Andrew Bolt: Adam Bandt plays the fool in Press Club address

Greens leader Adam Bandt incited green extremists with a battle-cry — “we’re at war” — that will make even more feel entitled to block our roads, scream abuse and shut down businesses.

I have to call Greens leader Adam Bandt a fool.

Otherwise, I’d have to call him a liar, and a liar is more dangerous.

If Bandt is a fool, we can at least hope he’ll one day come to his senses, because his speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday was not just bonkers but a threat.

Bandt incited our already militant green extremists with a battle-cry — “We’re at war” — that will make even more feel entitled to block our roads, scream abuse and shut down businesses.

We’re at war with the climate, Bandt claimed, and with the wicked Australians allegedly making it deadly.

Take Labor and the Liberals, who were backing 114 new coal and gas projects.

“If these projects go ahead, we will be locking in decades of damage to our country … we will cook, we will be washed away, we will starve and we will die.”

Bandt’s bonkers speech will embolden green extremists. Picture: AAP

This is so plainly false, so obviously stupid, that it frightened me when not a single journalist at his speech challenged his wicked nonsense.

I say wicked, because such scare talk has made some greens so convinced the world is burning that they’ve decided not to have children.

Meanwhile, brainwashed children walk out of schools to strike “for the climate” and weep in front of TV cameras as they tell of their fear of frying.

Do I really need to explain why Bandt’s claims are the ultimate fake news?

Not one reputable climate scientist — even the most alarmist — says Australia’s emissions make a measurable difference to the climate.

As former chief scientist Alan Finkel, himself a warmist, admitted, we could scrap every mine, business, car and power station in the country and the effect on the climate would still be “virtually nothing”.

Second, global warming seems so far to have done far more good than harm.

For one, the risk that we will “starve” has never been lower.

Australia has just recorded its biggest grain crop in history, as did the world.

What’s more, data collated by Professor Bjorn Lomborg confirms that our risk of dying in climate disasters has plummeted over the past century.

Britain’s Office of National Statistics even calculated this year that global warming had saved 500,000 lives this century in Britain alone, because cold is deadlier than heat and fewer people were dying in winter.

These are facts, and I’d hope that even a fool would one day let facts change his mind. But a liar, of course, never would.