Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Richard Aedy of the Aussie ABC wants to know why there has been no progress addressing climate change despite 30 years of green activism. The answer, of course, is staring him in the face.
Climate change talk has been around for 30 years. Where’s the action?
By Richard Aedy for Hot Mess
I can’t tell you what I was doing on June 23, 1988, though I can take a guess.
I was a week or so from finishing my journalism course and — how times have changed — I’d already been offered a job.
That’s what would have been occupying my time — along with my girlfriend and my friends and going out. I definitely wouldn’t have been thinking about climate change.
But some people were. Because on June 23, 1988, James Hansen, a climate scientist at NASA, appeared before a US Senate hearing with a warning for the world.
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In 2001, the IPCC released its third assessment report. This one was more certain and spelt out the consequences of climate change this century.
Unfortunately it came out nine days after September 11 and disappeared completely.
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Over the next few years, something else became apparent.
It wasn’t just that the government wasn’t acting on climate change — increasingly, there was pushback against the science.
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Kevin Rudd defeated a tired Howard government, and gave me hope.
For more than two years I thought he and then-environment minister Penny Wong were going to get emissions trading to happen.
When he abandoned it, I wrote a furious letter to my then-MP, Maxine McKew. I never heard back.
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And yet we’ve done very little. I want to know why. That’s why I’ve made this series.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-17/climate-change-action-has-been-missing-hot-mess-richard-aedy/12200196
Why has there been no action in 30 years, despite countless conferences and high level expressions of concern?
The answer to this paradox is there has been plenty of action, but nothing attempted has worked. Greens long ago won the political debate, but they squandered their victory on failure.
30 years of non-achievement is surely compelling evidence that Renewables do not work. Generous government subsidies and forced purchases of “green” energy have failed to spark a renewable revolution. The billions of dollars poured into the renewable revolution have achieved nothing worthwhile. There is no conspiracy to suppress renewables, a point Michael Moore made very clear in his documentary Planet of the Humans. They just don’t work.
What caused the pushback Richard mentions?
ABC reporter Richard Aedy quoted former NASA GISS Director James Hansen’s 1988 warning to Congress right at the start of his article, but Richard left out a few important details.
Long before Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans”, Hansen was upsetting environmentalists by telling them nuclear power was the solution to staving off the coming climate catastrophe. A few years ago Naomi Oreskes called James Hansen a “Denier” because of Hansen’s repeated claim that renewables alone cannot decarbonise the economy rapidly enough to prevent Hansen’s predicted climate disaster.
If greens had embraced a viable solution to reducing CO2 emissions from the start, I suspect many climate skeptics like myself would never have questioned the science. What first prompted me to question the science was that the proposed solution didn’t make sense. The math is not complicated. Anyone with an ounce of engineering skill can perform the calculations for themselves using publicly available data, use their own expertise to confirm that renewables are a joke.
The green push for useless renewables is a big red flag. If the proposed solution doesn’t make sense, maybe the problem is nonsense as well.
You don’t have to dig very deep to find big problems with climate science.
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Great amounts of rain will fall in the coming days over the Great Lakes and northeast US and eastern Canada.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=total_cloud_water/orthographic=-100.49,37.15,1183
Recent reports from the Great Lakes indicate the region doesn’t need any more rain.
I think they are full.
This should be interesting.
Richard Aedy studied journalism. He clearly doesn’t know what science is.
The “science” is just expert opinion and modelling based on assumptions, not application of the scientific method.
The problem isn’t even renewables. The red flag on climate change was the out of hand rejection of nuclear energy. The equated Climate Change with drowning and when presented with a life preserver, they turned it down. They rejected zero-carbon nuclear power while claiming CO2 emissions were the largest threat to the planet. At that point it becomes clear that it’s no longer a science issue and is a political one.
Better question. Outside of normal variability and established trends , where is this “climate change” that we as humans control?
The answer to the 30 year old inaction on climate change puzzle, despite $trillions being thrown at the issue is this.
It is impossible, to solve a problem that does not exist!
It is in part due to an earlier generation of environmentalists that we find ourselves in this position. Had we gone nuclear in the ‘60s & 70’s with electricity too cheap to meter no one would be having this conversation.
How is it that they consistently get it wrong again and again?
It is my opinion that there has been no progress for the left due to a willful lack of debate. My ‘red pill moment was watching a CAGW promoter walk off the John Stossel set to avoid debate with a dissident.
WUWT and similar people will go down in history as heroes who helped prevent the barbarians from destroying our economy.
“It is in part due to an earlier generation of environmentalists that we find ourselves in this position. Had we gone nuclear in the ‘60s & 70’s with electricity too cheap to meter no one would be having this conversation.”
Maybe not. France went nuclear energy early and about 75 percent of their electricity is supplied by nuclear power plants and now they are talking about shutting them down. The same with Germany (Angela is afraid a Tsunami will hit Germany). It doesn’t make any sense, but that’s delusional Greens for you.
Aedy has been with ABC since 1998, with a break to work at BBC for four years, so says his mini bio at ABC. all those years with taxpayers’ paying his wages.
ABC is finally coming out of their covid hysteria (so little happening on that front, especially in Australia, which remains in a semi-lockdown), and is, therefore, returning to their climate hysteria, which has been less obsessive in recent weeks; thus the “Hot Mess” series of which Aedy writes.
15 May: NoTricksZone: Climate Alarmist Rahmstorf Quietly Concedes Models Are Crap, Running Way Too Hot
By P Gosselin
Stefan Rahmstorf on the IPCC modelling breakdown: Reason to breathe a sigh of relief, new climate models are far too sensitive.
By Die kalte Sonne
(Translated by P. Gosselin)
https://notrickszone.com/2020/05/15/climate-alarmist-rahmstorf-quietly-concedes-models-are-crap-running-way-too-hot/
VIDEO: 7m: 17 May: Facebook: Sky News Australia: Expert over-reaction ‘destroyed the very fabric of our nation’
Coronavirus and the so-called global warming crisis share the same “fake catastrophe built on a fraudulent threat of doom” DNA, according to Outsiders host Rowan Dean.
https://www.facebook.com/SkyNewsAustralia/videos/556611055259746/
above program had lengthy interview with Matt Ridley (no video online as yet), but they discussed some of the following:
9 May: UK Spectator: We know everything – and nothing – about Covid
It is data, not modelling, that we need now
by Matt Ridley
The famous ‘R’ (R0 at the start), or reproductive rate of the virus, could have been very high in hospitals and care homes, and much lower in the community. It makes no sense to talk of a single number for the whole of society. The simplistic Imperial College model, which spread around the world like a virus, should be buried. It is data, not modelling, that we need now…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/we-know-everything-and-nothing-about-covid
16 May: Fox News: Imperial College model Britain used to justify lockdown a ‘buggy mess’, ‘total unreliable’, experts claim
By Peter Aitken
“In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust,” David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco, told the Daily Telegraph…
The Imperial model works by using code to simulate transport links, population size, social networks and healthcare provisions to predict how coronavirus would spread. Researchers released the code behind it, which developers have criticized as being unreadable…
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have further claimed that it is impossible to reproduce the same results from the same data using the model. The team got different results when they used different machines, and even different results from the same machines…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/imperial-college-britain-coronavirus-lockdown-buggy-mess-unreliable
hot mess really should be renamed
as?
Steaming Pile
It has been longer than 30 years. As a young draftsman my very first job at the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in June1981 was to plot sea level rises on a contour map of Melbourne showing the impact of 200 mm, 500mm and 1 metre sea level rises due to climate change.
“Greens long ago won the political debate” but have made hardy a dent as political parties. Clue in there.
They worked a way around that Richard and so don’t need the numbers in their own Party. They have simply infiltrated both major Parties, that way they can’t loose. Many of our sitting senior Ministers are ‘deep green’, that’s why the renewables policies are so strong. They have even convinced the Prime Minister that the people want renewables.
Greta preaches many of the first Earth Day’s failed predictions. Many of the spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions from Earth Day 1970 are being regurgitated on today’s social and news media outlets on the forthcoming demise of civilization from climate change. We’ll need to critique the 2020 unscientific doomsday predictions in the year 2050 and see if they were any better than those that failed from the first Earth Day 50 years ago! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/16/greta-preaches-many-of-the-first-earth-days-failed-predictions/
“And yet we’ve done very little. I want to know why. That’s why I’ve made this series.”
Well Dick you could have stood in front of the mirror and answered your own question. You got the taxeating job with a concomitant claim on the fossil fuelled productive sector and when you went out with the friends and girlfriend did you all walk and drink warm beer in the dark? What about nowadays?
When Richard isn’t ‘MC, mediator or speaker for your next corporate event, seminar or workshop series’ he gets around a bit in aircraft too unless he’s paddling a canoe-
https://www.celebrityspeakers.com.au/richard-aedy/
When the world is your oyster Dick would like a few pearls of wisdom as to why we’ve done very little.
For me the real meat of that tirade from Richard Aedy was in the sentences :
-“For more than two years I thought he and then-environment minister Penny Wong were going to get emissions trading to happen.
When he abandoned it, I wrote a furious letter to my then-MP, Maxine McKew. I never heard back.”-
Emissions trading – the true heart of warming alarmism.
There is action on climate change….in 2023 our last coal mine in The Socialist State of Victoria is due to close down in response to regulations designed to make it too expensive to run.
I can never understand that comment either Gerry. Renewable infrastructure is becoming extreme in Australia so what planet are they living on? So much for research. Three Renewable Energy Zones have been nominated for NSW and I live in one of them. Of course city folk aren’t confronted by it. The ABC and research shouldn’t be put in the same sentence. What’s to trust?
Have they researched the 1,000 hectare wind and solar plants that are going in around small and historic towns? Do they know that the people who live in these towns have no say. Do They know the depths of depression being suffered by those affected? As if they don’t have enough already dealing with the regular droughts and bushfires. Do they know that these small towns are mostly near mines and that once the renewables infrastructure is completed, which is very short term, they’ll be wanting to shut the mines down?
Do they know that where the mines are shut down, the towns will die just like the town in Planet of the Humans, thousands of workers put out of work. Do they know the history that is lost with the death of these towns?
Do they know the devastating destruction that is being done to ecosystems (and economies) by renewable energy and that it is not renewable or largely recyclable?
They haven’t done any research, that’s not their job after all. They exist purely to spout propaganda and lies. Not doing enough? They haven’t got a clue.
Plenty is being done and none of it is good!
Yes…Megs, you’ve covered a lot of action there…”none of it good” as you say….in fact devastating …..I have a theory we won’t see anything to counteract the green push until Sydneysiders feel the impact….it’s where our leaders come from and it’s the seat of powero of both big Parties.
The ABC loves to whine of course and perhaps it’s readying the troops for a possible post-viral reaction where the left gets a version of Guilliame Barre Syndrome …..all feeling anguish but no legisalation moving on climate change….like in NZ
What climate change, global snowing ?
Graphic source:
https://globalcryospherewatch.org/state_of_cryo/snow/
The ABC journalist asks why no action.
Answer: there was an election in which Labor advocated a carbon tax and was defeated. That’s why.
Here’s a good summary of how the ‘magic moments’ of the doomsters in Oz faded away every time they wanted to ‘incentivise’ their deplorables-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/australias-most-senior-former-public-servants-and-scientists-reveal-their-anger-about-climate-policy-failure/ar-BB14drgg
You can hand out CF and then LED light bulbs, pink batts, shower heads, door draught stoppers, subsidised solar panels and FIT largesse but whatever you do don’t start talking about ‘incentivising’ or you’re history bozos. That and the prices of costal/esplanade RE are the true measures of Ozzies belief in the plant food dooming meme and no amount of Cook up sampling and surveys will change it stoopids.
Since nothing has happened for almost thirty years the action is commensurate with the problem.
Well said, Bruce. Where’s the dangerous climate change that keeps getting rammed down our throats by the politicians and the media?
The IPCC was as noted formed in 1988 -‘intergovernmental’- there’s the clue as to why we get all the garbage that’s thrown at us – gullible unquestioning politicans with no scientific background at work.
Trivial, fraction of a degree temperature changes are micro-dissected to the point of tedium – I live in the UK, and have done for all of my 71 years. To suggest that the British climate has changed is nonsense. Hot dry summers, wet summers, cold winters, warm winters – the British climate is as variable as it ever was.
How about those who post here from other countries around the globe? Your opinions as to your own climate would be interesting!
Carbon 500, Australia has always experienced extreme weather events. Drought, heatwaves, bushfires, storms and floods are not a new phenomena. We have famous poems written more than a hundred years ago describing these events!
They talk about ‘unprecedented’ temperatures, and I have memories of actual events where the temperature was higher. Then of course they have stated that particular past temperature records are invalid for one reason or another. Why? And why wouldn’t we assume cherry picking?
When I lived in Sydney the temperature difference between where I lived and Sydney airport (less than twenty kilometers away) could vary up to 4C! Sometimes they got heavy rain and we got none and sometimes the reverse.
It’s the same here in the country, the official weather station is nearly 30 kilometers away and again sometimes the differences are significant. How do they decide where to take their measurements from?
And don’t get me started on Average temperatures! What does that even mean? Our country is so large we have different weather events going on all at the same time from heatwaves to minimum anomalies. Australia is 7.692 million square kilometres, 5% of the world’s land area and is the world’s largest island! And all they talk about is the maximum temperature of one town! For how long? Five minutes? Funny they never talk about the coldest maximum temperature on record.
I like to keep track of the temperatures over a month to see how they compare to previous years. They keep telling us that April 2020 was the hottest April on record! Where? We had below average minimum and maximum temperatures here! I only know that from my own daily observations, the weather site that I follow is supposed to get it’s information from BOM but they seem to leave out the weekends for some reason. The minimum and maximum temperatures show up every day but the April almanac had 12 days of information missing. They average the data that is there and post that as the average minimum and maximum! This happens every month. The averages for our area are totally meaningless!
Why should I believe anything I’m told about ‘climate’ when they can’t even accurately report the facts about the ‘weather’ my own area?
Inconvenient Facts!
The “action” has been in ad spending on a massive scale. There was also a lot of action infecting board statements of professional societies, position statements at religious bodies, and of course candidate buying. Good “progress” was also made in undermining science, fact checking, and public policy. But in real terms there has been no “action and no “progress.”
ABC : “Where’s the action ?”
Do they mean, “where is the climate clown show ?” ?
The answer is quite obvious :
– At the ABC premises !
A very interesting video -thanks! Yes, whatever happened to investigative journalism?