It’s Saturday, so it must be Fairy-tale Facts™ alarmism day (actually this is from Friday, but I’ve had a rather busy week, so blogging has taken a back seat – back to normal next week I hope!). No surprise that The Age comes up with some more incredible fantasy about ocean temperatures, screaming:

“Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions”

followed by acres of doom and gloom-mongering:

The ocean is warming about 50 per cent faster than reported two years ago, according to an update of the latest climate science.

A report compiling research presented at a science congress in Copenhagen in March says recent observations are near the worst-case predictions of the 2007 report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In the case of sea-level rise, it is happening at an even greater rate than projected – largely due to rising ocean temperatures causing thermal expansion of seawater.

Guess who one of the report’s authors is? None other than head shrink at the Penny Wong Memorial Climate Re-programming Facility, Will Steffen, who notes that the top 700 metres of water had warmed just 0.1˚C in a half a century:

“While that looks like a modest figure [nothing is ever how it looks in the alarmists’ worldview – Ed], that would correspond to something like 15 to 20 times more heat going into the ocean than has gone into the atmosphere,” Professor Steffen said.

Where do they get all this from? The ocean heat content is falling, sea-surface temperatures are also falling, and the network of buoys measuring sea level show it stable or falling as a result. The article (and the report) is nothing but pure alarmist fantasy, most likely from selective, cherry-picked data.

But hey, who cares about the facts? We’re Fairytale-Facts™!

Read it here.

As always, a great read!

Just to show that we don’t have a monopoly on “climate cluelessness” here in Australia, Obama’s latest climate report is panned, with just a small sample of the reactions:

• “This is not a work of science but an embarrassing episode for the authors and NOAA.”
• “I disagree strongly with the hurricane-related conclusions of this report.”
• Report “misrepresents the science” – “ignores relevant work in peer-reviewed literature.”

Read it here.

Speaking about the Liberal plan to delay the ETS:

This is one of the more reckless acts in which the Liberal Party has engaged in recent times.

But nothing compared to Labor’s reckless act of blindly forcing through an ETS, which will cripple the Australian economy and do nothing for the climate.

Read it here.

That’s the “Penny Wong Memorial Climate Re-Programming Facility” of the Peoples Republic of Kruddistan. One visit was clearly not enough, so back he’ll go, for another encounter with the high-voltage electrodes applied to delicate parts of the body. And he’ll keep going back until he admits that anthropogenic CO2 causes “global warming” [er, surely, “climate change”? – Ed]:

Climate change minister Penny Wong’s office is due to present Senator Fielding with more evidence in a bid to convince him that rising carbon levels are warming the planet. [Science isn’t about persuasion, or consensus. It’s about developing hypotheses, using those hypotheses to make predictions, and then seeing whether they match empirical evidence. If they don’t, they get chucked, unless we’re talking about AGW – Ed]

“No-one disagrees in climate change. What is in disagreement is it is carbon emissions by man that are driving up global temperatures,” he said.

This whole spectacle is utterly ludicrous – elected politicians in a democracy are not permitted to hold “heretical” views about an area of science that has become more like a religion.

And Bob Brown (never at a loss for an overreaction) is apparently “dumbfounded”:

“Poor guy. He’s just caught there with not believing … or whether he thinks it’s all make believe and somebody’s pulling strings and nothing’s true at all,” he said.

Any idea what that outburst means? Maybe Bob could try saying that again, this time in sentences that actually make sense, perhaps…

Read it here.

I’m rather busy this week, and will only be able to post a few items, but this headline in The Sydney Moonbat Herald made me smile, again regarding Steve Fielding’s “re-programming” meeting:

Senator hears a science lesson on climate.

The clear implication from this being that only Wong and her alarmist cohorts know anything about the climate, and anyone daring to dissent is merely uneducated, and needs “teaching a lesson”. Another classic from Fairy-tale Facts™.

Read it here.

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:

• [1]: Untrue. What makes today’s climate the perfect climate? There is no “emergency” as the climate has been far warmer (and cooler) in the past, and nothing is happening today that exceeds what has happened by natural causes in the past.
• [2]: Untrue. The climate is cooling, and has been since 2000. It is tracking below the lowest IPCC estimate.
• [3]: Untrue. What makes today’s levels of CO2 so special? It has been far higher for much of the history of the planet (without “runaway global warming”).
• [4]: Untrue. There are no proven links between any of those events and “climate change”.
• [5]: Untrue. “Driving down carbon pollution” in Australia will do nothing for the climate, even if CO2 were a driver of temperature.
• [6]: Untrue. There is no evidence of such feedbacks having ever occurred in the past, and no evidence of any previous “runaway climate change”, despite huge levels of CO2 up to thousands of PPM.

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):

• Socialist Youth Organisation
• Socialist Alliance
• Socialist Alternative

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.