Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Australian ABC, a government news organisation, reports that 100s of scientists who attended a 4 day conference in Australia’s capital Canberra last week are all sad about what we are doing to our planet. But there is something we can do to help.
Climate change: Scientists sad, frustrated as extreme weather becomes the new norm
By Riley Stuart
Call it fatigue, call it frustration, but some of the best brains in the country are fed up.
Australia’s leading climate scientists joined their New Zealand counterparts in Canberra for a four-day conference last week, but dark clouds lingered over their discussions.
The theme of the conference was “Australasian weather, climate and oceans: past, present and future”.
And global warming was never far from the guests’ lips.
“There is definitely what you would call ‘climate fatigue’ on the part of scientists,” said Dr Andrew Glikson, from the Australian National University’s School of Archaeology and Anthropology.
“There were hundreds of scientists there, and my impression is while we continue to do the science as best we can, there is a fatigue when it comes to arguing in public.
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Will Stefan, one of the authors of The Anthropocene Equation, a claim that 0.7C / century is exceptional, attended the event. Apparently he was sad as well.
I understand how deeply these people care, which is why I have decided to do something to help.
Please sign my change.org petition, Help Climate Scientists avoid Personal CO2 Emissions.
When climate scientists have full time access to world class video conferencing technology, they will be able to avoid attending all those climate conferences in person. Climate scientists will be able to avoid the mind numbing guilt they must currently feel about their personal carbon footprints, as they soar above our heads flying on CO2 belching jet aircraft to attend all those climate conferences.
Please take the time to show you care. Sign the Petition, and if you have time, leave a personal message of support for our hard working jetset climate community.
Don’t forget to send the petition to your friends, so they can sign as well.
“some of the best brains in the country”! Who are they kidding?
“….some of the best fantasy writers in the country” is more like it.
All I had to read was Will Stefan. Jeez. The bloke does not know his arse from his elbow. The claptrap that has been making the rounds in the MSM here in Oz from this goof are mind numbing. He has made the incredible unverifiable claim that 2015 being the hottest year on record here in Australia had a 1 in 12,000 chance of happening naturally without human intervention. WTF? These idiots would not recognise a natural cycle if it bit them in the arse. They do not even know what the natural cycles/effects are being so focused on the C02 influence. How can anyone possibly make that claim?
” there is a fatigue when it comes to arguing in public.”
Argue in public?
It almost never happened.
In my own experience I was responsible for the arrangements in my city when Lord Monckton was touring my country.
I tried to find a scientist to have a civilised debate, I tried a number of prominent green politicians and I tried to find an activist or two.
Failed completely, they all ran a mile.
The best I could organise was a discusiion between Lord Monckton, the audience and a couple of local government councillers which was ok, but not as good as grinding a climate “scientist” into the ground:)
I suppose by “arguing in public” the writer means to spout the typical nonsense without anyone to disagree.
Cheers
Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
Precisely Roger. The only thing I ever heard that made any sense from a global warmer was when they made some excuse why they couldn’t be there any more.
“Argue in public?
It almost never happened.”
Well, you had Mosher tell people they are ‘Wrong’ 8 billion times. Does that count?
Andrew
I’ve read all the comments and I hope you people are happy ! You should be ashamed of yoursel,,,,,,,, nah keep going they deserve it .
I’m still getting spam from the last change.org petition I signed. The petition made no difference: a public street and bike ramp to the Yarra river were handed over to private developers, so Chinese investors could have a nice view of the river at the expense of the locals, even while destroying said nice view with a growing canyon of apartments. China first. No worries mate!
With all due respect for the intent of the well-worded petition, it won’t make a difference. Australian politicians don’t care about any members of the public not willing or able to fund their fabulous parties.
A receptionist at the Liberal Party federal headquarters once gave me an honest answer to this very question:
“Who does your party represent?”
Answer: “Our donors“.
Both parties gave millions to the crooked Clinton foundation. Australian politicians don’t adhere to the constitution, the public mostly isn’t aware that we have one, and when they are aware, they don’t know what’s actually in it. If the public was aware of the content, they might realize, for example, that several politicians sit in the parliament while holding the right to citizenship of a foreign nation, and are therefore disqualified from sitting in the parliament by section 44.
Americans, despite some ideological extremes and a flawed voting system, have a huge advantage over us convicts. Most Australians still have faith in the mainstream media – that’s how bad things are!
Fool me thrice? No worries mate.
Maybe I’ll sign the petition anyway. 200 signatures isn’t asking for much. 🙂
Leonardo di Caprio and his luvvie pals need to be included in this.
Nah. I heard he’s diverting the helicopters he uses to move models around the world to his yachts over to California to help with evacuating folks in the way of a bursting dam that he believes didn’t need fixing due to the permanent drought from climate change.
I’m sure. Right?
Avoid personal CO2 emissions – stop breathing out.
Get that in austrian cable TV :
learn a lot –
https://www.google.at/search?client=ms-android-samsung&q=new+Zealand+border+patrol&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF4vGEqpLSAhUI6xQKHV08D9sQvwUIFigA&biw=360&bih=559#mie=e%2Coverview%2Cnew%20Zealand%20border%20patrol%2CH4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLSz9U3MCoqzM02fcToyi3w8sc9YSmbSWtOXmM04-IKzsgvd80rySypFNLgYoOy5Lj4pJC0aTBI8XAh8XkAIExlB1YAAAA
Where’s the Help Al Gore Choose Better Eating Options petition? 😉
Andrew
Wasn’t extreme weather always the norm?
I think the sad scientists deserve a break. You can’t squeeze the flesh via Skype, so they should be allowed to fly to any conference they choose, provided it’s via a CO2 neutral plane. Enter Solar Impulse II: Average speed: 43 mph (better pack a big lunch and plan on leaving a little earlier). Number of passengers: zero (sorry. pilot, you’ll have to eject, I’m off to an important climate conference.)
Or that:
https://www.google.at/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=vHCkWM78POq96ATer5uABA&q=border+patrol+++nz+primary&oq=border+patrol+++nz+primary&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3
Or this one:
primary industries :
https://www.google.at/search?q=border+patrol+Toronto+Canada&oq=border+patrol+Toronto+Canada&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.30677j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
The hypocrisy of jet setting climate partygoers has been pushed in their faces by sceptics for a few decades. I’m encouraged they are actually listening to us. The Ozzie “best brains” in the country are also in the grief phase, away behind their counterparts in America and Europe, but that is a start. I’m afraid history is going to be particularly hard on Oz re this zany debacle. I would love to see a head count because it seems to me that Oz has more climating folks per square kilometre than any other country. Zooks! And at a time when the need for bank tellers, taxi drivers and bus boys is in decline.
Extreme weather? … What “extreme weather”?
https://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/trends-in-extreme-weather-events-since-1900–an-enduring-conundrum-for-wise-policy-advice-2167-0587-1000155.pdf
The only way that I will sign the petition is if you change the cause just slightly — that is, by encouraging these “scientists” to stop using their CO2-laden breath to hype climate alarm.
Tell them to stop goofing off and do their homework-
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf
observa,
You mean you expect them to read over fourteen hundred pages of historical facts! If you think that they are depressed now, then wait until they encounter THIS expectation of yours.
In other words, your homework assignment would seem a bit excessive, taking away from important grant-writing and international conference-planning activities. This is science, man, … wake up! Get with the program!
How did she get published? Who let THAT through?
They saw ‘climate change’ mentioned and immediately gave it a big tick?
Come on Prime Minister. Get with the program and announce that forthwith no publicly paid official will remain air-conditioned on your watch in order to save the planet. Won’t you please think of the CO2 savings and the grand-kiddies? The true believers await your command to show all the doubters they really mean business.
As I’ve said, the amount of hypocrisy exhibited by the progressivegreenleft will outlive the heat death of the universe. It will lurk, like gravity, in a singularity and return for the next universe.
When I saw the headline, I thought the article was going to be about helping those who suffer from CO2 guilt to stop breathing…
Let them move here to Ontario, Canada and have them open an electricity bill…
Done. Great idea.
I would like to propose that from now on, all so-called climate conferences be held in Watford City, North Dakota. The center of the Bakken oil field and all that frackin’. And they could see that free enterprise is a good thing.
Did anybody contact the Mickey Mann? By special arrangement, he might participate in such conferences even from
State PennPenn State.This is your typical throw money at the problem university project. The expensive tech build out will be used some, but will not limit the travel agenda. I’ve seen this before.
I wanted to read the petition, but have problem to reach the letter. Click on the link “Read the letter” (on the petition site) shows only the list of addresses and then leads back to where I started. Am I doing something wrong, or is that link broken?
Slightly off topic, but this relates to CO2 emissions and energy consumption/production including the USA and Canada.
http://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/most-toxic-countries?_ga=1.239890947.1898287112.1487204624
This incorrectly relates deaths to air pollution and atmospheric CO2, generally an awful inaccurate map that will especially angry any Canadians.
Each country’s performance was ranked on five factors:
Energy consumption, per capita
Carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion, per capita
Air pollution
Deaths attributable to air pollution, per 100,00 capita
Renewable energy production
I “think” Mikie Mann is in Oz right now as I heard the ABC’s Philip Adams fawning introduction on his LNL show last Friday. Could have been a repeat though. I turned off after the intro.
I think we may need an executive order banning his return.
How can world class video conferencing technology,
compete with dirty rotten imbeciles
live: https://www.google.at/s?q=Canberra&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8&ctxr&pf=c&sns=1