Man-made global warming? Just follow the money.

David Flint I 29 June 2024 I The Spectator Australia

News reports about the Gaza war frequently indicate the number of civilians killed as a result of something Israeli forces are said to have done.

That from the ABC this morning was typical. The details given were sourced, as usual, to ‘Palestinian health officials’. These are actually Hamas terrorists who cannot believe their luck.

I cannot recall during the second world war, newspapers or radio releasing Nazi information from ‘Berlin Health Ministry officials’.

This naivete recalls the daily news during Covid, which consisted of whatever brainstorm the premier and one minister had the night before, with all the politicians’ claims reported as fact. One particular decree was to close the building industry for an extended period at a breathtaking cost and without any evidence to justify this extraordinary action.

That was about the time when Bondi Beach was regularly flooded with police to regulate illicit and dangerous behaviour, such as drinking a coffee while sitting on a park bench, or to check identification in a way deemed unacceptable in relation to elections. This is the same police force apparently instructed to take no action against the several notorious incitements to violence against Jews.

Notwithstanding their imperfections, reading newspapers has long been a feature of my day. Because it was raining heavily last Saturday morning, I went down very early to collect the newspapers. Just as well. None were covered with plastic, the usual precaution when it’s raining. Given loyal readers are a diminishing band, I had assumed management would always ensure papers were readable and not a soggy mess when picked up. Kerry Packer would have.

So does media management believe the BoM prediction that this would be a warm and dry winter, in the same way the naive? believe the UN climate bosses can accurately predict ‘world temperature’ to within a fraction of a degree several decades hence? On that, doubters are assailed with the mantra, ‘the science is settled’.

However, as Professor Steven Koonin, Obama’s science undersecretary, argues, all the core questions about how climate responds to man’s influence remain largely unanswered.

The climate is changing as it always has, but why and how aren’t as clear as Minister ‘Casanova’ Bowen would tell you. (So named by 2GB’s Ray Hadley because of what Mr Bowen does to every portfolio assigned to him).

The Australian’s Chris Kenny recently confirmed a crucial weakness in climate change reporting. He writes that, ‘What is understood by too few people is that no other country is attempting what Australia is doing.’ It is ‘because most of the media runs the Labor, Greens and Teal lines on these issues’. This is media bias on a truly grand scale. As an ‘energy superpower’ endowed with vast amounts of coal, gas and uranium, Kenny points out that we have surrendered Australia’s great economic advantage of cheap, reliable power.

While we still export these commodities and despite the fact that our emissions are so small they can have no impact on ‘world temperature’ whatsoever, the politicians are stopping us from using them. Instead, the climate catastrophists tell us that if we keep ‘investing’ billions into ‘renewables’ while banning the use here of coal, gas and uranium, we’ll get cheap, reliable power.

Such lunacy is occurring nowhere else in the world, and that fact is being kept from us by most of the media, according to Kenny. Although not a minerals exporter, Germany offers a good example of the folly of endorsing ‘renewables’ and abandoning cheaper and reliable energy.

Even then, Germany has a backup. Just import electricity from French nuclear power stations. Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, who welcomed millions of illegal immigrants, Germany began to close down nuclear and coal-fired power stations. Now, one-third of German industry is reported to be considering relocating because energy is so expensive and unreliable.

As to media bias, if we add the fact that education was the first institution successfully targeted by the new-communists and new-Marxists in their long march through the institutions, no one should be surprised by polling on global warming being at least initially supportive.

However, support for the official line is now falling and support for nuclear energy rising. In addition, when asked how much they would pay to support ‘renewables’, Australians demonstrate such frugality that support is overwhelmingly limited to nominal amounts.

In any event, it is likely the theory of man-made global warming will soon be exposed for the hoax it always was. It is already obvious that, as expert climate scientist Emeritus Professor Ole Humlum points out, the global climate system is ‘multifaceted’, involving not only the ‘sun, planets, atmosphere, oceans, land, geological processes, biological life’ but also the ‘complex interactions between them’. These, he says, are still not fully understood. He dismisses the belief that ‘one minor constituent’ of the atmosphere, CO2, controls nearly all aspects of climate change as ‘naive and entirely unrealistic’. Climate change, he says, is mainly a natural phenomenon.

Just as with the fable about the emperor who is wearing no clothes, few in power actually believe in man-made global warming. The moment of truth will probably come soon after the return of Donald Trump to the White House

The man-made global warming fable does not exist to benefit the rank-and-file. To find out who it benefits, just follow the money.

Follow it to the Communist billionaire thugs in Beijing.

Follow it to those in the West who enrich themselves from this racket.

And follow it to the politicians who push this lunacy, including those who gave away our gas to the multinational corporations, refused to reserve gas for Australians all along the east coast, and, declaring how they wanted to spend more time with their families, instead made a killing as lobbyists.

Author: David Flint