IPA REVIEW ARTICLE (source)

Tim Flannery: climate prophet

 James Paterson

‘I wake up in the morning thinking there are lots of times when people have woken up feeling like this, like the Old Testament prophets.’

That’s Tim Flannery, Julia Gillard’s hand-picked Climate Change Commissioner, or preacher-in-chief, if you prefer.

Appointed by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet to his $3,000 per week, part-time job in February, Flannery is tasked with turning around the climate change debate for the minority Labor administration.

His comments, made in a 2004 interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, are just one indicator of the depth of Flannery’s quasi-religious fervour for climate change, not to mention his exaggerated sense of self-importance.

Many commentators have noted the extensive use of quasi-religious language by climate activists. Followers of the hypothesis that man is responsible for so-called dangerous climate change are referred to as ‘believers’ whilst doubters are often labelled ‘deniers,’ ‘sceptics’ and even ‘heretics.’

The public shaming and bullying of any scientist who differs from climate science orthodoxy is eerily reminiscent of a latter-day Salem Witch-trial or Spanish Inquisition, with public floggings meted out-metaphorically speaking-for their thought crimes. Indeed, ‘dissenters’, as they have also been labelled, suffer ritual humiliation at the hands of their colleagues and the media, with their every motivation questioned and views pilloried.

Elements of the climate change movement are beginning to bear more resemblance to a religious cult than a scientific community. Dalliances with authoritarianism are never far from the fringes of the green movement.

Prominent green activist, Clive Hamilton, for instance, has suggested that the ‘suspension of democratic processes’ might be a necessary ‘emergency’ response to the threat of climate change. Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly recently wrote that ‘Australia’s ludicrous dithering on a pollution tax’ was evidence that voting should be a ‘privilege’ rather than a right and that China should be envied because it need not ‘pander’ to voters.

This article shows how ridiculous the Australian government behaviour is in respect of understanding and acting on misguided agenda-driven “science”.  The last part of the extract in my ‘bold emphasis’ demonstrates how absurd their beliefs are. These people are bordering on paranioa, devoid of commonsense and respect for humanity.

A belief-industry which advises them to take urgent financial and control actions which will have no benefit to anyone other than the advisors themselves. The carbon tax pushers keep harping on about science when there is no logically acceptable science to  support CO2 restrictions or taxes.

The complete article can read here.