Emissions Decline

Australia’s carbon emissions fell 2 percent last year, driven by growing uptake of rooftop solar, according to government figures.

By TPN, in Asia, World, Environment · 20 Jun 2026, 14:31 · 1 Comments

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Record wind generation, increased battery use and greater adoption of electric vehicles also contributed to the decline. The government said renewable energy has helped reduce both emissions and energy costs, although significant cuts are still required to meet future climate targets.

BloombergNEF estimates Australia must reduce emissions by 71 percent by 2035 to meet its climate goals. While emissions continued to decline last year, analysts say deeper reductions will be needed over the next decade. Australia is considered a global leader in rooftop solar adoption, with renewable energy playing an increasingly important role in the country’s electricity mix.

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Unfortunately for Australians this foolishness has seen electricity prices soar with no end in sight for this government and a rising awareness that the government must be replaced at the next election. Why foolishness? Because Happer and van Wijngaarden, using a model of radiation in the atmosphere that they prove gives results almost equal to the radiation measured by satellites, say that a doubling of CO2 will cause less than 1 degree of warming. How soon will CO2 double? If we take a straight line projection of the data in the last IPCC report, not for about 200 years. Now honestly, do you think that less than 1 degree warming in 200 years, if we have enough fossil fuel to double CO2 and if no new technology appears, is worth worrying about? (And by the way, it will probably only raise temperatures to what they were for much of the last 600 million years.)

By John from Other on 22 Jun 2026, 14:10