Andrew Bolt: Politicians’ careers depend on spruiking global warming fears
The careers of warmist politicians depend on terrifying the public with climate change falsehoods rather than reassuring us with the truth. The claims that we’re getting more intense cyclones are unscientific and bogus.
Here comes more proof that warmist politicians would rather terrify you with falsehoods than reassure you with the truth.
Roger Pielke Jr is one of the world’s top authorities on hurricane damage. He was professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and runs an influential Substack site devoted to climate change.
He’s now updated his research on the accumulated energy of cyclones, and it again shows that claims from warmist politicians that we’re getting more cyclones or more intense ones are false. Unscientific. Bogus.
I’m talking about claims like this from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese back in March, beating up climate hysteria about Severe Tropical Storm Trevor, too weak to be called a cyclone: “The science tells us that there would be more frequent weather events, they would be more frequent, and they’d be more intense.
“You can’t say that this event is just because of climate change; what you can say is climate change is having an impact on our weather patterns.”
There it was again: one of the most repeated scares of global warming alarmists, ever since Al Gore released his deceitful documentary An Inconvenient Truth, with a poster featuring an alarming picture of a hurricane.
But as Pielke now reports, 2025 will instead end with total accumulated cyclone energy around the world below the average for the past 54 years. So is accumulated energy per cyclone. And still no sign that global warming is giving us more cyclones, or worse.
But this was already clear even before Severe Tropical Storm Trevor.
Our Bureau of Meteorology has long shown we’ve been getting fewer cyclones and fewer severe ones over the past 55 years.
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2021 conceded we had a “decreasing trend in eastern Australia since the 1800s” of tropical cyclones reaching land, and cyclone “interactions along parts of the Australian coastline are the lowest in the past 550-1500 years”.
Case closed, right? But when Sky News presenter Laura Jayes read that IPCC verdict to federal teal MP Zali Steggall, after Steggall claimed events like Trevor, then flooding Lismore, “are going to happen more frequently at a greater scale”.
Steggall’s response to being corrected was shameful: “Say that to the people of Lismore!”
Never mind the science! Climate science is the tears of people being flooded.
See? The truth about global warming makes little difference to politicians whose careers depend on you staying scared.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Politicians’ careers depend on spruiking global warming fears
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