Climate of confusion
The politicians who are driving Australia to reach “net zero” emissions by 2050 need to wake up and start listening to the scientists telling the truth about CO2 and its effects
Matt Canavan and Barnaby Joyce were right when they wrote recently that, “Australian politics is obsessed with a target to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050”.
In relation to the inability of Australia and Australians to sensibly debate the future of coal, or a responsible energy policy, they wrote, correctly, about current climate politics having many “quasi-religious aspects — absolute beliefs that tolerate no dissent — every word accepted as sacred and underwritten with hellish climate damnation if not adhered to”.
Amusingly, but tellingly, they wrote that current policy from both sides, “requires people to speak to you from the other side, as many of the politicians and the commentators talking about a 2050 aspiration will be dead by then”. Of course, the issue is coal.
But when you ask political leaders is the problem carbon dioxide, and what percentage of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide, they haven’t got a clue.
What sensible politician would write a national economic suicide note over carbon dioxide when it is 0.04 per cent of the atmosphere.
But of that 0.04 per cent, 90 per cent comes from natural sources.
The human content in the air only 0.0016 per cent.
What the hell are we achieve?
Joel Fitzgibbon, who exhibits some common sense on all of this, makes the very sensible point that China’s coal-fired generation grew by 38 gigawatts last year, equivalent to 19 Liddell Power Stations.
China has 127 new coal-fired power plants in the pipeline; Indonesia, 52; India, 27; Japan, 22; and Vietnam, 17; and we are happy to export $70 billion of our coal so that they can have cheap electricity but deny that to Australians.
Can someone tell me how makes sense?
Then Joel Fitzgibbon spoils his case by joining with the coalition, arguing for net zero emissions by 2050. Where does this nonsense come from?
And now we seem to be getting into bed with Joe Biden and his climate alarmism.
A world authority, Bjorn Lomborg has said that Biden’s climate alarmism is trying to that is almost entirely wrong.
Trump was maligned for getting rid of all of this baggage, knowing you couldn’t have low cost energy from endless supplies of wind and solar.
Under Trump, the US became an energy exporter for the first time in 60 years, a magnate for energy intensive industries and Trump reversed the decline in manufacturing. What game are we playing?
It’s only four years ago that Scott Morrison brought a lump of coal to the dispatch box at Question Time, brandishing it as an “irreplaceable energy source”.
This is the weakness of preferential voting.
Politicians on both sides are terrified of the Greens, who talk unaffordable and unsupportable rubbish on climate change and ignore whatever “science” doesn’t suit.
Are we now going to have a gas fired recovery.
Hello? Natural gas is also a fossil fuel, that is, an emitter of CO2.
Yes, CO2 is produced by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas.
But underpinning this nonsense is the argument that net zero emissions by 2050 is now almost “a universal consensus”.
Who is going to stand up to people
like Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England, who made a speech to the UN 18 months ago. In an exercise of extraordinary arrogance, he said simply: “Firms that align their business models to the transition to a net zero world will be rewarded handsomely. Those who fail to adapt will cease to exist.”
Such comments are an abuse of corporate power.
As this debate rages and offers every likelihood that it may determine the next government of Australia, it might be interesting to note a selection from a stack of scientists who have completely ignored this global warming hoax.
Dr John R. Christy, a climatologist from Alabama: “I have often heard that there is a consensus of thousands of scientists on the global warming issue and that human beings are causing catastrophic change to the climate system. Well, I am one scientist, and there are many, who think that’s not true.”
Dr Charles Wax, the former President of the American Association of State Climatologists: “First off, there isn’t a consensus among scientists. Don’t let anybody tell you there is.”
Stanley B. Goldenberg, Meteorologist at the UN National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: “It’s a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.”
William Kininmonth, the former Head of the National Climate Centre within the Australian Bureau of Meteorology: “Climate science is not settled. Four decades of observations highlight that computer models have exaggerated the influence of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. The Paris Agreement has been negotiated from faulty premises.”
Dr David Evans, the former consultant to the Australian Green House Office: “Yes, carbon dioxide has an effect, but is about a fifth or a tenth of what the IPCC says it is. CO2 is not driving the climate.”
Dr Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology at MIT: “What we will be leaving our grandchildren is not a planet damaged by industrial progress, but a record of unfathomable silliness, as well as a landscape degraded by rusting wind farms and decaying solar panels.”
Dr Robert Laughlin, a Nobel prize winner for Physics: “You can’t find much actual global warming in present day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geological time, something that the Earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone’s permission, or explaining itself.”
Dr Kary Mullis, the Nobel prize winning biochemist: “Those people at the IPCC don’t always tell you the truth. There is nothing in their contract, in fact, that makes it to their advantage to always tell you the truth.”
Dr Madhav Khandekar, a Meteorologist and an Expert Reviewer for the UN IPPC 2007 Climate Change Report: “Finding global warming in Canada and elsewhere is like the proverbial finding a needle in a haystack. I’m sorry, there is no global warming anywhere in the world today, April 19, 2019.”
Dr Roy Spencer, Climatologist and former NASA scientist: “This is the state of climate science today. If you support the alarmist narrative, you can exaggerate threats and connections with human activities, fake experiments, break government rules, intimidate scientific journal editors and make them resign and even violate the law, as long as you can say you are doing it for the children.” It’s frightening stuff.
Might I suggest some of our politicians do a little homework.
ALLEGED Lone Wolf bikie Garry James Brush has been charged with the alleged murders of ex-bikie Shane Ross and his business partner.
Brush, 32, faced an extradition hearing in the Grafton Local Court on Wednesday, where Magistrate Jeff Linden ordered he be sent to Queensland to appear in the Southport Magistrates Court on Thursday.
An arrest warrant for two counts of murder with a “serious organised crime” circumstance of aggravation and one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle had previously been issued for Brush.
Detectives from the Gold Coast Criminal Investigation Branch and the Homicide Investigation Unit on Wednesday charged Brush with the murders of Ross, a former Comanchero, and his Monstr business partner Cameron Martin, when he arrived at the Southport Watchhouse.
He was also charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle after being escorted by police from NSW. Mr Ross and Mr Martin were shot dead near Martin Shiels Park in Tallebudgera in October 2019.
Mr Martin was located deceased in his vehicle around 9.30pm on Friday October 18, 2019.
The car had crashed into a tree off Tallebudgera Creek Road.
Mr Martin had sustained a puncture wound to his chest shortly before the crash.
Three days later, 36-yearold Shane Ross was located deceased in bushland on the corner of the Pacific Highway and Tallebudgera Creek Road.
Brush was at Mr Ross’s funeral, where he sat among friends of the bikie turned Monstr clothing businessman, the Bulletin has previously revealed.
He was also at Mr Ross’s mother’s funeral five weeks before his execution-style death.
Two other men, Nathan Miller and Brodie Singh, both of Coolangatta, were charged in March with two counts each of murder in relation to Mr Ross and Mr Martin’s deaths.
The pair are also alleged to be linked to the Lone Wolf Motorcycle Gang.
South Eastern Regional Crime Coordinator Detective Superintendent Brendan Smith said it was a complex and difficult investigation.
“Detectives will leave no stone unturned,” he said.
“We will continue to investigate to ensure all of those involved in these murders are arrested and brought before the courts.”