Andrew Bolt: Labor lies to justify its disastrous global warming policies

No wonder farmers have turned on Anthony Albanese. When a government is so dictatorial and so in the grip of lies, who doesn’t feel angry and frightened?

No wonder farmers in Ballarat chased Anthony Albanese out of town on Friday on their tractors, in the angriest scenes in the revolt against net zero.

“I won’t bullshit people,” the Prime Minister had told them at the Herald Sun Bush Summit.

But in his next breath he gave them more bullshit: “The cheapest form of energy is renewables.”

That sparked furious catcalls, because evidence around the world confirms the more wind and solar power a country has, the more electricity prices tend to rise.

Anthony Albanese was chased out of Ballarat by angry farmers. Picture: Mark Stewart

Check your own bills.

So Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan were booed mercilessly.

Allan was even blocked from leaving.

I don’t condone that bullying, but look how Labor lies to justify its disastrous global warming policies, and the $12,000 fines Victorian farmers now face if they stop officials storming on to their land to decide where all the new powerlines for useless wind farms will go.

When a government is so dictatorial and so in the grip of lies, who doesn’t feel angry and frightened?

Powerless?

Albanese and Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan were booed mercilessly. Picture: Mark Stewart

For me, Albanese’s blindness was best proved when he told the farmers this, to more boos: “The science (of global warming) was real and we’re seeing what the science told us would happen.”

Shame on Albanese, who must have known this was more bull.

On Saturday, the Australian Financial Review, a Nine newspaper, ran this headline: “Sydney sets rain record, and climate change means it will only get wetter.”

Yet in 2008, another Nine newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald, ran a headline predicting the opposite: “This drought may never break.”

It quoted the Bureau of Meteorology saying drought could be the new normal for Australia’s southeast: “Perhaps we should call it our new climate.”

Notorious climate alarmist Tim Flannery agreed: “There’s only two years’ water supply in (Sydney’s) Warragamba Dam … If the computer models are right then drought conditions will become permanent in eastern Australia.”

Albanese was booed when he said ‘the science (of global warming) was real and we’re seeing what the science told us would happen’. Picture: Mark Stewart

Flannery ran many other fake climate scares – “the rain that falls will not actually fill our dams” – and was rewarded in 2011 by being appointed Australia’s first Climate Commissioner.

Appointed by the Gillard Labor government, in which Albanese was a senior minister.

Has Albanese really forgotten how Labor’s own Climate Commissioner was so wrong?

And, oops: if global warming actually means more rain, isn’t that … er … good?

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Labor lies to justify its disastrous global warming policies