by KEVIN DONNELLY – GEORGE Orwell argued that “some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”.
The recent floods and overflowing dams around Sydney prove the Australian climate activist Tim Flannery must have been in la-la land when arguing that global warming would inevitably lead to droughts and empty dams.
- Flannery was in la-la land when arguing global warming would lead to empty dams.
- Governments are overreacting and adopting dangerous policies based on hasty and unproven scientific advice.
- So much for the right to liberty and freedom.
Ever-increasing energy prices and the danger of blackouts caused by closing power stations sourced by coal and gas and relying on unreliable and intermittent wind and solar power is another example of alarmist academics getting it wrong.
Based on the scientific advice given by supposed experts such as Flannery, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (aka Dictator Dan) justifies banning searching for on-shore gas at the same time as making more efficient and reliable coal-powered stations uneconomical.
ALTERNATE
A podcast released by Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas featuring a professor from New York University, Dr Matthew Liao, and his solution to global warming proves, yet again, how many academics must be living in an alternate universe.
Dr Liao’s presentation argues that urgent and immediate action must be taken as “it is too late to prevent human-induced climate change” and too risky to employ “mitigation through techniques of geo-engineering like giant space mirrors or seeding the oceans with iron to prompt carbon-absorbing algal blooms”.
He suggests a ground-breaking solution guaranteed to solve the problem of humans infecting the Gaia and causing such wanton destruction.
Dr Liao suggests: “Why not address the source of the problem and engineer humans to reduce our environmental impact and adapt? Genetic engineering could make us smaller or reduce our appetite for meat. Doses of oxytocin [a hormone which facilitates childbirth] could make us more sympathetic and co-operative. Such possibilities are criticised as extreme but are they more so than re-engineering the planet?”
Much like Jonathan Swift’s fictional Academy of Lagado, where scientists work to extract sunlight from cucumbers and turn human excrement back into food, Dr Liao’s idea to reduce everyone’s carbon footprint by employing genetic engineering and drugs to make people smaller and easy to control appears laughable and beyond reason.
At the same time, given the strategies addressing climate change and the global COVID-19 pandemic recommended by bodies such as the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organisation, it’s wrong to dismiss Dr Liao’s idea as unrealistic and implausible.
CRAZY
Across the globe there are ever more examples of governments embarking on crazy ideas to reduce carbon emissions, improve the environment and save citizens from COVID-19 and its variants, all based on so-called reputable and rational scientific advice.
The New Zealand government, even though the country’s contribution to global emissions is only 0.17 per cent compared with China’s 30 per cent and America’s 14 per cent, plans to tax burping cows and sheep and thus penalise one of New Zealand’s most important agricultural industries.
One of the reasons Sri Lanka is an economic basket case and suffering food riots is because the government, on the advice of scientific “experts”, banned synthetic fertilisers and pesticides and made farmers go organic. Domestic rice production fell 20 per cent in months and now rice has to be imported at great cost.
Farmers in the Netherlands, who recently blockaded roads with hundreds of tractors are facing similar pressures by government to reduce fertilisers and cut back on livestock based on dodgy scientific advice.
Ignored is the world’s capacity to grow more food and feed billions more people, especially in underdeveloped countries, because of scientific advances using man-made fertilisers and pesticides which are more efficient and productive than organic farming.
Similar to the issue of how best to respond to “global warming”, the emergence of the COVID-19 virus also illustrates the dangers of governments overreacting and adopting dangerous and irrational policies based on hasty and unproven scientific advice.
SUFFERED
As a result of draconian lockdowns and border closures across Australia, millions have suffered mental illness, ill health and financial ruin, while the promise that experimental vaccines would provide immunity has proved illusory.
Worst still, the World Health Organisation is campaigning to mandate a global pandemic treaty giving it the power to enforce lockdowns, mandatory jobs and digital health IDs designed to monitor citizens’ movements.
So much for national sovereignty and the right to liberty and freedom.PC
Please stop including photos of Flip-Flop Flannery in your editorial……at my age too much uproarious laughter could cause serious health problems. 😉
WEF,UN, WHO have been peddling these scams for years and they were going to flop it all on us in 2030. But they did not count on Trump. The same people who peddle Covid and Climate Change are part of the same cult .
Very heavy rainfall on the NSW Mid Coast since yesterday, BoM have new flood warnings for several rivers. If as forecast the heavy rain continues to fall into 2023 we will have had heavy rain periods and flooding since early in 2020 following the long drought and extreme season bushfires beginning late in 2019.
But years ago Mr Flannery warned us that many or most dams would never fill again because of insufficient rainfall in the future (now). He also warned that by 2020 Sydney Opera House would be under water from the forecast rising ocean level.
And yet the climate hoaxers continue with sections of the media’s backing to make these ridiculous predictions.
As Professor Ian Plimer has contributed here at Politicom, climate changes naturally over time, weather events are shorter term, but Earth Cycles are natural cycles, in past history there have been much warmer periods than now, droughts far worse than experienced here since January 1788 as well as floods far worse, our country a land of droughts and flooding rains (Dorothea Mackellar – My Country).
Climate zones world wide.
Don’t forget the Climate Council stunt attempt late in 2019 (with Opposition Leader Albanese joining the smearing campaign, and even now in September 2022 continues to mention his deceptive commentary) when the bushfire season started and the get PM Morrison campaign based on his family holiday commenced, ignoring the protocol of an acting PM who is Deputy PM being on duty.
The CC members who were former fire commissioners who complained that PM Morrison had not granted them a meeting with him so that they could warn him about their reasons for expecting a seriously bad bushfire season 2019/20. Apparently they were not aware that natural disasters including bushfires and floods are State Government primary responsibility, State services deal with them, State budgets provide funding, with Premiers and Cabinet Ministers involved.
The CC also apparently missed the warnings issued for 2018/19 bushfire season to State governments based on the long years of drought dry conditions, but did not take place until 2019/20. And that in NSW extra funding was provided to the State services and NSW Rural Fire Service contracted with extra aircraft for fire bombing and purchased a Boeing 737 tanker-fire bomber aircraft, with a Federal grant.
No mention of the lack of land maintenance to reduce the risk of very hot wild fires for years ignoring the drought conditions and fire hazards. Also the lack of permits issued for burning off and removal of fuel from the ground. Local government responsibility, National Parks & Wildlife and others.
No climate emergency, no climate change involved (natural Earth Cycles and climate zones), but another of the natural events in our land: the land of droughts and flooding rains.