The Week after Trump 2.0: EU suddenly realizes they have too many Green rules

US Economy takes off like a rocket. Trump.

By Jo Nova

The dam has broken

Trump has only been President for a week, and already policies on the far side of the world are shifting. Just like that, the European Union has realized they might have too many green regulations.

It’s only a “leaked draft” of a five year economic plan  — but the favored hyperbolic term du jour “unprecedented” now applies to deregulation, not climate change:  ““This Commission will deliver an unprecedented simplification effort…”. And apparently, next months unprecedented effort is just the first round of simplifications.

The draft document says they need to adapt to “new realities” — like possibly that the US economy is about to unshackle itself from the Net Zero ball-and-chain-fantasy and eclipse the EU.

EU’s new economic vision is speaking to Green Deal critics

A draft document shows Brussels putting deregulation before decarbonization.

Zia Weise, Politico

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s new economic “compass” has a north star the burgeoning movement to revoke stringent green rules will love.

leaked draft of the European Commission’s competitiveness compass — an economic doctrine to guide the EU executive’s work for the coming five years — points toward widespread deregulation targeting the European Green Deal in particular.

Naturally, the EU will “stay the course” on its climate targets (that’s what they all say, as they back away). But the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk demanded a “full and critical” review of the EU’s Green Deal last week and laid the cards out about as bluntly as anyone could:

“If we go bankrupt no-one will care about the world’s environment any more,” Tusk said, calling for an honest, full and “very critical review of all regulations, including those arising from the Green Deal”.

Tusk wants any review to identify and change EU laws that may lead to higher energy prices. “There is, for example, the issue of ETS 2 in front of us,” he said, singling out the separate trading system covering emissions from road transport and heating fuels, which is scheduled to launch in 2027. — EU must be honest about Green Deal  The Argus

Unthinkably, Tusk even appeared to suggest that the Green Deal had caused high energy prices:

He called for a “review of all legal acts including those under the Green Deal” and for “courage to change those rules that might result in prohibitively high energy prices,” attacking, in particular, a carbon fee on fossil fuels used to heat homes and power cars coming into force in 2027.  — Politico

France is also asking the EU to delay the corporate sustainability rules. The French “far-right” (sensible) Jordan Bardella wants to “tear down the European Green Deal”. He is urging conservative parties to work together  to kill off the Green Deal altogether.

In the end Trump may kill Green movements all over the world, not by invading, but through free speech, capitalism and competition. That’s why they hate him so much. The whole levitating fantasy of global weather control could only be maintained if every other western nation kept up the Cosplay game.

Hat tip to Tallbloke.

 

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87 comments to The Week after Trump 2.0: EU suddenly realizes they have too many Green rules

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    David Maddison

    I wish we had a leader like TRUMP.

    In Australia the far Left Government remains fanatically committed to “Net Zero” and the Paris Accords and are prepared to destroy the economy, indeed the entire country, to get there.

    Dutton (the alternative “leader” and member of the fake conservative Liberal faction of the Uniparty) reaffirmed his commitment to the Paris Accords, even after TRUMP abandoned them.

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      Dutton needs to ‘Man Up’ and be a true Leader.

      Out with the Green Madness and In with Reality. Get out of this Paris Agreement. The USA, China and India are not in on it. So why should we be in it?.

      His General Election message should be -“Are you better off now than you were in 2022?” And keep ramming it home over and over again.

      Its the Economy, STOOPID,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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      Forrest Gardener

      My memory is not what it was but around the time of PM Howard wasn’t there some agreement or other that Australia did not enter but did what it would have been required to do? I thought that was the Paris Accord.

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        James Murphy

        Kyoto? I think it was agreed to in principle but not ratified for years, or some such

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          Ted1

          Kyoto it was.

          And they “overachieved” without undertakings by preventing farmers from removing regrowth scrub.

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            Lawrie

            Sending many a farmer to the wall in the process. Kyoto also ushered in a number of vegetation laws that still stifle farm improvement and farm management to this day. Those laws were gleefully enacted by Labor governments across Australia. Labor hates farmers because they are independent and hard to control, much like herding cats.

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      TdeF

      We do. Even the EU has. C-BUS in Australia has. Everyone is leaping backwards. Woke, DEI, ESG, BLM, anti carbon, energy prices, mad schemes like Snowy II. All need ‘review’, for which you can substitute ‘cancellation’. The world’s superpower and largest economy says so. And the politicians blow in the stiff breeze from America.

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        Braveheart

        Trump opened the door, Dutton and Albo are both too stupid to walk through the opening. Albo because he’s to stupid to work it out, Dutton because he has no balls.

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          PeterPetrum

          With regard to Dutton, unfortunately, you are correct. I do not understand how the liberal party either do not understand the depth of public sentiment regarding the effects on the community regarding net zero policies, or they do and are too cowardly to take the step that has to be taken eventually. I fear it will be too late.

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        Steve of Cornubia

        The left takes no prisoners and does whatever is necessary to make any victory permanent, such as actually destroying perfectly functional coal-powered generators rather than just retiring them. OTOH, useless white elephants such as the desalination plants get ‘mothballed’, not demolished. They play a long game.

        So America’s withdrawal from all the green programmes and agreements, on its own, isn’t the same kind of win. They have to go further and ensure the destruction of any body dedicated to ‘climate change’ and ‘net zero’ before moving on to flattening every single piece of renewable energy infrastructure that cannot pass an honest, subsidy-free cost/benefit test. Blow them up. Knock ’em over. Put a stake through the heart of the green monster and shoot it with a silver bullet.

        Do what the left does – ensure the enemy cannot regroup.

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          Vicki

          Steve, you are so right. The Left have played the long game and, up until the encountered a behemoth who did not flinch -Trump – they had marched through the institutions as they had foretold they would. But Trump has not only called out that the emperor has no clothes – he has personally disrobed all the worshipers of the emperor’s religion of Wokeism.

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      Tony Thomas

      “The whole levitating fantasy of global weather control could only be maintained if every other western nation kept up the Cosplay game.”
      Readers such as myself had to look up “cosplay” , discovering…

      If you enjoy cosplaying as your favorite anime character (say, Nezuko Kamada from Demon Slayer or Luffy from One Piece), you’ve got yourself a special, lexicographical twofer of words that were borrowed from English into Japanese and then back into English. In Japanese, anime is short for animēshiyon, which comes from the English word animation, referring to an animated cartoon. Japanese users similarly took the English words costume and play (as in role-play) and combined them into the word kosuchūmupurē, or kosupure for short, which was reborrowed into English as cosplay, first as a noun, and later as a verb. It’s not required that one choose an anime character to cosplay, however—any fictional character will do, and probably has done! People are even starting to use cosplay figuratively to mean “to pretend to be,” as in “her chiweenie likes to cosplay as a much bigger dog whenever they visit the dog park.”

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      bobby b

      “I wish we had a leader like TRUMP.”

      As TdeF says above, you do.

      Net Zero is like communism. It’s only a viable philosophy if it has no competition, no dissent.

      Without Trump, everyone was part of the club, and there was the tacit agreement that we’d all slowly sink together, equitably.

      Trump blew that out of the water. Now, if you admire the emperor’s new non-CO2-generating clothes, you’re a fool. Worse, you’re going to lose the competition on behalf of your country and people.

      These are, at least, fun times.

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        Lawrie

        Over the past four years I have kept the faith. I believed that Trump’s loss in 2020 was a good thing and now we see it was. The Democrats, and their various peers such as our ALP, have been exposed as sociopaths and proto communists prepared to trample on human rights to achieve their selfish ends. Trump has had four years to gather his ideas and the necessary troops to implement them. We are all beneficiaries of those four years of despair.

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          PeterPetrum

          It’s an interesting concept, Lawrie, that I totally agree with. Trump could have sunk into despair and slunk away to enjoy his billions, but he did not. He used his time to gather his information and his troops and to work with them to develop his current policies. At the same time the Democrat establishment ensured that Americans knew they were on their last throw of dice. Elect Trump or lose everything.

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    Very interesting – reality breaking in, or at least trying to, in the Berlaymonster.

    I wonder if 2Tier Keir, or Rachel from Accounts – let alone Mr. Miliband – will smell the coffee here in the UK.

    Advice – don’t hold your breath.

    But, hope springs eternal . . .

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      TdeF

      Of course not. They are trying to get non crime Hate speech back. And given Donald Trump mother was Scottish, perhaps he can be prosecuted in absentia as a patrial?

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      John Connor II

      Labour to Enforce Rejected Climate and Nature Bill Despite Commons Defeat

      On Friday Parliament debated the Climate and Nature Bill which failed to get passed, but Ed Miliband has declared that he is going ahead with it anyway.

      The Climate and Nature Bill, reportedly one of the most dangerous, and demented bills ever written, effectively gives a small group of unelected eco-zealots almost unlimited power over all our lives. The bill demands that these zealots take control of what we eat, what we wear, what type of car we drive, and where we drive it, together with where we can live, what goods we can buy, and even how many times a year we can go on holiday.

      https://www.visionnews.online/post/labour-to-enforce-rejected-climate-and-nature-bill-despite-commons-defeat

      Bye bye UK…

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        Gerry, England

        Interestingly a grown up has emerged and stated the bleedin’ obvious here in the UK. And that is the fact that it is physically impossible to deliver MiliTwat’s green wet dream by 2030. Nobody has asked the civil engineers if it is possible to build everything the loonies plan by 2030. Nor have they asked if the Chinese and other countries can supply the materials and goods needed. And if you are planning windmills at sea then you will need ships to lay subsea cables. The guy doesn’t argue against the lunacy of Net Zero, probably because he would get ignored if he went a truth too far. You have to soothe the ignorant and play along so they take notice when you say nothing will be delivered by 2030.

        Ruining good productive farmland – even before they tax the farmers into bankruptcy – with solar panels is the quickest to deliver except that grid scale transformers are not something you buy off the shelf. They have a delivery time of 3 to 4 years so while you can despoil the countryside you can’t connect them up for a while.

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        Ted1

        Trump should just buy England,

        But, wait a while and he’ll get it for less.

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        Lawrie

        Alternatively such a bill could be a farewell to Starmer’s government. Even the stoic English have a breaking point and will rebel.

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      MeAgain

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHokrQjUnA0 – watch out with that two tier talk there….

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    This is simply ‘unprecedented’………………..

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    KP

    The SMH is having a field day on Trump! Three of their four ‘opinion’ essays are telling us how horrible he is, and they reprinted a NYTimes article on how he is the dictator in the Republican Party.

    “But Trump, so far, has proved far more effective at squelching opposition than Biden ever was. He dominates his own party as no president in generations. Through force of will and fear of reprisals, Trump has compelled Republicans to bend to his wishes repeatedly and even give support to cabinet nominees who would not have passed muster in the past, like Pete Hegseth for defence secretary.”

    This is probably the new front of their propaganda war. Rather than point out the Uniparty system itself is crap they will say that Republicans are fine, its just Trump personally who is H1tler.

    One paragraph shows how effective carbon taxes are around the world-

    “The United States produced a record 13.22 million barrels of oil a day last year and is expected to produce more than 13.5 million barrels a day this year. ..there is a global glut of oil, with production exceeding demand by about a million barrels a day and the oil prices trading below $US80 a barrel.”

    Remember that next time you fill up with fuel.

    Another one shows how wonderful the world of ruinables is- ” Global investors will be looking to redirect that money, (investments chasing Green subsidies) and Australia has a chance to capitalise on this situation, or it will cede ground to other countries…In the European Union, Carbon Brief reports that coal power use has fallen by almost two-thirds in the past decade, while solar power output has tripled. Last year, it overtook coal generation for the first time; and wind power has doubled.”

    So even if the Evil President withdraws from the Green madness the world will forge ahead without him.

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      Graeme No.3

      Meanwhile in Germany there are looking at reactivating nuclear (those shut down in 2023 and even those before that). And they are thinking about restarting some coal stations (apart from those supplying 25-32$ at present) but they have an election next month so maybe a ploy by the current coalition parties (currently third, fourth and (by skin of teeth) fifth in the polls.

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      David Maddison

      Global investors will be looking to redirect that money, (investments chasing Green subsidies) and Australia has a chance to capitalise on this situation, or it will cede ground to other countries…

      It’s a terrifying prospect that I have mentioned before.

      Subsidy harvesters will be leaving the United States like rats leaving a sinking ship and coming to the fanatically woke, anthropogenic global warming fr@ud believing, UN, WEF and Paris Accords compliant countries like Australia to wreak their havoc.

      And the present Australian Government and very likely the alternative is prepared to destroy the economy and the entire country to reach supposed “Net Zero”.

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      RickWill

      The likely most difficult confirmation hearings come this week.

      RFK Jr Wednesday and Thursday Washington time. (almost a day behind Australia East Coast).

      Tulsi Gabbard Thursday

      Kash Patel Thursday.

      More detail here:
      https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/01/24/trump-cabinet-nominations-who-is-confirmed/

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        GreatAuntJanet

        Walter Kirn talking with Matt Taibbi on the most recent podcast (on Racket News) said he has heard that RFK Jr has the votes! Hope he’s right.

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    Mike

    Damn if Europe actually embraces reality and Canada turfs their resident moron that leaves the British pound as the best currency short.

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      Steve4192

      I have my doubts Europe will ever embrace energy reality, because their reality is different than that of natural resource rich energy powerhouses like Canada and Australia that only have to unshackle their energy sectors to reap massive rewards in the extraction industries. Europe burned through most of their coal deposits in the 20th century, don’t have much in the way of oil or natural gas, and are terrified of fracking. Their extraction industries don’t have much upside. The only upside for them is cheaper energy imports, which though a substantial benefit in itself, is not the same as having a massive revenue generator ready to be unleashed (and taxed and skimmed by politicians).

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        Mike Jonas

        It can be done. Singapore did it.

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        RickWill

        Europe currently has coal reserves on par with Australia and China. They could burn coal to satisfy their electricity requirements for a couple of centuries at least.

        China is maintaining reserves at about 30 years. The cost has not changed much because they keep improving technology. Current thermal coal price CNY800 or USD110.

        India has dramatically increased reserves. They have a Ministry of Coal. Australia has Blackout – the minister for fairy farts and habitat destruction.

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        Singapire, yes, but a special case.
        Harry Lee was a fine leader – very clear in his aims.

        Later – I lived there in the 1990s – Singapore was, obviously, a big economic success; politically, however, it reminded me strongly of Bulgaria in the ‘old days’ – “My Way – or the Highway!”

        And, even then, the surveillance was impressive!

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        Mike

        All they would really have to do is adopt a sensible nuclear strategy (kinda like they had 20 years ago when they actually had a functioning economy). However I agree with you, the odds of that leftist cesspool doing the right thing are vanishingly small.

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    Greg in NZ

    The whole “levitating fantasy of global weather control … Cosplay game” –

    So true. Reminds me of that story about a naked emperor. However, weather can be swapped with population ‘control’ and voila!

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    Stephen McDonald

    The boa constrictor called global boiling designed to create a global dictatorship is gasping for oxygen as Trump strangles the living daylights out of it.
    The U.N. is criminal disgrace.

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    Neville

    Last night Andrew Bolt exposed more of Labor’s toxic, unreliable, disastrous Green energy fantasy.
    All around the world the toxic W & S disasters are now failing to find new investors and Bolt shows the latest data to support his claims.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDJ5j7nWwPk

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    Ross

    I get the feeling that for the initial time of this Trump administration it’s going to be all about Donald. That is, he’s going to be taking the brunt of media as the front man. Meanwhile, in the background the new team will be quietly beavering away enacting all the new policies and directives. All of which have been prepared months , maybe years ago. The focus will be on the President and the biased MSM will issue one hit piece after the other without much effect. So, this will be in contrast to 2016 where it appeared it was DJT vs everyone else, including the detractors in his own party.

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      TdeF

      Until he has his team. Vance has been excellent. Even in the appointment hearings, his appointees have been brilliant. When they are all assembled, it will not just be Donald. It’s his vision, his drive and energy, but ultimately it is about the team and his team is the best in decades. I doubt Pharoah Khufu lifted a single block of his pyramid.

      And Roosevelt did not dig the Panama Canal where 38,000 died from yellow fever and on the job. But they had the vision, took the risk, assumed responsibility, assembled the team and made it happen just over a century ago. And no part of it was easy. It took future Liberal generations to give it away.

      It’s always the way. Real people build power stations. Politicians who built nothing blow them up with nothing to replace them. And then panic.

      As for Turnbull’s Snowy II or the unused desalination plants, the continuing waste is beyond comprehension. I’ll bet we are still paying off the desalination plants at a punishing interest rate.

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    Ed Zuiderwijk

    It is a sad sign of the times when someone arguing for common sense is news.

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    Neville

    Andrew Bolt also thinks Labor’s toxic woke agenda can’t last and hopefully Dutton and the Coalition will take on more of Labor’s woke disasters ASAP and save us billions more wasted $ before it’s too late.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1stKpdG8sE4

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    bobby b

    At some point, they’re going to have to stop focusing on DJT as some weird outlier Black Swan, and recognize his huge and growing popular support.

    It won’t go away if he goes away.

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      Forrest Gardener

      Black Swan is a strange term when applied to Australian fauna. Here the strange event might better be described as a White Swan event.

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        John F. Hultquist

        I first heard of the “Black Swan” issue in a philosophy/logic class in 1968. What was truly interesting, I also learned something of Australian fauna. The instructor was Gustav Bergmann using, likely, the 2nd edition of his first book. The “black swan – white swan” part was in the first chapter, I think.

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        Len

        There are white swans on the Avon River in Northam WA. I hope they are going okay.

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          Mike Jonas

          Funny that – there was a black swan on the Avon river at Wilsford in Wiltshire in the UK a few years ago. I hope it’s still going OK too.

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      Honk R Smith

      “they’re going to have to stop focusing on DJT”

      I don’t think they can.
      They believe that they would face no opposition if Trump had not come along and appealed to the inner planet hating racism of the bad people he brainwashed to support him.
      They believe no opposition would have arisen if not for him.
      They believe it goes away if he goes away.
      It is an astonishing level of psychological attribute projection.
      The cult thinks everyone else is in a cult because they’re in a cult.

      Orange Man Bad has become the literal political substantive totality of their worldview.

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        Steve4192

        Trump Derangement Syndrome.

        No matter how obvious the bait Trump lays out for them, they can’t help themselves but gobble it up and burn up their keyboards by furiously typing screeds about his latest outrage. Like the 51st state stuff with Canada and calling Justin Trudeau ‘governor’ is BLATANT troll bait, but they can’t stop themselves from taking the bait. Ditto for his McDonalds stunt during the campaign. Anytime Trump wants to slip something important past the press, he puts his thumbs to work firing off a mean tweet that makes them lose their damn minds over trivial crap while the real news slips right by them.

        Trump’s ability to control the news cycle is his greatest superpower. No other politician has ever come close to his penchant for turning the press into gibbering poo-flinging monkeys any time he wants to. And like any good troll, it wouldn’t surprise me if half the time he just it does it for the LOLs.

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    Neville

    Vijay Jayarai of the Co2 Coalition writes a very interesting article about the failure of their so called green hydrogen and even our silly Twiggy Forrest woke up eventually.

    https://climaterealism.com/2025/01/miracle-of-green-hydrogen-becomes-fading-mirage/

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    Dennis

    Last night on Sky News Bolt Report a segment covered the renewables funding investment market and the significant decline in funds being invested over the past four years, while nuclear power plant funding investments are rising quickly.

    This trend was mirrored at the last two COP meetings where many countries confirmed that renewables solar and wind turbines are no longer favoured.

    During December 2024 Indonesia for example announced they plan to build beginning in 2025 twenty nuclear power plants.

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      ozfred

      While I can support the idea of nuclear power electricity generation, I hope the geology analyses and the structural engineering for the Indonesian locations are up to the long term task.

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    Penguinite

    Albo-Tross and his leading mate BO Bowen are visibly struggling to make headway in the post Trump election slipstream. They are, however, hell bent on taking us to the cleaners. Like others before me Dutton is saddling himself with precisely the same millstone of Nett Zero garbage. If we include the Greens they complete the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse that will bring Australia to its knees before surrendering to WEF. Maybe DJT can instill some backbone in Dutton?

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      GreatAuntJanet

      Is it too late for Dutton anyway? Who’d believe an about-face at this time? I’d like to think the Nationals could step up, but there are no signs of that either.

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    TdeF

    “identify and change EU laws that may lead to higher energy prices”

    Get rid of the Green Certificates which are legalized, mandated unpublicised robbery. And windmills would stop. Solar panels would stop. Tree farms would stop. And electricity prices would stop.

    And if Trump starts building coal power plants again, like China. The world will copy.

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    Neville

    At the start of the industrial revolution most of Humanity were rural workers and yet today ( since 2007) more people live in urban areas and the wealthiest countries have very high urban percentages, but other poorer countries are also following the same trend to urban living.
    Today we have very few farmers and yet most Humans have more food to eat than at any time in history.
    Again it easily proves that their so called CC emergency is just more BS and fra-d and is easily proven to be false using the proper data.
    For example here’s Urban and Rural populations around the world from 1960 to 2022 from OWI Data.
    I’ve added some wealthy countries to further prove that more cheap, reliable base-load energy is the answer not lunancy like unreliable toxic S & W.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-urban?tab=chart&country=Low-income+countries~High-income+countries~Middle-income+countries~Lower-middle-income+countries~Upper-middle-income+countries~AUS~JPN~GBR~USA~CHE~DEU~CAN

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    John Connor II

    Study finds statistical link between solar activity and rainfall variability

    A long-term statistical study has confirmed a direct correlation between rainfall variability in India and solar activity features such as sunspots, solar flares, and solar prominences. Researchers analyzed 5 consecutive solar cycles (1964 – 2019) and found that rainfall levels shift predictably with solar fluctuations, impacting seasonal and annual precipitation patterns across India.
    Rainfall patterns followed a cyclic trend similar to solar cycles, with periodicities of 2.5 and 3.5 years influencing seasonal and annual precipitation levels.

    The study suggests that solar activity plays an important role in rainfall distribution, impacting climate patterns and long-term weather trends across India.

    The findings indicate that rainfall variability corresponds to different phases of solar activity. During the solar maximum, rainfall decreases as sunspots reach their peak. During the solar minimum, rainfall increases because of lower solar intensity and the heightened influence of galactic cosmic rays.

    During the rising phase of solar activity rainfall follows sunspot numbers with a short delay while during the declining phase of solar activity rainfall patterns become erratic and show both in-phase and out-of-phase fluctuations.

    https://doi.org/10.56042/ijpap.v63i1.9942

    What, the big glowy thing affects climate here, and not just grandma driving her Datsun 120Y to the church on Sunday?
    Someone tell Al Gore!

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    Honk R Smith

    The crux of the problem is the decline of the Western managerial intelligentsia.
    Likely due to runaway affluence.
    ‘Climate’ and ‘inclusion’ are nothing but self serving moral virtue disguise, necessitated by a few generations of ruling class types that have built structures, particularly universities, that morphed into mutual congratulating meritocracies to psychologically shield themselves from their historically typical material wantonness.

    No one from outside their insulated world was supposed to get power.
    Especially someone with gauche mannerisms and hair.

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      David Maddison

      Thank you for using the word gauche.

      It’s rarely used these days.

      Let’s make gauche great again.

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        Steve4192

        My favorite hoity-toity smugly superior description of Trump was ‘vulgarian’ (similar to gauche) from a New Yorker writer. It reeks of sour grapes (why is that vulgarian with awful taste rich and I’m not?) and an upper-class snootiness towards ‘new money’ versus generational wealth that stretches back to the Dutch colonial era (and most likely the slave trade). The Donald’s proud of his real estate and brand licensing riches, while NYC progressives are fashionably ashamed of great-great-great grandpappy’s slavin’ riches (but not so ashamed that they are willing to live in poverty).

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        Penguinite

        Winding; twisted; warped; David, Labor/Greens/teals will be queuing up for that epithet but lets not be gauche about it

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        Ted1

        Not having noticed the political connection I doubt that I have found occasion to use it in the last 30 years.

        But, I was living “in the sticks”.

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    Penguinite

    Couldn’t happen to a nastier trio!
    “The big three global fails set to haunt our Prime Minister
    The failure of democratic leaders Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern carries lessons for Anthony Albanese.”

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    Neville

    Again here’s China’s population since 1950 and clearly shows on lower green graph the greatest famine in recent recorded history, when up to 50 million people died between 1958 to 1962.
    Their population has declined since 2020 and they are slowly declining out to 2100 and perhaps a drop of 600 million + over the next 75 years. Population is aging but still about 37 years average compared to Japan about 47 yrs average today.
    But their rate of increase in urban living is the fastest in Human history. That’s since the death of the Mao loony in 1976. I wonder why?
    This data link is from Macrotrends using UN data.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/CHN/china/population

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    Neville

    We shouldn’t forget that the NON OECD countries have increased their co2 emissions by 15.3 billion tons per annum since 1990, while OECD countries co2 emissions have decreased over the same period. That’s 1990 to 2023.
    NON OECD = China, India and other so called developing countries.

    OECD = The 38 wealthiest developed countries.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OECD+%28GCP%29~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29

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    Dave in the States

    Simple. If you hamstring yourself with stupid regulations, you lose…

    ..Unless, everybody else agrees to hamstring themselves too.

    Why do you think Communist China wants everybody to comply to onerous regulations, while they say they will get around to it eventually?

    That’s the reality.

    All that’s over with.

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    David Maddison

    Milton Friedman’s classic work Free to Choose should be compulsory reading for all politicians.

    But since most of them are incapable of reading and comprehending, they could always watch the ten part video, free on YouTube.

    Hopefully they could understand at least some of it.

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt27lKoC5LS4wbD28Jkv95UUm9H7wbVO4

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      Gob

      Thanks; I downloaded them all and watched volume 1 until a few minutes into the post presentation discussion.

      How ironic that his principal example of the market was Hong Kong which was erased eighteen years later.

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    Neville

    Here’s former far left urger Michael Shellenberger telling us why their so called dangerous CC is just more of the far left’s BS and fra-d.
    He covers a lot of ground in about 10 minutes and he even covers clueless Plibersek’s coming 6th great extinction fantasy.
    He’s certainly on board with Lomborg, Dr Koonin, Dr Christy, Dr Happer, Dr Lindzen and the co2 Coalition scientists etc and he has a very clever way of arguing his case.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXIX2whhN84

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    zhong qui

    When Handsome Boy eventually calls the election “If you don’t like our policies then don’t vote for us” Bowen will be whisked off into a moron protection plan that will involve locking him up in some remote wind turbine minus his phone.

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    Neville

    So is China’s new Deepseek AI really amazing or is it the online BS merchants just having a field day?
    Here’s a link to download a free version, but I’ll just wait and see. I’m sure the Bolt report will tell us more tonight. So no download for me because I’m not an informed tech nerd. In fact I’m barely at the kindy stage.

    https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=try%20china%27s%20latest%20ai%20tool,%20deepseek%202025&mid=9912AD2C020D6315C2879912AD2C020D6315C287&ajaxhist=0

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      Steve4192

      I have my doubts China will ever be a player in AI. An AI is only as good as the depth and breadth of material that you allow it ‘learn’ from, and China’s restrictions on information flow that runs contrary to CCP policy will hobble their efforts to develop AI.

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      Ted1

      I am no tech nerd either, but intuition tells me that “AI” is a dramatic reduction in hardware costs, resulting in far greater access to computer services.

      AI can only be more of the same on a bigger scale.

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    Yarpos

    So it seems Europe has leadership it doesn’t want, a destructive “green” agenda it doesnt want, a flood of uncontrolled immigration it doesnt want, censorship and mass manipulation it probably wouldnt want but is conditioned to accept, a war it doesnt want, energy it cant afford, a collapsing industrial base and mass tourism destroying cultural icons.

    But apart from that things are going pretty well.

    I think I have lived in a fortunate window and got to experience Europe and the US in past decades. The again OZ is very different know also. We are somewhat buffered from that by getting out of the city.

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    DOC

    Why limit it to energy pricing? How about adding food pricing and get rid of the fart regulations as well? Not much point in cheap energy if the price of food keeps getting higher; unless one is a cannibal of course, but even they have to heat their big pots. Pity to do that and not be able to afford nor find the food.

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