Just don't tell me the debate's over…
After Steve Fielding’s “re-programming” meeting with Pennies Wong and Sackett today, the best quote came from Prof. Will Steffen from ANU:
A lot of the arguments I’ve seen put forward … wouldn’t get through a PhD student at ANU.
Well, certainly not with an alarmist like Steffen making the decisions…
Read it here.
Six outright lies in two paragraphs this morning from the Fairfax media organisation, which deluded readers of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald will swallow whole. The article, by “national climate justice coordinator” (sounds like something that would be more at home in East Germany before the Wall came down) with Friends of the Earth, Damien Lawson, is probably one of the most hysterical pieces ever (and that’s saying something), and I’m only talking about the first ten lines! I knew that the warmists would get desperate, as they see the planet failing to live up to the dire predictions of the flawed climate models of the IPCC…
So, here we go:
We are in a climate emergency, which demands emergency action [1]. The speed and severity of global warming is exceeding even the worst predictions [2], leading many to suggest that greenhouse gas levels are already too high [3].
In Australia, the evidence includes record heat, more severe fires, drought, declining agriculture and a threat to national treasures such as the Great Barrier Reef [4]. Yet they are only the beginning of the catastrophe unless we urgently drive down carbon pollution [5] and prevent feedback loops causing runaway climate change [6].
I suppose I have to waste another five minutes of my life doing this:
This is disgraceful journalism, and shame on Fairfax for printing it. It shows how the media don’t give a fig about what is really happening to our climate, and only care about selling papers with mindless alarmism.
Read it here.
If you want to understand the true agenda behind “climate change”, just check out this picture on the ABC web site (high-res image here) of today’s demonstration in Sydney, and look closely at the organisations represented. Here are some of those I could spot (I’m sure other photos would reveal more):
OK. Here comes the tricky question: what’s the common feature of those organisations (I’ve given you a hint)…?
The reality is that these climate change protesters care less about the environment than imposing a socialist world order. You have been warned.
Read the story here.
P.S. And (how could I not have noticed first off), they’re all wearing RED!!…
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we’ll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We’ll keep the red flag flying here.
Tiny given that this is the greatest threat to humanity since the dawn of time (© IPCC, Al Gore & James Hansen). The Sydney Moonbat Herald gushes with breathless admiration for the valiant climate warriors (i.e. the great unwashed):
Families, young children and elderly men and women were part of the 2000-strong rally, with protesters dressed in red, carrying banners and chanting loudly as they marched.
And we were then treated to some nauseating BS [outright falsehoods? – Ed] from NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon, a barking mad enviro-fundamentalist who clearly lives on another planet:
“The world is on red alert, urgent action is needed to rein in runaway climate change now,” Ms Rhiannon said. [Yeah, ‘cos clearly climate change is “runaway”, see here – Ed]
“The Prime Minister needs to recognise that baby steps is not what is needed, we need the giant leap to a zero emissions future. [Zero emissions, there’s a challenge. Everyone stop breathing right now, that cow over there, stop farting, and excuse me Mr Enormous Undersea Volcano, would you mind awfully not erupting and gushing billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, as it really isn’t very nice – Ed]
“We know that achieving that is not going to come with the carbon pollution reduction scheme – that’s a scam.” [Yep, but not for the reasons you think, dear – Ed]
And the last word is given to “the kids”, whom we are depriving of a future by our evil emission of greenhouse gasses (cue violin music):
One young child wrote: “Mr Rudd, save our world“.
Ha! Some hope, from a prime minister so desperate to “connect” with the working classes that he uses fake Ocker phrases like “fair shake of the sauce bottle“. Sick bags at the ready, and all together now…
Read it here.
Don’t know whether the Financial Times intended the pun there, but anyway. More indications that the chances of an agreement in Copenhagen are disappearing faster than the Wilkins Ice Shelf:
Time is running out for climate change talks, with another meeting of world governments ending on Friday, this time in Bonn, with little progress towards a new agreement on greenhouse gases.
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There are at least two more important UN meetings planned before a crunch conference in Copenhagen in December. There, officials will attempt to hammer out an accord to replace the Kyoto protocol, whose main provisions expire in 2012.
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China has reinforced the sense of discord by calling on developed countries to cut their emissions by 40 per cent by 2020 – far more than any plan to do – and to give 0.5 per cent to 1 per cent of their gross domestic product in assistance to the developing world.The lack of progress so far on the big issues – the extent to which rich countries will cut emissions, the commitments poor countries will make and how these will be funded – was underlined this week when Japan unveiled a plan to cut its emissions by 8 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020 – a level only 2 per cent below Tokyo’s commitment under the 1997 Kyoto protocol.
More pointless gab-fests to come in the months ahead – oh joy.
Read it here.
UPDATE: The UN climate chief appears to be suffering from a touch of the old “cognitive dissonances” as reported in the ever-optimistic Brisbane Times:
Yvo de Boer, the top UN climate change official, said he was confident of reaching an ambitious agreement in Copenhagen, though it will lack details that will require further work [And there’s the big get-out clause – Ed].
The latest round showed that governments “are committed to reaching an agreement, and this is a big achievement“, he told reporters.
He’s a kinda “glass half full” guy, ain’t he?
Read it here.
One of the very few journalists who actually supports the line Steve Fielding is taking on the climate debate, in contrast to the distasteful mudslinging that has been going on this past week.
Fielding, who has an MBA from Monash University as well as an engineering degree from RMIT, is confident enough in his analytical ability not to be intimidated by overbearing experts into outsourcing policy to them.
Swamped with emails from the public encouraging him in his quest for answers, he says he is motivated by “trying to do what’s right by Australian workers and families, [which] is enough inspiration to get this decision right”.
Of course, he has been pilloried for being diligent enough to do the job he was elected to do.
He has been derided by people without any training in mathematics or scientific disciplines, who regard science, probably, as they do their computers – as a little black box to be understood only by an elite council of infallible gurus who are incapable of impure motives. Who is the gullible one?
Read it here.
From Weatherzone:
Victoria is experiencing its best start to the snow season in a decade.
There is 56 centimetres of snow at Mt Buller and about 40 centimetres at Mt Hotham, Falls Creek and Lake Mountain.
Snow reporter, Maureen Gearon, says there will be eight lifts open at Mt Buller this weekend and six lifts will be operating at other resorts.
“These are the earliest and heaviest snow falls we’ve had since 2000,” she said.
“[While] 2007 and 2003 were great … this is just spectacular, so we’re sitting around, average base of about 50 centimetres around most of the resorts.” (source)
UPDATE: Looks like the ACT is pretty nippy as well:
Canberra shivered through one of its coldest days on record on Friday with the high reaching just four degrees by 5pm, eight below average and potentially their coldest day in 43 years.
South of the city Tuggerong was even colder, reaching only three degrees, which could be their coldest day on record although the site has only been recording since 1996.
The surprise cold snap is the result of a very cold night followed by a cloudy day.
“After dropping to minus two degrees early in the morning a persistent layer of fog and low cloud completely blocked out the sun and prevented the temperature from rising like it normally would” said weatherzone.com.au meteorologist Martin Palmer.
“But we can’t confirm the coldest day in 43 years until 9am tomorrow because a meteorological day is 9am to 9am” said Palmer. (source)
A very worthwhile read (h/t Jennifer Marohasy):
Scientists often model systems to predict what effects might be expected if variables change in a certain way. In the absence of anything resembling evidence for the causative effect of global warming, computer modelling was enthusiastically embraced to project likely changes on the basis of the understanding of how climate worked. So far, so good, but the output from these models, rather than being seen as indications of what might happen if the hypothesis was right, have taken the place of experimental observation.
So, in a circular argument, the models which are based on a particular hypothesis (the greenhouse effect with positive feedback) are taken to “prove” the hypothesis because they reproduce the pattern of twentieth century temperature change. Similarly, the projections for future temperature rise (which, we should remember, cover a large range) are regularly quoted as what will happen if carbon dioxide emissions are not drastically cut back.
Large numbers of people have been sufficiently convinced by the arguments to take it as read that the greenhouse gas hypothesis is essentially correct and that disaster will occur unless radical cuts are made in emissions. They have moved beyond the stage of questioning to simply not listening to anyone who raises doubts. But, what is worse, they are putting their faith in a hypothesis unsupported by anything more than circumstantial evidence. Because no-one can do more than point to observations, no new evidence is going to be produced which – as in the story of peptic ulcers – will provide direct, irrefutable corroboration of an alternative theory.
Read it all here.
No joke. The Australian Federal Police will be forced to become “carbon cops” to police a range of “climate offences” under Penny Wong’s new world order, diverting resources away from what the AFP should be doing, namely keeping Australia and its citizens safe from real crime, like drug trafficking, people smuggling, fraud, money laundering and organised crime. But clearly those things are less important than “saving the planet”:
The Herald Sun can reveal Australian Federal Police agents will have to prosecute a new range of climate offences.
But they are yet to be offered extra resources, stretching the thin blue line to breaking point.
“The Government is effectively saying to us, ‘Ignore other crime types‘,” Australian Federal Police Association chief Jim Torr said.
The group had been trying for months, without success, to discuss the issue with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, he said.
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Ms Wong’s office said AFP agents would be expected to enter premises and request paperwork to monitor firms’ emissions reductions. They would act on the 30-strong Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority’s orders.
With a hint of understatement, the Opposition responds, with Andrew Robb calling the scheme
problematic.
Read it here.
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