK and Europe how to frack their abundant gas deposits instead of paying ransom prices for Russian gas.
With here and winter on its way they need a dependible source of energy and not on Wind and Solar which is not that dependible
Good idea to get a fracking expert from Colorado (on Texas or North Dakota or Pennsylvania or…) Here in Northern Colorado there are lots of wells that have been drilled and fracked. I love seeing them going up.
From the article, “The Prime Minister should cancel COP26 and focus on saving Britain from a deepening energy crisis.” What should be done is the lessons of the green energy crisis need to be applied to COP26 and turn this and future COP meeting into a forum to provide inexpensive reliable energy to all nations, including the developing world.
No , COP26 should take place so that we can all see an immense crowd of foreign ecomaniacs freeloading on my taxes, importing COVID to Glasgow and having a wonderful time achieving nothing in that freezing benighted city
Based on the estimated 30,000 attendance at COP26, I reckon this amounts to a total of about 366,900,000 seat-kilometres flown, out-and-back, at a calculated 12,230 average air-km per attendee. At 115g of CO2 per passenger-km, that will produce around 42,200 tonnes of CO2. Of course, with several countries probably backing out, it could be less!