Andrew L. Urban
A bloke called Arthur Alexander from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms north west of Brisbane, has a clear view all the way to reality. He wrote a short but sharp letter to the Editor, published in The Australian (January 21, 2025):
“Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers have come up with $2bn for aluminium smelters to use renewables when the core problem is that physics and the science of energy tell us renewables cannot provide the energy required for smelters to be competitive in the world market; that not one major aluminium smelter in the world runs on renewables…”
In other words (and Arthur gets this) the cabal running Australia’s climate change and energy policy in the Albanese government with its zealous engineer, the relevant minister Chris Bowen, is deliberately sabotaging Australia’s economy. This aluminium subsidy is just the latest scene in the climate change pantomime taking place in front of the curtain that is hiding the real play: the agenda to damage Australia’s economy in pursuit of a Marxism-inspired future.
The sleight of hand that is the bundle of climate change policies is well and truly exposed here. We know they have nothing to do with any scientific evidence about fossil fuels warming the planet. That has never been shown. That is why it has been raised to the level of faith, in perhaps the greatest mass swindle of all time. If these statements surprise you, you have not been paying attention. But that’s not why the Labor party run on the fumes of climate change. They are playing ignorant.
So there is no point in arguing the science. It’s immaterial to the climate change policy makers. The challenge for Australia, one of the nations most exposed to this bad faith phenomenon, is to recognise this underlying reality – and debunk it accordingly. Ordinarily, this would be a task for an opposition. But this is not ordinary. The political success of the alarmist climate change propaganda is such that it conjures up Mark Twain’s observation that it is easier for people to believe lies than to convince them that they have been lied to.
There is circumstantial evidence in front of us to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the climate change ‘movement’ is powered by a fevered, often hysterical irrationality. Consider the Prime Minister-led mantra about the dangers of increasing extreme weather events due to climate change. This is a furphy easily debunked; even the climate change bible that promotes the ruling orthodoxy, the IPCC, has years ago thrown that theory into the rubbish bin.
The IPCC’s own SREX special report of 2012 on extreme weather, which conceded that warming could well reduce extremes, rather than increase them. Further, it would be 20-30 years before any climate effects on extreme weather would even be detectable against natural climate variability. The 2013 IPCC report broadly endorsed those findings. (“Many extreme weather and climate events continue to be the result of natural climate variability.”) That was 11 years ago, yet Anthony Albanese leads the pack in repeating the false claim.
None of his army of advisors have corrected his assertions, leaving him exposed as the equivalent of a conspiracy theorist. Or an egregiously uninformed Prime Minister. But it is harmful, not only to the public interest but also to the credibility of government.
Of course, it is also possible that it is dogma – a deliberate strategy to ram home the alarmist agenda behind climate change policies. Other examples of the real agenda – the aim of damaging the economy and causing chaos – include the massive subsidies to wind and solar farms, which cannot achieve the objectives for which they are manufactured, deployed and left to the ravages of their mortality.
The throttling of fossil fuels while denigrating nuclear energy has been shown to be foolish; refer Europe.
Climate scientist (a genuine one) Dr Judith Curry points out that it is “an empirical fact that the Earth’s climate has warmed overall for at least the past century. However, we do not know how much humans have contributed to this warming and there is disagreement among scientists as to whether human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases is the dominant cause of recent warming, relative to natural causes.” Dr Curry made this statement on March 29, 2017 as part of her written evidence to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology (Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method).
Dr Curry clearly differentiates between warming and its possible causes: “we do not know how much humans have contributed to this warming…” This is the central problem of the debate, conflating natural warming with human contribution. But that conflation is exactly what climate zealots pursue.
Professor John Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, Alabama’s State Climatologist and Director of the Earth System Science Centre at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, also gave evidence at the Science Committee hearings. Christy’s evidence shows that observed warming has been significantly less than models predicted. “ … if one follows the scientific method … the average model trend fails to represent the actual trend of the past 38 years by a highly significant amount. As a result, applying the traditional scientific method, one would accept this failure and not promote the model trends as something truthful about the recent past or the future. Rather, the scientist would return to the project and seek to understand why the failure occurred.”
Forget ‘the science’: the real battlefield is ‘the dogma’.
Andrew L. Urban is the author of Climate Alarm Reality Check (Wilkinson Publishing).