There is Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook since 2007 Scott Morrison fronting the media trying to convince sceptical voters that he and his government are now fully behind the need to tackle climate change.
However also talking to media is Liberal MP for Hughes since 2010 Craig Kelly doing his level best to undermine the current round political propaganda by calling for a rewrite of both climate science and history.
His climate change denying argument is far from unique.
Sometime
around 1904 in far-off England a probably homesick second-generation Australian
called Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar
penned a six stanza poem called The Core
Of My Heart aka My Country. This poem has
been subverted by climate change deniers into a ‘proof’ that climate change is
not real and is not happening right now.
Here Mr. Kelly citing all he can remember from the second stanza………
The publisher of a NSW
year-10 history book has rejected complaints from the federal Liberal
backbencher Craig Kelly that it misrepresents facts about climate change.
Kelly has written to the
NSW education minister, Rob Stokes, saying the book’s description of Tony
Abbott as a climate change denier was “an offensive slur equating it with
Holocaust deniers”, the
Daily Telegraph reported.
The book says: “Climate
change is noticeable in Australia, with more extreme frequent weather events
such as the 2002-06
drought or the 2010-11 Queensland floods.”
“That is simply an
inaccurate statement that is in a school history book,” Kelly told
parliament’s federation
chamber last week.
“What chance do we have
of forming the best policies in this nation to deal with fire, floods and
drought if we have children being misled by incorrect information in our
history books?”
He quoted Dorothea
Mackellar’s poem My Country to argue contemporary natural disasters are nothing
out of the ordinary: “I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of
ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains,” the poem says.
“We need to understand
that we live in that same country that Dorothea Mackellar wrote about over a
hundred years ago,” Kelly said.
“That is why we need to
prepare and help people recover from their resources instead of wasting money
pretending that we can change the weather.”
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