‘So much for all those global warming predictions’
Sky News host Rowan Dean says record cold snaps and rainfall globally are making the continued "global warming predictions" and alarmism "laughable or criminal". "I drove home last night from the studio through an absolute deluge; trees down, roads flooded, swollen rivers, and a thousand waterfalls along the motorway," he said. "Naturally, I only had one thought that kept replaying over and over in my mind. That was of course one of the key climate change predictions from Tim Flannery from the beginning of this century, and just one of the many, many predictions that was so wrong it is either laughable or criminal. "Indeed, it was also predicted that by 2020, children in Europe and Australia wouldn't know what snow was anymore. This prediction was repeated as recently as 2014 by the New York Times who postulated 'the end of snow?'." The northern hemisphere winter this year was one of the coldest in decades, with experts in Finland suggesting record snowfall will likely not even melt through summer. "Who can forget over in America, it was so cold the windmills froze, plunging the state into blackouts with people tragically dying simply trying to stay warm? More cold weather is due again this week in Texas," Mr Dean said. "Yet this morning in Melbourne's CBD, the climate crazies were out in force again with Extinction Rebellion protesters causing peak-hour chaos, blocking the intersection of Flinders and Swanston streets with a moving truck. "That would be, of course, a large fossil-fuel-powered truck emitting an abundance of carbon emissions, but what's a little hypocrisy when you're saving the planet from imminent Armageddon?" Mr Dean pointed to the high level of emissions from China, noting it has over 3,000 coal-fires power plants built or being planned. "Instead, our leaders are hellbent on paying lip service to an unproven scientific hypothesis that CO2 is heating the globe to levels that threaten mankind - and even the planet's - existence when the evidence of our eyes and the tips of our fingers and noses is often completely the opposite. "As far as I can tell, major economic decisions across the planet are predicated on a theory from two decades ago if not longer - that doesn't stack up, for the obvious reasons that so many predicted outcomes have not occurred." Read More Our Apps