Climate change
THE Labor-Greens say climate change is too important a subject to be politicised. That’s a bit rich, having proclaimed the May 2019 election a “referendum on climate change”.
Their poll-driven hubris led them to celebrate victory the night before the election. Climate change was their election-winning weapon and the voice of the people seemed irrelevant.
One of “our” ABC’s favourites is socalled climate scientist Professor Tim Flannery who declared in 2011 that climate change meant there would “never again be enough rain to fill our dams and waterways”. Two weeks later the rain did exactly that.
Climate Professor Ian Plimer and renowned marine scientist Professor Peter Ridd are never seen on the ABC, as they’re not climate alarmists.
During the recent bushfires, the ABC constantly repeated “climate change” and “unprecedented”.
I agree that climate does change; it’s been changing for billions of years, so why stop now?
Saying the recent bush fires were “unprecedented” though, is false.
In the Black Thursday fires of 1851, one quarter of Victoria was burnt out. No human induced climate change then.
The fires of 1926, January 1939, February 1983, February 2009 and many others also caused greater loss of life and property than did the recent fires. No climate hysteria then, either.
The recent fires, though, were preventable. Labor/Green state and local governments have locked up our forests for more than 10 years, in a virtue-signalling gesture of protecting certain animal species, and to prevent emissions from burn-offs.
Obviously the highly flammable leaf litter accumulates, unless cleared regularly with controlled, safe backburning, with little or no danger to animals.
The Aborigines did this for millennia. Captain James Cook noted the constant smoke on the horizon, in 1770, in his log book. (The Labor/Greens want his statue removed).
Requests from farmers for hazard-reduction burns were callously ignored by the Qld Labor Government.
When the fires destroyed the farms, our Labor premier, rather than apologising, screamed “climate change!” arguably to cover up her own inaction. Moreover, she refused to return from her cruise while the state burned.
More happily, Stanthorpe was the best prepared town to resist bushfires; farmers and volunteers had burnt off some months before the real fire reached them.
Australia’s chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel says that even if Australia closed down all industry, putting us back to the stone age, the effect on the climate would be zero.
The recent fires have been ruthlessly exploited by the left to give credibility to their climate change weapon. It is indeed all about politics, and to say now that it shouldn’t be is just an attempt to shut down any debate from opposing viewpoints. NEIL MUNRO, Toowoomba