Sunday, April 01, 2007
NOTE ON THE DOOR
Andrew Bolt reader Alan reports:
During Earth Hour last night we drove 40km across Sydney to a party.
I saw no evidence of anybody turning their lights out. Houses were ablaze, shopping centres all lights blazing, restaurants, servos - all brightly-lit business as usual.
At the party the subject moved to ‘earth hour’ and GW generally. Even Al Gore and Nic Stern. Melting glaciers and drowning polar bears copped a mention. Surprisingly, dare I say, switched on bunch at this party.
The consensus, and I mean consensus, with no dissenting voice, was one of anger at the GW con job mixed with guffawing at the stupidity of the Gores and Flannerys of the world.
Pathetic ratings for Ten’s Cool Aid fiasco and the Climate Change Coalition’s tiny State election vote might also point to a growing trend towards mockery and dismissal of globey warming hysterics. Which would be bad news for Kevin Rudd, who is banking on fear of warmening to win the next election:
Labor is treating climate change as a near religious issue while the government is working to reduce its effects by practical measures, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.
"We are about substance, we’re about real achievement, practical achievement, things that work,” Mr Turnbull told Network Ten today.
Conversely, Labor is looking at climate change in a religious sense, he said.
"For Labor it’s a religious issue,” Mr Turnbull said.
"Labor is verging on becoming fanatical about this issue in the sense that they do not care how poor we have to become as long as we become pure.”
Meanwhile Greenists become ever more puritanical. Here’s another Earth Hour-related Bolt reader comment:
We went to the Swans v. Eagles game (Swans lost by 1 point again!) and left the lights on at home in protest. Came home to find a note on the door from our green neighbours ...