Andrew Bolt: Workers seeing through Labor’s global warming scare

How many more times must Labor be smashed in an election before it realises workers see through its global warming scare?

Labor has been smashed again in an election about coal mining. Will it finally give up trying to hurt workers with the global warming cult of the elites?

On Saturday, NSW Labor lost the Upper Hunter by-election, getting just 22 per cent of the primary vote.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, twice sacked by his own party for global warming extremism, backed anti-coal mines independent Kirsty O’Connell. The Greens also ran hard against coal.

This was also an election held the day after the media promoted another school strike at which, the ABC burbled, “throngs of protesters in Sydney braved the rain … pleading for urgent action on climate change”.

Yet O’Connell came fifth, behind even One Nation. The Greens sixth.

True, NSW Labor tried to con locals in this coalmining area it wasn’t really against coal, despite its policy calling for “as close as possible to 100 per cent of our energy from renewable sources by 2050”.

It picked a “proud coal miner” as its candidate, but the hoax collapsed when federal Labor last week attacked the Morrison government for simply announcing it would build a gas-fired power station in the Hunter Valley.

How many more times must Labor be smacked before it realises workers see through its global warming scare?

Labor lost the 2019 election after leader Bill Shorten refused to rule out shutting Queensland’s Adani coal project.

It lost the 2013 federal election after prime minister Julia Gillard broke her promise “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”.

It lost the 2019 election after leader Bill Shorten refused to rule out shutting Queensland’s Adani coal project.

NSW Labor lost what it called the “climate election”, in 2019.

Clearly, few workers buy Labor’s lie that we face an “existential threat” and cutting our (tiny) emissions will save us.

Australians made big sacrifices to save themselves from the coronavirus, but they won’t make big sacrifices — higher electricity prices, no more cheap petrol cars — to “save the planet” from a doom none can see.

The world’s temperature, as measured by satellites, is actually now below the long-term average at the end of last century. We have fewer cyclones. Our last wheat crop was our biggest.

Last week’s school strikers had to march in the rain, not in the predicted “permanent drought”, and Sydney’s Warragamba Dam is today 96 per cent full.

The climate is mocking Labor’s warming alarmists. So are voters.