Guest essay by Eric Worrall
What do you do when your feeble climate evidence fails to convince?
Climate scientists reveal their fears for the future
Cradling her newborn baby girl, heatwave expert Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick admits to feeling torn between the joy of motherhood and anxiety over her first-born child’s future.
“I always wanted a big family and I’m thrilled. But my happiness is altered by what I know is coming with climate change,” she said.
“I don’t like to scare people but the future’s not looking very good.
“Having a baby makes it personal. Will this child suffer heatstroke just walking to school?”
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‘I wouldn’t want to live in Brisbane or further north’
How hot could it get?
All of Australia is vulnerable to climate change but Dr Perkins Kirkpatrick said as the decades progress, some regions will be better off than others in terms of heatwaves.
“We’ve already seen changes in heatwaves, particularly their frequency, and these heatwaves are only going to get worse, particularly in the tropics, where the number of heatwave days will be much greater than now,” she said.
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Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-27/climate-scientists-speak-of-their-worst-fears/8631368
There are plenty of reasons to live North of Brisbane, such as the balmy 73F winter day I’m currently enjoying.
Up here on the edge of the tropics, we have discovered a simple solution to heatwaves, a solution which obviously hasn’t filtered down to our cousins in more temperate regions.
Our solution to heatwaves – stay indoors, crank up the air conditioning. Or wear a hat and drink lots of water, if you have to be outside.
She is worried to lose her well paid job. That of course could have a big influence in the child’s future. The baby girl may see her mother more often now she has become a useless heatwave expert .
Let me see. An immigrant from Ireland/Engand, in the very high latitudes, complains about the heat in the low latitudes.
I worry about her child’s future, too.
“I don’t like to scare people…” Translation: “I love scaring people about climate change, and I love virtue signaling to my fellow Climate Cultists about how scared I am”. She’s a liar, hypocrite, and a moron. I feel bad for her kid.
Bruce, exactly! spot on!
Pretty much nailed it right there! She’s pretty pathetic!
“I have a feeling that as more and more people learn the truth, I will lose my job and won’t be able to support my baby.”
That’s what she really meant to say.
Just how much good will destroying the economy of her own country, needlessly, do for her child? Or, diverting money from welfare and medical research into pointless, uneconomic renewables. It she utterly callous? Has she no morality?
In central Indiana we haven’t hit 80 for about a week and some nights in the 40’s. It has been wonderful. Same for the last 2 summers!.
“…heatwave expert Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick admits…”
Okay. What is a heat wave expert and how do you get to be one?
GP…What is a heat wave expert and how do you get to be one?
Simple.
You sell your soul to the Company Store.
The Klymit Change Company Store.
Or, as Mr John Cash nearly sang…
…You load 16 tons (of CO2)
and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St Peter don’t you call me cos I can’t go
I owe my Soul to The Klymit Change Company Store…
I think Cash was late to the party with 16 Tons. A partial timeline of recordings:
Merle Travis (author) 1946
Tennessee Ernie Ford* 1955
Lorne Greene 1965
Johnny Cash 1987
*sold 2 million copies.
Just to be a smarthy ass…… she will feel a real heat wave when she hits menopause.
On a more serious note, why the focus on “heat waves”. Are there no periods where there is extended cold any longer? What I mean is that if your going to study periods above normal for a certain geographical area shouldn’t you also look at periods below normal as well? I thought that was the definition of “climate change”.
I don’t know if this is on topic or not, but among various concerns that these people foist on us is the concern of spreading hopelessness among the young. The number of young people (low 20’s and below) committing suicide or having “coping issues” is exploding. They don’t want to try because there is no future in it…they get that at school, at home and through media. All because of “big oil”, deniers, and “big Business”. We are raising a generation(s) of useless people. (big generality there…)
The only change in heat waves was to define down the temperature required and for the media to lie constantly about the past temperatures.
I don’t care in the least what the scientists “feels” like—are they doing their job? Are they following scientific method? Can they produce reliable results? That’s all I care about. If they don’t like their job, they’re free to find a new one.
People are so caught up in the story of human climate destruction that they can no longer see reality. Some people seem to need the threat of doom to give their lives maximum meaning. Some people need to see humans as a threat to themselves. Strangely, this is a very attractive and very infectious story.
People get comfortable believing the story — so much so that not believing it causes an unsettled feeling.
This is the ugly side of the creature of habit.
“Will this child suffer heatstroke just walking to school?””
Drive him.
The brain damage will come from the education system, not the walk to it.
+10
+10.1
Dying of a heat stroke walking to school is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read lately.
Here’s a concept: monitor your child’s fitness level, ensure that he/she is not obese, is moderately in shape, is properly hydrated, and is dressed appropriately (including, maybe, a hat or even a shade umbrella). A moderately fit, hydrated, properly dressed child is really not likely to die of a heat stroke, I’m thinking.
I used to walk home from junior high school every single day, … four or five miles, … on concrete sidewalks, … carrying a load of books [books?! — what’s that?], … sometimes on really hot days. I was moderately obese, and would have never thought to wear a hat. I survived and am here today to tell about it. Oh, I forgot to mention, I did not have to walk, but rather walking was my choice, in order to avoid the sardine-can experience of riding the school bus.
If I had a mother who had expressed this fear of me, then I would have denied that she was my mother, in order to avoid the embarrassment of being labeled a pathetic weakling.
But times have changed, I suppose. Pathetic seems to be in style now.
I’m such a relic.
What about the shots fired at the buildings housing climate scientists who fact check biased climate models with satellite data now? That is happening in 2017, not a hundred years from now.
hmmmm “heatwave expert Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick ” what exactly qualifies one as a “heatwave expert”? sounds a bit like a breathing or walking expert…. one that can breath or walk. Wow the expert bar has dropped.
Cheers!
Joe
Any links to peer reviewed papers providing observational evidence of statistically significant increase in “heat waves”, anywhere on the globe?
Don’t have time to read all comments yet, so I apologize if this question already answered.
I feel offended! Somehow she got a “scientific” degree – that’s macroagression against reason!
I hope this so-called “scientist” reads these comments and learns her lesson: wattsupwiththat is not to be trifled with when it comes to science of the people.
All Sara needs to do is put an Air conditioner in her Safe space and power it with fossil fuels .
Dump that stinking solar panel.
Eric,
your solution to the heat – “stay indoors, crank up the air conditioning. Or wear a hat and drink lots of water, if you have to be outside.” … it doesn’t address the doctors’ concerns about her kid getting heatstroke because she will make her kid walk to & from school when it is hot enough to cause physical problems for the kid.
… your solution to the heat is very selfish, you should also offer to buy a prius and drive the kid to and from school.
It’s just such a weak argument — dying of heat stroke — thus characterizing children as defenseless members of a physically weak society.
What happens if the child grew up, joined the military, got shipped to some hot, distant land, where soldiers are required to drink liters of water a day, so that the body can cool itself via sweating. … sadly, zero childhood pre conditioning of any kind for such a possible future scenario.
I bet this heat-wave expert would buy a bumper sticker that reads something like … My child is an honor student at Climate Academy, but only walks to school there if it’s cool enough outside, otherwise stays home on hot days for home schooling, because of possible heat stroke due to human-caused climate change.
Might her concern really be that her child might sweat too much, soiling the high-thread-count cloths she paid for, … produced (more than likely) by fossil-fuel-burning technology ?
I wouldn’t consider posting this article – even though I re-post and refer almost every other article from this blog. I see this as adding more fear to uninformed people as it is left to their own interpretation. Not the typical blog from here.
WUWT frequently indulges in posts like this (5-10% of total).
It is critical to understand just how inane the religion called “climate science” really is.
Even more so when you learn some of these folks actually want to censor or put us in jail.
Meanwhile, life expectancy continues to increase, in Australia, and most countries in the world (barring those with war and political chaos).
Odd question: do most school children walk to school in Australia? I know around here in Canada most of the kids are helicoptered in, so to speak, by their parents. It’s not climate they’re worried about, rather the plague of child predators so the kidlets need to be shuttled to and fro. If kids are really walking more in Aus, then good for them. We were considered to be “mean” parents because we made our child walk to school and then back home again. The child was no fool and often managed to acquire transport, at least on the way home. But it wasn’t from us.
That said this is just downright silly. A couple of days of heat now makes a heat wave? Oh dear. And at that it’s only a couple of days a year with +35C? Oh my goodness how soft the Australians have become. In a “normal” summer we have more days above 35C than that and we’re the coldest large urban center (500K+) in the world. We long for those days and those temperatures. Sadly we’re currently enduring a May and June that are running about 3-5C BELOW normal at the moment. The only joy to take away from that is the local news is bereft of global warming news.
I’m Canadian and I had plenty of walks to school in -30C temperatures and lower. And I mean plenty-
school was virtually never canceled because of weather when I was a kid and -30C probably occurred about 6-10 times per winter in those days. School got out at the end of June so I was running around outside when it was +40C. No sunscreen and I am English by ancestry. Regardless of weather we played outside every chance we had. Came in for some kool-aid or watermelon but the house wasn’t air conditioned and Mum was usually cooking ( even though it was about a thousand degrees in the house) so we took our cool down outside. Very little was air conditioned in those days and the upstairs of our house was absolutely stifling in the summer.
Oh yeah! And life was good!
John
…assume it was uphill each way…
I walked to school ten miles each way through the snow, summer and winter, uphill both ways, with barbed wire wrapped around my bare feet for traction on the ice. We had to burn the teacher for warmth in the winter.
“Oh my goodness how soft the Australians have become.”
Wustrailians.
Far from all of them. Oz still produces heroes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_Victoria_Cross_recipients#Victoria_Cross_for_Australia
Hard men, but fair.
Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird was killed in operations in Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan. The citation for his Victoria Cross reads:
For the most conspicuous acts of valour, extreme devotion to duty and ultimate self-sacrifice at Ghawchak village, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, as a Commando Team Commander in Special Operations Task Group on Operation SLIPPER.
On 22 June 2013, a commando platoon of the Special Operations Task Group, with partners from the Afghan National Security Forces, conducted a helicopter assault into Ghawchak village, Uruzgan province, in order to attack an insurgent network deep within enemy-held territory. Shortly after insertion, Corporal Baird’s team was engaged by small arms fire from several enemy positions. Corporal Baird quickly seized the initiative, leading his team to neutralise the positions, killing six enemy combatants and enabling the assault to continue.
Soon afterwards, an adjacent Special Operations Task Group team came under heavy enemy fire, resulting in its commander being seriously wounded. Without hesitation, Corporal Baird led his team to provide support. En route, he and his team were engaged by rifle and machine gun fire from prepared enemy positions. With complete disregard for his own safety, Corporal Baird charged towards the enemy positions, supported by his team. On nearing the positions, he and his team were engaged by additional enemy on their flank. Instinctively, Corporal Baird neutralised the new threat with grenades and rifle fire, enabling his team to close with the prepared position. With the prepared position now isolated, Corporal Baird manoeuvred and was engaged by enemy machine gun fire, the bullets striking the ground around him. Displaying great valour, he drew the fire, moved to cover, and suppressed the enemy machine gun position. This action enabled his team to close on the entrance to the prepared position, thus regaining the initiative.
On three separate occasions Corporal Baird charged an enemy-held building within the prepared compound. On the first occasion he charged the door to the building, followed by another team member. Despite being totally exposed and immediately engaged by enemy fire, Corporal Baird pushed forward while firing into the building. Now in the closest proximity to the enemy, he was forced to withdraw when his rifle ceased to function. On rectifying his rifle stoppage, and reallocating remaining ammunition within his team, Corporal Baird again advanced towards the door of the building, once more under heavy fire. He engaged the enemy through the door but was unable to suppress the position and took cover to reload. For a third time, Corporal Baird selflessly drew enemy fire away from his team and assaulted the doorway. Enemy fire was seen to strike the ground and compound walls around Corporal Baird, before visibility was obscured by dust and smoke. In this third attempt, the enemy was neutralised and the advantage was regained, but Corporal Baird was killed in the effort.
Corporal Baird’s acts of valour and self-sacrifice regained the initiative and preserved the lives of his team members. His actions were of the highest order and in keeping with the finest traditions of the Australian Army and the Australian Defence Force.
“Cradling her newborn baby girl, heatwave expert Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick admits to feeling torn between the joy of motherhood and anxiety over her first-born child’s future.” Wow, talk about sensationalism. Bringing one’s child to a protest then using it as a prop.
I’d say Waaaaaa!!! It’s getting warmer! Everybody cry now!!! How the heck does she think people survive in places like the Congo where the mean temperature is in the upper 80’sF (Lower 30’sC). From experience- your body adapts to it!!! The whole world was 25deg F (14deg C) warmer in the Carboniferous and life thrived!!!!!
YEA, WELL PEOPLE IN THE CONGO DON’T WALK TO SCHOOL! So there.
What in the world is your point? People in the Congo **do** walk to school. My point is that 2deg C isn’t the end of the world. I have lived in the tropics and acclimatized to the point where 78degF was so ‘cold’ I put on a sweater.
Another example of someone with a really comfortable lifestyle, trying to convince themselves they’ve had it really hard – apparently that’s a moral good.
For so-called Progressives, victimhood is the new sainthood.
Not exactly new, but true that nobody ever was sainted for harming others, so you have to play the underdog.