Andrew Bolt: Global warming a faith that hates facts

Paul Barry and the ABC would rather shame and mock those who refuse to give in to their climate cult than try to prove them wrong.

Global warming is a faith that hates facts. The ABC proved that on Monday, in one of the most disgraceful episodes yet of its Media Watch.

Host Paul Barry gloated that Murdoch newspapers like this one are now campaigning to cut Australia’s emissions to net zero, and attacked the few Murdoch columnists – like me and Terry McCrann – who still refuse to give in to his climate cult.

“They’ve also insisted global warming has nothing to do with droughts and nothing to do with bushfires, and that the Barrier Reef is not really in danger,” raged Barry.

“News Corp’s commentators have also told us it’s pointless taking action because … nothing the Australian government can do can make the slightest difference to the climate.”

What is so extraordinary is that Barry listed our factual statements but treated them as crazy, without even trying to prove them wrong.

Media Watch host Paul Barry.

It turns out that what shocks ABC is not that we told lies, but that we told the truth.

For example, former chief scientist Alan Finkel, a warmist, has himself admitted that even if Australia cut its emissions to zero, the effect on the climate would be “virtually nothing”.

We were also right to say there is no direct link between global warming and drought. Professor Andy Pitman, perhaps our top global warming scientist, once told fellow warmists: “As far as the climate scientists know, there is no link between climate change and drought.”

It is also true that the Great Barrier Reef is in little danger from warming. The latest survey by the Australian Institute of Marine Science shows around record coral cover.

I could go on, but it makes no difference. I present the science, but Barry and the ABC just jeer like deniers.

In fact, if you read comments under my articles on global warming, you’ll find almost no attempt by critics to prove me wrong. They instead abuse me or complain that I’m out of step and being left behind.

Barry on Monday did the same, sneering that “the sceptics … will be stranded shouting at the station, after the train has departed”.

That is the argument of a true collectivist – join the party, or else. It’s also the arrogance of a power-junkie who loves assuming they’re on the side of an historical inevitability.

Marxists were like that. Fascists, too, got drunk on the idea that tomorrow belonged to them. But no future built on lies can last, and that’s why Barry’s train must leave without me.