SCIENCE OUT OF PLACE AT THE ABC

THE ABC on Monday made dangerously clear that facts don’t count when it’s defending its global warming religion.

Its Media Watch show was upset that last month I’d criticised then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for getting it so wrong on global warming.

Turnbull had falsely claimed that man-made warming had given us more droughts, like the one in NSW: “Everyone agrees that we’re seeing rainfall that is, if you like, more erratic, droughts that are more frequent.”

I said then that the evidence proved Turnbull wrong, even if the ABC is too dishonest to show it.

For a start, the global warming we’ve actually seen is less than predicted under climate models.

What’s more, the Bureau of Meteorology’s data shows Australia has been getting more rain, not less, over the past 118 years. Even in NSW, the data shows no evidence of more drought.

Australia’s wheat harvests over the past 60 years confirm the story: they keep increasing.

But Media Watch omitted all that data. It simply suggested I was wrong about droughts, without producing any real evidence why.

This is the closest it got to even pretending to rely on science: “There is now widespread agreement among scientists that climate change is making Australia’s droughts more severe.”

Really? Which scientists? The ABC did not name one.

But that is how the ABC now defends its global warming religion. To the ABC, reason is dead and evidence a sin.