MR

Sustainability educator, energy efficiency and green building expert, progressive; NBA nerd, guest of TBF! #auspol #climate #sustainability #inequality

[MR @MattRuffin]

There are over 16000 peer-reviewed papers stretching back 4 decades that support anthropogenic climate science. It is more certain than smoking causing cancer! Jim Molan is a disgrace. #qanda

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We're sorry for starting the Climate Wars. We pledge to do better.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for continuing to stand by our principles and fight for the massive, science-based action required to address the existential crisis we face as a species.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for getting our best result ever in 2022, in an election in which the Australian people made it very clear they want real, serious action on climate change. We apologise for gaining the balance of power in the Senate.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for basing our emissions reductions and net zero targets on the science produced by the Climate Council: a respected, independent body which was created by the same people who made up the Climate Commission, which was created by a Labor govt.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for demanding that after some of the worst bushfires and floods the country has ever seen, Labor take an emissions reduction policy to the 2022 election that was less ambitious than that of the Business Council of Australia.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for writing all of Labor's climate policies since 2009. We apologise for getting Labor to simultaneously campaign on being serious about climate action while still supporting the opening up of new coal and gas mines.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for singlehandedly losing Labor the 2013 election, even though, as Labor's Mark Butler has pointed out, "axing the carbon tax" wasn't a major electoral factor for Coalition voters. https://t.co/zLxuTrG292

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for then orchestrating Julia Gillard's removal as Prime Minister and the return of Kevin Rudd, which happened for some reason.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We're sorry that we got Julia Gillard to say there would be "no carbon tax" under her govt during the election, for making our climate-denying political enemies campaign against our policies and for not doing Labor's job in exposing Abbott's lie that the CEP was a "carbon tax".

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We're also sorry that it invested billions of dollars in renewable energy through the CEFC and ARENA. We're sorry to point this period of success out whenever it's completely ignored by those who talk about the "decade of climate inaction" that came after 2009.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for then working by consensus to create the Clean Energy Package - a compromised but improved version of the CPRS. We're sorry that this was introduced only a year after the original CPRS was going to come into effect, and we're sorry that it lowered emissions.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for telling Julia Gillard to come up with the "Citizenship Assembly" on climate change policy. We apologise for getting our best electoral result to date in the 2010 election and gaining a seat in balance of power.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for having Kevin Rudd removed as Prime Minister in an ALP leadership spill, apparently because he was terrible to work with and couldn't negotiate with anyone. We apologise for not being able to work with or negotiate with that same dude.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for offering to negotiate on the bill again, and then (somehow) getting the Rudd government to refuse that offer and decide to put off the whole thing for three years, and we apologise for getting a Labor staffer to leak that information to the media.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for voting against the version of the CPRS which Labor had negotiated with the LNP's Ian Macfarlane (who is currently the chief executive of the QLD Minerals Council but that is NOT relevant here), which was a worse version of a bill we'd already opposed.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for agreeing with Greenpeace, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Friends of the Earth, The Wilderness Society, GetUp! and Garnaut himself that the CPRS was bad legislation and should be improved.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for getting legal advice that suggested that raising climate ambition under the CPRS could open up the government to legal action and might result in billion-dollar payouts to polluters.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for reading the government's own Treasury modelling which found the CPRS wouldn't lead to a reduction in our reliance on fossil fuels or on Australia's emissions for 20+ years.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for thinking that the original ETS designed by Labor's climate adviser Ross Garnaut in his Climate Change Review was quite good, and shouldn't be watered down to placate the demands of industry.

[Serious Danger pOdCAsT @SeriousDangerAU]

We apologise for expecting to engage in any kind of serious negotiation in return for our support for the CPRS legislation in the Senate. This is NOT what Parliament is about.