Just don't tell me the debate's over…
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:
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:
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.
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