If you want an inkling of just how badly wrong pollsters got Australia’s weekend election, consider this: victory for the left-wing Labor party over the right-wing Liberal party was considered so certain that an online betting firm paid out more than $1 million two days before the vote on the assumption Labor’s victory was a done deal.
Australia is one of the world’s favourite examples of climate-change horror. Summers have become a time of brutal heatwaves, with temperatures topping 40 C for days at a time. Not only do savage highs set records, but daily lows set new highs as well. Bats fall from trees, dead fish float up on shore, fruit cooks in the fields.
Against all expectations, Morrison bested him by campaigning in favour of one of the climate industry’s all-time favourite corporate villains. Morrison is a big fan of coal, and ardently championed a massive new mine in the northern state of Queensland, to be built by an Indian firm to feed power plants in India, where carbon emissions rank among the world’s highest.
Does any of this ring a bell? Canada, like Australia, is a big resource producer. We depend a lot on the ability to export those resources. We have serious concerns about climate change, but when Western Canada — a region heavily dependent on resources — perceived its livelihood being threatened, it rejected plans that pleased activists and urban voters, largely at their expense.
No, the liberals should worry the liberals.
Harper proved his party didn't need Quebec to win. Andrew Scheer can do it. Jean Chrétien voted against anything U.S. His protégé, Trudeau chased after the terrorists' vote. The easiest voters to get on board. Their foreign policy is against American policy. Should I go on.
Yaaa, no.
Lol! That’s because Australians see NO affects of climate change just like everyone else. Between 1900-2004 the average temperature rose just over HALF A DEGREE anyone who thinks they will notice that is delusional - simply look it up.
And Alberta's and Ontario's and Quebec's and Saskatchewan's and Manitoba's and New Brunswick's