THE CLIMATE WARS HEATING UP IN AUSTRALIA

Posted By on January 30th, 2010

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/its-el-alamain-revisited-as-climate-war-heats-up/

It’s El Alamein revisited as climate war heats up
by John Mikkelsen
30 Jan 05:45am

Our American friends remember The Alamo, we see Gallipoli and North Africa among defining moments in national pride and self-sacrifice against seemingly insurmountable odds.

These initial bloody defeats led state and nations on to ultimate victory against powerful foes.

It’s drawing a long bow to compare any of those to the political battle now being fought on global warming, but one prominent climate realist has done that, and it’s sure to grab some attention.

Federal Parliament resumes next week, an emissions trading scheme will be revisited for the third time, and a mass rally of farmers pushing for land rights in the wake of Peter Spencer’s solo “Tower of Hope” protest will converge on Canberra.

At the same time, head of the Carbon Sense Coalition, Viv Forbes, is rallying his troops with comparisons to El Alamein, the battle which proved a turning point in halting the Nazi’s World War II advance in North Africa and Europe.

Forbes, a wiry, whip-tough grazier and pastoralist, is also a qualified geologist and soil scientist who runs a stud of Sherana sheep, cattle and goats on his property at Rosevale in southeast Queensland.

He holds a mantra in common with other leading climate realists such as Professors Ian Plimer, Bob Carter and hereditary British Peer Lord Christopher Monckton, now visiting Australia on a lecture tour:

“Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a natural trace gas essential to all plant and animal life on earth”. They point to times in Earth’s history when concentrations of CO2 were much higher, plants thrived, coral reefs grew prolifically and polar bears survived. They do not believe man’s “greenhouse gas emissions” are a major driver of global warming.”

Forbes relentlessly churns out newsletters packed with controversial prose, such as his latest effort:

“Like the British Eighth Army in North Africa in the 1940’s, climate realists have been in continual retreat since the Climate War started.
“Led by Al Gore’s trained regiments using Nobel Prize gunpowder, backed by academic and government snipers using manipulated temperature data, financed by endless conveys carrying tax payer funds, reinforced by a steady barrage of scare forecasts from the media, and legislative carpet bombing from pliant politicians, the Green Army looked invincible.
“But suddenly the tide turned.
“What started with the Climategate scandals was followed by the defeat of the Ration-N-Tax Scheme in the Australian Senate and the defeat of the IPCC in Copenhagen. Then we had the IPCC fraud regarding Himalayan glaciers and the serial failures of the weather forecasts from the alarm-promoting British Met Office. Now data manipulation scandals are unfolding in USA, New Zealand and Australia.
“And finally, with the sound defeat of a key Obama Senate candidate in the US, we are seeing the end of the climate equivalent of the long Battles of El Alamein.
“We hope Churchill’s comment is apt today:
“Before Alamein we never saw a victory. After Alamein we never saw a defeat.
“We must not relax after these small victories. In Australia, the Rudd/Wong/Turnbull Axis will never surrender. Already there is talk that the Greens, supported by Turncoat Liberals may allow the Ration-N-Tax Scheme to pass in the Australian Senate.
“It is time to go on the offensive….”

Forbes tells his followers to alert people in politics, business, government, media and the unions they face a revolt of their supporters if they provide “uncritical support for the global warming agenda”.

“We must tell every politician who votes for any legislation based on the disgraced propaganda from the IPCC that he/she will be relentlessly punished in pre-selections, elections and fund raising. Let them know that we will actively work to replace them with more rational politicians and parties.

“There is a political sea change coming and those politicians and parties who do not switch in time will be swept out with the tide.”

He also has in his sights businesses relying on subsidies, market mandates or carbon taxes to profit from “artificial industries” such as carbon trading, carbon credits, wind farms, solar power, carbon sequestration or bio-fuels.
Union leaders must be warned they should expect a revolt from their members when hidden costs of the global warming agenda start hitting their jobs.

“Warn those academics and bureaucrats who produce scare forecasts on demand they will be called to account for damages they have caused.

“Protest property confiscation.

“Take the lead from people like Peter Spencer and use every weapon available against those who destroy or confiscate assets with changes in coastal zoning laws, bans on development, clearing weeds and regrowth, or sterilisation of farms and grasslands with declaration of political parks and non-development areas”.

Forbes says this battle will be international and Australia, Canada and United States are key battlegrounds.

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