Australian science has gone overboard for ‘climate action’

Australian academia and science are climate-partisans

Republican US has repudiated net-zero and scourged illegal immigration. Labour Britain is also pushing back against net-zero and open-borders. "Progressive" Labor Australia is going the other way.

Even though, broadacre carbon "offsetting" or "farming" has a farcical Australian history. Defying the evidence, governments insist it's the real emissions-reduction deal. Few Australian scientists would dare retest those French findings.

Tame, government-driven, climate-change research is Australia's research flavour of the decade. Relegating useful R&D that might diversify our narrow-gauge economy, highly dependent on quantitative-peopling plus iron-and-hydrocarbon exports.

However, there is one recent WA-European study, warning Australia's "boundless" soils will be a net CO2 emitter not storer.

Like the French report, this WA research has few parallels. By its nature, it undermines Garnaut's fanciful claims for Australia's "immense" carbon-sink. Implies guru Ross, we might be able to sequester not just once, but twice, our entire national emissions. Sky's the limit.

With rare exceptions, Australian "science" has become a partisan for the Labor government's contradictory pairing of open-borders and net-zero.

As Exhibit A, consider Australian Academy of Science. Up until the 1990s, assisted by Flannery, this influential NGO worked with government on the driest continent's limited carrying capacity.

Now, like government, they've pivoted to UN north-south rhetoric. Why worry about water or other resources, when earth's carrying capacity could be anything from "two billion" to a "trillion"? Always remembering, what peace-loving "Ghandi" [sic] once said.

For Exhibit B, stroll across to Australian National University (ANU), the only one of our 40 universities that's not state or private.

They're in the wars, over their cannibalistic budgeting and staffing. Caring Senator Pocock is onto it. Federal Education Minister will sort them - as if.

Their previous Nobel-laureate vice-chancellor became a Home Affairs pinup for mass migration. Recklessly overcommitting ANU to the student-migration boondoggle and carpeting his campus with student high-rise.

Faking "fundamental" knowledge, ANU's Migration Hub is equally cosy with Home Affairs. When not bidding for a migration-research "institute", they're claiming absurd immigration "shortfalls" or attacking sensible net-migration measures.