Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s fake fixes for a fake climate crisis

Despite Albanese’s massive spending to cut emissions, the government’s own solicitor admits it doesn’t have “the necessary control to prevent or materially mitigate climate change”.

The weirdest thing about Gregory Andrews is that he was made an Australian ambassador. Weird, because he’s now threatening to kill himself in front of Parliament House to save us from global warming.

This kind of drama queen represents our country these days? Then again, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s last climate craziness – agreeing to take in climate refugees from a Pacific island that’s actually growing – this idiocy seems a national trait and Andrews the perfect ambassador.

Gregory Andrews is on an indefinite hunger strike in front of Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

Andrews is on a hunger strike in Canberra (Monday will be day 12) until Albanese gives in to demands no sane leader could accept.

“Stop coal and gas exports, stop fossil fuel subsidies … until those demands are met I will be here every day at Parliament House and I will not eat anything,” Andrews declared on day one.

That gives him just over a month to live, unless Albanese really does promise Andrews he will ruin Australia by banning exports currently worth $200bn a year.

Andrews is on this path to an early grave because he’s deluded enough to believe, he told me, global warming is so deadly that his daughter can’t expect to live as long as, say, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher.

“My daughter is with me 110 per cent. She wants a future.”

Behold the voice of the true global warming megalomaniac. Here’s a man trying to blackmail the country into surrendering to his apocalyptic delusions, which have terrified his daughter into thinking she’ll die early, when statistically we’ve never been less likely to die from a climate disaster.

What a father: if Andrews dies, he’ll not only leave his daughter without a father but with the guilt of having encouraged his suicide mission.

But Albanese, also blinded by the warming cult, has encouraged such delusions, too.

Take his stunt last week, when he flew to the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands as the great white chief of the latest cargo cult.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Kausea. Picture: Mick Tsikas

Albanese announced he was there to help tackle global warming, which he absurdly claimed was “the single greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and wellbeing of the peoples of the Pacific”.

Pacific Islands leaders love such talk, because global warming is brilliant for guilting Western nations into handing them free cash.

And sure enough, after dancing at the formal gift-giving ceremony, Albanese announced he’d give them $350m for climate schemes, on top of the $2bn he’s promised for climate financing around the world.

But Albanese’s most farcical promise was to let up to 280 Tuvaluans a year to move to Australia because “Tuvalu is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change, especially rising sea levels”.

Pardon? In fact, the latest study, by Professor Paul Kench of Auckland University, shows Tuvalu has grown, not shrunk, and is 2.9 per cent bigger than it was 40 years ago.

Our Bureau of Meteorology also shows fewer cyclones over the past 50 years.

So how does Albanese justify bringing in Tuvaluans as climate refugees where there’s no climate catastrophe to flee?

But Albanese is playing the same ludicrous game here of fake fixes for a fake crisis. He’s spending tens of billions to carpet the country with wind and solar factories and 10,000km of transmission wires to hook them all up – but for what?

In fact, the Australian Government Solicitor has now admitted in a stunning court document that it’s all for nothing.

The AGS has filed the government’s response to a try-on claim in the Federal Court by two Torres Strait Islanders who are suing it for allegedly helping to drown their own islands and make them “climate refugees in our own country”.

These islanders want the court to force Albanese’s government to slash our emissions even harder, but the AGS has now admitted what Albanese won’t: that cutting our greenhouse gas emissions won’t actually make much difference to the climate, because we’re just too small.

As it says in a defence filed in court documents, Australia “lacks the necessary control to prevent or materially mitigate climate change or its impacts”.

Yes, “because the Respondent (Australia) contributes a very small proportion of global GHG emissions, it is not reasonably foreseeable that the Respondent’s … emissions reductions targets would cause the Applicants and Group Members (Torres Strait Islanders) harm …”

Hear that? Despite Albanese’s massive spending here to cut emissions, the government’s own solicitor admits it doesn’t actually have “the necessary control to prevent or materially mitigate climate change”.

Someone should tell starving Gregory Andrews. You’re dying for nothing.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s fake fixes for a fake climate crisis