Senator Roberts fools himself, fails high school science

Senator Malcolm Roberts - he's fooled
himself, but failed High School science.

Climate science denialists will often fool people, and sometimes themselves, by cherry-picking the bits of evidence they think fit their argument.

At other times, they’ll construct elaborate conspiracy theories about human-caused climate change being a front for a New World Order, with the United Nations as the Illuminati.

But often, they just get things badly, horribly, terribly, and embarrassingly wrong.

Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts, of the far-right One Nation party, had all this and more in his maiden speech to parliament this week. It made it all the way to the UK’s BBC.

“It is clear that climate change is a scam,” said Roberts, before laying down some hardcore sciencey-stuff on Australia’s upper chamber.

He said that “changes in the carbon dioxide level [of the atmosphere] are a result of changes in temperature, not a cause.” This, despite scientists being able to check the chemical signature of carbon dioxide gases that show the extra CO2 comes from the thousands of millions of metric tons of fossil fuels being burned every year.

Read the DeSmog Blog story - “Australia's Climate Denialist Senator Malcolm Roberts Fails High School Science in Maiden Speech.”