THE ALP’s call to attend the rally in Melbourne on its national conference day read “it will be packed with red T-shirts and passionate people”.
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It reminded me of watching the local villagers gathering for their morning and evening brainwashing sessions by the communist cadres in southern China, across the border from the then New Territories in 1953.
These communistic practices are evident in the endless promotional claims of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC). They would have us believe the earth’s surface temperature will overheat and fry us all, unless man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are reduced: prompting renewable energy as the transient panacea.
Neither organisation has the evidence to support the claims, and the reality is rather different. Yes, the climate does change, we observe it, and data confirms it. Yes, man can change climate in high density urban areas and in land-use changes, but these are small scale.
No, there is no evidence at all that carbon dioxide emissions cause or are likely to cause the earth’s surface temperature to overheat; there is neither data nor observation to support such a claim, and man-made emissions are dwarfed by the overpowering influence of nature’s output.
Despite this reality, and the debt/deficit/debased aftermath of Labor’s past climate change policy failures confronting Australia, that Mr Shorten should now unquestioningly comply with these UNFCCC and UNIPCC claims, is bewildering.
Particularly, when Germany and Britain, are severely cutting their financing of renewable energy policies because of the tax/energy price burdens on business and little people; and the impracticality/excessive cost of large scale intermittent renewable energy has been exposed by experienced power transmission planning engineers; and because UNFCCC requires 1 per cent of each developed nation’s GDP to transform the world economy – an extra $10 billion-plus per year for Australia. Whither? Greece?
N. Hughes,
Surf Beach.