“Idiotic comment of the day” gong is awarded to Victorian premier John Brumby, who made his ignorance of climate matters patently obvious in the following sound bite from COAG:
In this era of climate change, one thing we can be sure about is that we’re going to see … more climatic events, which create emergency situations, so whether it’s thunderstorms, whether it’s bushfires, whether it’s wind events.
Two points, John: (1) this era is no different from any other era: climate change happens – get used to it; and, (2) there is no evidence to link warming with increased “climatic” events [he means “weather” events, of course, and bushfires aren’t exactly weather events either, they’re often caused by lightning, which is a weather event – oh dear, it’s so confusing…], but hey, who cares about the facts? As long as it makes a good headline and gets the Victorian government more dollars.
As for wind events, I reckon he’s on about farting cattle again…
Read it here.
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