Andrew L. Urban
“Follow the money: plot to sabotage nation’s prosperity” that’s the headline in The Australian (2/10/2025) on Peta Credlin’s column, which exposes that money trail, confirming the point that climate change is in reality about the large climate cheque collected by adherents of the politically armed transition to renewables.
Finally, a mainstream media outlet points out the real agenda behind climate change activism; it has nothing to with cooling a warming planet, but the agenda of a cohort of heisters.
We have previously published similar comments ourselves, not just our opinions but the man in the street: one of the latest in January this year, reporting on a letter from a reader of The Australian:
This is a bloke called Arthur Alexander from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms north west of Brisbane, who has a clear view all the way to reality. “…the cabal running Australia’s climate change and energy policy in the Albanese government with its zealous engineer, the relevant minister Chris Bowen, is deliberately sabotaging Australia’s economy….”
He was motivated by the news: “Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have come up with $2bn for aluminium smelters to use renewables when the core problem is that physics and the science of energy tell us renewables cannot provide the energy required for smelters to be competitive in the world market; that not one major aluminium smelter in the world runs on renewables…”
I wrote at the time: “Of course, it is also possible that it is dogma – a deliberate strategy to ram home the alarmist agenda behind climate change policies. Other examples of the real agenda – the aim of damaging the economy and causing chaos – include the massive subsidies to wind and solar farms, which cannot achieve the objectives for which they are manufactured, deployed and left to the ravages of their mortality.”
The irrational throttling of fossil fuels while denigrating nuclear energy feeds into the sabotage agenda – it has been shown to be economically foolish; refer Europe.
Credlin reports: “…the Page Research Centre (loosely aligned with the National Party) – details the way extreme green elements have run a decades-long campaign not just to demonise fossil fuels with voters but to intimidate financial institutions out of any investments in those industries vital to Australia’s prosperity.
The head of the Page Research Centre, Gerard Holland, denounces this as the “big lie”, taken for granted by much of our media, that “renewables are the cheapest form of energy”.
Holland reports that “more than $170m was spent in FY23-24 alone to destroy the social licence of cheap coal power, head off any pivot towards nuclear energy, and promote a rapid transition to renewables”. He notes that “much of this money came from overseas” and it represents more than Labor and the Coalition spent combined at the May election.
“But the payday is huge: “For just a few hundred million dollars in activism, corporations that stand to benefit from the transition are now reaping billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies,” he said.
“The Page submission sets out the sustained disruption campaign developed by Greenpeace after a 2011 conference involving a who’s who of green activists that was focused on, but not limited to, the Adani mine in central Queensland and that sought some $3m from local and US sources to “build a nationwide anti-coal campaign”. The strategy, according to the activists’ paper included in the Page submission, “is essentially to ‘disrupt and delay’ key projects and infrastructure while gradually eroding public and political support for the industry.
“According to the Page submission, just the largest entities (and their 2023-24 revenues) include the Sunrise Project ($77m), Greenpeace ($25m), the Environmental Defenders Office ($18m), the Australia Institute ($11m) and Climate Action Network Australia ($7m). The Page submission characterises this anti-coal coalition as having a financial engine (the Sunrise Project), a media theatre (Greenpeace), a research arm (the Australia Institute) and a legal disrupter (the EDO).”
In May 2025, I wrote: “Net Zero is pollie-speak for sabotage – a wilful disruption to an energy-rich country. To help sell the transition to renewables in political terms, the term ‘clean energy’ has been co-opted to mask reality. The dishonesty here is blatant, casting invisible, clean, life-essential carbon dioxide as ‘dirty’ by contrast. This is more evidence that the climate narrative was always about manipulating politics, not global warming.”
For example, the IPCC’s own SREX special report of 2012 on extreme weather, which conceded that warming could well reduce extremes, rather than increase them. Further, it would be 20-30 years before any climate effects on extreme weather would even be detectable against natural climate variability. The 2013 IPCC report broadly endorsed those findings. (“Many extreme weather and climate events continue to be the result of natural climate variability.”) That was 11 years ago, yet Anthony Albanese leads the pack in repeating the false claim.
None of his army of advisors have corrected his assertions – or more likely they didn’t bother – leaving him exposed as the equivalent of a snake oil salesman (aka renewables salesman).
Climate as agenda: a deliberate strategy to ram home the alarmist agenda behind climate change policies. Other examples of the real agenda – the aim of damaging the economy and causing chaos – include the massive subsidies to wind and solar farms, which cannot achieve the objectives for which they are manufactured, deployed and left to the ravages of their mortality.