You can read the full version of this 10-year-old news story on the website of Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper by clicking here.
Disastrous global warming didn’t happen five years ago, in 2014. It isn’t happening today, either. Yet Penny Sackett continues to chair Australia’s ACT Climate Change Council.
Does anyone else see a problem here? You can be dead wrong. I mean, really bleeping wrong. About something really important. And still get described, on an Australian government website, as a champion of evidence-based decision making.
In the universe Sackett inhabits, there are evidently no consequences to getting important things wrong. You merely jump from one government sinecure to another.
A few years ago you were Australia’s chief scientist. Now you run Australia’s climate council. Ho-hum.
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The claim, in that decade-old news story, about Australians being “among the world’s biggest producers of carbon dioxide” is rubbish. Australia isn’t even in the top 10 of the highest-emitting nations.
It emits less than 1.5% of the grand total. Just four countries – China, America, India, and Russia – are jointly responsible for more than 50%.
Even if you believe there’s a direct relationship between carbon dioxide and global warming (I personally think there’s serious evidence to the contrary), Australia’s total emissions don’t matter. They’re trivial.
That entire country could shut down tomorrow and it wouldn’t affect the big picture. Australia could crash its economy, health system, and educational infrastructure overnight.
It could plunge its population into misery and deprivation. And the effect on the climate would be irrelevant. There would be extraordinary pain for absolutely no gain.
It’s only if you look at emissions per capita, that Australia makes it onto the top 10 list of baddies, at position #10. This is due to matters beyond the control of ordinary people: Australia’s vast landmass, its sparse population (25 million), and its abundant natural resources.
If you’re producing less than 1.5% of total global emissions, and your country’s entire population is smaller than some cities, it doesn’t matter how many sacrifices you make. They’re meaningless.
Only governments, politicians, and bureaucrats – people who live in fantasy land and never pay any professional price for behaving foolishly – could imagine otherwise.
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Doom sayer Paul Ehrilich has never been made to answer for all his wrong predictions ever since he wrote his junk science book THE POPULATION BOMB
These idiots may call them scientists and have fancy documents on their walls proclaiming how they earned degrees in the field, but nothing about these facets indicate that they understand science or are scientific in their methods. They just react to what they hear and completely toss out what they should have learned during all those years.
Donna….
There is NO evidence that CO2 causes global warming, hence climate change.
The Alarmist made the claim that CO2 is causing global warming and it is up to them to provide the evidence. So far the only thing they provide is faulty computer models and tampered temperature data.
The GHG Theory is false and has been debunked, logically; experimentally; mathematically and, also, by way of empirical data showing no warming from CO2.
Donna
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Fake Scientists Bill Nye,Al Gore,Leonardo DiCaprio,David Suzuki,the Union of Concerned Scientists and just about every liberal crack-pot that gets coverage from the M.S. Media and appears on some liberal morning or evening news program