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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jo\u00eblle Gergis, who had an erroneous hockey stick climate paper spectacularly withdrawn in 2012<\/a>, has accused Aussie politicians of using \u201ctrickery\u201d to conceal climate policy failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jo\u00eblle Gergis
Exposing net zero\u2019s climate delusions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denial is a funny thing. We have to find slippery ways of trying to live with high levels of cognitive dissonance: the discomfort we feel when faced with the reality that our thoughts and actions are contradictory. We must somehow rationalise the ways in which we fool ourselves. In the words of Seinfeld<\/em>\u2019s George Costanza: \u201cIt\u2019s not a lie if you believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The truth is Australia is still not on track to meet its legislated target of a 43 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. Australian governments have a long history of relying heavily on the land sector to demonstrate progress towards reducing emissions while continuing to export enormous quantities of coal and gas to the rest of the world. The safeguard mechanism, Australia\u2019s signature climate policy, allows the largest industrial polluters to buy carbon credits to balance out their impact on the environment, allowing them to achieve \u201cnet zero\u201d emissions. Scientific and legal experts have criticised Australia\u2019s carbon offset scheme as being very low integrity: people are receiving carbon credits for not clearing forests that were never going to be cleared, for growing trees that already exist and for growing forests in places that will never sustain them in the long term. Instead of requiring heavy polluters to actually<\/em> reduce the huge volume of carbon they are dumping into the atmosphere for free, they can pay to offset their emissions by planting a few trees. Therein lies the fatal flaw in the net zero logic: no matter how the continued exploitation of fossil fuels is justified, real zero is the only way we can genuinely pull back from planetary disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This trickery of using the land sector to mask the negligible reductions in total emissions has allowed the government to claim that Australia\u2019s emissions have fallen 28.2 per cent per cent since 2005. Excluding land use from the latest data shows that total emissions, across industrial processes, transport, electricity and other sectors, have declined by just 1.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au\/comment\/topic\/2024\/09\/28\/exposing-net-zeros-climate-delusions#mtr<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For once Gergis and I agree on something, at least about the land use trickery. There appear to be a number of questionable practices when it comes to using alleged enhancements to land\u2019s ability to absorb CO2 to balance the books on emissions reduction claims, some of which have been exposed by WUWT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Carbon Colonialism”: Four Corners Exposes Alleged Carbon Farming Exploitation in New Guinea<\/a><\/blockquote>