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
Guardian, 26
February 2019:
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 took issue with
the characterisation of climate change in the textbook Pearson
History New South Wales.
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.”
The Australian Bureau of
Meterology says “one of
the greatest impacts of climate variability and climate change occurs through
changes in the frequency and severity of extreme events.”
It describes the 2011
Brisbane floods as the
second-highest flood level of the last 100 years, after January 1974.
The bureau and CSIRO’s
latest State of the Climate report said Australia
was experiencing more extreme heat, longer fire seasons, rising oceans and more
marine heatwaves, consistent with a changing climate.......
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