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The Climate Council and Greens are lightweights when it comes to the wild winter storms that welled up from the Southern Ocean and Antartica like the one last weekend that caused a major storm with gale force winds along the eastern coast and ranges of Australia.
With a number of wind gusts of over 100 registered by the BoM at Kiama and Shellharbour and 98 on the Southern Highlands, it would be interesting to know how ocean wind turbines would have coped, situated as they will be within sight of the coast.
With a real scientific focus on weather coming from many sources today it is becoming clearer that there is much more to what causes our ever changing weather than “climate change”.



It’s written over and over that the rationale for over-building so much wind and solar compared with the actual maximum demand lies in the fact that the output factor for wind is between 30% and 35%, and for solar, 25%. Yet still some seem not to connect the dots and accept that on calm and windy nights or cloudy days, the output falls to zero. Even in our “vast continent” wind droughts extend over most of the continent. And Blackout acknowledges this by boosting the eye-watering cost of offshore wind where wind is a tad more reliable. If only the boosters would run up the flag and start with the truth.


The easy part is to criticise Labor's energy policy but both Labor and the LNP fail to show leadership on energy by outlining a comprehensive policy for the next 50 years that forecasts the cost and reliability of what they propose. Both parties have betrayed the electorate by pandering to the Green vote without regard to where their half baked energy policies are taking us and we are now paying the price, which will only get worse. While the pain under Labor's energy policy is now with us and getting more acute, the alternative under the LNP is also bleak. The next 40 years needs a comprehensive acceptance by all parties including the Greens of coal and gas as the major source of supply. Going forward we can dabble with the luxury of testing the alternatives of nuclear and renewables but only if we have a secure power base


Renewable obsessed South Australia's power costs are far above all other States. Sometimes the weather cooperates and activists skite about South Australia's renewables output. But repeatedly this year the weather has not cooperated and South Australia has imported good old thermal power to keep the lights on.


It would take a major energy shock event to weaken the Greens because so much has been spent supporting their exaggeration and lying.