WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 30 September 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:04.439 On scolds Oscodia. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.160 This is the Reader Paney Show. 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:11.200 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panney Show. Coming 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.240 up tonight. The ABC disgraces itself again with bias that 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.960 are shocked and angered members of the Jewish community. Labor 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.040 ministers and premiers embarrassed themselves with increasingly bizarre stunts on 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.440 social media. We'll have a look at a few examples. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.560 The latest from the US with the always entertaining Alex 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.600 Stein and Kinsey Schofield will tell us which big names 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.320 fear being named and shamed in the p Diddy scandal 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:52.240 and we never forget left he is losing its people 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:57.240 in prison. But first to the latest news. Poll data 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:01.400 and voter discontent with the Albanezi government is obvious, with 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.000 Labour's primary vote falling to a historic law of thirty 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.600 percent in New South Wales. The state by state data 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.280 is fascinating. That thirty percent primary vote in New South 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.840 Wales is three points lower than what Labor achieved when 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.759 voters ditch the Rudd Gillard government back in twenty thirteen. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.760 That tells you how badly they're doing right now. The 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.959 situation is not much better in Victoria, with Labour's primary 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.720 down to thirty one percent. In Queensland it's at thirty 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.520 The coalition's primary in those three states is at thirty 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.759 eight percent. But it's not all good news for the opposition. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:43.760 Labor isn't bleeding votes primarily to them. Rather it's going 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:47.520 to independence minor parties. So with the vote now more 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:52.360 fractured than ever, political analysts are predicting a hung parliament 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.320 is the most likely election outcome and that is not 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.920 going to be good news for the country. 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.720 For more on this, let's bring in Daniel. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.960 Wild, Deputy Executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:09.760 Dan, what do these numbers tell you, Well, they. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.480 Tell me that the Coalition can win the next election, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.280 and they should aim to win, not just in minority, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.400 but in their own right. I think you're right to 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.880 point out that basically Australians are marking down this government 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.720 because it's a very bad government, but they haven't as 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.360 yet been willing to switch over to the Coalition and 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.240 that's the challenge now that the Coalition faces over the 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.240 next few months. When we look at the policy issues, well, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.320 it's obvious why mainstream Australians have had enough of this 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.959 very bad government. Whether it's the Voice to Parliament which 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.600 is an attempt to divide us by race, whether it's 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:45.000 mass migration which is making us poorer and dividing our society, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.760 whether it's the energy system bills keep going up with 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.320 the net zero program, and much much more. I think 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.520 the key here is for Peter Dutton and the Coalition 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.000 to keep providing the leadership. We've seen their very strong 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.080 opposition to these bad misinformation laws, with Peter Dutton saying 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.720 that these laws have no place in a democracy like Australia. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.200 And I think Australians see that and they support it, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.239 and they want to see more of it, and that's 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.080 going to be the question over the next few months. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.360 Now, let's talk about the AFL Grand Final. It was 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.639 an easy win for the Brisbane Lines over the Sydney Swans, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.520 but then we saw politicians trying to use the game 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:25.120 as a means to make themselves appear more relatable. This 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.600 is happening a lot, but they seem to miss the 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.040 mark more often than not. Have a look at this 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.360 output from the Victorian and Queensland premieres. It looks like 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:38.320 Chris Mins was a little too clever to get himself 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:39.840 involved in this cringe fest. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:42.560 Trimier, who are American for this weekend? 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:44.160 Oh that's a tough call. 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.880 Can they just center at Stephen Miles coming to you 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.680 from AFL heartland Queensland, I'm sure you'll be barracking for 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.120 our Lions. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.800 One thing that ignites Queensland and Victoria, it's. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.240 Our hatred of those spears from New South Wales. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.120 Gavalaians all at Stephen. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.560 You've made your point, but really aren't they both Victorian 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.479 teams at up Dan. It's just painful and I just 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.280 keep seeing more and more of this content made at 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.280 our tax payers expense. I'm sure they've all got social 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.440 media teams that are putting this rubbish together. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.680 But why does that speak to any voters? 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:32.839 No? 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:33.680 I don't think it does. 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.480 I think that the key thing in today's world is authenticity, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.600 particularly amongst younger Australians, because we're barraged with you know, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:46.080 boring corporate spin and spin from politicians that people can 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.360 see right through this. I don't think it endears those 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.440 leaders to any voters. I'm surprised actually that Anthony Abernezi 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.400 wasn't in the change rooms of the Brisbane Lions after 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.359 the game. He's worn pretty much every other scaff so 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.240 why not chuck on the line scarf while he's at it? 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:00.359 You know? 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.560 But I think people basically see through this and they're 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.560 pretty sick of politicians hijacking these events, and like I say, 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:09.520 I think it actually ends up being a net negative 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:11.960 for these politicians rather than a positive. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.839 I'm with you completely and interested in your thoughts about 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.440 the treatment of Chris Fagan, the Lions coach. An enormous 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.880 triumph for him after he endured a horror period where 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:30.960 he was maligned, falsely maligned after that so called Hawthorne 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:34.039 racism report. He was accused of all sorts of nonsense. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.560 After that flawed report was leaked to the ABC, he 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.680 was forced to step down for a period as coach 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.360 and there was a lot of conjecture that it would 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:50.880 never coach again, and the feckless football media slanted him widely, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.960 and they've seemed to memory hold that entire period, Dan 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.119 and they're all his best friend again. 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:56.920 Well that's right. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.080 I mean, the AFL really is a swamp of political 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.479 correct bureaucrats, many of whom have never played a game 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.760 of footy in their life and are totally disconnected from 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.000 the football community. I mean the victory of the Brisbane 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:11.719 lines when it comes to the coach is one of 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.480 the great comeback stories. Like you say, he was basically 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:18.320 buried and we've had all these claims of racism that 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.120 you and I have talked about before, and I just 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:22.600 think footy fans are over it. They've just had a gutfull. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.120 I mean, we see welcome to country. We see politics 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.760 this never ending for a you know, by the political class, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.880 to turn sport and to turn AFL in particular into 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.120 a weapon of politics rather than something to unite the community. So, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.880 you know, I think this is a great comeback story 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.400 and good on him for persevering. It must have been 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:45.800 tough when you're facing all of these commentators in the media, 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.680 but he kept on going and got the job done. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.600 Now let's go to some ugly scenes in our big 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:54.960 cities Melbourne and Sydney. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.480 Over the weekend we. 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:01.400 Had protesters waiving has Balla flags, some of them, some 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.159 of them chanting terrible things, including. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:04.799 Death to Jews. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.160 This was all a rally that was incredibly endorsed by 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:14.280 members of the Greens and following the death of Hazballah 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:18.400 leader say it her son Nasraeli in an Israeli air strike. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.920 The Coalition has denounced the rallies and called out the 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.520 lack of law enforcement. Here is shadow Home Affairs Minister 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:26.400 James Patterson. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.480 On his watch, the law has been failed to be enforced, 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.680 which then repeated instances of breaches of the law, whether 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.480 it's incitement to violence against groups on the basis of 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.160 their religion or ethnicity, or the public display of terrors 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.920 and symbols like the haspull of flag, but also Hamas 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.640 logos logos of the al Casan Brigades, which is the 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.960 militant wing of Himas. And this Prime Minister has done 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.680 nothing to ensure that the laws of the land of 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.600 this country are enforced and unsurprisingly people have been emboldened 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.840 by that. Their behavior is escalating, it is getting worse 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.160 and it will continue to fly to the Prime Minister 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:02.880 actually does something about it. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.200 Dan the Prime Minister has called for a cease firing 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.920 Lebanon and has worn those who are involved in the 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.520 protests if they step over a line, they will have 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.160 their visas canceled if it's appropriate and Australian Federal Police referrals. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.240 But I can't help. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.040 But wonder what's happening with our police forces. How could 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.160 they see that happen? People waving the flags of a 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:33.800 recognized terror group, chanting all sorts of things that sound 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.040 like threats to me, and no arrests. And you compare 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.240 that to how they behaved during the COVID era, You 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.360 compare that to them arresting pregnant women in their kitchens 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.640 for Facebook posts, it seems incredible. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.120 Yeah, you're right, reader, I think that Senator Patterson's spot 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.080 on with that. If the laws are on the books, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.560 the laws should be enforced in a fair manner. I'm 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.920 not in fair of having a big plethora of so 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.880 called hate speech laws, but if they're on the books, 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.480 they need to be enforced fairly and impartially those symbols 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.120 are the symbols of a terrorist organization. How they can 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.040 be used freely in our country, I don't understand. It 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.600 also shows the Greens in giving their support to the 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:21.640 so called protesters operating outside the boundaries of the Australian 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.600 way of life. They are an insurgency operation, not something 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.560 that wants to work to better the country. But it's 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.559 dividing the country. And I agree with your point about 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.160 the double standards. That's one of the worst parts of 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.079 this is, as you say, the Black Lives Matter protesters 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.600 during COVID, they are allowed to go out there and protest, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.640 in fact encouraged by police to protest lockdowns. Those who 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.640 didn't want them they were brutally set upon. And now 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.360 we're seeing that double standard yet again. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.240 And let's look at the way the ABC covered this story. 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:03.800 The buyas here is astonishing, the ABC standards, this is deplorable. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.679 Many protesters also marked the death of Hezbala's leader, Hassam Israla. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:11.120 Hah God let it all. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:14.680 All around the country. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.079 Thousands poured onto the streets, angry over the. 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.000 Rising death door in Gaza and now Lebanon. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.239 I'm just horrified. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.080 But what's happening. 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:24.880 The war has been going on for a year, it's 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:25.880 only escalating. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.440 We're not sure why our our children, our women, our 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.200 men don't matter, why the government want to speak up 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.400 in our favor and demand that Israel stops. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.480 But one loss loomed especially large over the crowds. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:39.800 Today. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.920 We mourn the death of Saying. 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:42.719 Hassan las Llah. 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:44.880 He was the mother who was the father of Lebanon. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.960 He brought comfort, he brought security. Were you when when 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.040 you wanted answers we turned to him? 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.720 After nearly a year of rallies supporting Gaza and now Lebanon, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.960 many of these protesters say they are sick and tired 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.440 of Israel's acts on Arab lands and there are again 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.400 calling on the Australian government to apply more diplomatic pressure 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.840 and sanction Israel. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.120 Now I can assure you the full report was just 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.680 more of the same people condemning Israel. Not one word 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.840 of condemnation of terror group has Bola, those who are 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.679 marching seemingly for them, Not one word from a coalition MP, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.240 not one word from an Israeli advocate. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.079 It ended with this, you are again then forever on 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.440 the wrong side of history. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.200 Damn Australian policies when it comes to the Middle East. 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.439 A sentiment they'll project even louder next week as to 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.160 complete a year of weekly protests. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.640 Dana, what do you make of that ABC report? Am 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:49.760 I being too harsh? Being so shocked by the incredible bias? 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.319 Because it is a news report. This isn't an opinion 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.600 show from the ABC. This is supposed to be an 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.360 unbiased news report. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.560 What just shows that the line between news and opinion 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.240 is blue more and more every day. I think it's 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.959 a shame the ABC is no longer an institution of 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.800 cultural importance that it once was. Australians are tuning out 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.920 of it. You can see the ratings on its key 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.679 marquee programs continue to plumb it and go down, and 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.040 that's because they just reinforce the inner city bias. You know, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:20.720 if you go out to the regions and you listen 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.160 to the ABC, it's not too bad. But the problem 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.280 is that the corporate headquarters, run out of Ultimo and 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.880 South Bank in Melbourne, reflects a very narrow view. Whether 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.240 it's on this critical issue, or whether it's on climate 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.920 change or immigration or the voice to Parliament or lockdowns, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.400 You'll never get a balanced debate or discussion, which is 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.360 what Australians want, is what they expect from a public broadcaster, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.280 and we're not getting it and that's why Australians are 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:47.839 tuning out. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.319 Dan Wild, thank you so much for your time this evening. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.200 Joining me now is. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:59.160 Leading geologist and author Professor In Plymer, and thank you 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:01.760 so much for being the studio. Let's start with that, 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.800 Senator Fatoma payment who seems to be a little bit 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.400 confused about what the government gives to fossil fuel companies. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:10.199 Have a listen to this. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.079 You're telling me that we could raise jobs. He could 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.760 buy five and fifty dollars a fortnight and it would 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.840 still cost less than what the government gives to fossil 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.640 fuel companies through the fuel tax credit. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.160 Yet the government isn't brave enough to do it. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:26.959 Make it make sense? 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.160 And would you like to help her out? 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.960 Oh, we can help her out a lot. She might 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.920 actually look at how much money the government gives wind 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:41.559 and solar companies to provide unreliable power, which is extraordinary 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:46.000 expensive and for many occasions it doesn't work. And if 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.600 we didn't have fossil fuels, we wouldn't have energy at all. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.280 We wouldn't have any electricity. The second thing is the 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:56.079 fossil fuel rebate that she's talking about is a rebate 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:00.640 that goes to farmers, fishermen, and miners who use their 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:06.280 own roads or waterways, and therefore the moneies that are 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:13.000 raised are not used to repair government funded roads own road. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:17.319 So it's not taxpayer largest going to fossil fuel companies 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:21.920 is basically acknowledging, as with farmers and others, that if 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.640 they're using their own roads, the taxpayer isn't maintaining those roads. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:26.680 They're maintaining them. 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.960 Yes, but yeah, that's I think you need to have 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.760 a coffee with the senator there and goh enlighten enlightened 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:35.240 on her. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.640 At the bottom of the barrel for labor to put 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.200 her on the ticket, and that shows you the level 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.840 of their thinking, not her thinking. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.280 Well, it's going to be interesting to see if she's 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.920 reelected now that she's walked away from labor. Now, the 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.640 Earth's historical temperature changes for the last four hundred and 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.720 eighty five million years have been in the news. The 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:02.880 Washington Poster published some surprising results, not surprising for you 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.560 for as a climber, because you're a geologist. You know 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.960 this data already, and it does seem to show if 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.960 you look at the full data, the green circle is 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.800 where we are roughly now. 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.400 It's not historically warm. It doesn't look like we've got. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.960 Global warming that's going to be catastrophic, that's going to 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.680 destroy the world. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.640 No, not at all. But we're geologists have only known 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.600 this for one hundred years, and we look back in time, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.400 and we see that we've had great ice ages and 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.080 peerioge where it's been warmer, and the rate of shift 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.240 out of a warm climate into a cold climate, or 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.720 from cold into warm is very very rapid, far more 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.760 rapid than most people would imagine. The second thing is 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.200 that what that graph shows us very clearly is there 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:56.080 is no relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature. So end 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.560 of story. Now, we geologists have known that for a 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.800 long while. There are a couple of geolos and you 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.040 can count them on a saw miller's hand who live 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.920 in government agencies who have a somewhat different view and 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 don't look at the evidence. The third thing that diagram 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.440 tells us is that we are in an ice age, 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:15.680 and we are in one of the few times in 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.680 the history of the planet where we've got ice on 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.000 the poles, and we've been in an ice age for 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.560 thirty four million years. We are still cooling down. We 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.120 have been cooling down for a very long period of time, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.320 and maybe that will change when Antarctica finally breaks up 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.800 and moves into a little sub continents going elsewhere. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.600 But there have we experienced a little bit of warming. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 I'm not talking about astronomical levels. But how can we 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.480 be in an ice age and cooling if we've had 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.440 even a little bit of warming. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.600 Well, during an ice age, we get spikes when it's 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.920 warm and spikes when it's very cold. So on one scale, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:58.320 we've had the latest glaciation which finished about fourteen thousand 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:00.840 years ago, and then it start to warm up. Then 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.160 it started to cool down about four thousand years ago. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.879 That's exactly what you expect. That's quite normal. During that 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.920 cooling period, we've had warm spikes such as the Meno 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.040 and warming, the Roman warming and the Medieval warming, and 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.399 cool spikes such as in the Dark Ages, and that 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.840 it was ice age. Now we're coming out of the 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.280 Little Ice Age. It's no surprise that we've warmed up 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.760 a little bit. But during that period coming out of 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.280 the Little Ice Age, we've had three periods of warming, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.359 two of cooling, and one where nothing has happened. So 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.359 there just hasn't been constant warming related to a slight 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.560 increase in carbon dioxide, which may or may not be 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.240 due to human activity. There might be the ocean's de 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.200 gassing as they always do when we're coming too a 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:42.240 natural warm period. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.520 Well, again, I think you need to have a coffee 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.920 with our environment and climate change on the stuff. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.879 Because Chris Bowen has. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.680 Been very busy on social media posting more nonsense in 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.480 recent days. Here he is mocking at Peter Dutton's calls 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.440 for new clear power in Australia, even has birthday cake 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:04.160 as a prop. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.480 Someone has obviously made a trip to Woollies for this. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.560 Well, it's been one hundred days since Peter Dutton announced 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:15.120 his seven nuclear reactor sites. That's the longest any Australian 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.960 political leader has gone with a policy with no details. So, 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.520 Peter Dutton, it's time, after one hundred days to level 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.320 with the Australian people, come clean on your plans. What 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.200 are the details, what are the costs? How much electricity 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.800 would it produce? Peter Dutton, You seriously haven't thought this through? 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:37.879 Does he have a point there, Professor? 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:43.000 Are Dutton's nuclear plans short on detail high on cost? 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.639 Well, firstly, we've had nuclear power in Australia since the 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.760 nineteen fifties and we have a reactor in the minister's 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.520 own city. He doesn't seem to be aware of that. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:56.480 The second thing is we've had. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:58.879 We haven't used it for energy. 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.679 We've used twenty megawatches used to keep things going at 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:06.359 Lucas Heights, but we've used it for medical lysotopes. But 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.200 anyone who's ever had cancer must be pro nuclear. The 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.359 second thing is that we've waited nearly nine hundred days 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:18.040 for this government to give costings on solar and wind. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.680 We still haven't got the costings for these transmission lines 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:27.080 cutting through virgin forest, destroying farmlands. So it's a rather 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:31.400 amusing birthday that just the bone is celebrating, where everyone's 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:32.520 rolling around laughing. 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.240 And just one more on Chris Bowen. He's been busy 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:37.080 on social media. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.800 He posted this clip boasting about green energy in Victoria. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.760 I'm at the Portland Smelter today where I've just announced 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.200 so I've issued the first feasibility license for the Southern 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.920 Ocean wind Zone. One point six billion dollars of local 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:54.960 economic benefit, enough energy for six hundred and fifty thousand homes, 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.680 ten percent of Victoria's energy needs right here in this 0:19:57.800 --> 0:19:59.000 one offshore wind zone. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.879 He does love a prop He's got their hard hat happening. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.840 There is this promising news for Victoria because we keep 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.959 getting warnings about blackouts, having a gas shortage, So as 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.199 this wind farm going to be the solution to all that. 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.280 Or want to see a politician with a hard hat 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.560 or high vis gear on, then you have to be very, 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.800 very wary. The second thing is that in the Otway 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:27.680 basin underneath the Portland smelter is a huge amount of gas. 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:30.600 That's a much much better way to run a smelter 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:36.080 than having occasional wind bursts giving you electricity. The third 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:40.280 thing is that the whole Portland smelter was built based 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.760 on a power line coming from Gippsland, and that was 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.600 a long term contract to provide cheap power and to 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.560 provide Gippsland the ability to build its power stations. And 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.440 why would that beautiful coastline want to have these monstrosities 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.200 out there to see, which are going to be killing 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.280 a Bird's a hazard to av a hazard to shipping. 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.000 He's got to come up with something better than that, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.800 and I suggest the gas beneath the smelter is the 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:08.399 place to go. 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.520 But as we know, the Victorian government is anti gas 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:16.080 exploration and then the Libs aren't much better profer seeing Plyma, 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:17.520 thank you so much for your time this evening. 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:19.640 Thank you still to come. 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.120 Lefties Losing ED plus the latest from the US. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:37.480 With Alex Stein. Welcome back. Now it's time for lefties 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:38.720 Losing ED. 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.400 Let's start with more daft celebrity advice, this time from 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.399 pop star Billie Eilish and some dude I don't know 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.800 who is saying if you don't vote Democrat, your life 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:49.840 will be over. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:51.639 These people are nuts. 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.479 We are a voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walls 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:59.159 because they are fighting to protect our reproductive freedom or 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:00.879 planet to our democracy. 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.119 We can't let extremists control our lives, our freedoms, and 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.520 our future. The only way to stop them and the 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.040