Senator Barnaby Joyce, Leader of the Nationals in the Senate.
In the Senate Economics Committee tonight, when most of you were watching the State of Origin, Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate was trying to discover where the green jobs are. He questioned Meghan Quinn, Manager, Climate Change Modelling Division, Department of the Treasury.Senator Barnaby Joyce: In your modelling as your transfer people into jobs, where were those jobs, Ms Quinn?
It's not a hard question....
or is it?
Meghan Quinn: The general shift from higher intensive emission industries to lower intensive emission industries. So there is a table on 6.12.
SBJ: Give me an example of the Top 3.
MQ: Increases in the electricity supply for renewable energy.
SBJ: The supply for renewable energy, so what are those people doing?
MQ: The supply of renewable energy covers all types of energy, hydro, wind, geothermal potentially by 2050.
SBJ: These people want to turn up to work what are they actually doing. What do they look like, are they construction workers, are they electricians, are they accountants.
MQ: The actual electricity supply … the people working in the industries. People who are looking after the production of the actual wind farm, the operation of the wind farm. The construction component would be captured by the construction sector.
SBJ: What is the person who is operating the wind farm? What is he or she doing?
MQ: I am not a technical engineer so I don’t think I can answer that question.
SBJ: Have you been to an actual wind farm lately?
MQ: I’ve seen a wind farm, yes.
SBJ: How many people did you see working there?
MQ: Well there was a person taking me around.
SBJ: Generally no one?
MQ: Well I don’t know. There must be some.
SBJ: Been out to a coal mine lately?
MQ: Not lately.
SBJ: From what you have seen on television does it seem like many people working there?
MQ: There has a been a reduction in the share of people working in the mining industry generally.
SBJ: What’s your next big one?
MQ: Forestry
SBJ: Forestry? OK, so what are the people doing there in forestry. What are the people doing there?
MQ: I presume they are looking after trees.
SBJ: Have you been to a forest lately?
MQ: Yes.
SBJ: Did you see many people wandering around there, any people working?
MQ: I am not an expert on the particular industrial structure of these industries.
SBJ: What’s your third one?
MQ: They are spread over a number. Other manufacturing,
SBJ: What are they actually manufacturing in the other manufacturing?
MQ: A whole range of manufacturing. I can give you a breakdown. I would have to check the categories. I know what it is not. I know it is not motor vehicles, metals or metal products.
SBJ: Can you think of anything they would be manufacturing in the other manufacturing?
MQ: I would have to take it on notice.
SBJ: I am just going looking for those green jobs, I have to start finding them now.MQ: Employment redistribution in the employment model is not necessarily what you would think of as green jobs. There are shifts in employment in what you might not think of as green jobs as we move from high to low emission industries.SBJ: That’s constructing wind towers?
MQ: There is a reallocation in the Australian industry from high emission to low emission. It doesn’t necessarily relate to renewable energy, it’s simply producing goods that are low emission.
SBJ: It stands to reason. You take someone out of a mine you give them a brush cutter and tell them to start to wander around the forest. This is all fanciful.
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Senator Barnaby Joyce, the Leader of the Nationals in the Senate was trying to discover where the green jobs are. He questioned Meghan Quinn, Manager, Climate Change Modelling Division, Department of the Treasury.
Of course the green jobs just aren't 'there'. Meghan is using a model - yes a computer model (another one) and a Treasury one at that. A week or so ago I watched some of the Senate Committee investigating the ETS. Someone being interviewed by the committee was asked about the Treasury modelling and the way it works. Apparently one of the parameters in the model is a change in employment and wait for it, the model is always set to bring about a zero net change! So within all the variables, the model will create green jobs and just move people to them! Incredible!
So of course Meghan doesn't have a clue about numbers of green jobs or where they will be, just that her model tells her it will be so!
Barnaby is right in probing the green jobs because to the extent that any are 'createdd' as a result of the ETS, they will be at the expense of thousands of normal jobs. A word springs to mind: fraud.
So, we're living in The Matrix ...
IPCC's computer modelling of hypothetical 'Global Warming' dictating Treasury's computer modelling of Oz' Low Carbon Economy, with the nett employment delta variable fixed at '0' ... beyond farce, yet again.
Where's the Red Pills, FFS?
Report here:
http://www.treasury.gov.au/lowpollutionfuture/report/default.asp
The word 'job' doesn't appear in a word search of the PDF; conspicuous by its omission, non?
Employment redistribution in the employment model is not necessarily what you would think of as green jobs.
I have no idea what the f#ck young Meghan is talking about, what, pray tell, will coal miners do when you shut the coal mine, become eco-tour guides. Keerrist throw me a bone here, stop a major industry and expect thousands of good people to become employed in mythical unicorn jobs. God fools like her make me so angry.
Time for a Baille Nichol Jarvie....oooohhh yea.....smokey whiskey goodness.......mmmmmm heaven
Wand. Sounds like a sketch from Little Britain...'computer says no'.
Hey there from Canada.
The good Senator seems very bright. We could use a few like here up here, if you can spare them.
(By the way, you might want to fix the spelling in your motto.)
Gee, thanks Muz (Murray)
We have a "journalist" here named Traceeeee. I guess I must have been channelling her... and noone told me.
Taa!
Maybe the green jobs include repairing broken windmills and feeding garbage into computer models.
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