Guest essay by Eric Worrall
With the Aussie federal election this Saturday, Professor Emeritus Ian Plimer, who wrote the iconic book “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science”, has suggested Australia’s opposition leader Bill Shorten may be intentionally misleading on climate change.
The truth of climate change is revealed at school
Ian Plimer
May 16 2019Bill Shorten and his allies, the Greens economic vandals, believe climate change is a moral issue. So is telling the truth.
With his elite private school education, the Opposition Leader would have learned about the Roman Warming, the Dark Ages, the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age. These took place before industrialisation and were all driven by changes in the sun. He would have learned that natural warm times, like now, bring great prosperity, increased longevity and less disease, whereas Jack Frost brings death, depopulation and economic stresses.
In biology, the Labor leader would have learned of Darwinism and environmental adaptation of species. Humans live on ice and in the hills, valleys, tropics and deserts, at altitude and on coastal plains. Like countless other organisms, we move and adapt when the environment changes. Species thrive when it is warm.
From his education at a religious school, he would have learned about the apostle Thomas. One of the strengths of our Western civilisation is doubt and scepticism. Surely Shorten does not believe the catastrophism promoted by green activists and self-interested alleged experts at the expense of the nation. If he does, he is unelectable.
If he is knowingly promoting a falsehood, he is unelectable. Critical thinking was fundamental to our culture and should be embraced in policy formulation. In school science, Shorten would have learned carbon dioxide is the food of life and without this natural gas, which occurs in space and all planets, there would be no life.
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Read more (paywalled): https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-truth-of-climate-change-is-revealed-at-school/news-story/31d9ab27de3ec577217a590476bf16c1
Despite being Australian, I haven’t written much about this election because frankly I think both major party leaders are unelectable.
With a few honourable exceptions like Federal MP Keith Pitt, who have spoken out against the green party line, and Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is facing a furious green attack in his electorate, this Aussie election is kind of a choice between Al Gore or Al Gore lite.
Thankfully in Australia your vote is not wasted if you support a minor party candidate or independent. Australian federal elections use an instant runoff vote system like Maine, USA, in which you list the candidates you want in order of preference. That means you can vote your heart with your first choice, then vote strategically with your other choices to make sure the candidate you really don’t want comes last.
I urge anyone participating in Saturday’s election, please do some research into the candidates on offer. Consider minor parties like One Nation, which has consistently supported climate skepticism and affordable energy for as long as I can remember – on their senate ticket is Malcolm Roberts, who infuriated Australian media by making Brian Cox’s climate alarmism look silly on national TV, and who during his previous senate term infuriated mainstream politicians by meticulously examining the shaky assumptions behind proposed climate legislation.
Even if you don’t think your preferred candidate has any chance of winning, remember your instant runoff vote allows you to send a message to Australian politicians, with minimal risk your least favourite candidate will win – the only kind of message most politicians bother to listen to.
It is nearly as bad, or worse, in the US. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her Green New Deal have managed to make almost all of the two dozen or so candidates for President look almost as clueless as herself.
Voting for a party built on hatred of Muslims because they also follow your climate “scepticism” seems odd. Malcolm Roberts didn’t enrage anyone, but he was certainly a national laughing stock.
If you want cheap power for the grid, to repeat, the energy market operator, the energy companies, the national scientific organisation are of the same mind; wind and solar power, firmed by batteries for short term surges, and pumped hydro for longer.
If the polls are right, as they usually are, better get used to Bill Shorten,
Prime Minister.
Now the question is, “Does Bill believe in CC,”” or like almost every
Australian and to that matter, every Western Politician, simply pays Lip
Service to the idea, simply to get elected.
I suspect that he being a intelligent man will try to have another Hawke and
Keating type government, but depending on a just over the line, or a massive
win , he will come under a lot of internal pressure to have more renewables,
then he will preside over the big brown out which must occur soon.
MJE VK5ELL
“If he is knowingly promoting a falsehood, he is unelectable.”
The man has a short memory…..What about the falsehood Plimer told the world when he said “”Human additions of CO2 to the atmosphere must be taken into perspective. Over the past 250 years, humans have added just one part of CO2 in 10,000 to the atmosphere. One volcanic cough can do this in a day.”
Despite being Australian, I haven’t written much about this election because frankly I think both major party leaders are unelectable. … this Aussie election is kind of a choice between Al Gore or Al Gore lite.
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So true Eric I can’t Koala-bear any of these political degenerates. It’s like “choosing” between Seppuku and falling on a chainsaw. No thanks to the best-bad fake ‘options’ that they’ve designed to rip us all off once more, and to freely offer our wallets and our lives on our behalf, as a burnt-offerings to the insatiable maniacs (literally mania-nutters) at the UN who are determines to sacrifice planetary civilization, science, education, global political stability and planetary sanity on the alter of deliberately induced total stupidity.
Other than that Saturday will be one of ignoring all politics.
‘The Roman Warming, the Dark Ages, the Medieval Warming and the Little Ice Age’ bought benefits to cold places such as Europe. Living in inland, drought-stricken, dry river Australia, with many 40+ degree days this summer, I don’t really think warmer (hotter!) times are going to being much benefit or joy. Plimer should be well-aware of this since he studied the geology around the arid mining city of Broken Hill (the government has just spent $500,000,000 on a single water pipeline taking river water to the city.)
‘Species thrive when it is warm’. That depends on water. Species thrive in tropical forests, not so much in waterless deserts, which are hotter.
‘Like countless other organisms, we move and adapt when the environment changes’. Where shall we all move to? This is already a problem: South Americans moving north into the USA, Africans and Middle-easterners moving into Europe. Disruption leads to wars, wars lead to disruption, leads to more population movement. Where can I go?
Well said. Shorten vs Morrison is indeed like Gore vs Gore-lite.
I’m voting for the United Australia Party to give the Libs a message.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her comments about a world disaster if things are not done to arrest climate change has recently suggested her comments where made in jest.
In Australia, if Labor wins government, their policies will be adjusted by Labor’s association with the Greens Party who want even greater changes to eliminate CO2. Disaster it will be for the Australian economy.
And comments like these from Plimer will be censored from the media, if the Greens have their way
“If he is knowingly promoting a falsehood, he is unelectable.”
That’s a giggle. I can’t recall an elected politician who didn’t, at some time or another (and mostly all the time), knowingly promote falsehoods.
On Saturday I’ll be scanning the ballot paper for the “hang the lot of them” option.
I get more cynical every year.
If Australia wants to surrender itself to the Cult of Calamitous Climate,I am all for it.
It is amazing to watch mass hysteria in action.
It seems we are instinctively herd beasts,for we sure are easily led.
The DOOM BY CARBON DIOXIDE meme is astounding, you have to willfully know so little of human history and science, that you can accept Doom by plantfood.
The political movement to demonize an essential nutrient defies all logic,reason and uncommon sense.The current panic amongst Gang Green is glorious to watch.
Buy more popcorn.
Shorten is perfect ,when asked the cost of his emissions plan he attacks the questioner with madness.
If Australia cannot be bothered to deal with the fools and bandits “leading ” the country..I guess you are going to wind up like Canada.
You too can elect a Petulant Pipsqueak as supreme leader.
Be of good cheer, Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is an intelligence test.
Out of curiosity, given life is finite how does politically “saving the world” within only 12 years via massive spending and elimination of all private business and capital investments address this fundamental inconsistency?
Or does being “saved”, in this context, merely refer to a more nebulous and metaphysical religious definition of the word “saved”, and not to being actually physically saved, as such? Are we still going to be assuredly doomed no matter how much money is being gouged out of our soon to be repossessed wallets, to pay for our imaginary UN indulgences?
7.7 billion people would like some feedback.
Interesting ! Question; looking at the political World today, year 2019, is there anywhere any politician worth voting for?
Brgds from Sweden
//TJ
This is not rocket science, Shortens deputy (Tanya Pliberserk or something) has no idea how much CO2 is in the atmosphere. If you dont know that then how do you know if your policy will create nicer weather as intended?
The truth it does not matter because its not about creating nicer weather its about creating a level of command and control over the populace. Lazy ass Australians will figure that out soon enough but will be too lazy to do anything about it?
The sad reality is Climate Change is, it has nothing to do with science. It is, everything to do with politics and the need for the left wing of the political divide, to find a stick to beat the electorate with.
I’m embarrassed having to watch Brian Cox make a political fool of himself while trashing his scientific principles, which he did on the Australian QA program.
If the models, which are so often embraced by the Climate Alarmists as evidence of impending catastrophe, were anywhere near correct, plus, if the modellers were allowed to include agents of climate change beyond the anthropogenic drivers they have been told to model, we might take their constantly flawed projections/potentials more seriously.
How many people have to die at the alter of the false idol “Man Made Climate Change” before the sensible thinkers on the planet realise, throwing virgins into volcanoes does not help control volcanoes?.
Cory Bernardi was a rare LNP member who could not stand by and watch Turnbull enrich himself and his family at the expense of the Australian economy.
Think of the Australian Conservatives when you are casting your senate vote.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=408571883223314
The sun undoubtedly drives climate change and will have been a driver in all the historical climate events cited above.
But why does that mean there cannot be a new, additional driver of climate from human CO2?
It does not follow that previous climate drivers are necessarily the only or inevitable drivers of climate.
There is at least one article a day on BBC news and SKY news about some detrimental, weird aspect of man-made global warming and climate change with no redress to its authenticity, i.e. Sceptics Stay Away!
This didn’t happen until recently and started about the same time BBC radio was censured for allowing Nigel Lawson to dispute climate alarmist warnings.
I think the last sceptic to appear on BBC television was Piers Corbyn on The Big Questions in 2016 where his first class honours in physics from Imperial College was pitted against the vast knowledge of science from a member of the Green Party and a member of Friends of the Earth.
Of course, the host, Nicky Campbell, heavily sided with the climate alarmists with his mocking, pitying tone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooq_ZCmSIcY
Will voters be convinced by such propaganda or will it be a turn-off for some? Who knows?
Ian has misjudged One Nation and Malcolm Roberts as being a friend to our cause , One Nation on Malcom Roberts recommendation were the deciding votes on a bill to place draconian emission limits on weed wackers, chainsaws and lawn mowers .
Seems they were assured there was no mention of CO2 and climate change in the wording (or so they said afterwards) but didn’t even bother to read the bill .
From memory it was on page one or two .
Australian Conservative Party or ACP are the only party that seem to be switched on to the CAGW scam and have been stable and coherent .
Bill Shorten probably missed the biology classes at his private school, preferring to study “The Communist Manifesto” and “Mein Kampf” before going to his local Students Union meeting.
Even if you were to take 100% of the output of the various battery manufacturers and devote them to battery back up for the grid, you couldn’t build them fast enough.
Long before you had installed enough batter power to last for even a day, the oldest batteries would have reached the end of their useful life and all new construction would just be to replace what is wearing out. No new capacity.
That also doesn’t leave even a single battery for the magical electric cars.
Tony, the biggest battery being worth 14 seconds on the grid. Brett Keane