Andrew Bolt: Only fools would believe Albanese’s crazy delusion that he can stop the rain

Anthony Albanese is pushing emissions cuts that will leave us dangerously short of electricity, without making the slightest difference to any floods.

I didn’t realise Anthony Albanese would be this fantastic as a Prime Minister. Did you know he has a plan to stop us from having another flood?

What a genius!

“We are looking at long-term solutions,” he said last week, after inspecting the flooded-out Hawkesbury-Nepean region.

“My government has changed Australia’s position on climate change from day one.”

This is marvellous news, of course, if you’re the kind of ignoramus who truly believes Australia needs less water.

And if you’re the even bigger fool who believes a word Albanese says about global warming.

Unfortunately, millions will, despite even climate alarmists such as Professor Andy Pitman trying to tell a fact-resistant ABC reporter last week the floods were “not very unusual at all” and “there isn’t any evidence that it’s climate change”.

Anthony Albanese tours flood-affected homes. Picture: Getty Images

Indeed. In fact, 15 years ago we were told global warming would give us not too much rain but too little.

“Even the rains that fall will not actually fill our dams and our river systems,” claimed Tim Flannery, made our chief climate commissioner by the Gillard Labor government.

Back then, Penny Wong, Labor’s climate change minister, was also insisting global warming meant droughts, not these soggy soils. “By 2050 … Australia should expect about a 25 per cent reduction in rainfall in the southern part of Australia,” she warned.

But now Wong is part of an Albanese government that warns of floods instead, and promises a totally useless plan to stop them by cutting emissions.

The obvious conclusion, of course, is Albanese doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about, and is pushing emissions cuts that will leave us as dangerously short of electricity as green-mad Britain and Germany, without making the slightest difference to any floods.

Yet some people will believe Albanese really can change the climate and stop the floods.

To them, then, there’s this question: how much less dam-filling rain do you want?

See, what most devastates our cities and farmers is not flooding but drought. Cities that flood can at least build better dams and levees. Cities without water are doomed.

So let’s at least have a debate before Albanese twiddles his imaginary thermostat.

Do we really want less rain and more drought? And if Albanese really can change our temperature, exactly what should it be?

I know, it’s all fantasy thinking. So it’s a shocking thing that we have a prime minister who has this crazy delusion that he can stop the rain.