We are in the midst of devastating bushfires in Australia, spanning from December 2019 to January 2020. Massive swathes of land currently suffer uncontrollable bushfires that have so far caused loss of life among firefighters, people defending their properties and others. The fires have caused havoc for locals and holiday-makers alike and there has been much loss of property. In the midst of the crisis we have Australian Greens politicians taking the opportunity to blame the bushfires on policy that does not bow to the Green agenda, specifically, climate change policy. But we need to ask a few questions before turning everything upside down to bow to these climate prophets of doom. Is our planet warming due to human industrial and commercial activity, as Greens politicians and others claim? There may be changing temperatures around the globe but some scientists are telling us that there is natural fluctuation over time. This is feasible, just as there are fluctuations of temperature on a daily basis. Planet earth and the solar system are organic, changeable, living structures with both short-term and long-term fluctuations within their broader patterns. Of course temperatures are high and we are in the midst of a drought. But as Gideon Rozner of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) said on SkyNews, if you DID believe in climate change, how much greater the need for extra-precautionary measures such as land clearing. But the land, both public and private, has not been allowed to be cleared for 10 years (bushfire evacuee interviewed on SkyNews). It is this, the non-allowing by local councils around the country of fuel-reduction through clearing of bush and ground fuel fallen from trees and scrub, that has given the bushfires the fuel to burn out of control.
The out and out lies peddled by the Greens and anyone going down the path of believing the loudest hen in the chook yard shrieking, “Help, the sky is falling in”, is illustrated in a famous (probably mostly now unknown) children’s story called, ‘The Story of Chicken Licken’.
Once upon a time there was a little chick called Chicken Licken who lived on a farmyard in the countryside. One day, Chicken Licken went to the woods. He stopped by an oak tree. Suddenly a tiny acorn dropped from the tree – wheeeeeeeeee! And hit Chicken Licken on the head – BONK!
Unfortunately, Chicken Licken didn’t see the acorn. He looked up the clear blue sky. “Oh, no!” he said “The sky is falling, I must tell the king.”
So he ran and he ran and he ran until he got to the farmyard where he met Henny Penny. “What’s the hurry?” clucked Henny Penny.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken.
“I’d better come too” clucked Henny Penny.
So Chicken Licken and Henny Penny scurried off to find the king. “What’s the hurry?” crowed Cocky Locky.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken . “I’d better come too” crowed Cocky Locky.
So Chicken Licken, Henny Penny and Cocky Locky scurried off to find the king. “What’s the hurry?” quacked Ducky Lucky and Drakey Lakey.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken. “I’d better come too” quacked Ducky Lucky and Drakey Lakey.
So Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky and Drakey Lakey scurried off to find the king. “What’s the hurry?” honked Goosey Loosey.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken.
“I’d better come too” honked Goosey Loosey.
So Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky , Ducky Lucky, Drakey Lakey and Goosey Loosey scurried off to find the king.
“What’s the hurry?” gobbled Turkey Lurkey.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken.
“I’d better come too” gobbled Turkey Lurkey.
So Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky , Ducky Lucky, Drakey Lakey, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurky scurried off to find the king.
“What’s the hurry?” snapped Foxy Loxy.
“The sky is falling and I’m off to tell the king” cried Chicken Licken.
“Follow me, my feathery friends, I can help you find the king” smiled Foxy Loxy.
So, Chicken Licken, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky, Draky Lakey, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurky followed Foxy Loxy deeper into the forest.
Foxy Loxy was just getting ready to gobble up the feathery friends when suddenly a tiny acorn dropped from the tree – wheeeeeeeeee! And hit Foxy Loxy on the head – BONK!
Luckily, Foxy Loxy didn’t see the acorn. He looked up the clear blue sky. “Oh, no!” he said “The sky is falling, I must tell the king.”
Foxy Loxy ran off and was never seen again. Everyone looked at Chicken Licken.
“Are you sure the sky fell on your head” they said. “Well, maybe it was an acorn” said Chicken Licken!
And they chased him all the way home to the farmyard.
Thanks to dandelionlearning learning
Moral of the story – it’s fairly easy for a stupid explanation of things to gain traction, but only for so long.
There are several financial beneficiaries of climate alarm hysteria – renewable energy industries, climate change researchers, poor nations of the world who receive carbon tax money from richer, more productive nations and all manner of leftists. Climate change myth is actually a grand heist – highway robbery based on myth. Rather than seeking an understanding of deeper causes of possible temperature changes on planet Earth over millennia, we let supposed experts in a field dictate to bendable politicians and the populace at large. What we need to listen to is the divergent opinion of many scientists, including those who are skeptical of the whole climate change argument. I know that ‘research’ is a fraught area, with behind-the-scenes funders who have a vested interest in the results of the research. I know this from my own scientific background in a whole other scientific area that impacts public policy. But back to climate change, this is a hornet’s nest of corruption and we can’t take on board, holus bolus, the views of the ‘consensus majority’. These are activists, enabled by academia and the media. For example, the great proponent of climate change, Professor Tim Flannery, has made false prediction after false prediction.
See this from riteon
Also see Andrew Bolt’s blog for the Herald Sun :
Professional climate alarmist Tim Flannery first became famous for his dud predictions after predicting cities such as Brisbane and Sydney were likely to run out of water very quickly because of man-made global warming. For instance, in 2007 he predicted:
So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems…
But it was another dud Flannery prediction. Back came the flooding rains, filling dams – some to overflowing.
And not only was Flannery totally wrong in his predictions of dams not filling again, there were deadly floods in Brisbane and Toowoomba, QLD, following his prediction, which probably influenced dam management policy, which was the ultimate cause of the flood. See :
Flannery has an impressive track record of being wrong. He repeatedly predicted Australia was now in permanent drought, shortly before Australia experienced so much rain, alarmists blamed the Aussie downpour for a drop in sea level. See here.
Greens have forced public opinion, including local councils around the country, to not allow bush and ground foliage clearing, causing a massive buildup of fuel for the fires once they have started, be that due to arson, lightning strikes or by other accident. The NSW politician, Fred Nile, was right when he coined the term ‘watermelons’ for greens – green on the outside but red on the inside. Every attempt by Marxists to impose their will on the people results in humanitarian disaster. Note the massive famine in China from 1959-1961 when Mao Tse Tung imposed his will on the country with his “Great Leap Forward”. See this from The Heritage Foundation :
The most inhumane example of Mao’s contempt for human life came when he ordered the collectivization of China’s agriculture under the ironic slogan, the “Great Leap Forward.” A deadly combination of lies about grain production, disastrous farming methods (profitable tea plantations, for example, were turned into rice fields), and misdistribution of food produced the worse famine in human history.
Deaths from hunger reached more than 50 percent in some Chinese villages. The total number of dead from 1959 to 1961 was between 30 million and 40 million — the population of California.
Lee Edwards, PhD
2/2/2010 Heritage Foundation
Greenism today continues to create needless disaster through restricting the building of dams. The needless shortage of water in much of the drought-stricken parts of Australia is because of green policies. Dams are not allowed to be built even though water is known to come as feast or famine. Dams, logically, allow for times of famine by catching water when it does come – which is most of the time, except for occasional times of drought. We need to listen to ALL professional opinion about so-called ‘climate change’. There are pockets of well-credentialled scientists in Australia and around the world who challenge the ‘science’ of climate change. Climate change theory is superficially plausible but questionable and is certainly not behind our current bushfire catastrophe. Land mismanagement is!
Christians care for the poor not by duping the wealthy but by presenting an honest case for giving. It is ‘giving’, not forced taxes, that produces true equity. Marxism knows only robbery and theft, which is what the monster known as ‘climate change’ is. I finish with a quote from Climate Change, The Facts 2020, edited by Dr Jennifer Marohasy, Senior Fellow at the IPA :
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Galileo
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