As Australians prepare to vote for the nature of their future on May 3, I can report that back in the day, the much revered 17th/18th Century satirist Jonathan Swift (no relation to Taylor) confronted (or would have) the early climate alarmists with a remark to end the conversation.
Exasperated, he might have muttered his famous observation:
‘It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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