RECKLESS MALCOLM TURNBULL AMPS UP SCARE: PLANET WILL BE 'UNINHABITABLE' FOR BILLIONS Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun
February 23, 2020 9:41am
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Malcolm Turnbull didn't say such things as Prime Minister, and it's reckless to spread such a false scare now:
Malcolm Turnbull
✔@TurnbullMalcolm
Watching @InsidersABC - hands wringing about “how do we get to net zero by 2050?” Bottom line is if we don’t get there the planet will be uninhabitable for billions of people. How do we get there? Answer is plain:
"Uninhabitable"?
Where is the evidence that billions of people won't be able to live on this planet because of global warming?
So far, after more than a century of (small) warming, we have seen:
life expectancy rise - and continue to rise.
the risk of death from natural disasters fall by 99 per cent, according to the International Disaster Database.
the number of cyclones fall and rainfall in Australia increase.
Malcolm Turnbull is speading needless fear with his baseless talk of an "unlivable" planet.
He then insists that we need to save ourselves by stopping global warming and greening the planet - when in fact global warming is helping to do just that. Does he not know this?
Malcolm Turnbull
Replying to @TurnbullMalcolm
Engineering and economics NOT ideology and idiocy. Cheapest, cleanest form of energy today is renewables plus storage and is getting cheaper. So transition to clean and cheaper electricity. Couple that with electrification of industry as well as green hydrogen.
Malcolm Turnbull
✔@TurnbullMalcolm
Reverse deforestation, reforest wherever possible. A decade ago the “how” was hard to see and very expensive relative to BAU. Now we can see a feasible, affordable route to net zero - the alternative is catastrophic.
In fact, reforestation is already occurring, and our emissions and a warmer planet are actually helping: From NASA: The world is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago, and data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage: China and India. A new study shows that the two emerging countries with the world’s biggest populations are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect stems mainly from ambitious tree planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.
The greening phenomenon was first detected using satellite data in the mid-1990s by Ranga Myneni of Boston University and colleagues...
“This long-term data lets us dig deeper,” said Rama Nemani, a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley, and a co-author of the new work. “When the greening of the Earth was first observed, we thought it was due to a warmer, wetter climate and fertilization from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, leading to more leaf growth in northern forests, for instance. Now, with the MODIS data that lets us understand the phenomenon at really small scales, we see that humans are also contributing.”
The same extra plant growth is happening right here as our Chief Scientist admitted this month.
