{"id":1518,"date":"2020-02-07T04:56:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2020-02-07T04:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:56:39","slug":"andrew-bolt-adam-bandts-anger-a-big-problem-the-greens-radical-new-leader-adam-bandt-wasted-no-time-wrongly-accusing-scott-morrison-of-causing-the-recent-bushfires-thats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bolt: Adam Bandt\u2019s anger a big problem  The Greens\u2019 radical new leader Adam Bandt wasted no time wrongly accusing Scott Morrison of causing the recent bushfires. That\u2019s exactly we can expect from an angry, nasty man whose business model aims to sell \u201cfury\u201d to the stupid, writes Andrew Bolt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/andrew-bolt-adam-bandts-anger-a-big-problem\/news-story\/10fe8143a1b55df52cfff9290b123fd7\">https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/andrew-bolt-adam-bandts-anger-a-big-problem\/news-story\/10fe8143a1b55df52cfff9290b123fd7<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tg-tlc-storybody_intro\">\n<div class=\"tg-tlc-storyheader_primaryasset\">\n<div class=\"atom-videoplayer vm-sticky\">\n<div class=\"vms module  vms-queued vms-player vms-ready hide-captions vms-autoplay-disabled\">\n<div class=\"videoWrapper rp-default-state-display vms-autoplay-paused\">\n<div id=\"p-5348771529001-6129437875001\" class=\"video-js vjs-paused vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 vjs-user-active bc-player-VLm6Z88Ir_default bc-player-VLm6Z88Ir_default-index-0 vjs-mouse vjs-ima3-not-playing-yet vjs-vpaid-controls-disabled vjs-ima3-html5 vjs-dock vjs-plugins-ready vjs-errors vjs-ad-controls not-hover\" lang=\"en\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"region\" data-embed=\"default\" data-account=\"5348771529001\" aria-label=\"Video Player\" data-video-id=\"6129437875001\">\n<div class=\"rp-muted-autoplay\">\n<div class=\"cta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"module-header vms-header\">\n<div class=\"rp-default-state-description\">\n<div>Newly elected Greens leader Adam Bandt acted like a \u201cbanshee\u201d and \u201chijacked\u201d what should have been a solemn day in parliament to commemorate the nation\u2019s fallen firefighting h&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"story-left-col\">\n<div class=\"next-article\">\n<div class=\"next-article-wrapper\">\n<article class=\"tg-tlc-next-article-card\">\n<p class=\"tg-tlc-next-article-card-title\">\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Adam Bandt is the Greens\u2019 most radical leader yet. After <a title=\"www.heraldsun.com.au\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\/greens-leader-adam-bandts-vicious-rant-as-politicians-mourn-bushfire-dead\/news-story\/6b507583c1440ddf4a464eee68b29a9e\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"6b507583c1440ddf4a464eee68b29a9e\" data-tgev-label=\"blogs\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">only two days in the job, it\u2019s clear he\u2019s also the angriest<\/a>, nastiest and maybe most stupid.<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"w_tlc w_tg-tlc-storybody\">\n<div class=\"tg-tlc-storybody cf\">\n<p>That\u2019s a big problem for us all, because this former (?) Marxist now leads a party that shares the balance of power in our Senate.<\/p>\n<p>I said Bandt is angry. That\u2019s ugly enough, but he wants everyone else to be angry, too.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago he tweeted: \u201cScott Morrison is a threat to life. We must rise up against this terrible gov\u2019t with a fury that matches the intensity of these terrible fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I said he\u2019s nasty. Blaming Prime Minister Morrison personally for the fires proves it: \u201c(Morrison\u2019s) love of coal has contributed to these fires.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"tge-imagecaption_img\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.newsapi.com.au\/image\/v1\/e7f35b0c1bb354f5550fcdcb2cfd531d?width=1024\" alt=\"Adam Bandt is the Greens\u2019 most radical leader yet.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\">Adam Bandt is the Greens\u2019 most radical leader yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday he even claimed Morrison had a climate plan to kill us: \u201cScott Morrison\u2019s plan is for at least three times as much pain, three times as much suffering and three times as many deaths at least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I said Bandt was stupid. Well, blaming Morrison for some of the bushfires proves that, too.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s stupid to likewise blame businesses and to threaten coal, oil and gas companies particularly: \u201cBig business, that makes its money by killing people and endangering people\u2019s safety, should be worried \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a coal company or a gas company or an oil company then our message to you is very simple \u2026 Your business model is predicated on threatening human life and they have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"w_ad w_unruly\">\n<div id=\"ad-block-4x4-1\" class=\"w_unruly ad-block ad-custom unruly_insert_native_ad_here\" data-ad-size=\"4x4\" data-ad-tar=\"pos=1\" data-ad-pos=\"1\" data-google-query-id=\"CIDwnIS-vecCFVMvtwAdYBIOTA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5129\/ndm.hwt\/news\/\/opinion\/\/andrewbolt_3__container__\">\n<div id=\"\" class=\"story-content tg-tlc-storybody\">\n<p>Let me demonstrate this stupidity of this hate preacher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Even warmist scientist <a title=\"www.heraldsun.com.au\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/andrew-bolt-the-truth-that-warmists-continue-to-dodge\/news-story\/097a81d4783b2d0bfa73d72d4d9421f9\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"097a81d4783b2d0bfa73d72d4d9421f9\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">Andy Pitman admits global warming does not cause drought directly<\/a>. In fact, our rainfall over the past century has risen, and the area burnt by fire has fallen by a third over 20 years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\">Even if Bandt was magically right and global warming did cause the fires, Morrison could do nothing to stop it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, this year\u2019s fires were among our worst because we\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n<p>But even if Bandt was magically right and global warming did cause the fires, Morrison could do nothing to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Even if he banned every car, plane, factory and coal-fired power station, Morrison still could not change the world\u2019s climate. Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, another warmist, admitted the difference we\u2019d make was \u201cvirtually nothing\u201d because we\u2019re just too small.<\/p>\n<p>So Bandt is a fool to blame global warming and a bigger one to say Morrison could have stopped it. He\u2019s an even bigger fool for suggesting we\u2019d have no more such bushfires if we could just stop the world from getting warmer.<\/p>\n<p>And where does Bandt\u2019s anger, nastiness and stupidity get us?<\/p>\n<p>Take his claim that coal, oil and gas companies make their money \u201cby killing people\u201d and must be shut.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong again. In fact, coal companies make their money by digging up the stuff that keeps our lights on and our factories working.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tge-imagecaption\"><figcaption class=\"tge-imagecaption_caption\">Bandt claims claim that coal, oil and gas companies make their money \u201cby killing people\u201d and must be shut.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gas companies make their money by selling us heating for our homes and fuel for our electricity.<\/p>\n<p>To claim their business model \u201cis predicated on threatening human life\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>If the Greens did get those companies banned, our lives would not be better but a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity would become more expensive and rare. Just look at last week\u2019s blackouts in Victoria to see our green future.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"www.heraldsun.com.au\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">MORE ANDREW BOLT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"www.heraldsun.com.au\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/blogs\/andrew-bolt\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" data-tgev-order=\"andrew-bolt\" data-tgev-label=\"blogs\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\">BLOG WITH BOLT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your petrol cars would also have to be replaced with more expensive and shorter-range electric ones.<\/p>\n<p>About 50,000 people in the coal industry would lose their jobs. Australia would lose $50 billion a year in exports.<\/p>\n<p>And the planet? It would not even know the difference. What slight warming we\u2019ve seen would keep going \u2014 a warming that\u2019s in fact given us a greener planet and fewer cyclones.<\/p>\n<p>No one at all would have gained from our tremendous pain.<\/p>\n<p>But what are such facts to Adam Bandt? His business model is to just sell \u201cfury\u201d to the stupid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/andrew-bolt-adam-bandts-anger-a-big-problem\/news-story\/10fe8143a1b55df52cfff9290b123fd7 Newly elected Greens leader Adam Bandt acted like a \u201cbanshee\u201d and \u201chijacked\u201d what should have been a solemn day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1181,1187,1182,187,150,1183,1184,894,1186,1185,1188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}