Back in 2010, Czech President Vaclav Klaus compared the effect of the global warming hysteria - the cause behind ridiculous Net Zero, windmills, solar panels and economy-smashing electricity costs - with communism:

“It seems to me that the widespread acceptance of the global warming dogma has become one of the main, most costly and most undemocratic public policy mistakes in generations. The previous one was communism.”

In the following 15 years of madness, none of the threatened catastrophes have occurred, and most countries, apart from Australia, are starting to wake up to how stupid they have been.

Very late, with a lot of damage done to Western economies, they are starting to realise that, “The greatest hoaxes are those that are given a scientific flavor and are carried out by governments on a global scale”.

Marxists posing as environmentalists, and wanting to constrain capitalism, dug around and found one obscure paper suggesting that carbon dioxide ‘could’ (that's could, maybe) cause global warming. No proof ever provided. A speculative hypothesis expanded to the assertion that fossil fuels should be phased out.

The biggest scam ever continues, despite hopeful reports that it will soon be over. But, really, only a few minor party leaders, and backbenchers in this country with nothing to lose have the guts or the opportunity to call it a scam. The major parties are disgraceful, handing out, so far, more than a trillion dollars to the scammers and wind and solar billionaires.

The Queensland government's slap down of one of the mob is a good start for a return to sanity.

Drove past a big wind farm today, only a fraction of the fans turning listlessly. Considering the outlay & effort, wind farms are one of the worst & most blatant misappropriation of Tax Dollars !

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Yes, Vaclav Klaus - economist, climate science denier, and Cold War nostalgist - just the man to quote when discussing atmospheric physics. What's next? Citing Flat Earthers on satellite trajectories?

Calling climate action “the new communism” used to be a punchline, but you’ve revived it with such sincerity it’s almost charming. Apparently, if enough scientists, governments, businesses, insurers, investors, and military planners agree on something, it must be a Marxist plot. Who knew peer review was such a gateway to collectivist tyranny?

Your timeline is also interesting. “15 years of madness,” you say - and yet, somehow:

- We’ve just had the hottest year ever recorded.
- Floods, fires, and droughts have intensified globally.
- Insurance premiums are skyrocketing due to climate-related disasters.

But sure - no signs of catastrophe. Just a few billion-dollar “weather events” here and there. Nothing to worry about unless you own a house, grow food, or live on Earth.

The idea that the entire scientific consensus rests on “one obscure paper” is impressive in its laziness. The greenhouse effect was demonstrated in the 1800s. Climate models have improved with every decade, and the overwhelming evidence has been replicated by thousands of studies, labs, and instruments worldwide. But let’s ignore all that - after all, some guy with a blog and a Klaus quote said otherwise.

And as for this trillion-dollar “scam” you keep referencing - it's rich coming from someone defending an industry that’s raked in trillions while warming the planet and paying a fraction of its social and environmental costs. If you’re concerned about taxpayer handouts to billionaires, great - let’s talk fossil fuel subsidies.

The Queensland wind project being rejected? That’s your big “return to sanity”? A single project knocked back for wildlife concerns in a state still building out renewables? That’s not a turning point - that’s a functioning planning process.

If you want to keep calling Net Zero a hoax, feel free. Just know that while you’re quoting 2010 speeches and warming up McCarthy-era metaphors, the rest of the world is getting on with the 21st century.

"So now you’ve shifted from saying it’s “dead” to saying there’s a “recalibration” "

No. The net-zero mantra is dead and jurisdictions the world over are RECALIBRATING their policies to take that into account.
Do try to keep up.

"and it didn’t end well for your argument. "

Wow, that's quite an exercise in rewriting history.

The whole hysteria around net zero is unravelling. But pollies can't up and say they were wrong and all the pain was for nought, so they carry on mouthing one thing and doing another. There is now virtually no country that is on track to reach net zero in 2050 and most are now looking for was to fudge or move the date back, although most pollies know they won't be held to account in 2050 having long since moved on. So they leave that problem to the next generation.

Nuclear is now the favoured exit door. Denmark recently reversed its anti-nukes jihad, the US is moving to remove nuclear power inhibiting regulations. Even Germany is revisiting the issue.

SkyNews headline:

“From New York to New Zealand: Net zero targets being ditched worldwide”.

Not in Australia.

Here is an unusual piece of climate change scare mongering using hydrangeas. A Google warrior has declared climate change is the “silent killer” of hydrangeas.

These gardeners’ favourites do like a drop more water than some plants, but this character is warning that we should stop growing them.

My hydrangeas live in pots. Anything in a pot requires more water than plants grown in the ground, and mine get watered only once a week, in summer, just like anything else. They have been drinking in this way for years before climate change was invented, and are still doing so, still admired by neighbours.

But, Mr. Nobody on Google and “professional” gardeners (he says) are warning against planting hydrangeas. Growing hydrangeas could soon be declared a sin by the climate religion.

Fossils indicate that hydrangeas have been around for 23 million years, and they have been cultivated for thousands of years. Certainly they were grown in China in the 8th. Century, and Europe and elsewhere in private gardens in the 18th. Century.

Despite the changes in climate that can be proved to have occurred over the period that hydrangeas have been around, the ‘expert’ who came up with this tosh still uses the climate hysterics and liars favourite word “unprecedented” to describe supposed ‘challenges’ to hydrangeas.

As far as I can tell, this “expert” lives in a part of America where the temperature reaches around 28 in summer, not around 35-40 where I live. I don't think that his troubles with hydrangeas have anything to do with climate change. And I hope Australian hydrangea aficionados will disregard his nonsense along with the rest of the climate change nonsense.