Andrew Bolt: Labor using fake science to justify sending hundreds of millions

Labor is using fake science to justify sending hundreds of millions – potentially billions – to fix what our emissions never broke.

Here’s an example of a truth the Liberals don’t dare speak, terrified of not seeming woke enough. And you will pay.

Last week the Albanese government’s Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, boasted he’d signed up Australia to negotiations for a new United Nations climate fund to pay poor countries for the alleged damage rich countries like ours were causing with our emissions.

How much would this cost us? Bowen couldn’t yet say.

So I’ve done some maths to work out ballpark figures of what activists would demand.

I started with a report, prepared for a UN body and the hosts of last week’s UN climate summit, which declared: “The world needs … a new road map on climate finance that can mobilise the $1 trillion per year in external finance that will be needed by 2030 for emerging markets and developing countries.”

So what would our share be?

Well, Australia emits 1.2 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases, so it would fair to assume we’ll be asked to pay at least 1.2 per cent of the bill for the alleged damage – or $US12bn a year.

Chris Bowen boasted he’d signed up to pay poor countries for the alleged damage caused by Australia’s emissions. Picture: Gary Ramage

Even crazier, Pat Conroy, Minister for the Pacific, told a whopper to parliament last Thursday to argue why Australia should cough up more cash.

Pacific Islands were bearing “the brunt of climate change”, he claimed. Tarawa, the main island of Kiribati, “will lose 50 per cent of its land mass by 2100”.

That fake scare again? Kiribati is not drowning. A paper from France’s University of La Rochelle in 2015 said the South Tarawa Atoll had instead “increased in size”, and the author declared: “There is presently no evidence that these islands are going to sink.”

Even Anatole Tong, a former president of Kiribati and a global warming crusader, admitted: “I’ve always been very frank and honest to say I don’t see the sea level rising.”

And last year the warmist ABC finally admitted the truth, too: “Scientists at the University of Auckland found atolls in the Pacific nations of Marshall Islands and Kiribati, as well as the Maldives archipelago in the Indian Ocean, have grown up to 8 per cent in size over the past six decades.”

Is Pat Conroy ignorant or lying?

But look at the Liberals. Not one dared to call him out and risk being called a “climate denier”, even as Labor uses fake science to justify sending hundreds of millions – potentially billions – to fix what our emissions never broke.