jackovesk
20th April 2011, 01:31
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Puzzled historians will one day ask how the Great Global Warming Scare died so suddenly, in mid scream.
“We’re all going to dieaaaargh,” it gargled.
And it did. Right there, leaving the booga-booga Gillard Government looking like a bride at a wedding with no groom.
What happened? How did we go in just three years from being a country in which “everyone” believed we had to Do Something about terrifying man-made warming, to one in which Labor politicians are now widely reviled as dupes and scam-merchants for peddling such a gimme-cash fraud?
Don’t let yourself forget how fast this transformation has been.
I certainly haven’t, since it gives me such smug satisfaction to recall that in 2008 the boys from the ABC’s Chaser comedy team toured the land with a stage show in which they showed a giant map of Australia with a pink dot to indicate the location of our last global warming sceptic.
That single pink dot in that entire expanse was plonked right over my Southbank office.
To be absolutely specific, it was over this very keyboard on which I’m now so gleefully typing as I cackle.
How I’d love to see Chaser now do an encore. The pink dot factory would have to work double shifts to pump out all the props.
But how to explain how millions abruptly came to their senses, turning global warming from a faith to a joke?
And that’s when I drag out Tim Flannery.
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No, no, no - I’m not blaming Flannery, the 2007 Alarmist of the Year, for single-handedly destroying the global warming movement that just two elections ago had stampeded both sides of politics into promising an emissions trading system to a public that now wants no bar of any such folly.
Rather, I consider Flannery, now our $180,000-a-year Climate Commissioner, a symbol of all that’s made the warming faith incredible and even ridiculous.
I knew the moment the Gillard Government appointed him to sell global warming that it had instead delivered the coup de grace to its carbon dioxide tax. And so it’s proved.
See, Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, was already an embarrassing reminder of how much the warmist movement had relied on wild claims of imminent doom that are now proving baseless.
Continue reading 'Column - How Flannery helped to kill the warming scare'
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_how_flannery_helped_to_kill_the_warming_scare/
PS - Thanks Tim Flannery - With your Outlandish Lies & Deception you may have single handedly helped save our Country from Economic Disaster!
Puzzled historians will one day ask how the Great Global Warming Scare died so suddenly, in mid scream.
“We’re all going to dieaaaargh,” it gargled.
And it did. Right there, leaving the booga-booga Gillard Government looking like a bride at a wedding with no groom.
What happened? How did we go in just three years from being a country in which “everyone” believed we had to Do Something about terrifying man-made warming, to one in which Labor politicians are now widely reviled as dupes and scam-merchants for peddling such a gimme-cash fraud?
Don’t let yourself forget how fast this transformation has been.
I certainly haven’t, since it gives me such smug satisfaction to recall that in 2008 the boys from the ABC’s Chaser comedy team toured the land with a stage show in which they showed a giant map of Australia with a pink dot to indicate the location of our last global warming sceptic.
That single pink dot in that entire expanse was plonked right over my Southbank office.
To be absolutely specific, it was over this very keyboard on which I’m now so gleefully typing as I cackle.
How I’d love to see Chaser now do an encore. The pink dot factory would have to work double shifts to pump out all the props.
But how to explain how millions abruptly came to their senses, turning global warming from a faith to a joke?
And that’s when I drag out Tim Flannery.
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=646766803189&id=78feb9057b4501df33ba9ca24f0ae04f&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.smh.com.au%2fffximage%2f2006%2f08%2f04%2fflannery_wideweb__470x294%2c0.jpg
No, no, no - I’m not blaming Flannery, the 2007 Alarmist of the Year, for single-handedly destroying the global warming movement that just two elections ago had stampeded both sides of politics into promising an emissions trading system to a public that now wants no bar of any such folly.
Rather, I consider Flannery, now our $180,000-a-year Climate Commissioner, a symbol of all that’s made the warming faith incredible and even ridiculous.
I knew the moment the Gillard Government appointed him to sell global warming that it had instead delivered the coup de grace to its carbon dioxide tax. And so it’s proved.
See, Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, was already an embarrassing reminder of how much the warmist movement had relied on wild claims of imminent doom that are now proving baseless.
Continue reading 'Column - How Flannery helped to kill the warming scare'
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_how_flannery_helped_to_kill_the_warming_scare/
PS - Thanks Tim Flannery - With your Outlandish Lies & Deception you may have single handedly helped save our Country from Economic Disaster!