Gina Rinehart’s apocalyptic visions for bush summits just the latest in a history of climate science denialism | Graham Readfearn

You will not be able to have a cremation because the ovens will not be allowed to operate on fossil fuels, and hospitals will be forced to close for more than half of the year because they have issued too much CO2.

Are you still terrified?

It is the vaguely comical and imagined world of Gina Rinehart, who wants people to think that police state of the George Orwell style climate is fast thanks to the decision of Australia to join more than 130 other countries to support the need to obtain greenhouse gas emissions at Net Zero.

The mining billionaire has defined everything in a chronicle for the Herald Sun this week, as part of a series of Bush Corp Series summits that his companies are sponsoring.

Rinehart’s article was filled with straw men than a Wizard of Oz convention where the only authorized cosplay is the scarecrow.

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Its argument – if you can call it this way – is that Australia should have negotiated “scratches” for a whole range of industries under the Paris climate agreement and, because this is not the case, these industries will now be “forced” to tools broken or to become electric to operate.

Rinehart opened with a complaint according to which the Australia had not negotiated a “sculpture” of Paris for its programs of the defense industry. But in fact, a large part of the reports in the Paris Agreement is voluntary, including war shows – and in any case, Australia actually excludes the report of the programs of the Defense and Security Agency in its 2030 objective.

“Our hospitals, once again without tearing – nurses, doctors, technicians forced to acquire electric vehicles to be able to see patients. Who really wants it? ” She continued.

Maybe the question should not be “who really wants it” but rather who has already suggested that anyone would be “forced” by climatic policies to buy an electric vehicle?

The answer is absolutely no one – except, perhaps, the richest person in Australia.

What will happen in the alternative universe of Rinehart, where the climate police imagined is about to confiscate your tractor as soon as you look? Here is just a short list of his column.

• Defense manufacturers “would be forced to close for a large part of the year at least”

• The Royal Flight Doctor’s service could not collect patients for eight months of the year “because we have exceeded our authorized emissions”

• Patients with cancer and maternity should manage alone because “we have to close hospitals for nine or 10 months of the year”

• The funeral would be delayed because of something to do with refrigeration and “ovens”-honestly, you will have to work this one for yourself

“It is time for the truth,” wrote Rinehart, who disconnects with even a puff of irony.

Big names

Other high -level companies sponsoring heights include Woolworths, Optus, Commonwealth Bank and Qantas.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to give a speech to Ballarat next Friday.

What really worries farmers

Rinehart also delivered a speech this week for the opening of the first Broome summit, promoted by the Australian newspaper.

“Many of our farmers, their families and farms are already suffering from a zero net ideology,” she said. “They have more than enough to worry about devastating droughts, floods, fires.”

After withdrawing the head of their office, climatologists will emphasize that the risks of worsening droughts, floods and fires can be placed at the door of greenhouse gas emissions.

Here is one now.

“The risk of fire has increased due to climate change with an increase in the duration of the fire season, the number of days of fire, intensity and the burned area and this will also aggravate with additional climate change,” said Professor Emeritus Mark Howden, of the Australian National University.

“Climate change caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases unequivocally increases temperatures through the agricultural land of Australia and in the southern half of the nation and causes growing seasonal precipitation and water availability.

“This has brought back the productivity and profitability of agriculture around 20% compared to what it would be otherwise. A huge climate change stroke already. And worse is on the way. “

Natalie Collard is the director general of farmers for Climate Action – a group of more than 8,400 farmers and members of the agricultural community (the index on what they want is on behalf).

“I am not aware of any country that requires anyone – not to mention farmers – to change their combustion engines to electric vehicles,” said Collard.

The organization interviewed more than 700 farmers and persons working in related industries in 2023, and 92% said they saw “farm impacts” linked to the climate in the past three years.

Collard said that 55% of farmers had identified climate change as the greatest threat to the future of agriculture, the highest threat being bureaucracy and administrative formalities at 15%.

“We know that farmers are on the front line of climate change and they hurt the most,” she said.

The history of the climate of Rinehart

Farmers and environmentalists are real concerns about the deployment of renewable energies, and these concerns should be listened to.

But it is difficult to see how the stories of fear imagined will help them negotiate the best results for their future.

Some of the organized votes that are unleashed against renewable energies and the net zero have also rejected the risks of climate change. Their object of wild fear on the net zero can be considered as the other side of the climate denial piece.

The denial of the climate of Rinehart is well known and for a long time.

In a 2021 video to students of her former girls’ school, she described concerns about climate change as a “propaganda”. In 2011, she wrote that she was not convinced that the addition of CO2 to the atmosphere could cause significant warming of the atmosphere.

Rinehart has paid millions of dollars to the Institute of Public Affairs-another Franc Zero critic which continues to promote the points of fringe and counter-change on climate change.

His sponsorship of the Bush summits of News Corp gave him a vehicle to continue his anti-science crusade.