David Littleproud is also going to be using a whole heap of ‘boo hoo, we are just such a smol little baby country with smol little baby country emissions, why is everyone being so meannnnn’ in his explanation of this craven attempt at relevancy, because he knows that everyone loves to be told that it’s someone else’s fault.

He told ABC News Breakfast:

When we were only 1.1% of total global emissions – there’s only so much we can mitigate. But that’s why we think that we should pivot strongly. That’s why in terms of the adaptation, in protecting particularly regional Australian, in ensuring that they’re protected. And that’s even common-sense solutions like building more dams. If we’re going to have more extreme weather events – why wouldn’t we catch those extreme rain events and store them for when we have extreme droughts, to give us more protection. To look at protecting the environment with better biodiversity. This is about common-sense, about understanding what we can do and making sure that we continue to play our role. And I think we should continue to play our role. But make sure that we do it in an Australian way that we can afford. And keeps us strong. Because if our economy is not strong, we can’t actually continue to try to reduce emissions and that’s what is happening. We’re sending our country broke when there is an alternative way, living up to reducing emissions and making sure that we can finally give hope for affordable energy for homes and business.

Dams are not going to save us.

Climate Analytics reported in 2024:

Australia has a global carbon footprint that far exceeds its economic size and population – and is responsible for around 4.5% of global fossil carbon dioxide emissions, with 80% of those emissions coming from its fossil fuel exports, according to a new analysis released by Climate Analytics Australia today.

The report, “Australia’s global fossil fuel carbon footprint,” commissioned by the Australian Human Rights Institute, concludes that there is no sign of Australia “transitioning away” from fossil fuels – the country is amongst the largest fossil fuel exporters on the planet, and its fossil fuel exports will remain close to the present record levels all the way through to 2035.

By 2035 global fossil CO2 emissions should have reduced by 64% to keep the 1.5oC limit in reach.

The report calculates the cumulative fossil CO2 emissions from Australia’s fossil fuel exports 1961-2023 at 30 billion tonnes of CO2. But under current government policies this is set to increase by 50% over the next decade to 2035. Along with domestic CO2 emissions, this would consume 9% of the remaining global carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C.