Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Aussie academic David Holmes, of the University of Melbourne, suggests that Politicians are using the Paris Agreement to defuse climate concerns, by claiming Paris “solved” the climate crisis – and he’s not happy about it.
Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?
Two weeks into a protracted election campaign, it is looking ever-more likely that climate change is to be placed way down the order of business – at least for the major parties.
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Apparently, climate is less important than jobs and growth – or, in Labor’s case, health and schools.
A big part of this change in political climates is undoubtedly the Paris summit itself. The political triumphalism of the summit belies the scientific pessimism of so many climate scientists and activists.
Kevin Anderson from Manchester University’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research even declared the summit to be “worse that Copenhagen”, in that it is based on out-of-date science, does not include aviation and shipping, and includes negative emissions in its scenarios for achieving abatement.
On the other hand, after the collapse of talks at Copenhagen, some activists see no choice but to climb aboard with the Paris agreement, insofar as it at least signifies a mainstream seachange in action – even if the actual measures are inadequate. The INDCs that came out of the conference still put the world on a path to 3.5℃.
Yet so many politicians from around the globe have sought to convince their constituents that the climate problem is all but solved. The Coalition is banking on such a sell to the Australian electorate as it gambles with a climate attention minimisation strategy.
Former NASA GIS Chairman James Hansen claimed last year that the Paris climate talks were a fraud. Who knows, perhaps that was the intention all along.
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There never was a climate problem. Let Common Sense prevail.
The real problem is that we have a Marxist infection in our Western environment and climate “science”?
Yep! All of “science” these days needs a good, strong, deworming.
Now that the Models are predicting a 3.5C increase thanks to the Pairs Butt Wipe, and we all know that this is a fair order of magnitude too high. When the actual results come in over the next 80 years they can claim victory that it was only 1.2C for the century “and we all owe it to Pairs” even though Paris will do nothing in the long run as we would have about 1.2C with or without it.
Yes, but wasn’t it nice to see that Hansen called the conference a fraud? How could it not be since it was based on fraud to start with?
Emperor Obama declared victory. He declared that by doing what they did (or didn’t do) the world was saved! He MUST be believed for he is Obama and he has a real peace [piece?] prize. Let there be no doubt! [sarc for those not yet trained]
Well I’ve certainly been known to use ‘Shut up about climate, will you. It was all sorted out in Paris’.
Congrats, you’re doing your part! 🙂
@ur momisugly Chatley, I have used the same tactic, it sure makes family dinners more peaceful!
OOOOPPPPS Charley, Apologies! many! ( but the dinners ARE more peaceful!).
Hoist on their own petard.
They felt it necessary to claim that the Paris agreement was a huge victory.
Now they find that their troops want to declare victory and go home.
Precisely. The science is settled and the appropriate actions have been taken. Nothing to see here folks, move along…
Declare a fake emergency, declare a fake resolution to the fake emergency, move on to the next talking point. Sounds pretty much like politics as usual.
H.L. Mencken would agree with you.
And Ambrose Bierce – ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.
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Declare victory and move on to the next “opportunity”. Yep, pure political BS.
And throw in a few timely executive orders to look busy.
Let us not underestimate the power of climate alarmism to scare the public half to death using normal and natural weather occurrences. After all, it has the MSM on its side.
“The Public” so easily scared by ordinary weather is that overly urban, hothouse-flower cohort who’ve never really spent any time outside. Never raised an animal, never planted and harvested crops, hell, never even gotten naturally dirty. “Nature” is something pretty-pretty, “as seen on TV,” commonly confused with Disney-movie versions of reality. “Ecosystem” is a theoretical construct, therefore how can we even expect them to understand that plants need CO2 to grow, forest fires are part of nature which some trees require to propagate, or that animals, plants and people can VERY EASILY and painlessly adapt to minor “climate” changes?
These over-intellectualized bozos need to be challenged by EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US to go be as “green” as they preach–don’t fly, don’t drive, don’t eat any food you didn’t raise yourself without recourse to modern pesticides, machines, and tools. We’ll see how long they last.
People who DO have genuine work experience in the outdoor, natural world are not so easily hoodwinked.
Don’t forget:, throw your Main Breakers and shut off your CO2 polluting Gas supplies. Oh , and if CO2 is your perceived problem source, don’t burn any wood either as it also produces your Boogie-man gas and install CO2 scrubbers on your mouths and CH4 scrubber plugs on your arses
Goldrider; these would be the sort of people I witnessed at Yellowstone Park trying to get too close to the Bison. Not having read the warnings that Bison attack people every year when the poor animals get a smartphone shoved in their face.
We’re talking about the sort of people who kidnap a Bison calf because they ‘think’ (Thought is not what I’d call it) it is ‘too cold’ or pose for ‘selfies’ with wild animals. The kind who should be in receipt of Darwin awards before they can pollute the gene pool.
As for ‘over intellectualized’, I’d posit that there’s nothing remotely intellectual about the way such people behave.
Bill; we used to have t-shirts at one of the shops in downtown Jackson (just S. of Yellowstone) that read something to the effect “Let your kids pet the Buffalo, pass on blind corners, Teton County EMT thanks you for your support!”
It’s really amazing what some of these people will do when you let them out of their cage and expose them to nature…
@ur momisugly bartleby, 4:19 pm, it’s called herd mentality ( Starts at the beginning of the summer holiday season every year)
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/05/18/10/3452E13800000578-3596306-Tourist_Kristina_Smith_poses_with_the_giant_crocodile_in_the_upp-a-5_1463563661315.jpg
Every tourist hopes to capture the ultimate holiday snap – but this daring traveller took it to another level by posing with a wild crocodile.
Kristina Smith, 25, travelled to a sacred spot in the upper east region of Paga, Ghana, for the nerve-wracking croc photo-op.
The young explorer from Ottawa, Canada, heard about the secretive location through locals while on holiday in the region.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3596306/Is-dangerous-holiday-snap-Tourist-crouches-wild-CROCODILE-pose-camera.html
+++++++ many many 😉
Exactly. Most leaders are Believers. They will use the Agreement as a justification to impose even stricter measure to fight climate change. it has already started here in Canada, following the election of a Believer. The Warmists are still winning, even though the Paris Agreement is an empty shell.
Diffusion of the skeptics’ arguments in the general public remains weak.
I’m not sure ALL leaders are believers. Those who need/want to be re-elected have figured out the purpose is to de-industrialize the west, and that takes job-killing, growth-stunting measures that get politicians thrown out of office.
Well, not ALL leaders are believers. Those who need/want to be re-elected now realize the clobal warming measures will result in loss of jobs and stunted growth, and that’s not a winning platform. Imagine – climate change skeptics’ best allies are craven politicians!
After an early start by Labour to “make Climate Change” on of their key commitments, very little has been said by either party thankfully.
A few years ago, Labour hopeful Julia Gillard promised that she would never introduce a Carbon Tax & then once ensconced as Pm promptly introduced one. This then saw the country vote out Labour ASAP.
The country went for Tony Abbott and the Liberals who acted quickly to repeal the tax. The Australian people could be proud of their stand against this stupid tax.
Unfortunately, the Greens are like a cancer, hard to get it all out once the tentacles have spread. The Greens have long been a problem in the Senate.
We can only hope that with the forthcoming Federal Election, the influence of smaller parties in the Senate will be eliminated, the Liberals are re-elected and we can minimise our wasted money on this nonsense.
It isn’t that simple to get rid of these fringe groups. It’s a double-dissolution, so the quota to be elected is halved. This will see several of the same fringe groups getting back in. Probably enough that they will still hold the balance of power with the Greens.
Turnbull is a rabid carbon tax supporter, well he and his mates at the top end of town. I see the political pantomime that started with Rudd in 2007 to continue. Unusually for an election year, I have had so many calls for contract work, I think companies are killing whatever budget they have before the next financial year as it might be a bit rough for Australian businesses in the coming years.
It somehow makes me reassured that Aussie politics is as confused and contentious as US politics. Either Paris did something, or it did not. It just gets silly when someone insists on both at once.
Ask former PM Julia Gillard what happens when the public focuses on so-called “climate change”. The climate hype fanatics actually believe their own bs.
Wild animals are at their most dangerous when they’re wounded.
Rabies is also tough on already weakened mental states.
Yeah, once they start runnin’ around in circles biting at themselves, it’s close to being all over . . . 😉
If solved equates to the transition from agitation phase to some kind of policy phase, then I suppose all the agitator community would be upset. The most upset would be those having nothing else to offer. That would be equivalent to a few soldiers or generals being unhappy with a war ending.
Disappointed that it “…does not include aviation and shipping…”? Does he realize how difficult it is going to be for him to ride a horse from Paris to Melbourne?
Even from Paris to London.
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@auto , 2: 11 pm, on one horse? These guys don’t even understand the support system that would require to get there. That is the whole problem with these people, they have this notion it can all be “fixed” with one swoop of a “pen and a phone”. They truly do not have a clue!
I guess, we’re asked to try on one bicycle…
Meanwhile Kevin Anderson can’t help and continue to ride planes in order to get everywhere and explain why we better ride bicycles or horses.
That may be so as far as political theater is concerned. Meanwhile the action has moved on to legal and financial maneuvers, which use Paris to presume international commitment to emissions reductions.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/behind-the-alarmist-scene/
” ….. based on out of date science …… ”
Well, Kevin Anderson got that bit right.
Anderson is an extreme warmist, he is a mathematician and a former marine engineer, in 2005 he was pushing for personal “carbon” credit cards, with everyone given a personal allowance.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Kevin.anderson/
“He is Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and is research active with recent publications in Royal Society journals and Nature. He engages widely across all tiers of government; from reporting on aviation-related emissions to the EU Parliament, advising the Prime Minister’s office on Carbon Trading and having contributed to the development of the UK’s Climate Change Act.”
Kevin has a decade of industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He sits as commissioner on the Welsh Government’s Climate Change Commission and is a Director of Greenstone Carbon Management.”
Note:
“advising the Prime Minister’s office on Carbon Trading” and “Director of Greenstone Carbon Management.”
Conflict of interest? Don’t know what you mean, Your Honour.
Not in the US, there’s a massive PR effort going on in the news media right now.
It’s tougher messaging though, what with bathroom rights and all to compete with.
All are nothing but smokescreen issues to try and bury the REAL STORY–that nearly all Americans are madder than hell about the stagnant economy, and fed up with the status quo that seeks to elevate manufactured activist “outrage” into an actual “issue.” They are failing.
That’s pretty much self-correcting (bathroom rights that is). The fist time they catch a 16 year old dressed up like one of the Spiders From Mars having a wank in the girls locker room it will be all over…
I doubt it.
If they have a legal right to be there, you can only punish those that break a law.
I wonder what those of you men in other parts of the world will do when a group of teenage Muslim males legally walk into the ladies room while your 12 yo infidel daughter is in there changing clothes?
I think I know what would happen in Texas.
What if it were to happen England or NSW?
“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” (Robert A. Heinlein)
If you want to control other people, ‘climate change’ can be a great tool: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” (H.L. Mencken)
If, however, you are one of those successful autocrats who has already achieved control of one’s own people, one suddenly becomes quite sensitive to any effort of other people to control one.
The Paris agreement provides a PR narrative one can use to convince one’s subjects that one actually has accomplished something, and thus cash in on the hobgoblin, but it cannot be implemented locally without forfeiting some of one’s sovereignty, which one is not about to do.
Climate change is one such tool–“health” is another. Trying to convince the entire world that it’s a biological imperative to starve themselves to an unnatural emaciation, eat unsuitable foods (kale much? humans can’t digest cellulose!) and run themselves to metabolic exhaustion as a status symbol competition takes up much of the “1%’s” time these days . . . and is also 100% scientifically without merit.
@ur momisugly Gold rider, we may not be able to digest parts of Kale but the minerals we can digest are actually very good for you ( even cattle/horses do not digest all cellulose btw)
If one eats a normal, healthy diet and has a normal, healthy digestive system, one will take up an adequate amount of vitamins and minerals. All the “extra” one gets is sorted into pee and poop! Perhaps very healthy pee and poop, but not of any benefit to the person who bought and ate the extra goodies.
it is based on out-of-date science………….still put the world on a path to 3.5℃.
That’s a made-up number. No-one really knows which way or by how much the unfiddled-with global average temperature will have changed by 2100, although by 2098 or 2099 we might have a good guess for 2100.
Heck! No-one really knows what the price of Camembert will be in Paris by 2100, assuming Paris is still standing.
ISIS may declare that the Eiffel tower and Arc de Triumph are idols and insist on dynamiting both of them.
Now that you mention it, I’d be pretty sure those monuments are on the list somewhere, MarkW. Throw in the Louvre with all those lewd, pagan artworks and don’t forget the infidels’ Notre Dame Cathedral.
But we still won’t be able to predict the price of cheese in 84 years. For all we know the GMO gang will cross a goat with an apricot tree and brie will grow on trees ;o)
The revenue and control problems were solved. The cause and activists are no longer needed.
Do not be fooled by the silence in the Australian election about climate change.
Shorten has promised a price on carbon that would destroy the economy…
And for some reason, nobody is trying to nail Turnbull down to a “No price of any sort” on carbon, yet it is known that he still favours an ETS, and many suspect that he will bring one in after the election if he can.
Turnbull REALLY NEEDS TO BE NAILED DOWN ON THIS ISSUE.
I thought a cap alteady comes into force July, 1St. In Australia. It basically says the top 150 or so emitters are capped to their maximum annual emission that occurred in the last 5 yr period….rough translation….
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/alan-kohler/australias-secret-ets-starts-in-five-weeks/news-story/7f1de2a63db3e8d4a12066f31edcf640
Paywalled.
SteveT
Agree – Turnbull or TurnCOAT?
my personal relabelling of him n the sidekick femme
the turd n the termite:-)
hes a sleazy twofaced goldbugs sax usa all the way follower
she..is another juLiar a like
do n say anything for power
many of us will be doing homework on indy and minor parties and who they’ll preference
might be a real shock to both majors and greens to find they all get a kick in the butt
Don’t be fooled! The global warming “problem” disappears off the radar because the politicians KNOW it’s unpopular. In the US, didn’t Obummer give the “let’s get frakking” cry just before he was voted in for the second time? Everyone thought he was having a change of heart, but the moment he was in Global Warming was right back up there at the head of all “problems”.
In Australia, we had Gillard announce that there would never be a carbon tax under her government. Until she got in. Her party still won’t let it go, even after being booted out, although they don’t like it to be public knowledge.
The politicians of today just want to get in, then they do what they want, including change their minds, their policies and their promises.
The game continues. They are playing us for fools.
Is it because they can or because we Are?
It’s because they THINK we are.
It’s because they have the utmost confidence in their messaging teams and their affiliates. It’s a networking issue for highly organized bad public policy. That part is new in the game.
It’s because we keep believing them! They all lie compulsively. All..the..time!
The irony there is that such CO2 decrease as has occurred in the US can be almost completely attributed to fracked gas replacing coal-fired power plants. Yet Obama and friends oppose fracking . . .
Exactly.
Everybody talks about the climate, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it. Tsk tsk.
I couldn’t get past this: “Apparently, climate is less important than jobs and growth – or, …health and schools.”. Apparently? It’s too bad David doesn’t share some of the same investigative skills (or how about common sense?) as the well-known Sherlock.
Beat me to it! I read that sentence and thought, “Um, yes?”
On to more important things! …. like which bathroom 0.04% of the population is going to p|ss in.
Ghads.
It’s all a big SQUIRREL!!!
Pay no attention to the crushing $20,000,000,000,000 of national debit.
It took 220 years to amass the first $10T and only 7 years for Obama too add another $10T.
That’s $65,000 for every man, woman, and child in the US of A.
They want your mind in your fly instead of your wallet.
Sounds to me as if the US is bankrupt!
“Why has climate change disappeared from the Australian election radar?”
It hasn’t “disappeared”. Our champagne socialist running the country is HIDING it to help his chances in the coming election. While he openly criticizes Labor for supporting a carbon tax, he deceitfully brings in his own through the back door.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/opinion/alan-kohler/australias-secret-ets-starts-in-five-weeks/news-story/7f1de2a63db3e8d4a12066f31edcf640
Killing cults is very difficult. Just like with Scientology, leaving a dogma behind is extremely difficult for people who have been operantly conditioned to bond with and defend their faith, even if that faith is based on little more than assertion, mysticism, appeals to authority, group-think, and organized self-hypnosis.
To the extent that the climate movement is a cult of millions of brainwashed school children, thanks to our centralized public education apparatus (many students of which now have children of their own, and or advanced degrees that make them feel like they’re superior), then the climate movement is NOT dead. These ninnies have to be deprogrammed. And the infection within the public schools, including research universities, must be excised before it can said to be dead.