ASIA PACIFIC TODAY. Renewables & the real costs with Sen Malcolm Roberts. Dr John Coyne & China. Blake Christian CPA.

Australia’s efforts to reduce carbon dioxide will have virtually no effect on global temperatures but climate change policies continue at the cost of billions.

Politicians of all stripes and industry leaders chant of the quest for zero net emissions regardless of its meaning or cost.

Millionaires and billionaires endorse the policies of climate change so how could they be wrong?

Of course, many are making 'squillions'– multinational companies, global equity funds and renewable energy investors who know that 'the money is in the bag' or the windmills, and solar panels.

China is also big winner in the production of solar panels and wind turbines. Meanwhile their emissions continue to rise and its commitment to the coal industry increases in contrast to other countries. It now possesses roughly half of the world’s coal power capacity as well as coal-fired power plants in development.

A steadfast critic of climate change policies, Senator Roberts joins us to talk about the findings of a report he commissioned Dr Alan Moran to prepare. The report spells out the great hidden cost of climate policies and renewables on Australian households and jobs.

On the issue of China, it’s bashing Australia again in language that sounds uncannily like that being used by American Democratic leaders.

In an extraordinary attack recently, China’s state-sanctioned media has accused Australia, Canada, Britain and the US of being members of an “axis of white ¬ supremacy” in an attack on the Five Eyes intelligence network.

We’re joined by Dr John Coyne head of the North and Australia’s Security program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, to discuss some of the flaws in China’s strategic thinking and where that’s leading China. John sees opportunities in countering CCP’s increasingly divisive international policies.

And in the US, the Democrat’s $1.9 trillion Stimulus package has recently passed the House. Blake Christian, Partner of Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt joins us for an update on the bill’s passage and what the final package is likely to contain.

Asia Pacific Today. March 5, 2021