{"id":1799,"date":"2020-04-01T05:40:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2020-04-01T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:40:23","slug":"how-coronavirus-killed-its-greatest-competitor-and-showed-us-a-real-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1799","title":{"rendered":"How coronavirus killed its greatest competitor, and showed us a real crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/opinion\/andrew-bolt\/how-coronavirus-killed-its-greatest-competitor-and-showed-us-a-real-crisis\/news-story\/c9ed76f7ed8b2f5eb563bc65fc7cbd04<\/a><\/p>\n

The coronavirus has sure left one issue for dead \u2014 global warming. After once dominating the headlines, climate change has been overtaken by COVID-19 \u2014 which shows us what a real crisis looks like compared to a fake one, writes Andrew Bolt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The coronavirus has sure killed one thing \u2014 the great global warming scare. Global warming is for now dead as an issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This virus shows us what a real crisis looks like, compared to a fake one.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no proof that global warming has killed anyone \u2013 indeed, food crops have got bigger \u2014 but the coronavirus has killed 14,000 people already.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the warming scare helped leave us lethally exposed to this virus and worse ones to come.<\/p>\n

Five years ago Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose foundation has donated $170 million to the coronavirus fight, warned that the world was not prepared for exactly such a pandemic.<\/p>\n

He said the world had to fund a standing army of virus fighters, more hospitals in the Third World, intensive research and international war-gaming of virus outbreaks.<\/p>\n

But that world \u2014 or at least its internationalist class \u2014 instead wasted trillions of dollars in a so-far-futile attempt to stop a slight warming that seems, if anything, to have been beneficial and may be largely natural. That misdirection of cash has been almost criminal.<\/p>\n

The United Nations even drummed up donations \u2014 including from Australia \u2014 for its $US100 billion Green Climate Fund, but next to nothing for virus research and response.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate change is one of the defining issues of our time,\u201d declared Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, boss of the UN\u2019s World Health Organisation, last September.<\/p>\n

And when the real issue \u2014 this virus \u2014 then roared out of China, this same fool attacked the travel bans slapped on China by the United States and Australia, saying they could \u201chave the effect of increasing fear and stigma, with little public health benefit\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Ghebreyesus isn\u2019t the only warmist who should now wake up.<\/p>\n

Put the deaths to one side. The rest of this catastrophe is what they were pushing on us.<\/p>\n

Warming goddess Greta Thunberg urged us to fight global warming by stopping air travel. Done: airlines are grounding thousands of planes.<\/p>\n

The warmist Worldwatch Institute demanded we stop the \u201coverconsumption\u201d that was \u201cundermining the natural systems\u201d. Done: millions of people are losing their jobs and stopping their \u201coverconsuming\u201d.<\/p>\n

Greenfleet insisted we reduce our \u201ctravel miles\u201d. Done: all the people in lockdowns around the world are going nowhere.<\/p>\n

Like what you now see?<\/p>\n

Global warming. It\u2019s one more victim of this virus \u2014 and the least missed.<\/p>\n

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