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.
someone literally shagged her brains out.
Heh.
It is rather bizarre when the story teller gets scared of his own stories.
Is there a reason/cause associated with the people that suffer from this type of psychosis :0
Dana and the Grauniad are desperately trying to hold up their fake news narrative of climate catastrophe is true. I don’t post links to either but their weak predictable arguments are in zombie mode. And double tapping zombies (metaphorically) is always the right thing to do.
No offense meant, but someone as pessimistic as she is should not be raising children that she has no faith or trust in to be able overcome or adapt to any “monsters” the future may bring.
She should give more consideration to how her progeny will deal with a despotic global socialist government if she wants to stress over something.
I would be more interested in opinions from a mechanical chiller expert than a “heatwave expert”, anyway.
She is obviously a product of her immediate environment and sociological influence.
Perhaps Dr Kirkpatrick fears her offspring will be as fragile as the planet seems from her perspective.
The carbon-indoctrinated have much anxiety about the future because they reject the fact that reality has not honored the prophecies of Mann and instead ushered in the age of aquarius.
Eric, you just got blog butt-dialed, somehow.
hot linked to to Anthonys’ website, using up bandwidth
“Sarah Perkins Kirkpatrick”
I’ll wager none of you Sheilas and blokes can say that 5 times after downing 5 Foster’s Lagers.
Especially while talking out of one side of your mouth in pure, unadulterated Strayn.
I’d probably chunder after Foster’s number four anyway.
Ok, I’ll bite: what’s chunder?
Chunder is Aussie for barf, like a technicolor yawn.
I see I’m under moderation. perhaps for use of the word h@m@sexual, which really has little to do with chundering, which is vomiting. Etymology explained in comment under moderation.
Gabro, I think wordpress has a glitch where some comments just vaporize into the ether(net).
If she is too stupid and emotionally unable to care for her children I am certain there are childless couples who could properly care for her children and that would include raising them to know how to live in a hot climate. Climate extremists are incompetent whiny brats.
If she’s a ‘heatwave expert’, then she should know about this unbroken 93 year-old record set in Australia during the summer of 1923-24 (it is also the current unbroken WORLD RECORD!)
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh154/crocko05/Marble%20Bar%20heatwave_zpsakjd3v3r.jpg
BTW, that is 160 consecutive days ABOVE 35C.
‘It’s a scorcher’- https://www.climatescience.org.au/staff/profile/sperkins
http://www.ccrc.unsw.edu.au/ccrc-team/academic-research/sarah-perkins-kirkpatrick
so what are this mob up to-
https://www.climatescience.org.au/about
The Centre’s focus, Climate System Science, is the quantitative study of the climate system designed to enable modeling of the future of the climate system. It is built on a core of the sciences of the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and land surface. It includes the physics, dynamics and biology of these systems, and the flow of energy, water and chemicals between them. Climate System Science builds mathematical models of these systems based on observations. It describes these observations, and the underlying physics of the system, in computer codes. These computer codes are known as a “climate model” and utilize very large super computers.”
The usual, more secret codes called climate models but not to worry as they have really BIG computers which should impress you. Bottom right is ‘How to make the most of a conference trip to Europe’ and ‘How to win a William P. Lowry Graduate Student Award’ which says it all. Not quite because because there is Stephanie who was torn between mathematics and art at school asking ‘Do you speak STEM’?
https://www.climatescience.org.au/blog/astone/2016/04/08/958-do-you-speak-stem
Well I do but apparently Steph has fallen on her feet with the climastrology crowd and it’s all about indulging her artistic side on the Gummint drip too-
“As a climate scientist, I get to use most of my senior high school subjects/extra curricular activities- Visual Arts, Design & Technology, English, Debating & Public Speaking, and of course Mathematics & Physics- in my job every day. I write… a lot. I also create my own pictures for my article and I graphically illustrate my analysed data to make concepts and results easy to digest.”
Yeah we get the picture luv and as a taxpayer I’ll leave you to work out where all the STEAM is coming from.
History must restart every few years because no one seems to remember that it got hot in the past. The news is that it’s currently really hot in Phoenix. I don’t actually remember when this was, maybe 1989 or sometime in the early 1990s. Driving through the Saline Valley, west of Death Valley in July, it was 122 or so. We didn’t have air conditioning in the truck and we played a game where we rolled the windows up until it felt really hot and then rolled them down and felt refreshingly cool. We went east and down through Arizona and finally headed back to LA. It was plenty hot in Phoenix, but when we crossed the Colorado at Needles it was 132. By the side of the road, a State Trooper was pouring water over the back of the neck of a guy kneeling by the side of a Winnebago and we figured it was just too hot to cross the Mohave while the sun was still up. In fact, we thought it was dangerous. We turned around and spent a few hours loitering in a grocery store where there was AC. When darkness fell, we headed west again, camping at the Kelso Dunes in balmy 90 degree night time temps.
Why is it that all the frail climate scientists seem to live in Australia. Maybe except for the debunked Edith Spot butterfly expert of whom I haven’t heard a word since she came down with the blues. The original Climate Blues epidemic caused by the “Pause” started there in Oz.
Oh it was rationalized that the reason they were sick was that they saw the horrible future and no one was listening to them, but any psychologist trained prior to the 1970s, knows the most classical diagnosis for suffers of this kind of neurosis is… errm… Деиуаl (of all things!) Meanwhile post normal psychologists simply hugged them and accepted the sufferers’ self diagnosis which the older shrinks would have labeled the newer ones as enablers.
Now the thing about деиуал, is that the brain really knows what the problem is and the illness arises from fending off the truth that this remarkable organ is trying hard to present them with.
One sees this unhappy situation in grief and this might be a mechanism to ease you into acceptance. The brain creates dreams like looking for someone, say, at a party and they always seem to have moved on just before you entered another room, etc. Eventually you get the message. However, when the message is that you have wasted all these years, yay, maybe most of a long career on baseless nonsense, the consequences of accepting this fact from your own disloyal brain is something many, especially fragile personalities, will exhaust themselves fending off such a huge truth. Hence a painful and debilitating illness needing expert therapy that isn’t very available in this Mad Hatter’s world.
I wish the young lady depicted a speedy recovery because she’s not going to be too good for her little one with this illness and she can take courage that she is young enough to turn her efforts to reality in her science, an option not easy for the older scientists. They all do need treatment. I look at her specialty- heat waves expert -” and I think of the over the hill professor who made her into this silly thing. Shame!
If she’s that convinced of “what I know is coming”, why doesn’t she move her family so she can study heat waves in Antarctica? Or Edmonton Canada?