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I’ve often wondered why other Warmists, who say they are just Concerned and want to Do Something, almost never ever stand up and say “dude! You are not helping with this unhinged, over the top doomsaying” (via Watts Up With That?)

Gloves off over climate policy: ACF chief

Kelly O’Shanassy has run out of time to be polite over climate policy.

The Australian Conservation Foundation CEO says recent warnings from scientists and two decades of climate inaction mean the gloves are off.

“If we continue to burn coal and gas for decades to come, we will kill the 1.5 degree target, we will not have a habitable planet and hundreds of millions of people will die,” she told the National Press Club in Canberra on Tuesday.

“When people are defending burning coal and gas, then that’s what they’re really talking about – those hundreds of millions of people whose lives will be at risk.”

Woof! Andrew Bolt, another Aussie, notes that not one person said “hey, hold on”

Pardon?

“Hundreds of millions of people will die”? We will “not have a habitable planet”?

But get this: not a single journalist in the room said: “Are you nuts?” Not one asked: “What’s your evidence?”

To me, it’s mad, bad and dangerous that a room of journalists can hear a shiny-eyed speaker proclaim the end of the world — at least for humans — yet react without the slightest scepticism.

Evidence is not necessary, especially when most of the reporters probably agree. It’s pure Groupthink. And O’Shanassy also said

“My warning to those in the house up the hill is that if you ignore climate change you do so at your political peril,” she said.

Political threat or something more severe? Warmists should remember the lesson of the 2012 Queensland elections, where the ruling party which passed lots of Warmist policies into law lost so badly at the ballot box that they didn’t have enough members to be considered a recognized political party.

Eric Worrall at WUWT notes

If the world breaches the 1.5C limit, nobody will die because of the breach. All that will happen is on average Summer might last a few days longer every year, or winters may be slightly milder. Given that cold weather is a far greater killer than warm weather, breaching the 1.5C limit would likely save lives.

But, Warmists are like Flat Earthers: they want everything to always stay the same. Which is not the way the Earth works.