🤓 thread: no journalist has asked #ScoMo about the discrepancy between his claim australia will "meet paris at a canter" & the environment department's clear analysis that, with current policy settings, we'll miss it by a country mile.

the dept's chart:
environment.gov.au/climate-change…
the environment department's report is crystal clear: as of last december we were set to miss our target by between 868-934 MtCO₂e.

(for comparison, our annual emissions are now 560 MtCO₂e.)
…and just yesterday (grand final eve, public holiday in vic, etc.) the department released new numbers showing that we're getting worse.

in @GrogsGamut's excellent chart below, our "paris" target (~435Mt) is as far below the x-axis as our current emissions are above it!
australia's emissions* for the 12 months to march 2018 were 560MtCO₂e. this is a 1.4% increase on the previous year!

(excluding land use "LULCF", because the stats are generally considered BS)
this is the 15th quarter in a row that annualised emissions have increased — the 4th year in a row we've got further from our target.

the short-lived carbon price reduced annual emissions by 16.3Mtpa.
since @TonyAbbottMHR repealed it, emissions have increased 32.7Mtpa.
if it weren't for renewables, emissions would be about 25MtCO₂e pa higher.

we met the renewables target two years early, yet @AngusTaylorMP recently said he opposes the expansion of the RET…

…even though he knows renewables are bringing down prices. theguardian.com/australia-news…
it's clear that #ScoMo is pulling our leg / telling porkies / fibbing / outright lying when he says "we'll meet paris in a canter" — the government's own numbers makes this clear as day. #auspol

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Jun 10, 2018
a short, true story about @alan_john_moran (18 years at @TheIPA) who was offered $100k to prove the accuracy of his work for @MRobertsQLD — but, after much bluster, shied from the challenge. 1/17
in july, @alan_john_moran wrote a report for ex-senator @MRobertsQLD in response to the #finkel report.
39 pages of “scholarship” such as this: 2/17
moran’s report, largely a rehash of his blog, was riddled with errors.
the report was so bad that i prepared this brief critique:
3/17
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i didn’t assume anything about you.

you claimed that you were a critical thinker and understood the science.

i started with the hypothesis that this was true.

you falsified it.
apparently i wasn’t listening? 🤷🏻‍♂️

you agreed, reluctantly, with CO₂ increase.
you blamed increase on cow turds then claimed it was just something you heard…

what then has caused CO₂ to increase 50% over last 250yrs?

(hint: mainly fossil fuels)
oh, since you don’t thread your replies — you should learn how — i thought you were just sending me a ‘???’.

no, no one has ever asked that. happy to get to that, but you’re jumping ahead.

you’re stuck on first base. can you get off it first?

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🤓 one thing i've learnt about energy is that you've _got_ to go to the data.

"common knowledge", aka "anecdata", is so very often wrong.

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it's not!
the chart above shows the last 12 months of output. (HT @dylanjmcconnell)

#mortlake has been running with a capacity factor of 28.9% and it's been 2 months since it even hit 50% power.
most wind farms and some solar farms have a higher capacity factor than #mortlake!

$ORG would need to work it about 3 times harder before you'd call it a 'base load' generator.
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weatherill had to take decisive action.
the 28/9 event was exascerbafed by the complete failure of the state’s ‘system restart ancillary services’ (SRAS) providers.
the 8/2 event was caused by a lack of reserve when AEMO screwed up their forecasts and gas units failed.
on top of this, and important grid service, called FCAS (frequency control and contingency reserve) was experiencing massive price gouging that was costing tens of millions.

…and then along game elon’s offer. (it went to tender — he won.)
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when @CraigKellyMP says they's almost 600 'HELE' coal power stations under construction totalling around 650,000MW, is he right?

nope. and nope. he's just making it up. #auspol
when @CraigKellyMP says japan is building 40 'HELE' power stations, is he right?

nope. just 5 — so few we can list in 1 tweet: Takehara, Noshiro, Hitachinaka Kyodo, Sumitomo Metals Kashima, Matsuura Kyushu.

they total just 3.5GW, & they haven't finished any in the past 7 years.
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nope. there’re only 10:

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malaysia: Manjung, Tanjung Bin
thailand: Gheco One
vietnam: Duyen Hai-3, Vinh Tan
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unlike her examples, 🇦🇺's RE sector operates within laws & ethics. 2/
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