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“WHAT if David Archibald’s book The Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short turns out to be right? What if the past 50 years of peace, cheap energy, abundant food, global economic growth and population explosion have been due to a temporary climate phenomenon?”
This is the first paragraph of Maurice Newman’s latest attack on the world’s infatuation with global warming.
Maurice Newman is the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s most senior economic advisor – one of the first acts of the newly elected Abbott government was to appoint Maurice Newman to the chair of the government Business Advisory Council.
According to the article written by Newman;
“If the world does indeed move into a cooling period, its citizens are ill-prepared. After the 2008 financial crisis, most economies are still struggling to recover. Cheap electricity in a colder climate will be critical, yet distorted price signals caused by renewable energy policies are driving out reliable baseload generators. Attracting fresh investment will be difficult, expensive and slow.
Only time will tell, but it is fanciful to believe that it will be business as usual in a colder global climate. ”
If Newman is right, governments have been preparing for the wrong crisis, squandering resources which could have been used to prepare us for the coming cold. At the depths of the Little Ice Age, grain production in Northern latitudes, regions which are currently regarded as the breadbaskets of the Western World, was severely curtailed, due to shorter growing seasons and greater weather instability. And there is always the risk that a little ice age could become something worse – if the historical record is any guide, we are nearing the end of the current interglacial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
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The Daily Mail carries a piece that summer in the UK is over, now that rain is falling & temperatures could fall to near freezing in Scotland next week.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2725003/Biblical-downpours-mark-end-summer-That-s-September-Met-Office-issues-severe-weather-warnings-Britain-10-days-worth-rain-expected-hours.html
The Met Office concurs.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/gcpt93u52
I read on WUWT a few months ago that it was costing millions (maybe ten million) per year to maintain each of them.
Northeast Texas, near Lake Cooper, Delta County, this week low temp 59F. Very cold .
Flight of Canada geese 20 to 30 came by and landed on the lake.
The thing is a hard freeze late spring when the wheat is “booting our” making the head.
A hard freeze ends it. No wheat no food. Computer graphs do not make climate.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/28/canada-pulls-the-plug-on-the-u-s-keystone-pipeline-will-send-oil-to-asia/#comment-1676342
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We knew with confidence over a decade ago that global warming alarmism was technically false, extremist and wasteful.
We also knew with confidence over a decade ago that the green energy schemes proposed to “fight global warming” would not be green nor would they provide much useful energy.
Since then, there has been no global warming.
Since then, over a trillion dollars has been squandered on failed green energy schemes that have produced little net energy, but have caused energy costs to soar.
There is no real global warming crisis.
Cheap abundant energy is the lifeblood of modern society.
Regards, Allan
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/23/the-left-hand-knows-not-what-the-right-hand-is-doing/#comment-120604
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While I am not a fan of young Barack due to his complete lack of experience (President of the USA seems a rather big step for his first real job), I am very concerned because:
1. He will ultimately be humiliated by all this climate alarmist foolishness, and this is not good for the Office of the President, the USA or the American people.
2. His foray into CO2 reduction could drag the US economy down to great depths, such that it will take a decade or more to recover. It also seems probable that the USA will never regain its global prominence. Raising the cost of energy, the lifeblood of any economy, based on bogus climate science could seal this fate. If other countries become the dominant global powers, don’t expect the world to become a kinder, gentler place. Even those who suffer from Pavlovian Anti-American Syndrome will long for the “good old days” of Pax Americana.
Reaching the Public
Hundreds of studies by competent scientists have indisputably proven that the Carbon Dioxide-Global Warming theory is false, and yet simplistic, calamitous statements from the warmists continue to abound, and the public seems as committed as ever to this scam. Scientific logic and common sense are losing the battle.
The problem may be that scientifically unaware people cannot believe that a so called “97% of climate scientists” could be wrong, or that they would intentionally corrupt science and lead us into this disastrous folly. Perhaps it is time to put aside scientific proofs, and concentrate on the intentions and motives that drive this incredibly destructive, politically determined scheme.
It’s not as if they were hiding their objectives, or their plans to disrupt the entire social structure of the free world. The website @ur momisugly (http://www.c3headlines.com/global-warming-quotes-climate-change-quotes.html) has dozens of direct quotations from high up UN bureaucrats as well as government, and NGO officials explaining why the present culture is unsustainable, and that the only way to save the planet is de-industrialization and de-population under a WORLD GOVERNMENT administered by the UNITED NATIONS.
See http://www.futilethoughtsrandommatters.net
Yes, Newman is the prophet you have been waiting for–so well qualified and experienced in all things related to atmospheric and solar sciences. Praise be to Vishnu and all the gods.
Rogerknights, Hi, I don’t know the reason for shutting down the Sydney salinity plant. But I believe they had 65 wind turbines to run it? People complained about the noise they made, like a jet warming up. Newman is indeed a very qualified man, academic as well as business wise. He was on a wind turbine committee once and thrown off it? I wonder why? LOL. He’s a tough cookie too, but he is quite old really, he is four years older than me, born 1938 according to Wiki. Doesn’t look it.
Unmentionable, one of Abbot’s pre-election suggestions was to build more dams in Australia. A fellow student of mine completing her Diploma in Organic Agricultural production, was given a grant of 40,000 dollars to build a dam/s, providing she planted 800 trees. Creating a wild life corridor. I don’t know how she went and if the trees survived, but she fenced them off from her cows. The problem with planting small trees, they have to be kept watered and kangaroos and rabbits do eat them too.
bushbunny says:
August 15, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Unmentionable, one of Abbot’s pre-election suggestions was to build more dams in Australia. A fellow student of mine completing her Diploma in Organic Agricultural production, was given a grant of 40,000 dollars to build a dam/s, providing she planted 800 trees.
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Hey that’s great! I’ve planted a lot of trees like that myself over the years so know the deal. Watering them for the first six months keeps one fit.
I hope the Lib/Nats get on the dam building fast, Clive seems determined to frustrate all programs and the government aren’t handling it or other things too well. Yo many distractions making the fray. In the end it’s the govt of this country and not somewhere else so maybe they settle down and focus on the job now – head down and b_m up time.
Clive is in trouble with the Chinese? Personally I do think he will be one term only pollie. And that female senator. Gosh she is crass. And people voted for them.
Clive is not playing to stick around I think, turning up a parliament in those Gaudi cars … what that hell is that? Yeah, that woman … words fail … maybe barf. 😉
thingadonta says:
August 14, 2014 at 12:30 am
Too many snouts in the trough and simply too many
agendas to get to the bottom of things. The 21st century
will not forget the way mainstream science was perverted
and captured by narrow self interests.
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Of course the 21st Century will forget. The 20th Century
has well forgotten the Piltdown Man(n) hoax. Human memory
is an ephemeral thing.
Well a silver shadow Rolls, is a classic. And I think it went wrong, as the hood was up and he’s smiling with a spanner in his hand. He loves showing off. This man must have a extremely low esteem and feels he has to show his wealth off as there is nothing else to be proud of. LOL. I believe that female loud mouthed senator was ex Army. Don’t think she was an officer though, hope not.
Man, I wanna become present. Sick of the past
Clive didn’t turn up for a economic management committee. He’s being sued by the Chinese for using 12 million dollars of their joint money for his election campaigning for the senate. So there goes Titantic II, as we all know anyway, he didn’t have the funds. Who the heck would want to sail in Titanic II! Mainly in respect for all the people who perished more than anything. He’s sueing them for 660 million carbon tax he had to pay. He’s a blight on Australian politics.
About Warren Newman, well there are lots of non-scientists on this site, but there are scientists in Australia who agree with him. He is a very very smart guy.