Does this mean that blowhard is hiring?
since Donald Trump became President, Australian journalists are beginning to speak out.
Branson is no different to Gore. take his, guys:
16 Jul: Daily Telegraph Australia: Miranda Devine: Who’s afraid of the big bad climate monster?
Scaremongering is what Gore does best, and fear is the business model that has made him rich, though his every apocalyptic scenario has failed to materialise...
In our region countries are busy building new clean coal plants. In East Asia alone 1250 new plants are under construction or planned.
Yet in the past eight years in Australia not a single new baseload coal or gas generation unit has been built.
That has to change…
Fossil fuels are here to stay, despite Al Gore.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-climate-monster/news-story/5079c031c43e3de67572402640cc6fc0
15 Jul: Australian: Henry Ergas: G20: you can’t fool all of the people all of the time
Rather, the sticking point (AT THE G20) was Trump’s insistence on inserting a reference in the joint statement to helping other countries “access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently”.
The Europeans were outraged, with one EU official telling The Wall Street Journal that merely mentioning “these kind of energy sources is not something we like”...
..a new survey by Urgewald, an environmental group based in Berlin, identifies about 1600 coal plants that are planned or under construction in 62 countries, increasing global coal-fired power capacity by 43 per cent.
The bulk of those plants are in the G20 countries, with China, India and Japan leading the pack. The firms building the plants and supplying their key components are also almost entirely based in the G20 countries...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/g20-you-cant-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time/news-story/385b2b2a46023d3203af7226d46fa68a