It would appear that climate change denial remains alive and well, but with the same hearing and comprehension problems it acquired at birth.........
The Daily Examiner and Townsville Bulletin, 10 January 2018:
In today’s crazy world,
western politicians are wasting billions of taxpayer dollars force-feeding
costly unreliable green energy in the bizarre belief this will somehow change
Earth’s climate.
Even more incredible,
they fear global warmth and seem hellbent on creating global cooling. They
should study climate history. It is snow and ice, cold dry air and carbon
dioxide starvation we need to fear, not a warm, moist, fertile, bountiful
atmosphere.
Climate change is
natural and unstoppable. Just 20,000 years ago, Earth was in one of its
recurring glacial phases.
A thick massive ice
sheet smothered Canada, Alaska, Iceland, Greenland, North Asia and Europe as
far south as present-day London.
Much of the animal and
plant life of the previous warm era was extinguished. Even in warmer lands not
covered by the ice sheet, plants suffered as the cold oceans removed moisture
and carbon dioxide plant food from the atmosphere.
Then, because of
changing cycles in Earth’s orbit and tilt, reinforced by changing solar cycles,
the sun warmed the frozen lands.
The great ice sheets
melted, sea levels rose and the warming oceans expelled moisture and CO2 plant
food into the atmosphere. Plant life recovered.
Tundra, forests,
grasslands and herbivores advanced towards the pole and fish became abundant in
the shallow seas that flooded coastal plains. Hunters, herders, farmers and
fishermen followed the food.
Human population
increased greatly. They gave thanks for the warmth, and worshipped the sun. But
the peak of the modern warm era is past, and the natural cycles controlling
global temperatures are pointing downwards.
Only an idiot with a
death wish for life on Earth would attempt to accelerate our inevitable descent
into the next ice age.
Luckily, their costly
war on warmth is totally futile, but their war on carbon energy will prove
tragically misguided in the cold times ahead.
VIV FORBES, Washpool,
Qld
NOTE: According
to DeSmog, “Viv Forbes is the
Chairman of the Carbon
Sense Coalition, which was created to “defend the role of carbon on earth
and in the atmosphere,” and which describes Forbes as a “pasture manager, soil
scientist and geologist from Rosevale in Queensland.” [2]
Forbes
has also had a long association with the coal industry. According to his biography at Stanmore Coal where he acts as
director, Forbes has over 40 years of coal industry experience and has worked
with Burton Coal, Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, South Blackwater Coal Mine,
Tahmoor Coal Mine, Newlands/Collinsville Coal Mines, MIM, Utah
Goonyella/Saraji and Gold Fields.
According
to Forbes, the “Green Elite” has a “long-term agenda … to destroy human industry
and reduce human population. Thus they are opposed to farming, mining, fishing,
forestry, exploration and cheap power.” [3]”
The Daily Examiner, 17 January 2018, p10:
Sceptic miscue
Savvy DEX readers
certainly realise that sceptic science/climate denial mumbo jumbo has its
origins in the ultra conservative religious right of the US political
landscape.
Coincidentally but sadly
for the rest of the world, many in the Trump administration are of this ilk.
Dedicated sceptic and
Rosevale, Qld resident Viv Forbes has once again (DEX Jan 10)
produced a pitch- perfect melody from the sceptic songbook.
As Viv points out,
naturally occurring climate change takes place over thousands of years.
On the other hand,
global warming is measurable over decades, is a direct result of human activity
over the last century in particular and so is everything but natural.
Moreover, Viv is warning
us of an impending frozen armageddan (in sceptic speak that should read
OhMyGodden!)
I hope Viv appreciates
that in the very same week as he made this dire forecast, the BOM has confirmed
that 2017 was the warmest year on record for NSW and SE Queensland – timing is
everything Viv.
The world may well cool
in 25000 years or so, but world leaders rightly are more concerned with the
immediate effects of global warming over the next few decades.
Nevertheless, we should
probably remain grateful that Viv actually gets his name correct because
everything else in his letter is nothing more than irrelevant nonsense.
Ted Strong, Seelands
The Daily Examiner, 27 January 2018, p15:
Tampered temperatures
TED Strong (17/1)
commented: “As Viv Forbes points out, naturally occurring climate change takes
place over thousands of years. On the other hand, global warming is measurable
over decades, is a direct result of human activity over the last century in
particular and so is everything but natural.”
Actually Viv said:
“Climate change is natural and unstoppable.” He did not mention time, although
the changes often occur rapidly.
During the Pleistocene
Epoch, there have been many ice ages. The latest, which covered large portions
of the northern hemisphere with mile-high ice, peaked 21,000 years ago and was
gone by 11,700 years ago.
Since then there was the
little Ice Age between 1400AD and 1850AD and a number of warm periods, which
included two Holocene Optimums, the Roman Optimum from 250BC to 400AD, and the
Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1400. These four were as warm as, or warmer
than, the Modern Warm Period, commencing around 1850.
So Ted could you explain
what caused the previous warming periods, because they definitely weren’t
“unnatural”?
But we keep being told
that our current temperatures are the “hottest ever recorded”. So how do NOAA,
NASA and the BOMs define “ever recorded”?
Our BOM stated: “…2017
was the third-warmest year on record, at 0.95 degrees above the 1961 to 1990
average” and that “Seven of the 10 hottest years, have occurred after 2005”.
Years ago the BOM
decided temperatures taken before 1911 were “incorrect” and would no longer be
taken into account. Obviously the 1890s temperatures were too high to explain.
But that left the 1939
era, which is still regarded as being the hottest since 1900. To overcome that
pesky problem they established a baseline temperature using a 30-year average
between 1961 and 1990.
This was a great choice
because it included the chilly 1970s, when the world panicked that an ice-age
was coming.
So our BOM, with a
straight face, tells us that the “warmest on record” years have actually been
selected from the last 28 years, and the 0.95 degree increase is based on the
chilly 1961-1990 average.
So although the BOM
openly says what period its figures are based on, it knows that the gullibles,
and (unfortunately) the media, will submissively accept their fallacious
statements as being from time immemorial.
JOHN IBBOTSON,
Gulmarrad
The Daily Examiner, 31 January 2018, p11:
Climate warriors rattle
cages
The war of words between
the two climate change adversaries, one upriver and his opponent from down
river, has reached a point where one party has delved into his “unseemly” bag
to crudely criticise and try to belittle his opponent.
John Ibbotson can make
his case with facts and figures garnered from research by Scientists that are
not locked into the one eyed ideology that has evolved from the suspect science
of climate change computer modelling.
Of course the Bureau of
Meteorology can make mistakes, and has freely admitted to errors in the past,
while Tim Flannery is an example of just how far off the planet these fear
mongering so called gurus can get.
The scandal involving
climate change scientists in the British Met in East Anglia will not go away
nor will the fact that in the early 1990s temperature readings used to falsify
average ground temperature data came from thousands of sites situated close by
or near to, major heat sources such as American airports and bustling highways.
John Ibbotson makes his
case in a calm and methodical way, Ted Strong just doesn’t like his precious
cage being rattled.
FRED PERRING, Halfway
Creek.
The Daily Examiner, 3 February 2018, p13:
Climate desperation
Blimey, things must be
getting desperate in the John Ibbotson climate sceptic camp. He now
has to rely on Fred Perring (DEX 31/1) for his great science knowledge.
PAUL STEPHEN, Yamba
The Daily Examiner, 7 February 2018, p11:
Wrong horse, wrong track
When compulsive scribe
Fred Perring submits his favourites – ie maligning left-wing pollies or bashing
the ABC – he does OK because the only requirements are bias, bluster and
righteous indignation which Fred does in spades, while fact and logic seem to
be of little consequence.
But when Fred comes out
swinging, (DEX 31/1) in support of downriver sceptic, John Ibbotson, fact and
logic become vital and so Fred flounders. Not only is he backing the wrong
horse he is not even at, or on the right track.
The tiresome “facts” he
trots out are Fred repeats, straight from the sceptic science hymn book and
still unsupportable.
Even Fred’s well-known
visually impaired namesake would by now have recognised that, particularly in
the past decade, global warming is no less than the bleeding obvious.
Advice for Fred is the
same as for John – stay away from sceptic websites and stick to the things you
do best. Also thanks for the “heads-up” re my cage – I’ve checked it out and it
appears quite solid if not completely foolproof.
TED STRONG, Seelands.
