Andrew Bolt: Adam Bandt’s anger a big problem The Greens’ radical new leader Adam Bandt wasted no time wrongly accusing Scott Morrison of causing the recent bushfires. That’s exactly we can expect from an angry, nasty man whose business model aims to sell “fury” to the stupid, writes Andrew Bolt.
That’s a big problem for us all, because this former (?) Marxist now leads a party that shares the balance of power in our Senate.
I said Bandt is angry. That’s ugly enough, but he wants everyone else to be angry, too.
Two weeks ago he tweeted: “Scott Morrison is a threat to life. We must rise up against this terrible gov’t with a fury that matches the intensity of these terrible fires.”
I said he’s nasty. Blaming Prime Minister Morrison personally for the fires proves it: “(Morrison’s) love of coal has contributed to these fires.”
On Tuesday he even claimed Morrison had a climate plan to kill us: “Scott Morrison’s plan is for at least three times as much pain, three times as much suffering and three times as many deaths at least.”
And I said Bandt was stupid. Well, blaming Morrison for some of the bushfires proves that, too.
He’s stupid to likewise blame businesses and to threaten coal, oil and gas companies particularly: “Big business, that makes its money by killing people and endangering people’s safety, should be worried …
“If you’re a coal company or a gas company or an oil company then our message to you is very simple … Your business model is predicated on threatening human life and they have to go.”
Let me demonstrate this stupidity of this hate preacher.
Morrison is plainly not responsible for the fires. For a start, these fires, our sixth most deadly in 100 years, were not caused by global warming, despite Bandt’s claims.
Even warmist scientist Andy Pitman admits global warming does not cause drought directly. In fact, our rainfall over the past century has risen, and the area burnt by fire has fallen by a third over 20 years.
No, this year’s fires were among our worst because we’d left too much fuel in our bush. That fuel, along with the rest of the bush, was then dried out by the Indian Ocean Dipole, a change in ocean patterns, that caused a severe lack of rain until it switched a few weeks ago.
But even if Bandt was magically right and global warming did cause the fires, Morrison could do nothing to stop it.
Even if he banned every car, plane, factory and coal-fired power station, Morrison still could not change the world’s climate. Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, another warmist, admitted the difference we’d make was “virtually nothing” because we’re just too small.
So Bandt is a fool to blame global warming and a bigger one to say Morrison could have stopped it. He’s an even bigger fool for suggesting we’d have no more such bushfires if we could just stop the world from getting warmer.
And where does Bandt’s anger, nastiness and stupidity get us?
Take his claim that coal, oil and gas companies make their money “by killing people” and must be shut.
Wrong again. In fact, coal companies make their money by digging up the stuff that keeps our lights on and our factories working.
Oil companies actually make their money by selling us petrol for our cars, so we can drive where we want at a price we can afford.
Gas companies make their money by selling us heating for our homes and fuel for our electricity.
To claim their business model “is predicated on threatening human life” is a complete inversion of the truth. Their business model is based on improving our lives, which is precisely why millions of Australians buy or use what they sell.
If the Greens did get those companies banned, our lives would not be better but a lot worse.
Electricity would become more expensive and rare. Just look at last week’s blackouts in Victoria to see our green future.
Your petrol cars would also have to be replaced with more expensive and shorter-range electric ones.
About 50,000 people in the coal industry would lose their jobs. Australia would lose $50 billion a year in exports.
And the planet? It would not even know the difference. What slight warming we’ve seen would keep going — a warming that’s in fact given us a greener planet and fewer cyclones.
No one at all would have gained from our tremendous pain.
But what are such facts to Adam Bandt? His business model is to just sell “fury” to the stupid.