Have you ever tried debating a Climate Cultist? I’d recommend beating your own head in with a green-painted brick as a slightly less painful alternative. Even trying to convince an Amway salesperson that, no, you really aren’t interested in making extra money, is less futile.
The first thing you’d notice, if you were so foolish as to actually try to talk reason with a cultist, is just how little they really know about what they so confidently hold forth on. The close-run second would be just how completely, frustratingly bad they are at even basic reasoning.
But they are very, very good at using abusing language and parroting rote-learned nonsense tropes.
Let’s start with the most fundamental of all climate chestnuts – the science is settled. Any sensible person would immediately smell a rat. What the hell is ‘the science’? There is no such thing as ‘the science’. The very process of scientific discovery means nothing is truly settled. The best scientific approach is to test a refutable hypothesis but most climate science uses black-box, simplified models with untested predictions the main output. When the predictions are back-cast using data that is already in the can, the errors are there for all to see. But for climate scientists, there are always excuses.
Some recent examples from medical science put paid to the “settled science” myth. The scientific foundations of antidepressants is – after millions of prescriptions – being called into question. Decades of research and billions of funding into Alzheimer’s research is now alleged to have been based on outright fraud. The medical demonisation of fat is now known to be have been influenced by the sugar industry.
Another favourite climate platitude is that renewables are cheaper than other forms of electricity generation.
This is a lie so staggering that it’s incredible that anyone would be taken in by it for a second. Yet, from billionaires to politicians to Twitter pundits, it’s repeated dozens of times a day.
Yet, in the real world, every single country that has adopted “renewables” on any sort of scale has seen its electricity prices skyrocket in direct tandem. The sole exception are those rare places blessed with abundant hydro resources.
Even the green activist regulator, the Australian Energy Market Operator, has conceded that the recent high wholesale electricity prices and convulsions in the National Electricity Market are in part due to the lack of coal-fired generation. That’s right, not having enough coal has been causing problems. The failure to link increases in subsidised renewable energy in the grid – recently, mainly as a result of state government and corporate initiatives – to the exit and unreliability of coal-fired power is a potent reminder of how removed green dreamers are from reality.
Another meme parroted by the cultists is “leading by example”. As if the rest of the world will commit economic suicide if we do it, too. I mean, to be fair, the cultists are nothing if not lemming-like in their behaviour, so it’s no wonder they assume everyone else must be.
Closely related is the “international pariah” argument. This is the sort of nonsense babbled by Jacinda Ardern when she wittered that “Australia must answer to the Pacific” – which she gibbered while China’s delegation smirked.
It’s no blow to my ego to acknowledge that Australia rarely rates a mention in international media (except for when we do incredibly dumb stuff like the world’s longest lockdowns). More notably, no one holds New Zealand or Canada to account for their brazen failure to reduce their emissions.
And as for China, the world’s single largest emitter? Crickets from the cult.
I’ve had a cultist ask me, “If every country except USA agreed to the same target, do you think that would influence their policies?” To which I responded, “Ask the ICC.” Despite intense international pressure to sign up to the globalist International Criminal Court, the USA rightly told them to go to hell.
Don’t get me on to electric vehicles. The preferred term is Zero Emitting Vehicles, to emphasise their virtue. As if? EVs involve 40 per cent more emissions before they even hit the road. And given that electricity is generated mostly by fossil fuels in almost all countries, it’s a bald-faced lie to call them zero emitting.
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Then there’s the exploitation and often outright slavery, not to mention shocking environmental destruction, incurred in mining the minerals to make the batteries for these smugmobiles.
The Climate Cult aren’t very well-informed, but they are master bullshitters and browbeaters.
Don’t take their crap any more. It may be frustrating and possibly futile, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t fight back against their lies and dangerous nonsense.