Posted on 12/07/2018 12:28:48 AM PST by rocknotsand
David Attenborough’s climate change fearmongering makes him look a fool"
by Andrew Bolt column in the Daily Telegraph (Australia) 5 Dec 2018
It’s embarrassing to see Sir David Attenborough make such a fool of himself after decades of brilliant filmmaking. Organisers of this week’s United Nations’ global warming conference, in Poland, asked the documentary superstar to make a speech that would wake the dead.
And he gave it his best shot, trying to sound like an Old Testament prophet but so overdoing the fearmongering that he seemed deranged.
“Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale,” he thundered.
“Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate change.
“If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.”
Yes, I know much of the media treated this tosh like it was the word from Heaven, which shows most journalists cannot be trusted when reporting on this new religion.
But seriously: is global warming truly a bigger threat than, say, the Black Death that wiped out maybe half Europe’s population?
Bigger than the Spanish flu that killed up to 5 per cent of the world’s population in 1918?
How can that be, when there’s been little more warming this century? When we’re actually getting fewer cyclones and generally bigger grain harvests? And how can anyone truly believe our civilisations will “collapse”, when we can now build whole cities in Middle Eastern deserts?
But Attenborough hadn’t finished burbling fantasies that were cheered by the elites inside, delegates from nearly 200 nations, but which looked nothing like the reality outside. "Take action!", he urged the leaders: “The people are behind you, supporting you in making tough decisions, but they are also willing to make sacrifices in their daily lives.”
They are? In France at that very moment, people were showing exactly the opposite — rioting across the nation and burning barricades in Paris in protests triggered by the “tough” decision of President Emmanuel Macron to impose a global warming tax on diesel.
It made Australia’s own protests against the carbon tax seem a tea party.
These weeks of rioting have been so massive and deadly — three people killed so far — that the French government suspended this global warming tax just hours after Attenborough was insisting the public was screaming for more.
How strange. Attenborough got famous by carefully studying animals, but seems not to have studied humans at all.
All of his documentaries are full of global warming claptrap.
Translation: We must have complete control over you in order to save the planet.
You...not me.
Every liberal is a violent totalitarian thug.
My thoughts precisely. I nearly needed eyebleach.
The Little Ice Age was more a threat to humanity than “global Warming” Attenborough, you British Twit!
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