Uhlmann lets rip on warming crazies

July 06, 2008

ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann delivers a brilliant riff on Insiders
this morning on global-warming salvation seekers. This former seminarian
knows a religious mania when he sees one.

Do not miss it once the clip gets on the Insiders' site.

UPDATE

Uhlmann's riff:

As a former seminarian one of the things that strikes me most strongly
about this debate is its theological nature and that's essentially that
we've sinned against the environment, that we are now being punished and
the only way we can escape that punishment is to wear a hair shirt for
the rest of our lives and hope that in the next lives, in the lives of
our children and our children's children things will get better.

Now I am willing to sign up for that but this is a very long caravan and
there are a lot of lunatics attached to the end of it. I do not believe
every proposition that has been put.

When the weather department can tell me what the weather's going to be
like next Friday with any certainty and treasury can get within a
million dollars of what the surplus is going to be next year, I'll
believe an economic model that marries those two things and casts them
out over a hundred years.

I'll make one prediction that whatever number Garnaut puts on where we'll
be in 2100 it will be at least a trillion dollars either way wrong.

Every word sane, of course, with a caveat over "Now I am willing to sign
up for that", no doubt offered to lull the victims.

But I suspect Uhlmann will be made to pay for this.

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Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"Consensus is neither a scientific fact nor important in science, but it
is very important in politics." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the
Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor Of
Climatology, University of Winnipeg

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