Paul Kelly writes of middle-class climate moralism (Weekend Australian 23/2/10). I am a geologist and therefore a scientist; I am on a pension supplemented by a reverse mortgage. I am a conservative voter and might be ‘middle-class’.
My messages to the ‘middle class’ are these. Assuming that many of you are not scientists, do not trust the words of every scientist. Some say what they say because their continued salary and status depends on the support of global catastrophism.
Skeptical scientists are sacked because of their views, which is why many are self-employed or choose not to speak the real truth until they retire. You can believe that carbon dioxide is your friend, not your enemy, and is a non-polluting gas that is essential to all life on this planet.
It exists in our atmosphere in very small quantities, together with much larger quantities of water vapour, which is also a so-called ‘greenhouse gas’ that has zero negative consequences for our well-being.
Hundreds of factual data graphs from Antarctica to Iceland to Japan and to buoys in a channel in San Francisco Bay show NO global warming whatsoever for the past 50 years or more, so the push for emissions control and renewables is nothing more than a feel-good fad, albeit one which has the potential to crucify this nation economically.
If you want a grand future for your children, then do everything possible to return this country to what it once possessed – the lowest cost energy in the world, based on the blessings of fossil fuels.
Geoff Derrick
February 25, 2019
