They resort to the “ad hominem argument”, labelling all who do not bow before the altar of zero CO2 emissions as “flat earth thinkers”.

Additionally, his argument that Victoria and South Australia’s renewables push has left “coal as a fuel source dead and buried” is blatantly untrue.

According to the federal Department of the Environment and Energy website the estimate of Victorian electricity generation derived from fossil fuels in 2017 was 87.4 percent while solar and wind generated just 5.6 percent of our electricity.

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After ensuring Hazelwood’s closure, the ALP now realises their self-inflicted energy crisis and has commissioned 11 diesel generators in an attempt to stop the lights going out this summer.

South Australia has to rely on gas, oil, biomass and nine fossil fuelled diesel generators to come to the rescue when the sun’s not shining or wind blowing. In 2017, an estimated 56.6 percent of SA’s electricity was provided by fossil fuels while 42.7 percent was via wind and solar.

The “flat earthers” argument is oft-quoted alongside the proposition that “the science is settled” on “anthropogenic climate change”. Just because the IPCC says so does not make it fact. Think of all the rent seekers chasing “scientific research” grants and vested interests in the renewable energy industry for starters. Anyone with an understanding of scientific rigour and methodology knows that it requires a hypothesis to be falsifiable (or provable).

The problem is the hypothesis that man’s burning of fossil fuels caused the earth to warm is nigh impossible to ever falsify.   Simply attributing cause-and-effect, because we are emitting CO2 and there is observable warming, so one must have caused the other, does not  stack up scientifically in terms of proving emissions equals warming.

We’ve had Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s strongest indication yet that he wishes to guide the country from the pulpit.

Shock jock Alan Jones is already running the country from the bull pit.

Looking back on the divisive history religion, and the recent divisive history of the Alan Jones, what on earth could possibly go wrong?

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