Guest announcement by Mike Jonas,
The petition can be signed online at: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1231
Only an Australian resident or citizen can sign. Note that signing is a multi-step process, ending with an email signature confirmation.
Alan Kohler (read on) has called for a royal commission to ‘review the evidence’ on Climate and Energy Policies to conduct:
“… a review of the evidence on (climate change and energy) in which everyone is required (under oath) to tell the truth.”
Alan Kohler is an honourable high profile journalist, investment guru and businessman who believes the evidence of the “97% of scientists” (without questioning truth to power?).
Alan and WUWT readers may differ on what we believe will be revealed in such a Royal Commission, but we do agree that we all need to see the evidence, the impact and the timing, so we can have a better idea of what we all need to do, first for the people of Australia, and for the people of the world.
Please bring this Media Release below to your friends’ and family’s and social media’s attention and if they happen to be Australian – urge them to sign this e-petition.
It could be that a strange and unlikely alliance of alarmists and realists can line up in the same direction, with a common purpose – to have a Royal Commission to get at the truth.
Imagine what this would mean for the CAGW hypothesis if we can get this Royal Commission up.
Imagine the 97% and the 3% of scientists all telling the truth under oath to give everyone assurance that quality due diligence is applied to underlying science-based assumptions, data collection, technological developments and evidence based public policies.
Australians: Please read and sign House of Representatives e-Petition EN1231:
https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1231
Please note: This post is from a comment by Chris Dawson a few days ago, edited and upgraded to a full post. The original comment is at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/02/11/climate-science-does-an-about-face-dials-back-the-worst-case-scenario/#comment-2914552
Jo Nova has put up the petition on her blog: Petition: Alan Kohler wants a Royal Commission …
There are only a few more than 500 signatures so far. A lot more are needed. Please send this on to everyone you know, alarmists and realists alike.
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I think the most important, urgent, first task the whole world needs to do is properly analyse two questions: Q1) what are the consequences if climate science has it wrong? Q2) why should we believe their data, analysis, conclusions? This before we even review the actual science. As sceptics this should be our priority; getting the rest of science, MSM, decision makers and the rest of the human race to realise why that is so important, urgent and how to start doing it.
If we think how we deal with this in other areas where we have to learn from disastrous mistakes perhaps people can start to realise how and why; that mistakes happen that seemed impossible despite an apparent consensus of experts; so consensus of experts is not a valid answer to Q2. That these mistakes can have disastrous consequences. That we learn from those mistakes, e.g. aircrash investigations. That we implement changes, procedures, independent audit, certifications. Presumably we wouldn’t board a plane today unless these processes were happening. We know even if you have the most skilled pilots it is not safe without the correct procedures etc.
From what I can make out currently their short answer to Q2 is consensus of experts, precautionary principle, improvements in vehicle reliability. But isn’t the latter engineering, not science? What processes improving vehicle reliability are applicable to climate science? What if they have it wrong and therefore we don’t understand longrange weather and climate and therefore could be in an equally dangerous situation wasting valuable time and resources, making bad decisions, blissfully unaware of a different change unfolding that we struggle to cope with?
i.e. we need to ask them how they do their science, their procedures, how do they and the system they work in compare with other areas such as engineering. This is like a product in engineering, the consequences of it being right or wrong are both massive for all of us, so is it being treated, checked, audited as we do in other such areas?
Climate Alarmism will not stop until Climate Research money stops. Alarmism is fed by climate research money. No political commission will stop it. Follow the money.
Signed the petition. There are now 965 signatures. Too few to have it taken seriously. Come on sign if you are an Aussie.
I emailed Alan Kohler (actually an assistant according to the website I found) asking him to sign the petition and to use his influence to get as many others as he could to sign. But the email failed to deliver, and I can’t find any other contact email. Does anyone know where I can contact him??
Bad idea. A Royal Commisssion is not the right place to decide scientific matters. The terms of reference and the commission itself will be hijacked by the warmunists.
It’s a trap.
Kohler is dedicated warmunist and renewable energy spruiker and does a short satirical business segment on the ABC news every night (or used to ). I don’t know because I’ve given up watching that left wing propaganda.
I’m not signing.
“To Serve Man”
“It’s a Cookbook!”
I’m with you. (see my comment below)
There’s not as chance in hell this will let actual science be brought to the public or even the Commissioner.
Are you seriously suggesting that Jo Nova (where this petition started) would surrender any ground to the alarmists??
“Imagine what this would mean for the CAGW hypothesis if we can get this Royal Commission up.”
Does anyone imagine sceptics will get a chance to design the questions and/or format of such a RC? Does anyone think ANY sceptical scientist (yeah, I know, a tautology) will even get an invite?
Does anyone think it will make a difference? After all, we’ve all seen how many bankers got charged with fraud and malpractice from the Banking RC right?
Oh… Wait…
Keep waiting…
It won’t work, no matter how many signatures are on the petition.
I asked my local MP for a Royal Commission into climate science. He said it will never happen. He told me the “War on Climate Change” has been lost. Funny that. I never noticed anyone in the Australian Government make any effort to actually fight a war on Climate Change. I know former Prime Minister Tony Abbott is alleged to have said “Climate change is crap!” – correct observation. He was crucified for that.
Sadly, those in positions of power in Australia and most other Western nations have no intention to “fight” the false Climate Change ideology. They know the entire population under 40 years has been brainwashed by the climate change propagandists.
It will take at least two or maybe three generations for society to realize it has been hoodwinked. Instead our governments will embark on useless, expensive carbon reduction schemes and make our respective nations go broke in a Green/Socialist agenda while China and India grow rich and powerful enough overwhelm us with their wealth and military power.
Now stands at 1225. That’s pathetic and to quote Malcolm Roberts empirical evidence the vast majority of Aussies think you’re sad, impotent nutters. You couldn’t organize a shag in a whorehouse.