{"id":381598,"date":"2025-06-05T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381598"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:09:51","slug":"labor-net-zero-obsession-australians-dont-know-theyre-spending-12000-million-dollars-a-year-to-fix-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381598","title":{"rendered":"Labor Net Zero obsession: Australians don\u2019t know they\u2019re spending $12,000 million dollars a year to fix the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For your sake, the Australian government took at least $440 of yours this year and spent it on electrical hobgoblins that claim to make nicer weather in a hundred years.  That\u2019s $1,800 for each family of four, in order to reduce world temperatures by nothing in our lifetimes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many families would willingly give up that kind of money on the witchdoctor weather quest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IPA has done what the Labor Government is too dishonest to do, and the Opposition was too scared to do. Adam Creighton added up the bonzana the government has spent on climate change since 2022<\/a> \u2014 and it\u2019s exploded like a tanker of polyurethane-policy-filler. It sticks to everything, can\u2019t be removed and if we burn it down, it fills the room with cyanide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2021 the nation was throwing $1.7 billion dollars a year on certified weather voodoo. But after Labor won in 2022 that figure ballooned until now the federal budget spending on \u201cclimate change\u201d and \u2018Net Zero\u2019 has expanded to $9 billion.  But this is barely the start of the true cost Australians have paid \u2014 The transition bonfire added about $150 to most electricity bills in Australia this year<\/a>. For some Australians electricity has risen by as much as 50% since the Labor government was elected. Then there\u2019s another $3b in electricity rebate<\/a>s each year to hide the true cost of the electricity horror show. Someone has to pay those rebates, and since it\u2019s borrowed money, that\u2019ll be the kids.  Then there are the businesses that folded, the jobs that were lost, the factories that moved away, and the higher cost of frozen everything in supermarkets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did we go broke \u2014 gradually then suddenly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change spend surges to $9bn a year<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Matthew Cranston, The Australian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe array of \u2018programs\u2019 and \u2018funds\u2019 related to climate change and net zero, which are typically piled on top of one another, year after year, has become ridiculous and almost impossible to track. It raises serious questions about how effectively and efficiently public funds are being spent,\u201d Mr Creighton said. \u201cDespite all this soaring spending on net zero, Australia\u2019s emissions have fallen only 2.8 per cent on the government\u2019s own figures compared to 2005, once you exclude creative accounting with trees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do we call it when the government commands the economy \u2014 communism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construction of electricity generation and distribution, which is dominated by renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, has now reached a record share of total engineering construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Westpac economist Pat Bustamante said that since 2020, work done on renewables had grown by 250 per cent from around $2bn a quarter to around $7bn, \u201cwith a significant portion of this growth driven by the public sector<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a scandal that the Labor Government doesn\u2019t come clean with a single figure cost for climate spending<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Australian voters had no idea how much of their money is being squandered turning our power stations into fake weather control machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s another scandal that the ABC never demands to know the answer. Isn\u2019t that exactly what we pay them for \u2014 to ask the hard questions? What did we get for $500 each \u2014as it happens, more emissions.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would take a PhD to estimate what the real cost is, but 100% of our academics are too busy trying to scare more funds out of the public to add up something we actually need to know. As a bucket estimate, $9 billion in public spending plus $3b in electricity rebates equals $12 billion annually. That\u2019s $440 for every man, woman and child, and by the time we add in extra electricity costs the figure would easily be $500 to $600 each. It\u2019s a level of spending that only 2% of Australians say they are happy to pay<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At no point did they ask you if you would rather keep the money yourself. That\u2019s because they know Australians don\u2019t want the Carbon Sky Whale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who do the politicians, the ABC and the Academics serve? The Chinese Communist Party?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For your sake, the Australian government took at least $440 of yours this year and spent it on electrical hobgoblins that claim to make nicer weather in a hundred years.\u00a0 That\u2019s $1,800 for each family of four, in order to reduce world temperatures by nothing in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":381604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820818,691835621,691819627,691818154,691835620],"class_list":{"0":"post-381598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australian-government","9":"tag-certified-weather-voodoo","10":"tag-clean-energy","11":"tag-net-zero","12":"tag-witchdoctor-weather","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0ChatGPT-Image-5.-Juni-2025-17_08_24.png?fit=1024%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1BgO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227542,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=227542","url_meta":{"origin":381598,"position":0},"title":"Australian Government to Ban All Future Fossil Fuel Projects?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/11\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"One unit of Callide has been out of action since last year, when a hydrogen coolant explosion crippled one of the four power generation units, leading to widespread East Coast power outages.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0stop-fossil-fuels-1024x538-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0stop-fossil-fuels-1024x538-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0stop-fossil-fuels-1024x538-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/0stop-fossil-fuels-1024x538-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C538&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":225760,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=225760","url_meta":{"origin":381598,"position":1},"title":"The Australian Government Vision for Our Renewable Future","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/10\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The government has provided a risible $224 million budget for batteries to stabilise a 33GW grid which is expected to be 82% renewable by 2030.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1226.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1226.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1226.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1226.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-1226.png?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":355184,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=355184","url_meta":{"origin":381598,"position":2},"title":"Pretending. 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