WARMISTS LAID BARE

FINALLY, the green madness that’s threatening our ability to turn on the lights and airconditioners is being exposed as a con. Global temperatures have risen nowhere near the rate at which even the most conservative models predicted, and finally a group of warmist scientists have admitted the same in the Nature Geoscience journal last month.

Bear in mind the current mess Australia finds itself in with regards to power generation and businesskilling high prices is a result of blindly following these flawed models.

What’s worse is that sceptics have been saying for years the models were wrong and they were not only ignored but savaged by warmists, Labor, The Greens and the media.

Don’t hold your breath for an apology from these attack dogs though.

Even in Queensland, the story broke this week about the Labor government: “Households and businesses face being told to set their airconditioners to 26C and having power to some hot water systems and pool pumps switched off to save the state from blackouts this summer.”

All because green groups have bluffed politicians into throwing the rest of the population under the bus in a misguided belief we can reverse the world’s temperatures.

The folly of this madness was exposed by former prime minister Tony Abbott in a speech this week to the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

He said: “Even if reducing emissions is necessary to save the planet, our effort … is barely better than futile because Australia’s total annual emissions are exceeded by just the annual increase in China’s.”

So, due to global warming alarmism, Australia has sacrificed a huge competitive edge of some of the lowest power prices in the world, to now having among the highest.

And yet all this pain and billions of dollars to cut emissions will have absolutely no effect on global climate.

Thankfully, the Federal Government is hinting at scrapping its Renewable Energy Target but Bill Shorten’s Labor is sticking to “50 per cent renewables by 2030”.

Still, both major parties are responsible for the current mess, something voters in the North should remember when the aircon conks out. If you don’t subscribe to man- made global warming, you can’t support the major parties because they’re both evangelical subscribers.

It’s this lack of a true alternative that has fuelled the rise federally of the Australian Conservatives and One Nation parties.

This week, Australian Conservatives Leader Cory Bernardi said the $ 60 billion in taxpayer subsidies given to renewables over 20 years could build 25 new- generation coal- fired power stations that would still not exceed Australia’s emissions reduction targets.

If that is true, we can still ensure reliable cheap power is available without upsetting our United Nations overlords or activists.

But activists don’t go away, even though their hypocrisy should be enough to dismiss them outright.

For instance, nuclear power is completely emissions free but when presented with the solution, the green groups refuse it.

The ban on nuclear is federal but Queensland Labor’s opposition to it is – surprisingly – financial.

After highlighting the fact there are 20 renewable energy projects locked in for Queensland, State Energy Minister Mark Bailey said: “Nuclear power is the most expensive energy borne by taxpayers when whole- of- life costs are accounted for, including decommissioning, decontaminating and rehabilitation.”

But it seems unfair for governments to throw subsidies at unviable renewables while running down nuclear generation on viability grounds.

Nobel prize- winning free- market economist Milton Friedman warned governments against judging policies on intent rather than results.

Due to hasty and misguided “feelgood” climate policies, we are now caught in a death spiral of relying too heavily on renewables and neglecting fossil fuels, much to our detriment.

Even if we started building coalfired power stations tomorrow, they would take years to come online.

Those at fault for this appalling position are politicians who bowed to noisy, hyperbolic activism while ignoring and even ridiculing those who urged a more cautious approach.

All involved should be mere bit players in any future energy talks.