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He came, he smeared, he sounded bonkers.
Clearly rattled by mounting doubts about manmade global warming, Kevin Rudd yesterday launched an extraordinary attack on those who demand rationale with their public policy. PDF here.
Resorting to the odious “deniers” slur, Rudd claimed sceptics were “too dangerous to be ignored”. They were ”well resourced and well represented by political conservatives in many, many countries,” he said in a speech to the Lowy Institute.
In a typical Rudd “I’m tough . . . aren’t I, aren’t I?” whine that the ABC said lasted 40 minutes, the beloved leader attempted to slow a momentum of doubt built by sceptics in the absence of proof of catastrophic manmade global warming. His attempt was most unconvincing.
Oh, he threw around enough rising sea level-type horror predictions to give nightmares to brainwashed school kiddies, doctors’ airheads and smelly old hippies. But nothing doubters haven’t heard before . . . repeatedly.
Storm surges and rising sea levels would put at risk more than 700,000 homes and businesses around our coastlines, warned this recent purchaser of a multi-million dollar beachside property. This claim took just one day (see further down) to be thoroughly discredited.
And devastating climate change would cause Australia’s GNP to drop by nearly 2.5 per cent through the course of this century through damage to our infrastructure alone. Er, that would be the climate change that regularly brings road-wrecking cyclones to northern parts.
But nowhere in his diatribe of disaster did Rudd address the two most-asked questions to arise whenever rational minds turn to the manmade global warming theory: That is, if world carbon emissions have increased significantly in the past decade — as they have — then why have global temperatures kept cooling? And how exactly can manmade global warming be countered by annually stuffing $7billion of Australian taxpayers’ money into the pockets of third world thugs and tyrants?
Never mind that though, we have bogeymen here to slime: the dreaded deniers.
“And the danger they pose is this: by collapsing political momentum towards national and global action on climate change, they collapse global political will to act at all.
“They are the stick that gets stuck in the wheel, that despite its size may yet bring the train to a complete stop.”

In the interests of international sanity and honesty, all that can be said is: I bloody well hope so.

No reply yet from my local Fed MP on the Copenhagen extortion plot, but after reading the blogs I suspect that government MPs have been flooded with “please explains” from their ever-growing constituency of doubters. No doubt the size and potential power of that groundswell has been reported to ALP headquarters, much to the amusement, I’m sure, of Labor sceptics like Craig Emerson and the Fergusons; hence Rudd’s pathetic caterwauling of catastrophe yesterday.

Of course, Rudd might like to reflect that doubts would not rise so dramatically if governments and their agencies stopped lying and gagging about climate change and means of dealing with it.

UPDATE:
Rudd’s hysterical rant cops the derision it deserves: