AUSTRALIA is a lucky country. Blessed by sunshine, precious minerals and many other resources, it has prospered. As a global presence, the country punches above its weight on many issues, science included. Germans, when asked which country they would choose to emigrate to, say Australia.
It has tremendous iconic power, but it is also a land of droughts and floods. Australia has learnt to live with lots of climate variability, but extreme events tend to increase as global warming progresses.
all reputable scientists agree that climate change is man-made – and a huge challenge for human civilisation.
This statement gets repeated over and over every day, as the new phase of brainwashing begins. Global warming turned out to be a complete bust, because the Earth stopped warming.
There is not one shred of evidence that droughts or floods have gotten worse in Australia, and the authors of these articles never make any attempt to back up their claim with evidence.
The global warming movement is reduced to pathetic unsupported lies. How could any self-respecting human being continue to associate themself with it?
They have no respect for themselves and neither do I have any respect for them or their puppets.
How could any self-respecting human being continue to associate themself with it?
$$$ for some.
What it is for people like Tony Duncan I don’t know.
It is my great and selfish hope that all the jobs that are going to lost in Oz will appear in Washington State. Thanks, Oz, we need the help as our leadership is as bad as yours.
Need a new definition for the word “reputable.”
Ah, herr doktor Schellnhuber of the Master Plan stoops to write for the Silly, eh?
Last I saw I was a reputable scientist, I do not agree that “that climate change is man-made – and a huge challenge for human civilisation”. I think measured 2XCO2 falls in the range 0.4-0.8 C and therefore would be hard pressed to do much of anything except make plants grow better. But hey, I don’t have my very own government supported institute to spout Malthusiasms from.
Just plain weird
On Melbourne Australia Talkback radio yesterday, a 20 year old University arts student rang in to defend the Carbon Tax and AGW with a skeptic host.
Kept mouthing slogans – one after the other. Even the Gillard slogan – China is reducing emissions. The host pressed him for details – didn’t have any, didn’t know the science.
The student ended up his defense announcing that he wanted to work in the windmill and solar industry. The host pointed out that he would need an engineering degree not an arts degree. No matter said the student – I’ll just swap courses. Host then pointed out the the student would need to go back to 9th year high school and study applied mathematics and science first.
You’re absolutely right, Steven. I read every day how the world “continues to warm”, “rising sea temperatures are causing (insert catastrophe here)”, “ocean acidification is affecting (anything that swims or floats)”, “storms are getting bigger and more frequent”, “crop yields are falling due to X (usually AGW or drought or a dozen other things caused by AGW)”. No actual evidence is presented, just an assumption that “if it’ll happen in the future it must be happening now”. I’ve been trying to find a word or phrase to describe all this “cognitive dissonance” and ignoring real evidence, but LIES is the one that fits the bill.
It astonishes me how they attribute various events to AGW as they occur, but when their actual predictions don’t pan out they push the time frame out and say that it will happen at some indeterminant point in the future when CO2 reaches a certain threshold. They basically make it up as they go. The lies they feel are in service of a greater good.
The Climate big shots are in it for the power to socially engineer the globe not to mention the money and chicks. The useful idiots, like our resident trolls, are in it because they feel they are part of a “grass roots” social movement, which is going to stick it to “the man”..
I don’t WANT to believe all this “doom and gloom”, but if there was good solid evidence for at least some of the predictions, I’d be out there waving my placard with the rest of ’em.
Why do some people just swallow all that stuff hook, line & sinker? If there’s any evidence to SUPPORT my beliefs and understanding, I check it out for at least credibility, if not in detail. I want my position supported by solid evidence, not hearsay. If we drifted into another ice age, there’d still be a few of the stalwarts proclaiming “it’ll pass & warming will resume”.
It is my great and selfish hope that all the jobs that are going to lost in Oz will appear in Washington State
Steve,
O/T but a general comment
These items of yours are great for bringing to the attention of others. Not much feed-back, but a lot of feed-forward.
” authors of these articles never make any attempt to back up their claim with evidence.”
Ones they are in power they just change the evidence they just change the past they just change the data. They are doing it already. Those who win the war write the history. And we are at war with the elite. Politicians are not the elite (they think they are) they are just the puppets. That is why it makes no differents who is in power.
Teach your children your friends your family your neighbors the man you meet on the street the real data. (at first they will think you are crazy, I know)
Why would Australians walk the plank and destroy their competitivenes in the global economy, when their ability to alter the situation is so tiny? It’s completely irrational.
We’re walking the plank for the same reason Cap’n Jack does – there’s a cutlass poking into our kidneys. Ms Gillard is the one who is doing this, and because her party removed Mr Rudd as sitting PM (a first in Australian history) they dare not do it again…yet.
Her party’s polls are so bad – a record low which is starting to reach 1993 Canadian federal election territory – it may be that the rank and file will grit their teeth and finally do the deed. The latest poll out today shows no ‘bounce’ from the carbon tax announcement last Sunday, not even a dead cat bounce.
Unfortunately one reason why they might not remove Ms Gillard is that in NSW a similar arc of political destruction occurred, with two sitting state leaders deposed by their own party before finally we had our election in March this year – the worst wipeout in Aussie political history. I don’t know what is going through the minds of the federal ALP pollies, they may just think in mad desperation that their only chance is to spin their s*** sandwich as hard as they can and hope things will improve. But that won’t save them, they are done for, it’ll just get worse the longer they wait before going to an election. Its terminal.
Fortunately, unlike in the UK, our opposition party is firmly resolved on taking office to remove the tax instantly in whatever way they can.
“…all reputable scientists….”
HMM wonder if Lindzen, Christie, Spencer will sue.