OK so it's the weekend and we have serious bushfires burning and a "record" heatwave.
But you would have thought that the media which is normally so quick to jump on any angle of "the most important issue facing our planet ever" (which depending on the day would be either climate change or the fate of some footballer's knee), you would have thought that someone in the media might have picked up the fact that one of the two top most prestigious climate research institutions in the world has been caught making up data and bullying scientific journal publishers to ensure that they toe the party line.
And with the Liberal Party undergoing frantic discussions about whether to support the Government's Emissions Trading Scheme even as we speak you would think somebody other than bloggers might be putting this little titbit to air.
And given the way the ABC especially runs with every crazy little story about the doom of climate change-- my personal favourite one was the Melbourne vet who claimed that climate change was making stray cats breed more often and that Melbourne would soon be overrun by moggies, oblivious to the fact that Sydney and Brisbane which are already much warmer than Melbourne don't seem to have that problem-- you would expect that somebody might be starting to ask some searching questions about the whole deal.
No... the carbon heating must go on. After all the science is settled, and even if it's all been a total fabrication nothing will get in the way. Journalists will continue to resist the publishing of genuine information if it runs against the established ideology.
Maybe, just maybe, somebody later in the week will tell the Liberals it's time to act like an Opposition and actually oppose something on the basis of principle.
And maybe somebody will whisper in Penny Wong's ear "the emperor has no clothes."
Then possibly we might wake up to the fact that Australia has always been mostly hot and dry with extremes of weather, that England has always been a tad damp and America prone to hurricanes--long before climate change and global warming were invented.
Exactly!
ReplyDeleteApparently one of the arguments used by our beloved PM the other night was that it was hot in Melbourne that evening, so we have to "do something". Today it's cold and wet in Melbourne so perhaps now it's time to do nothing :)
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