Rudd’s example | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Kevin Rudd doesn’t just preach hot air on global warming:

The Herald Sun can reveal The Lodge and Kirribilli House emitted 272 tonnes of carbon in just nine months.

It’s about 21 times more than an average household, which emits about 14 tonnes a year.

More gibberish from Joseph Romm

Indeed, his post was followed by a lot of gibberish. This blog would have a lot more such gibberish in the comments, too, if I allowed deniers to keep repeating over and over and over again long-debunked disinformation.

I would add that different people are moved by different messages. I think Monbiot is right to “emphasise the old-fashioned virtues of uniting in the face of a crisis, of resourcefulness and community action.”

But Monbiot should not confuse the rants of the cyber-deniers with the silent majority of people who fully understand what is coming and who are prepared to act — given the right leadership. I am not, however, certain that any message whatsoever will move the unmovable conservative movement stagnation (see “The Deniers are winning, but only with the GOP“). We are just going to have to save their children, too, in spite of their parents’ willfully self-destructive ignorance.