Australian Climate Denial To The Blazing Bitter End: Murdoch Rag - "Warming Is Good For Us"

As Australia continues to burn, the deniers continue to deny. Australia is in the midst of a climate emergency with over 30 people dead, in excess of a billion animals incinerated, and millions upon millions of Australian’s breathing toxic air. The cost of this catastrophe, if you can even begin to measure the loss of wildlife and quantify the collective trauma, is said to be in excess of AUS $100 billion.

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Morrison’s mate in the media, Rupert Murdoch, continues to deny climate change, as Murdoch’s News Corp accounts for 60 percent of Australia’s newspaper sales. Despite the daily climate carnage, Murdoch’s columnists continue to spout climate denial in a way that many would find illogical, insensitive, and just plain idiotic.

Today, a columnist in the Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt, writes that “global warming is good for you.” He alleges that “activists are exploiting these terrible bushfires to whip up an astonishing fear of man-made global warming and skeptics like me.” Instead of denying that climate change is happening, Bolt uses another of the favorite denier arguments. “We don’t deny the planet has warmed. We instead question the warming we are seeing – less than predicted – is all bad.”

It is difficult to see how Australia’s omnicide is anything but the definition of bad. It’s nothing short of climate catastrophe. But Bolt takes up another denier argument – that it makes no sense to spend billions to prevent climate change, and instead would be better to spend more on “bush management.” His argument is similar to Scott Morrison’s. Akin to fighting Hitler by shuffling the rubble around from the bombing. It appears nonsensical. But it’s strategic – it’s what the fossil fuel industry and its allies want you to believe. Instead of focusing on the source of the problem – like our rampant addiction to the combustion of fossil fuels – they want to shift the burden of responsibility away from industry, and toward false solutions like increasing bush management and carbon capture sequestration.

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http://priceofoil.org/2020/01/27/denial-to-the-death-in-australia-newspaper-headlines-tout-warming-is-good-for-us/