Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Iconic self made billionaire Gina Rinehart has warned school students against allowing climate propaganda to erode their critical thinking skills, urged them to guard against propaganda intruding on real education, and explained to Anglican School students the world heated and cooled on its own, long before before humans appeared.
Gina Rinehart warns of ‘propaganda’ in climate denial video to students
By Peter Milne
October 7, 2021 — 7.34amAustralia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has said humans do not cause global warming and warned against climate change “propaganda” in a speech to students at her old school.
The iron ore billionaire said the students at St Hilda’s in leafy upmarket Mosman Park in Perth were “overwhelmed by media and propaganda” regarding climate change and urged them to “research for the facts”.
Mrs Rinehart said the girls should consider influences such as the sun’s orbit, volcanoes and “other scientific facts that I had the benefit of learning when I was at school”.
She said as the globe had heated and cooled in the past, global warming was not caused by humans.
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Climate-focused non-profit organisation Climate Analytics’ chief executive Bill Hare said Mrs Rinehart’s speech was “shockingly wrong on every single issue she mentions”.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/gina-rinehart-warns-of-propaganda-in-climate-denial-video-to-students-20211006-p58xry.html
The following is the video of Gina speaking to students;
Gina cited Al Gore’s “An inconvenient Truth“, accusing Al Gore of making less than truthful statements about polar bears and other climate issues. Gina repeatedly criticised how students in West Australia had been forced to watch Al Gore’s film at school, in some cases four times.
Gina told students about Ian Plimer and Lord Monckton. Reminisced about a time Lord Monckton and Ian Plimer changed a 70% belief in the anthropogenic climate emergency into a 30% belief, after speaking at a school.
In my opinion West Australia’s Premier Mark McGowan is a climate hypocrite. He does not appear to want to kill the mining industry golden goose which funds his welfare programmes, but in my opinion he appeases his left wing supporters for allowing such climate sin on his watch, by giving them free rein to indoctrinate the school kids under his care, possibly including kids in Gina’s old school St Hilda’s.
Nevertheless Gina Rinehart has taken a substantial business risk by courageously speaking out against relentless indoctrination of kids – much of her fortune is invested in mining businesses in West Australia.
Gina challenged students to do their own research.
Gina accused governments of awarding one sided grants.
Gina makes plenty of other great points in the video, it is well worth watching.
Gina’s courage is a serious blow to climate propaganda efforts in Australia. A lot of people look up to Gina as an iconic female entrepreneur who turned her father’s bankrupt mining business into one of the largest personal fortunes in Australian history, in less than two decades.
Update (EW): h/t lee, Voltron – The school seems less than pleased with the speech by their most famous alumni. “St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls principal slams Gina Rinehart’s global warming views in email to parents” ABC claims the school censored the video, only playing the first part. But given the video is available on the web, I’m guessing most of the students have seen the full speech.
Hopefully the school’s reaction will have a large Streisand effect.
https://www.trustindex.io/streisand-effect/
Wow, I’m impressed. She changes my whole impression of Australia. I fear the U.S. is too far gone to listen or comprehend at this stage. HT to Australia!
Free speech no longer welcome at St Hilda’s. Fancy suggesting that students should go and do their own research into “Climate change “. That is not what education is all about…….is it ?
I see the alarmist vampires are awake ,or just woke. Must be a full moon.
At this rate they will get into such topics as who pays the bills and who creates the jobs.
Critical thinking also extends to asking how much of the solar panels in their neighborhood were sourced in slave labor camps in western China. Maybe a class project on ocean temp cycles would be instructive also.
On St Hilda’s website under ‘Our Values’ they have
Imagination // We are courageous and open our minds to possibilities.
In view of the email to parents, they might want to take that down now.
From the article: “A lot of people look up to Gina”
That will include me, now that I have read about her activities.
Go get ’em, Gina! Tell them the truth! The alarmists hate that.
And what did Gina tell the students? Nothing more than that they should do their own research on this subject. The alarmists hate that, too.
Gina should probably mention that the most powerful form of bullying that could harm students is the government and media-run variety.
Never trust an Australian who covers her native accent with a fake upper class British one.
She is not a self made richest Australian woman. She just happened to be the daughter of a mining magnate who decided to dig stuff out of the ground and sell it. She is just continuing that line of business.
Just one quibble – Reinhart is the daughter of Lang Hancock and inherited his company and fortune when he died, so hardly ‘self-made.’
To give her credit though, she did take a possibly failing company and turned it into a hugely successful one.
Is being honest with children allowed again?? Wow good to know.
Not in America Jon, that will get you branded a “domestic terrorist” by our attorney general. You’ll be kicked off social media and the FBI will show up at your house.
Joe Xiden is a dangerous man. He’s a threat to the People of the United States, and no threat at all to the Bad Guys of the world.
The United States is being led by a crazy man.
<i>Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart has said humans do not cause global warming </i>
I cringe a bit at the certainty of this statement. My biggest issue with the alarmists is not that they’re wrong (the theory–we are changing the chemical make-up of the atmosphere, which will necessarily change how it retains heat–makes sense), but that they exaggerate the certainty of their predictions; they don’t have the data to back up their claims.
I see Nick Stokes has hijacked this stream again with a snarky comment based on the first quote. As a resident of Perth for 8 years, in the late 90’s I too reacted at describing Gina Rinehart as “self-made”, but this is an irrelevant point with respect to what she is saying and who she is saying too. A little research also showed how much her company has grown in the years then – clearly a very successful business person regardless of what her start was.
I really do feel people should just ignore ad hominem attacks instead of letting them take over the thread.
Great to see a prominent Australian speaking out
need to see more of this