Another very good article,.it just re affirms the belief of many people that this climate change scam is nothing more than a wealth re distribution system by stealth.
In his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay describes how crowd psychology drove numerous “national delusions”, “peculiar follies” and “psychological delusions” in the 16th and 17th centuries.
US financier Bernard Baruch recounted similar madness preceding the Wall Street crash of 1929.
Without wanting to appear disrespectful to Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore and her councillors, something about their declaration of a “climate emergency” suggests a similar psychological irrationality.
Their gullibility matches that of audiences at the UN climate conference in Poland and the Davos World Economic Forum who sat spellbound as 16-year-old Greta Thunberg lectured them on climate catastrophism.
Moore and her colleagues mindlessly chant slogans about how “climate change poses a serious risk to Sydneysiders” because “successive federal governments have shamefully presided over a climate disaster … Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased for four consecutive years.
(The) federal government’s policies are simply not working.”It’s true. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising marginally. But per capita they are falling.
Even if you believe CO2 influences global temperatures, at 1.3 per cent of global emissions and a 1 per cent growth rate, they are hardly a danger to the planet.
Besides, Australia is on track to meet its Paris commitment. A recent study found the world overall has only a 5 per cent chance of reaching its goals.
Australian National University research confirms our per capita renewables deployment rate is four to five times faster than in the EU, the US, Japan and China.
Contrast this with a world that, for the first time since 2001, saw no year-on-year growth in renewable power capacity.
With Australia already leading the world, how much more is the government expected to do? How many more billions must taxpayers and industry pay?
Virtue signalling is one thing, but it is deceptive for the City of Sydney Council to claim that by next year it will use 100 per cent renewable energy.
It surely must know that in NSW 80 per cent of electricity is coal-generated.
Still, Sydney, along with another 651 trendy green councils in 15 countries, is now eligible to attend a group hug where the collective can again remind governments to “adopt an emergency response to climate change and the broader ecological crisis”, as a campaign launched in left-wing stronghold New York City has just declared.
It’s the first US city with more than a million residents to do so.Democratic-controlled Los Angeles City Council flirted with the idea but simply passed a motion to set up a Climate Emergency Mobilisation Department.
Conspicuously, no Chinese city has had the urge, despite China’s “greenhouse” gas emissions growing at the fastest pace in seven years and outpacing the US and EU combined.
No Indian city has either, despite faster emissions growth than any other major energy-consuming nation.Meanwhile, Britain, France, Canada and Ireland have capitulated. Britain has introduced legislation to become CO2 neutral by 2050.
It will mean a change to almost every aspect of life and carries an estimated cost of more than £1 trillion ($1.8 trillion). Ireland, having missed both domestic and EU emissions targets, is simply virtue signalling.
As financial and social costs accumulate, it is not surprising to find signs of mania fatigue.Growing numbers of credible whistleblowers and respected climate scientists are calling into question the integrity of the science.
Their claims that global warming theory is unproven and that data is “untrustworthy” and “falsified” are slowly entering mainstream consciousness.Repeated catastrophic deadlines have proved false.
Climate-change threats to food production proved unfounded. Between 2005 and 2016, there was a global decline of 15 per cent in undernourished people, despite the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declaring 2016 the hottest year on record.
And, inevitably, faith and reality are colliding. University of Colorado scientist Roger Pielke Jr calculates getting to net zero global CO2 emissions by 2050 “requires replacing one million tonnes of fossil fuel consumption every day, starting now”.
These impracticalities and increasing voter hostility mean governments representing more than half the world’s population can’t agree on a long-term net zero emissions target.
Nor on a UN scientific report on the impact of a 1.5C rise in global temperatures. Perhaps most revealing of all is the growing realisation that climate change is not about science but politics.Potsdam Institute director Ottmar Edenhofer confirms this: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy,” he warns. “This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy any more.
We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres agrees: “The whole climate change process is a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.”This is orthodox Marxist, socialist ideology and the West is being bullied into parting with trillions of dollars for the privilege of surrendering to an authoritarian central government.
When enough people grasp this, the climate change delusion bubble will burst. Perhaps this explains why desperate organisers of protests such as the Extinction Rebellion are now resorting to violence.
Meanwhile, like Wile E. Coyote, Moore and her global catastrophists are suspended over the cliff, leaving behind a trail of destruction. Sooner or later they will look down, leaving us to pick up the pieces.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/climate-change-signals-part-of-socialist-plot/news-story/a29d692e6efed92606cdf4e56315c0be
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