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Australian PM, Kevin Rudd, airs his views on climate sceptics,
The opponents of action on climate change fall into one of three categories.
• First, the climate science deniers.
• Second, those that pay lip service to the science and the need to act on climate change but oppose every practicable mechanism being proposed to bring about that action.
• Third, those in each country that believe their country should wait for others to act first.Together, these groups, alive in every major country including Australia,constitute a powerful global force for inaction, and they are particularly entrenched in a range of conservative parties around the world.
As we approach Copenhagen, these three groups of climate skeptics are quite literally holding the world to ransom, provoking fear campaigns in every country they can, blocking or delaying domestic legislation in every country they can, with the objective of slowing and if possible destroying the momentum towards a global deal on climate change.
As we approach the Copenhagen conference these groups of climate change deniers face a moment of truth, and the truth is this: we will need to work much harder to reach an agreement in Copenhagen because these advocates of inaction are holding back domestic commitments, and are in turn holding back global commitments on climate change.
It is time to be totally blunt about the agenda of the climate change skeptics in all their colours some more sophisticated than others.
I am surprised to hear that, in my small role as a so-called “climate-change denier” of the first kind, I am part of an international conspiracy.
Aren’t the fundamentally undemocratic institutions such as the EU, and those proposed by the eco-zealots much better described as a ‘powerful force for inaction’?
They are the ones attempting to close down industry, to make you travel less, and to make you use less energy.
They are the ones making the laws outside of the normal democratic process.
They are the ones depriving you of your right to have your say about what laws and regulations you ought to be subject to.
Rudd continues:
Climate change skeptics in all their guises and disguises are not conservatives. They are radicals.
They are reckless gamblers who are betting all our futures on their arrogant assumption that their intuitions should triumph over the evidence.
The logic of these skeptics belongs in a casino, not a science lab, and not in the ranks of any responsible government.
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No responsible government confronted with the evidence delivered by the 4,000 scientists associated with the international panel could then in conscience choose not to act. In any public company, it would represent a gross contempt of the most basic fiduciary duty.
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My message to the climate change skeptics, to the big betters and the big risk takers is this: You are betting our children's future and the future of our grandchildren. You are betting our jobs, our houses, our farms, our reefs, our economy and our future on an intuition on a gut feeling; on a political prejudice you have about science.
Speaking of gambling, I will see Rudd’s “betting all our futures on their arrogant assumption”, and raise it to “pseudo science should triumph over democracy”.
Let us see each of the “4,000” scientists at the IPCC get behind Rudd, and his statement before he makes claims on their behalf. There aren’t even 4,000 scientists who contribute to the IPCC process, as I discussed in previous post.
Rudd is bluffing. And the stakes are high. Like Brown, Rudd no more knows what the scientists say than he knows or cares about what the public want. The cards they are playing with are weak. But their desire to win this game and to secure their political ambitions is not limited. They pretend it’s about saving the planet, but the truth is this is about robbing you of your freedom, and your democratic rights.
The “greener” our economy is forced to become, the less you will be able to do, and the less you will have a right to say anything about it. The likes of Brown and Rudd know that this can’t happen without an international agreement, because we’d simply vote them out. The international agreement on climate change is an attempt to monitor, regulate, and tax your every last move.
Here is our Chancellor of the Exchequer, placing his bet – your cash – at the G20 meeting.
