Our cool Christmas was a gift to the non-wokens
If this summer was any hotter, it’d be winter. Much of Australia endured sub-optimal weather on Christmas Day as global warming yet again failed to deliver local heat. Had substantial heat arrived, of course, every left-inclined weather watcher in the land would’ve immediately blamed warming or climate change. But when raging temperatures don’t occur, explanations are far more complex.
Why was Christmas for many Australians cooler than average? Because of El Nino, news.com.au reported.
Plus an active Madden-Julian Oscillation across Australia’s north, aiding in the formation of monsoonal rain. As well as a positive phase of the Southern Annular Mode in Antarctic seas, driving rain and storms in the country’s east. And also a reenergised Cyclone Jasper.
End result: people turning on efficient coal-fired heaters to combat Australian summer cold.
As usual, climate change is all hat, no catastrophe.
At this point, at least during previous years, furious warmy religionists would begin yelling at me about not knowing the difference between climate and weather, angrier hurricanes smashing more cities, the scientific basis for warming generating cooling and so on.
But those responses are not so loud or frequent these days, possibly because we’ve been hearing about global warming, heating and boiling for decades – yet here we are, putting on jumpers in December.
Climate panic keeps crashing into reality. The “hottest year on record”, as claimed by warmies, ended with woollens.
Like all things woke, faith in a climate apocalypse requires that believers ignore the evidence directly in front of them.
Faith (in the form of climate evangelists) told us we’d run out of food by 1976, we’d enter a second Ice age by 2000, Manhattan would be underwater by 2015, the Arctic would be ice-free by 2018 and we’d have 50 million climate refugees by 2020.
Faith told us much else besides. Just look up Steven J. Milloy’s extensive and detailed list of failed eco-apocalyptic predictions.
Evidence, on the other hand, shows that we’re all still here, living on an intact planet, chowing down on abundant food, travelling over the place and in my case brawling with younger, fitter Christmas guests for a spot closer to the heater.
(Speaking of brawls, prepare in 2024 for the first footage from an allin fists of fury smackdown at an electric vehicle recharging station. Reality-battered manufacturers are cutting back on battery-powered production, but there are still plenty of impatient EV queue bunnies waiting out there to punch on.)
Another woke belief took a hammering in 2023: the belief that Anthony Albanese and his creepy, ethically-flexible Labor comrades, of all people, are fit and proper appraisers of our morality.
By framing the Voice referendum as a contest between good and bad, Albanese, Labor and Australia’s left followed a woke model successfully trialled on sociology students and other lab primates before being unleashed on civilisation.
“Academics spent a decade constructing an intellectual framework for excluding everyone who disagreed with them,” US columnist and author Tim Carney wrote earlier this month.
“They created ideological litmus tests and tried to brand them as basic values. Who could object to Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion?!
“But it was all dishonesty. They really were trying to say ‘be a leftist or get out’.
“The last two months have exposed the dishonesty. Because dishonesty is always inconsistent, and really they are fine with hate and racism. “What they hate is non-leftism.” Yep. The exposed dishonesty mentioned by Carney refers, obviously, to the left’s continuing abysmal response to Hamas’s October 7 atrocities.
Decolonisation” is a core element of the left’s “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” quest, so Hamas’s bloody savagery had to be forced into a leftist justice framework.
The trouble is, we’ve watched the videos (filmed for celebratory purposes by Hamas).
It’s usually possible, in economic or climate debates, to assume a left-wing opponent’s basic civility. If they’re backing Hamas, however, they’ve abandoned humanity.
And they need to feel it. Burning shame isn’t a friendly gift, but it might make up for cold Christmas weather.