In short:
Australia’s peak climate body has published new modelling showing the Coalition’s proposed nuclear pathway would result in an additional 2 billion tonnes of emissions in the atmosphere.
The analysis has sparked attacks from the Coalition on the credibility of Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority.
What’s next?
The Climate Change Authority’s chair Matt Kean said the current pathway of transitioning to renewable energy as quickly as possible was “the only viable option”.
If the coalition gets in they’re gonna be defunded so hard…
The head of the CCA is literally a former NSW Liberal Party Treasurer, so I have my hopes that this story of partisan bias will be dismissed by any serious media (there’s a lot of unserious media in our country, though).
The real danger to the independence of the CCA is politicians making threats against the Authority and its staff because they don’t like its findings.
Ideally this sort of threat could be referred to the NACC, but they’ve shown themselves to be pretty pissweak so far.
Ideally this sort of threat could be referred to the NACC, but they’ve shown themselves to be pretty pissweak so far.
Which the Greens said it was… By design.
For confused readers, the problem is “by 2050” not nuclear
I mean, the proposal is to build seven new nuclear plants in a country with no existing nuclear industry. That’s probably just realistically how long that would take, so nuclear is the problem.
It can’t be deployed quickly, and it especially can’t be deployed quickly by Australia. If it could, the coalition wouldn’t be using it as an excuse to keep burning coal and gas.
You think the coalition actually want nuclear? They want their best buddies in coal, oil and gas to profit as long as possible
