Climate criminal Australia's huge CO2 emissions

September 4, 2025

Important and revealing article by Peter Sprivulis. I have been a career biochemist for the last 50 years and researched energy transduction in plants that over hundreds of millions of years generated huge fossil fuel resources.

The atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs; notably CO2, CH4, and N2O) from unrestrained fossil fuel and other exploitation are at record highs, are increasing at record rates (notwithstanding “we are tackling climate change” political rhetoric), and existentially threaten humanity and the diosphere (see Gideon Polya, “Climate Crisis, Climate Genocide & Solutions”, 843 pages, 2020).

Yet the Australian Government’s “Australian Energy Statistics – Update Report 2025” totally ignores the following: (1) atmospheric GHGs and global warming (!), (2) Australia’s huge iron ore exports that ultimately generate huge amounts of CO2 through coal-based reduction to iron, (3) gas leaks, has a high global warming potential and can be as dirty as coal use GHG-wise, (4) the damage-related carbon price is US$200 per tonne CO2 whereas the world average applied price is a mere US$2 per tonne CO2 (huge intergenerational inequity), (6) huge Australian geothermal and tide power energy resources, and (7) Australia has 0.3% of the world’s population but its annual domestic plus exported GHGs are 5.4% of the world’s.