Politicized Scientists
For many millennia in Australian history, the nation was occupied entirely by native aboriginal peoples. The country’s first use and benefit for white settlers was that of a penal colony by Britain. This activity occurred through the 1780s, then early into the next century, the nation evolved from being exclusively a penal colony to a full-fledged civil society.
From these meager beginnings, Australia has become the Southern Hemisphere’s most prosperous country with a GDP per capita of US$67,464. It is 5th in the world on the Human Development Index – a statistic composing life expectancy, education, per capita income, and other factors in human wellbeing.
Australia’s relatively under-sized population of slightly over 26 million has not stopped the nation from bringing forth worldwide notoriety. The country is always a strong contender in the Summer Olympics, the world of music, film, and golf as well as medications and mining.
While many people debate who is the world’s greatest female singer, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, or even my Canadian hometown’s Shania Twain, my vote goes to the late Judith Durham, who was the lead singer for the Australian pop group “The Seekers”. The melodic, but sometimes difficult to render into more traditional English, is the Australian song, “Waltzing Matilda”.
Australia has had its ups and downs with anthropogenic climate change in both advocacy and skepticism. As with every country, the battle is predominantly political with progressive parties promoting the theory with conservatives endeavoring to set it back as a hoax.
In the linked story about climate activities in Australia, American professor Michael Mann, much discredited for his manufacture and falsification of the hockey stick temperature graph does battle with Senator Gerard Rennick who represents the state of Queensland. While Mann makes it sound, quite arrogantly, that he taught Rennick a lesson, from this story, it would seem that Mann was unable to respond ‘climactically’ to the questions posed by Rennick.
Naturally, as with all advocate climate stories on Australia, the bushfires of 2020 needed to enter the fray. This of course I studied and wrote about many times. As with California, radical environmentalism was the cause. These fanatics wanted the forests to remain unlogged, uncultivated, wild, and unkempt. This along with arson proved, over and over, to be the culprit of the fires. Floods often follow when there is no vegetation to stop flows.
Advocate and activist scientists constantly headline congressional or parliamentary testimonials when progressive parties are in power. Questions leading to advocacy become the norm. These are then broadcast by the disseminators of disaster and devastation as accurate information on human-induced climate change. Despite, no catastrophes, or even worsening weather occurring, the stories of pending terror simply become more often and more dreadful.
In turn, testifying scientists obtain more and more research funding.
When presented with contradictory evidence, the climate advocate presses, protestors politicians, and promotors simply stick their index fingers into their ears canals and loudly squawk, “lalalalalalaalalalalala”
