By Mike Jonas
In your editorial “The Political Climate” in The Times, 20 May 2019, you discussed the Australian election result in the context of climate. The commentary was all one way – damning of Scott Morrison and the winning Liberal-National coalition:
…Australia has just endured its hottest ever summer and storms and dengue fever are turning up in new locations…
…The coalition – which has been, to say the least, inactive on climate change…
…It appears that the coalition attempt to portray climate change as a series of economic losses has paid off…
…There is no question that climate change is a serious issue confronting Australia and little doubt either that the coalition government is not taking it seriously…
…Mr Morrison recently responded with casual dismissiveness to a report from the United Nations which concluded that the world was sleepwalking towards an extinction crisis. Australia is does not meet its share of reducing global emissions and it is deflating to see a prime minister rewarded for such a short-sighted position…
Well, you clearly have not been paying attention. The United Nations, by its actions, makes it clear that there is no crisis. The international agreements that it has promoted impose no restrictions whatsoever on countries like China and India. Those countries are free to pump as much CO2 as they like into the atmosphere, and the rate at which they are doing so makes a mockery of any idea that Australia can have any effect by cutting its CO2 emissions. If there really was a crisis, then it would be vital for those other countries to cut their CO2 emissions too.
It would seem that the Australian public have been able to work out a few things for themselves in spite of the relentless public bullying by the climate activists, the ABC (Australia’s national broadcaster), the left-leaning newspapers (like yours, evidently), and various other influential institutions. Yes, it is bullying – anyone who dares to question the mantra comes under immediate and ferocious attack. In this inhospitable environment, the public has very sensibly made use of their ultimate weapon – their vote. As it was put very succinctly by Jo Nova (an Australian climate realist) recently:
Bullying works in public, but people vote alone.
Instead of trying to bully people into submission, it might be a very good idea for The Times to invite prominent people from all sides of the climate science debate to quietly and calmly explain their positions, so that the public would have a real opportunity to decide things like whether the science of climate really is settled, whether the climate models have any predictive skill, whether advanced nations cutting their CO2 emissions can have any measurable effect on the global temperature, and whether the cost of cutting CO2 emissions is higher than the cost of fixing any problems if and when they arise.
And also, of course, how 77 came to be 97% of 3,146 (I’ll let you look that one up for yourself).
I think you would be surprised by the strength of the arguments that have so assiduously been repressed by so much of the UK media for so long.
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I once had my opinion on climate change published in my local paper it was called “climate change is a lot of hot air” and my points were made but after every point an expert gave a negation of my points which made me look just stupid. I don’t think the main stream media allows anyone the right of reply perhaps because of limited time or space but social media does not have that restriction anyone can air there opinions.
would love to see your letter, especially where the so called experts rebutted your points
what do you expect from Britain, they plowed under a forest to put up wind turbines
The climate change zealots may have been given a black eye in the Australian election but rest assured they haven’t gone away. There is work to be done and it has to be different to what’s happening at the moment.
The rebuttal’s on this blog and elsewhere are excellent but I’m suggesting they are ineffective in getting a message to large areas of the population.
They present too much detail, too many graphs and too many numbers.
A very big percentage of voters simply haven’t a clue and have formed an opinion that is based on the fact that “well it must be right because everyone says so” or “I believe the scientists.”
Fortunately, many of these people are not necessarily spooked by the fear campaign, at least not yet. Scarily, again, many are also the parents of school kids and we all know what’s happening to them.
They will be voters in 3 years’ time and many will carry their uninformed parents with them, sweeping them up in the tears and hysteria emanating from a one-sided education system.
Masses of people think that
1/ The polar bears are just about all gone.
2/ Ditto for Arctic ice.
3/ Carbon pollution refers to soot in the air.
4/ The seas are rising at some alarming rate
They have no idea about homogenisation, UHI’s or how miniscule all this so called “warming” actually is.
I’m appealing to someone who has the wherewithal to get the ball rolling and start producing brief (30 seconds?) grabs that can be deployed on social media, newspapers and radio. We need brief, hard hitting factual good news.
It will be costly but could be crowd funded and perhaps backed by a cashed up benefactor.
By all means, keep pumping out the graphs, the numbers, facts and so on, but it is going to the wrong people (in the political sense) and eventually the scare juggernaut will win.
I said 5 years ago that this battle would be won at the ballot box. It is heartening to see that people are starting to wake up to this fact.
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Whilst it does seem at times that we are just banging our heads against a
brick wall, taking the long view the lights wall brown out some day.
Snag is that by then we here in Australia will be e in one hell of a mess.
If we are lucky it will first happen to ether or both the states of South
Australia and Victoria, then the Federal Government can say, “”Look at that “.
Perhaps the Morrison government can take the Greens at their word, and
when they say that Renewable are now cheaper than coal, then remove all
subsides and most important remove the ruling that says that the utilities
have to take their poor quality energy.. Thus the Green nonsense will finally
die.
MJE VK5ELL