The Mysterious Case of the Climate Celebrity Who Didn’t Want to Be There

Are the wheels finally falling off the climate catastrophe scam?

While some of us caught on well over a decade ago – it’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since the “climategate” emails blew the lie wide open – the slower kids are still playing catch-up and the con-artists with their fingers deepest in the pie are doing their best to pretend that they don’t know that we know what they’re up to.

But even some of the slowest kids in the room – celebrities – seem to be catching on.

Burning, an Amazon-funded doco made by Oscar-winning filmmaker Eva Orner about Australia’s devastating 2019-20 fire season, was to have Cate Blanchett onboard as an executive producer, until:

Shortly after being shown a cut of the movie that offered pointed criticism of Australia’s centre-right Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Blanchett asked that her name be removed from the project … Blanchett’s company is still listed in a producing role, but her name is no longer in the credits. She also has not engaged in any publicity efforts for the film and is not currently scheduled to appear on its behalf at any upcoming public screenings.

Crikey

The media are, of course, perplexed. But then, the mainstream media are the only bunch even slower than celebrities.

Firstly, Blanchett burned through a lot of capital with Australians when she fronted a hectoring climate campaign some years ago. It seems she’s wisely realised that sometimes celebrities should just shelve their galactic egos, shut their damned yaps, and just do what they’re paid far too much for.

Recently, I asked whether Scott Morrison had set himself up to lose the next election by appearing to commit to “net-zero by 2050”, ahead of next month’s Glasgow climate beano. Appearing to. Others are noting that Morrison’s comments are vague on detail and may be more about shutting up the yammering ninnies in the lead-up to Glasgow.

Because, as Europe enters another winter, the grim reality of “net zero” is settling faster than the snow the climate troughers said people would never see again. As Europeans struggle to keep the lights, let alone the heaters on, even the dimmest bulbs may start to put CO₂ and two together.

The Morrison government’s deliberations ahead of the Glasgow conference come as an energy squeeze in Europe and Britain is concentrating the minds of leaders everywhere. In recent weeks, the price of liquefied natural gas has risen fourfold and the price of thermal coal has doubled to $US200 ($276) a tonne. A combination of high demand for gas in Asia and restricted exports from Russia is causing chaos in electricity markets around the world. Meanwhile, a ban on imports of high-quality thermal coal from Australia is contributing to rolling blackouts in China.

The European crisis has been made worse by an unexpected absence of wind across the northern summer. In Germany, routinely touted as a climate action exemplar, coal unseated wind power as the biggest energy contributor in the first six months of this year […]

Meanwhile, The Economist magazine editorialised this week that, poorly handled, Britain could be on the cusp of a Brexit-style revolt over green policies. Brexit transformed Britain by tapping into ordinary people’s resentment of distant elites, and anti-greenery could do the same, the magazine said. In the public mind, greenery is coming to mean global confabs that produce yet more directives and protesters who block city centres and motorways.

While Boris Johnson is letting himself be green-whipped by his upper-middle-class twit of a wife, one of Britain’s most formidable politicians seems about to put a rocket up the green troughocracy. Having led ordinary Britons to victory on Brexit against everything the media-political elite had to throw against them, Nigel Farage is turning his attention to the climate scam.

Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party and a major force behind Brexit, says he’s in favour of “sensible environmentalism” rather than the establishment kind that taxes “poor people to give money to rich people and big corporations while China’s going to ignore it all”. The seeds of revolt from high energy prices already have been seen in France’s fuel-price-rise-inspired yellow vest protests, along with Germany’s Alternative for Germany and Finland’s Finns Party, which have lambasted green hysteria. On top of it all is a building fight over the failure of British advisers to properly assess the cost of making a transition to net zero by 2050.

The Australian

Australia’s leaders too often play catch-up on world events. Having already put Australia at the head of the backlash against China (politically, at least; economically decoupling ourselves from China will be the longer struggle), Morrison would be wise to take note of the growing anti-green backlash.

Witless celebrities and greedy superannuation fund managers will keep peddling the green scam. Europeans are seeing the “net zero” future and realising that they’ve been sold a dud.

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