As the media have collaborated to bombard the populace with environmental and climate doom propaganda, it is only fair and reasonable to hold their feet to the fire (as it were) and examine past media promoted predictions that have failed to materialise.
From Washington Examiner
And, after 500 days …
Current score: Experts 0 – Reality 27.
Buying into the notion of “extreme event attribution” is a slippery slope leading to quicksand.
Angus Taylor said taxpayers’ were forking out for an “empty room” in Fiji when power bills were up by a record 40 per cent and a record number of households were on hardship plans.
If our leaders genuinely care about the future of this country, they would stop pandering to the climate change tsars and start focusing on the actual prosperity of the country.
The lesson from this interview is neither to minimise climate risks nor to exaggerate them. It is to use climate science responsibly. Communities deserve planning that is scientifically robust, legally defensible and fair.
Before asking struggling households for more, our councils and Tiaki Wai must show us that they have trimmed the fat, postponed what can wait, concentrated upon essential services and opened their own books to proper public scrutiny.
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Where are the heavyweight political leaders of yesteryear, or is this really what NZ politics has now become: infants squabbling in the playground while the school burns down around them?
