Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s ‘action’ on climate change is a con

No “action” Australia could take will make the slightest measurable difference to our temperatures, let alone to koalas or the Reef.

ANTHONY Albanese on Sunday proved – again – that you can absolutely trust a politician to lie about global warming.

The Labor leader attacked the Morrison government’s new promise to spend $50 million on saving koalas, particularly by saving their habitats.

“Guess what,” Albanese sneered. “You need to take action on climate change if you’re going to save koalas. You need to take action on climate change if you are going to protect the Great Barrier Reef.”

And not one journalist called him out for selling a fake cure to a fake crisis, using fake evidence.

Let me repeat: truth is dead, and journalists supposedly in the truth business have helped to murder it.

Let me count Albanese’s untruths.

Some koala populations are in trouble not because of global warming but land clearing and population sprawl. As our own town got busier, koalas stopped dropping in on our garden.

What’s more, global warming is more likely to help koalas than hurt. It’s already helped to green the planet, meaning more koala food.

Forget claims that we’re getting more koala-frying bushfires. Data from Professor Bjorn Lomborg shows fires burned 10 per cent of Australia on average every year last century, but just 6 per cent this century. See how wet the bush is this summer?

Anthony Albanese attacked the Morrison government’s new promise to spend $50 million on saving koalas. Picture: Getty Images

Nor has global warming devastated the Reef, as news service AAP found last week when it tried to discredit Professor Peter Ridd, a leading sceptic of all those Reef scares.

Oops. AAP had to admit that the latest evidence actually shows “coral cover reached near-historical highs in the reef’s three major regions”

In fact, taken together, coral cover is probably the highest in recorded history, despite all those hysterical headlines you’ve read for decades about a “dying” Reef.

But even if koalas and the Reef were threatened, Albanese’s solution – “take action on climate change” – is a con.

In fact, Morrison is already taking “action”, spending billions with all the predictably useless results. That’s because no “action” Australia could take will make the slightest measurable difference to our temperatures, let alone to koalas or the Reef. We’re just too small.

If you doubt that, just ask Albanese how much Labor’s own policies will cut the temperature. How many more koalas they’ll save. How much more coral they’ll give. He won’t answer straight because he’d have to say “none”, “none” and “none”.

And guess what? That’s why most journalists never ask. They don’t want that truth, either.