There was something familiar about the kiddy “climate” protest in Martin Place a few weeks ago. Tim Wilson, who is now a Liberal member of parliament, was in Copenhagen in 2009. He noted the anti-capitalist sentiment amongst the protestors. They carried placards saying “toxic capitalism” and “change the system, not the climate”.
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Do the Martin Place kids realise that they are just pawns in a world-wide Socialist movement to “change the system”? Do they realise that “climate” is about establishing a UN “World Government”? We will pay Australia’s foreign aid budget into a $100 billion UN “climate” fund, instead of being able to donate directly to our neighbours!
No kiddies, “climate change” is more than the weather.
It’s probably a fair guess that the children demonstrating against climate change in Martin Place weren’t watching the ABC’s Victoria a week ago. In that episode Queen Victoria decided to help Irish farmers who were starving because of the potato famine.
Coal earnings are up 85 per cent, providing enough foreign exchange to finance all of Australia’s imports of motor vehicles, food and clothing!
The Irish Potato Famine from 1845-49 brought starvation and death to poor farmers. Millions died, or emigrated to America. There were major social and political reasons why this could happen, but the Encyclopaedia Britannica points to the unusually cool, moist weather that occurred at the end of the period known as The Little Ice Age. The potato disease Phytophthora destroyed crops because it thrived in these cold, moist conditions.
From about 1850 the world began emerging from the Little Ice Age, but has warmed by just 0.8 degrees since 1880, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Only 0.8 degrees!
We talk about carbon dioxide as if it is a poison. Higher carbon dioxide levels are pumped into greenhouses to make plants grow faster! Computer models predicting climate calamity are based on rising CO2, which is only one variable.
We now live in an age of plenty, thanks to warmer temperatures. Localised higher temperature rises can be explained by forest clearing and agricultural practices. For example, Nature magazine reported that, “researchers think deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the more likely culprit,” in the snows of Kilimanjaro riddle.
“Well, what about the ice cap melt in Greenland?” the Martin Place kiddies would probably ask. Only last week the DA had the headlines, “Greenland ice melt is unprecedented”. A story from the journal Nature reported that surface melting was more extensive in 2012 than at any time over the past 350 years. These facts do not paint the full picture.
Greenland is called “green land” because when the world warmed for over 400 years from about 900AD, Greenland was colonised, inhabited, and farmed. Buildings from that era have been revealed during this era’s ice melt. A letter received in Iceland showed that the last Norse inhabitants of Greenland were still there in 1424, but the remaining settlers are believed to have perished in the icy blasts that heralded the coming ice age.
As these kiddies look under their Christmas tree, they will note that almost nothing from Santa is “Made in Australia”. Healthy export earnings allow cheap imports.
Our chief export is coal. Global demand has increased 250 million tonnes. Australia’s coal earnings are up 85 per cent, providing enough foreign exchange to finance all of Australia’s imports of motor vehicles, food and clothing!
Renewables? Kiddies, ask yourselves why does China’s Yancoal now own our Hunter Valley coal? Why has the Macmines Austasia’s China Stone project just received Queensland approval for a $6.7 billion thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin, near the proposed Adani mine? Why are there protests about India’s Adani, but not about a Chinese mine?
On five days last week Australia’s average solar generation did not pass 50 per cent at any time during the day - half of stated capacity. Meanwhile, Australia’s reliable coal kept China’s factories churning out our Christmas presents. There’ll be no jobs in Martin Place for those kiddie demonstrators, but there’ll always be a job supplying coal to China!
Australia met its Kyoto commitments. We are on track to meet Paris, but if we closed our cement and aluminium factories, we could meet our Paris goals tomorrow! The emissions would go to China, but would we be saving the world?
