Science out of place at the ABC
TO THE ABC — which sticks doggedly to its global warming religion, substituting belief for facts — reason is dead and evidence a sin, writes Andrew Bolt.
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THE ABC on Monday made dangerously clear that facts don’t count when it’s defending its global-warming religion. Its Media Watch show was upset that I’d criticised then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull for getting it so wrong on global warming.
Turnbull falsely claimed last month that man-made warming had given us more droughts, like the one in NSW: “Everyone agrees that we’re seeing rainfall that is, if you like, more erratic, droughts that are more frequent.”
I said then that the evidence proved Turnbull wrong, even if the ABC is too dishonest to show it.
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For a start, the global warming we’ve actually seen is less than predicted under the climate models. What’s more, the Bureau of Meteorology’s data shows Australia has been getting more rain, not less, over the past 118 years. Even in NSW, the data shows no evidence of more drought.
Australia’s wheat harvests over the past 60 years confirm the story: they keep increasing, and in the past decade have three times set new records.
But Media Watch omitted all that data. It simply suggested I was wrong about droughts, without producing any real evidence why. This is the closest it got to even pretending to rely on science: “There is now widespread agreement among scientists that climate change is making Australia’s droughts more severe.”
Really? Which scientists? The ABC did not name one.
And why would it matter what some agreed to, if the data actually shows more rain, less drought and bigger crops?
The only other “evidence” Media Watch produced to persuade viewers I was wrong was two uninformed farmers and an ABC activist with a dodgy survey. It quoted the right-on National Farmers Federation president, Fiona Simson, who claimed “climate change … makes the impacts of a drought even worse”.
It also quoted some farmer the ABC had found at the Darling Downs, saying: “We need people power to start doing something.”
And, third, it produced ABC presenter Fran Kelly, a fervent warming believer, citing an unreliable survey from an activist group, the Climate Institute, which she said showed “an increasing number of voters say they believe the climate is changing”.
None of that was science. None of it was evidence I was wrong about droughts.
But that is how the ABC now defends its global-warming religion. To the ABC, reason is dead and evidence a sin.
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