A Dog Named Kyoto: Alarmism

Alarmism has long been a favourite method of the global warming
climate change crowd. It has been used with great success to get the
public to take notice of their message of human induced planetary
warming. It's a lesson that has not been lost on others.

Milton Friedman Quote

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Column - PM cuts truly, madly, deeply | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

To say this is a farce—a giant re-staging of the Emperor’s New Clothes—is to speak no more than the cool truth. But facts are dead in this debate, and the mad run unchecked.

From the screams of the Greens, for instance, you’d think Rudd on Monday had announced he’d do a Dubai and refrigerate our beaches. Or had declared, as India did last week, that he actually had no intention of cutting gases and hurting the economy.

Instead, he’d just vowed to build a giant bureaucratic machine that will tax the economy at least $11.5 billion a year, and reach into every home and workplace to cut our emissions by 5 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020.

The green gospel | The Australian

This has not been the fourth estate's finest hour. It has exposed much of the mainstream media as naive, prone to hyberbole on environmental issues, ideologically blinkered and lacking logic and analysis skills. Many of the culprits would pride themselves on being sophisticated sceptics in other areas of life, yet without question preach the scorched-earth gospel and hang on the prophecies of Greens leader Bob Brown. Fewer than one in 10 Australians vote Greens, yet that party's claims have become accepted wisdom for many journalists.
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Those whose job it is to inform the public need to learn the difference between fact and propaganda.