Real Climate Science

UN climate expert Leo DiCaprio, seen here with a few of his climate models using plastic straws – while standing in the ocean.

The climate fear mongering being pushed by the press in Australia is off scale.  Latest being that the five day Boxing Day cricket test match (Australia’s biggest sporting event according to MP Craig Kelley) is going to get too hot.

Extreme heat due to climate change could send cricket’s Boxing Day Test into extinction, researchers say – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

I plotted all December 26-30 temperatures at all long-term rural and urban GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network) sites in Australia, going back to the 19th century. Most show cooling, and none show any significant warming.

Rural

Urban

Australia needs power, and it needs a rational discussion about climate based on data rather than superstition.

Three years on from the South Australia blackout, the dangers of our rush to renewables are even clearer

Most glacial shrinkage in Austria occurred before 1950. This is a natural process 

The National Geographic Archive | November 1976 | page 1