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Capt Humbug tools up fossil fuel to fight (for) global warming

William P. Hall on March 20, 2022

The Australia Institute shows our puppet Emperor’s new clothes: carbon fraud and misdirection make his puppet masters even richer In the previous article I posted today, I showed how our current LNP COALition government’s cash splash on cosmetic repairs to …

Western fossil fuel industry helps to power autocrats

William P. Hall on March 7, 2022

After a long history of helping Putin, the Western oil giants are only now leaving Russia. Perversely this may benefit China. Thanks to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, several fossil fuel giants are severing long-standing relationships with Russia and its …

Old report: fossil fuel’s political donations and Government

William P. Hall on February 12, 2022

ACF tracking in 2020 shows huge fossil fuel political donations to influence our political parties. Many of my posts here have noted that special interests in the fossil fuel and related industries have effectively turned many of our members of …

Don’t look up — Captain Humbug (a.k.a. Scotty from Marketing) and his puppets and clowns obscure the climate emergency by playing the Djoker card

William P. Hall on January 16, 2022

Whether the media frenzy over the deportation of the world’s no. one tennis star and notorious anti-vaxer happened by good luck or was designed by the Australian COALition Government’s gang of fossil fuel puppets and clowns, it has and will …

Case study and dissection of a fossil-fuel puppet politician holding a government to ransom

William P. Hall on January 16, 2022

America’s Joe Manchin illustrates shows how damaging a puppet can be when a balance of power can be exploited Although America’s Congressional electoral system differs substantially from Australia’s, the role super-wealthy special interests play in controlling both governments is similar. …

We’re almost out of time to save our species!

William P. Hall on November 5, 2022

The Guardian article shows we’re perilously close to the point of no return where global warming will be unstoppable. The UN says act now! Victoria needs to have a successful climate election as this is the only issue that really …

Goldstein: ‘safe’ Lib apparatchik threatened by teal

William P. Hall on May 2, 2022

‘Safe’ Victorian Liberal seat held by Tim Wilson, ex Policy Director & spokesperson for right wing IPA vs even better known teal, Zoe Daniel Another interesting electoral contest for 2022 is that taking place in the wealthy Victorian suburban seat …

Direct Air Capture of CO₂ at PPM levels is a folly

William P. Hall on April 15, 2022

The physical laws of thermodynamics rule that it takes a lot of energy to capture wide-spread rare gas molecules into a tight space The article below extrapolates the costs of ‘proven’ technologies for direct air capture and sequestration of CO₂. …

IPCC: Stopping emissions no longer enough on its own

William P. Hall on April 9, 2022

Part III of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment published late on 4 April says net zero alone won’t stop global warming. Carbon capture is also needed. According to the Third Part of the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report published this week, our …

Community batteries: Managing green energy on grid?

William P. Hall on April 6, 2022

Existing fossil energy grids were not planned to manage and distribute renewable energy and require either $$$ re-engineering or new thinking The approved “Summary for Policy Makers” that begins the third part of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) …