The Garnaut Climate Change Review’s Draft Report was released yesterday. I’m still working my way through it and am holding off on reading others’ thoughts about it or solidifying my own opinion until I’m done.
But some others – the usual suspects, in fact – don’t need to bother with that. Needless to say, Andrew Bolt has been posting a steady stream of posts on issues related to climate change and emissions trading – despite showing that he is grossly incompetent in checking facts. I tried reading some of the comments threads on his site but gave up – seeing the same tired, flawed criticisms from commenters who obviously did not even watch Garnaut’s address at the National Press Club, let alone taking the time to read the report.
Meanwhile, Piers Akerman does one of his typical hatchet pieces, slinging mud at every Labor politician whose name he can fit into the column (he even manages to work Belinda Neal into a column on Garnaut) and hoping that his readers will be so mesmerised by his florid prose that they won’t notice he provides no evidence to back up his insults.
Tobias,
There is just one serious question to ask your self when you have finished reading this very flawed tome and that is will the prescription offered by Garnaut even begin to have an effect on the global climate? It takes just a fraction of a second to realise that it will not.It is an entirely futile imposition on the Australian people that will destroy our economy for no result.
The above applies even if you believe the underlying Warminist assumption. Because failing to consider the lack of hard evidence for the theory of AGW is the biggest flaw in this report.Remember that Garnaut is not even a scientist and that despite claims to the contrary from economists that economics is not a science,
Thanks, Iain. You just managed to summarise most of those criticisms I was talking about in my second paragraph.
Good job being a parody of yourself, Ian Hall. I see you are getting quite a reputation.