I choked on my rolled oats when I saw this (“Nancy Pelosi says Australia is ‘leading the way’ on climate”, September 24). 

Gayle Davies, North Sydney

Not sure why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated Scott Morrison on his current chimerical climate change action. Perhaps she knows more than the Australian people about our government’s climate change policy. Perhaps she thought he was Boris Johnson, as he often wears the Union Jack on his face; or it could have been a nudge towards what he had to do to secure those submarines. It seems we can expect a new big announcement, short on details and loud on promise, after the Nationals have been bribed across the coal divide. 

Deb McPherson, Gerringong

Pelosi’s congratulations to Morrison for his leadership on climate change confirms one thing only – along with Joe Biden, she has no idea who he is.

Bill Easter, Mollymook Beach

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Australia's prime minister has signalled he may not attend the UN's landmark climate conference in November as his government faces continued criticism of its poor climate record.

In an interview, Scott Morrison said he had "not made any final decisions" on attending, suggesting it was a burden.

"It's another trip overseas... and I've spent a lot of time in quarantine," he told the West Australian newspaper.

The COP26 summit will be the biggest global climate crisis talks in years.

It is hoped that the 12-day meeting between world leaders in Glasgow, Scotland will produce the next emissions standards to slow global warming and keep temperature rise below 1.5C.

But Mr Morrison said he would consider other priorities, including the reopening of Australia's borders.

"I have to focus on things here and with Covid. Australia will be opening up around that time. There will be a lot of issues to manage and I have to manage those competing demands," he told the newspaper.

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Trump’s coal spruiker down under, campaigner for Trump at every opportunity, has transitioned with narcissistic chameleon aplomb into a new role, helping Australia become an unincorporated territory of the US.

Nancy Pelosi must have caught by osmosis some internationally circulating furphy that Scott Morrison follows normal protocols of respect when he tells you stuff about his policies, albeit even after French President Emmanuel Macron came to realise that he’d been taken for a ride by a skilled marketing cardsharp.

Apparently Morrison didn’t have much difficulty in persuading Pelosi that Australia was “leading the way (on climate change) and that’s what we all have to do”. According to Pelosi, Morrison told her that “we’re not only addressing the Paris Accords — our slogan is we meet it and we beat it”.

It all seems very odd really, given Pelosi’s long experience with political monsters like Trump and his crew, but then again she’s probably not paid much attention to Morrison’s soulmate relationship with Trump, and most likely it didn’t merit her consideration that the prime minister of Australia would play deceptive word games with her.

To put it another way, she could have been taken in by Morrison’s “transparency and loyalty” in agreeing to become China’s frontline of attack whenever and “forever” if necessary, and handing over so willingly US control of Australian defence and foreign policy decisions to the White House and Pentagon.

What a “pal” to take a main hit from China in every which way, from hurting Australian trade relationship with China for US benefit, allowing the US to fill the gap of Australian beef, wine and agriculture exports being scrapped, to being a better missile target than the US mainland or Hawaii.  Not to mention the neat opportunities Australia has now handballed to the US and other nations in trade with France.

Meanwhile, the Australian mainstream media, now mainly a coalition of Coalition PR agencies, including the publicly funded ABC, is waxing lyrical about Morrison’s Washington “success”, lauding the notion that the “fella down under” has done a marvellous job in becoming a newly welcomed addition to Joe Biden’s best pals club.

Sure he has. The baseball caps have been binned. Suits and ties are now de rigueur. Morrison returns from his sojourn in Washington converted to Biden’s clean energy policy agenda. Trump’s coal spruiker down under, campaigner for Trump at every opportunity, has transitioned with narcissistic chameleon aplomb into a new role, so appropriate to the chief functionary of a subject-state, a useful tool in the almost completed process of Australia becoming an unincorporated territory of the US, akin to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.

In reality, whether Australians prefer to ignore it, or gloss it as “alliance”, there can be no doubting that Morrison’s “forever partnership” means a wilful and deliberate final transfer of Australian defence and foreign policies to Washington. Peter Dutton and Marise Payne might as well transfer themselves from Canberra to an office in the Pentagon, while Morrison himself — like Tony Abbott before him — makes the occasional trip to pay his respects, dropping into the Murdoch headquarters on the way, to finalise approval for whatever’s up for signing.

Meanwhile, flushed with grandiose conceit at his own brilliance in convincing the world that what he says in no way directly contradicts what he does, Morrison announced, with a well-practised straight face, that Australia would host a climate summit in 2022 “about pulling together a very clear work program as to how clean energy supply chains can be built up”.

In full flight, the world’s greatest lover of coal went on to bluster, “We know that if we can support developing economies to embrace and use the technologies that achieve net-zero emissions, and see their economies grow and increase their jobs, that is not only wonderful for those economies and their peoples, but it also is good for Australia”.

No wonder he fooled Macron and Pelosi. Out-trumping Trump has now become Morrison’s standout rhetorical characteristic on the world stage, as well as at home.

After all, can anyone seriously believe that the man who had a secret family holiday in Hawaii during the height of the bushfire catastrophe, couldn’t organise protection of aged care residents in federally-run facilities against the pandemic, couldn’t be bothered to accept his constitutional responsibility for quarantine, couldn’t organise vaccine supplies when required and couldn’t manage the logistics of their distribution, has any capacity or competence whatsoever to put together a clean energy supply chain?

Who will he handball that operation to? He won’t be undertaking any leadership role at home on the matter. Australia under his administration has opposed all avenues to developing clean energy and meeting net-emission targets. Morrison’s rhetoric about his position and plans in relation to climate change are designed to cloak evasion from responsibility, just another smokescreen of the moment, a performance and a promise without substance.

Back home from Washington Morrison glowed about giving Australians a Christmas present, an emergence from lockdown. But he and his government won’t be doing any heavy lifting to make that happen. That will be the responsibility of others. The states will be responsible and Morrison will seek the credit. That is guaranteed.

Where will Morrison have his secret holidays this year? At home or somewhere abroad where the pandemic would prevent most other Australians from going? It won’t be France.

How about Puerto Rico? A good place to go to investigate the benefits of being an unincorporated territory of the US.

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https://johnmenadue.com/morrison-repeats-his-macron-trick-on-pelosi/

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Fortescue Metals Group boss Andrew Forrest has criticised “failed” carbon capture and storage technology and said the general population is entitled to feel sceptical about its use.

As the Morrison government moves to award carbon credits to fossil fuel projects that promise to capture and store carbon dioxide, the mining billionaire has told a podcast such projects had failed “19 out of 20 times”.

Speaking to the Good Will Hunters podcast, Forrest pointed to his home state of Western Australia, where Chevron’s CCS facility at its Gorgon liquefied natural gas development failed to meet a requirement to capture and bury at least 80% of the project’s emissions during its first five years.

The federal government has looked to carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as a means to promote both the expansion of the gas industry and hydrogen production from fossil fuels.

Last week, the energy and emissions reduction minister Angus Taylorannounced the government had committed $250m to help design CCS hubs and support research and commercialisation of CCS technology, including identifying viable geological storage sites.

“You know, in my own home state of Western Australia, we have some of the biggest gas developments in the world who’ve been granted permission to develop on carbon sequestration,” Forrest told the podcast.

“And it failed. And that’s quite normal around the world.

“So to suddenly say, well, carbon sequestration, we’re going to wave a wand, it’s going to work reliably. Well, you know that, actually – if you’re a realist – is a bridge way too far.

“It’s good in a soundbite, but it doesn’t work in reality.”

Dermot O’Gorman of WWF Australia, who also appeared on the podcast, said CCS had been used as a delaying tactic for more than a decade, with billions going into a technology that, to date, had failed.

“Going into Climate Cop26, the world needs to be doubling down on renewable hydrogen, which will in the future only become cheaper, whereas fossil hydrogen will undoubtedly get more expensive,” he said. 

Forrest and the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull launched a new organisation last month – the Green Hydrogen Organisation – which will advocate for Australia’s hydrogen industry to focus solely on green hydrogen produced from renewable sources.

Forrest is exploring green hydrogen through Fortescue Metals’ green arm Fortescue Future Industries, which is chaired by Turnbull.

Both men will fly to Glasgow for the global Cop26 climate talks in November, where countries will be expected to increase their ambition to make deep emissions cuts by 2030.

Forrest told the podcast it was a “cop out” for heavy emitting companies to put in place net zero targets for 2040 or 2050 in the absence of short-term pledges to greatly reduce carbon emissions.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/oct/04/andrew-forrest-criticises-use-of-carbon-capture-storage-saying-it-fails-19-out-of-20-times

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Vatican gives Communion to Abortion Rights Advocate Nancy Pelosi

The sacrament received in Rome constitutes a disavowal for some of the American bishops opposed to communion for elected officials who defend access to abortion.

By Cécile Chambraud

Nancy Pelosi took communion during a mass presided over by Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 29. This eminently private event immediately took on a political dimension, five days after the abolition of the constitutional right to abortion decided by the Supreme Court in the United States. Because Salvatore Cordileone, the bishop of San Francisco, city of the district where she is elected, prohibited the priests of his diocese from granting the Eucharist to the Democratic and Catholic president of the House of Representatives, on the grounds that she supports the right of women to terminate their pregnancy.

Since the election of Joe Biden – also a Catholic – to the White House, the question of whether they should refuse communion to pro-abortion elected officials has agitated the American bishops. So much so that the Vatican intervened to curb the punitive ardor of the most conservative among them.

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Multiple major US pharmacy chains, including Rite Aid and CVS, have temporarily limited orders of morning-after emergency birth control pills after a spike in demand in response to the Supreme Court’s repeal of federal abortion protections.

Rite Aid is capping orders for morning-after pills at three per customer, according to its website. While the site does not display any warnings or notices if a user searches for the pills, the “quantity” counter maxes out at three. 

CVS similarly revealed in a statement on Monday that it was limiting sales to three boxes per transaction in order to avoid a shortage. While the chain insisted it had “ample supply” of Plan B and Aftera, two popular brands of emergency contraceptive, it cited the need to “ensure equitable access and consistent supply on store shelves” in the statement. 

A spokesperson confirmed to The Guardian on Tuesday that the drugstore chain had seen a “sharp increase in the sale of emergency contraceptives” after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade last week, but said the company is working on removing the limits as sales have “since returned to normal.” Customers should not worry about not being able to buy the pills, he said, insisting “We continue to have ample supply of emergency contraceptives to meet customer needs.” 

Retail giant Walmart, which operates pharmacies inside its stores, told the Wall Street Journal it was limiting sales of morning-after pills like Plan B to “four or six” for delivery orders scheduled through the end of the month, though it apparently plans to ditch the cap for July orders. A representative for the company confirmed to The Guardian that “during times of fluctuating demand” its limits for online purchases change.

Not all pharmacy chains have opted to crack down on online sales, however. Walgreens said in a statement that it was not placing limits on sales, though its website was briefly sold out of the morning-after pills. “Walgreens is still able to meet demand in-store,” the chain reassured CBS on Tuesday, claiming “we are working to restock online inventory for ship-to-home.” As of Wednesday, the site appeared to have replenished its stock of at least two brands, with as many as 12 boxes of each available for delivery.

Morning-after pills work by delaying or preventing ovulation with high doses of the hormone levonorgestrel if taken in the 72 hours following unprotected sex, and are not technically considered abortion drugs. They can be quite expensive for those without insurance, however, with a single pill costing $49.99 (for Plan B) or $39.99 (for Aftera or Take Action).

Attempts to order abortion drugs online are also surging in the aftermath of the Roe reversal, so much so that Facebook and Instagram are actively removing posts from users offering to ship the pills to others living in states where abortion restrictions have taken effect. While there are several ‘telehealth’ sites offering to prescribe the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, used in over half of US abortions, they only serve women in states where abortion remains legal, rendering them inaccessible to panic-buyers reportedly flooding social media platforms.

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