Andrew Bolt:

Well, that was embarrassing. Cyclone Alfred sure let down the Prime Minister and the other climate catastrophists trying to turn weather into politics.

The warmist Sydney Morning Herald summed up this slavering with this headline: “‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election.”

Oh, how funny.

See, just hours after Anthony Albanese linked Alfred to global warming and postponed calling the election because of this “tropical cyclone crossing over and hitting land where over four million Australians live”, Alf decided to … disappear.

Before it even hit the mainland, Cyclone Alfred became ex-Cyclone Alfred instead – not a Category 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 cyclone, but just a tropical low. Very blowy, very rainy, but no cyclone.

So, yes, let’s make this an election issue, Prime Minister.

Let’s discuss how politicians beat up global warming scares and use climate “emergencies” to belt voters and businesses – Covid style – to show their strength and concern.

For a week, Albanese and the Queensland and NSW premiers hogged TV cameras to issue grim warnings of the hell to come when Alfred, then over the Pacific, eventually hit our eastern coast.

The media, hooked on disaster porn and climate scares, joined in and combined the two.

The Guardian Australia gasped: “Is climate change supercharging Tropical Cyclone Alfred as it powers towards Australia?”

The SMH whimpered: “Why cyclones are growing deadlier and heading our way.”

By Wednesday evening we’d already hit peak panic, as Alfred itself peaked as a Category 2 cyclone (the worst is Category 5).

Alfred was still more than two days from hitting land, but schools were closed, public transport shut and people warned to take shelter.

Now, I get it. Notice was needed, the warnings helped people to protect themselves, and the cyclone dawdled unexpectedly, but that seems an excessive period of economic disruption.

Then warmist politicians exploited the growing panic to promote their global warming religion and scare up more votes.

Adam Bandt, unprincipled leader of the vulturous Greens, was naturally the worst, tweeting a political advertisement as the winds picked up: “To prevent these disasters getting worse, we need to take strong climate action. That means no new coal and gas.

“This election the Greens will keep Dutton out and get Labor to act on climate.”

Is the man a liar or just a moron? Australia banning new coal mines and gas wells would make about zero difference to our climate – we’re too small – but would very much hurt poorer Australians especially as we run out of cheap power and money from exports.

Scumbag politics, but for sheer stupidity, Victoria’s vacuous Premier, Jacinta Allan, took the prize.

Get her nonsense from last Tuesday: “In Queensland we are seeing repeat extreme weather patterns that we’ve not seen the likes of which, now massive floods and storms and fires all happening almost simultaneously.

“Now the way to address those challenges is not to go down an ideological pathway which Peter Dutton and the Liberal Party want to do, a nuclear pathway, for goodness sake!”

Could someone tell this clueless premier of a busted state that nuclear power actually generates zero emissions? Unlike her wind and solar, it’s green power than actually works. All the time.

And then came the PM, also exploiting Alfred to preach global warming, although without quite the crass politicking.

“You can’t say this event is just because of climate change,” Albanese declared.

“What you can say is that climate change is having an impact on our weather patterns.”

But then Alfred, as if it had been waiting for the cue to make a fool of Albanese, instantly quit being a cyclone.

Even so, these fearmongers who’d linked Alfred to the supposed horrors of global warming had already exposed themselves as scientifically illiterate. And I include Teal MP Zali Steggall.

Fact: global warming actually means fewer cyclones, not more.

Even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admits Australia has had “fewer tropical cyclones since 1982” and “most (climate) models project fewer cyclones” to come if the world keeps warming.

A paper published in the journal Nature even concluded Australia’s “present low levels of storm activity on the mid west and northeast coasts of Australia are unprecedented over the past 550 to 1500 years”.

If global warming actually means fewer cyclones, then what were these politicians babbling about last week?

And why is Albanese promising to spend tens of billions of dollars to stop a warming that saves us from cyclones?

That would be because he is a knobhead Mr Bolt. As for Jacinta Allan, FMD. Worse than Andrews, which takes quite an effort to do.

dover0beach

 March 10, 2025 12:57 am

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Which was the point I was making the other day.
There will be no “pop-up” armaments factories available to meet their needs if they want to take on Pukin.
Orange Hitler holds the cards.