Climate Change

Bob Dylan’s soulful ballad from his 1975 album Blood on the Tracks provides a helpful guide to where we finally might be heading on climate change and renewable energy.

First, let me state that ‘climate change’ is real. Taking action on climate change, however, is not.

The pain, the angst, the disruption, the cost associated with ‘taking action on climate change’ can all be summed up in two words – reducing emissions. CO2 emissions in particular – from power generation, transport and farming.

In the name of ‘reducing emissions’, Australian and international renewable energy merchants – corporate parasites who manipulate the political process to extract money from taxpayers and consumers – have leapt onto the ‘climate change’ bandwagon and have raked in billions of dollars by gaming the system, raising energy prices, impoverishing consumers, fleecing taxpayers and destroying jobs.

Phrases such as ‘subsidised renewables’ simply mean taking money from low-income people in the form of taxes, charges and higher electricity prices, and giving it to the renewable energy merchants.

They are a scourge. They tarnish the political process, distort the market and in the case of energy, distort the entire economy.

Renewable energy is probably the biggest scam the world has ever known.

Most scams target naïve investors who, when they lose their money, have only themselves to blame. The renewable energy scam, however, has been perpetrated by governments, with consumers and taxpayers the hapless victims.

The scam uses every trick in the book including fear – “the earth will become uninhabitable” –  to emotional blackmail – “think about your children’s and grandchildren’s future”. It is reprehensible.

Over the past 20 years, an entire false economy has developed fuelled by ‘Renewable Energy Targets’, ‘Emissions Trading Schemes’, ‘Emissions Reduction Funds’, ‘Renewable Energy Agencies’, ‘Climate Change Authorities’ and so on. Wind farms, solar farms, giant batteries, pumped hydro, green hydrogen, clean hydrogen, green steel, carbon capture and storage … one day this whole racket will collapse, and someone will write a book called ‘50 Years of Madness: How the World was Conned’.

How a tiny, harmless natural part of the environment has been used to spook the masses and undermine our entire way of life is going to be a question for the ages.

CO2 is not a pollutant. It is not dirty; it is not harmful.

CO2 levels in the atmosphere have indeed risen but they are not harmful to either humans or the climate. In fact, elevated levels of CO2 have increased crop yields and vegetation growth.

As Thomas Huxley, the famous biologist once said, “Many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact”.

Or this from author Khaled Hosseini, “Better to be hurt with the truth than comforted with a lie”.

As for the science of climate change, it is nowhere near settled.

For every scientist who says CO2 is a problem, there’s a scientist who says it isn’t.

Friends of Science, a Canada-based non-for-profit organization comprised of more than 500 active and retired earth and atmospheric scientists, engineers, and other professionals, has written to the United Nations telling it there is no climate emergency. Here are the specific points about climate change highlighted in its letter:

1. Natural as well as anthropogenic (man-made) factors cause warming.
2. The warming is far slower than originally predicted.
3. Climate policies are relying on inadequate models.
4. CO2 is not a pollutant – it is a plant food that is essential to all life on Earth.
5. More CO2 is actually beneficial for nature; it greens the Earth and is good for agriculture.
6. Global warming has not increased the incidence or the severity of natural disasters.
7. Climate policies must respect scientific and economic realities.
8. There is no climate emergency; therefore, there is no cause for panic.

Clearly, there is not a man-made climate crisis, yet we are being forced to pay ridiculously high prices for electricity even though we know that high power prices kill people, particularly older people.

Even if emissions were a problem, which they are not, attempting to reduce them comes at a huge cost for absolutely no benefit.

China, India, Russia, the United States and all the developing world are not reducing their emissions.

Around the world, hundreds of new coal-fired power stations are under construction.

The world is not walking away from coal. Or gas.

Yet, here in Australia, we have both major parties calling for net zero emissions.

Australia is not going to stop exporting coal and gas to feed power stations in other countries, but somehow burning coal and gas in those countries is different from burning them here. Go figure.

In any event, if renewable energy is as cheap and as reliable as has been claimed, then why does it need legislation and subsidies to prop it up?

In summary, the only rational approach to climate change is to do what mankind has always done – adapt.

If human beings can adapt and live comfortably in cities such as Helsinki, Finland with temperatures of minus 5 degrees or in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States with temperatures of plus 35 degrees – a 40-degree difference – then we can certainly adapt if temperatures do in fact increase by 1 or 2 degrees. As for melting ice caps, temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic average minus 40 degrees. A 1- or 2-degree change is not a crisis.

If we wish to have a strong enough economy that can build a strong enough military to be able to defend ourselves against looming regional threats, then we are going to need to abandon this obsession with useless forms of energy generation, such as wind and solar.

The Australian Family Party hereby calls for the abandonment of ‘Net Zero’ and the repeal of all climate change and renewable energy legislation.