Not all pyroclastic flows are harmful it seems, from Tristan Edis at Dad’s Army:
Climate Spectator has been informed that the government is floating the proposal with stakeholders of reducing the large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) to something in the low 30,000 gigawatt-hour (GWh) range by 2020, possibly as high as the 32,500GWh proposed by sections of heavy industry such as aluminium back in December.
This still represents a very large cut from the current legislated target of 41,000 GWh (and changes to support for rooftop solar aren’t known) but is the first clear sign the government is willing to drop its insistence on scaling back the renewables industry to 20% market share of power demand. This would have involved reducing the target by 40% to around 26,000GWh to 27,000GWh.
Reversing the Abbottalypse requires a solution for Australia’s extreme isolation on climate change. Any Abbott phoenix cannot survive another national humiliation such as that doled out by world leaders at the G20.
A renewed RET and commitment to deeper cuts to emissions (perhaps matching those of the US in time for the December Paris Summit but funded by God knows what) would be enough.
I look forward to Maurice Newman’s formal embrace of climate change as he surfs the crimson flows.
