You can’t keep a good loon down, from The Australian:
Conservative MPs have hit out at Christopher Pyne for axing funds for climate “contrarian” Bjorn Lomborg, saying he has succumbed to a vocal minority and the move is a “sop to Leftist bullying”.
The backflip on the funding has antagonised some MPs who told The Australian the move was another sign of the party appeasing the Left.
Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz demanded an explanation from Mr Pyne, who made the decision to withdraw $4 million in federal funding for an Australian branch of Dr Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Centre in the days after Tony Abbott was replaced as Prime Minister by Malcolm Turnbull.
There is no reasoning with lunacy. Nobody wants to touch the Orwellian Lomborg centre because it is so far out of step with mainstream science. That an irrational government was forced to bribe the academy to host the thing tells you as much. Complaining now about “bullying” is the pot calling the kettle charcoal.
If it turns out that climate change is not as bad as thought, or it reverses, or it becomes apparent that the science is wrong about the drivers then that will become apparent in time via science. To believe otherwise is to argue for such a grandiose global conspiracy that you’re already a kangaroo short of the top paddock.
In the mean time, let’s take what an enormous majority of science is telling is true seriously and insure our future on the planet accordingly.
Aside from anything else, the loon pond always has The Australian to generate “consensus” as Mr Lomborg himself appears:
The International Energy Agency estimates that about 0.4 per cent of global energy now comes from solar and wind.
Even in 2040, with all governments implementing all of their green promises, solar and wind will make up just 2.2 per cent of global energy.
This is partly because wind and solar help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions only from electricity generation, which accounts for 42 per cent of the total, but not from the energy used in industry, transport, buildings and agriculture.
But the main reason wind and solar power cannot be a major solution to climate change stems from an almost insurmountable obstacle: we need power when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
Go to it, peeps.
