{"id":35878,"date":"2017-03-30T02:08:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=35878"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:08","slug":"greens-dare-criticize-coal-and-climate-policies-during-cyclonedebbie-reports-takvera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/greens-dare-criticize-coal-and-climate-policies-during-cyclonedebbie-reports-takvera\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens dare criticize coal and climate policies during #CycloneDebbie reports @takvera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PM Turnbull ponders reply to Bandt question on coal, climate change and Cyclone Debbie<\/p><\/div>\n

Those uppity Greens are daring to speak about climate change while severe Tropical Cyclone Debbie<\/a> beat the shit out of the Whitsunday Islands (Read this report of Hamilton Island<\/a>), Proserpine and Bowen, and now threatens extensive flooding from torrential rainfall for central and SE coastal Queensland.<\/p>\n

The accusatory tone from Malcolm Turnbull and other Liberal government ministers is ‘How dare you try to politicise an extreme weather event, when we should all be pulling together.’, while they conveniently forget the South Australian storms in September 2016 which resulted in a system black which they conveniently and erroneously immediately blamed on the fault of the wind turbines in South Australia.<\/p>\n

They have continued to prosecute an attack on wind energy and South Australia, despite a BOM report<\/a> blaming the primary cause as the cyclonic storm with 260km per hour wind gusts. AEMO also put the primary cause as the destructive winds destroying transmission towers, but also identified in the final report<\/a> that automatic wind generator protection settings (since updated) contributed to the System Black event. <\/p>\n

No pulling together for South Australia, Queensland, or in fact all of Australia, in it’s time of need to resolve the lack of coherence in energy and climate policies.<\/p>\n

Is there the taint of hypocrisy here? You bet.<\/p>\n

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Adam Bandt at Press conference 27 March 2017
raising link between coal, climatechange
and more extreme cyclones<\/p><\/div>Adam Bandt, the Greens MP for Melbourne, had the audacity to ask a question of the Prime Minister in parliament today.
\n“My Question is to Prime Minister. He recently said that ‘keeping Australians safe was the highest priority and was the first duty of my government and every government’. We know burning more coal will make global warming worse. Scientists tell us it may mean fewer cyclones but they will be more intense when they hit. But on the very day Queenslanders were preparing for Cyclone Debbie, your Resources Minister dropped a front page story spruiking a new coal fired power station in that very state, and you backed him in. Given the destruction that cyclones reek upon our country, why do you push policies like burning more coal that will make cyclones more intense? Doesn’t your duty to keep Australians safe include everything you can to stop cyclones becoming more violent?”<\/i><\/p>\n

You could see Turnbull’s internal fury on his face as Bandt asked the question, while in the background his Climate Change minister Josh Frydenberg appeared to be jovially communicating with someone stage right, and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce smiled wryly.<\/p>\n

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Turnbull ponders reply to @AdamBandt<\/a> climate question today on why he is pushing coal burning policies that will make cyclones more intense? pic.twitter.com\/c0B8ba6B75<\/a><\/p>\n

— John Englart EAM (@takvera) March 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n