Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The author is hoping that the people she appears to describe as parasitic organisms will settle their differences and work together to create a better future.
We must change to battle climate change
By Nicola Philp
January 28, 2021 — 12.15am…
Hoping that it could be classed as doomism to the max (yes, I’ve read the counter-arguments), I then saw the latest report that our planet is continuing to experience temperatures at record levels, putting us in the ballpark of at least a three-degree global temperature increase instead of just the hoped-for one degree.
Why was this not on the front page instead of the tennis? How many of these reports will our governments have to see before they take action with the same urgency and intensity that they did with the coronavirus threat? Because this one has far worse repercussions for all of us and is not something that we can vaccinate against.
Humanity appears to be like a mistletoe on the planet, one that is finally at the stage of smothering the host, but many of us just don’t want to believe it. I know I’d prefer not to as I look at the faces of my children. It is also because of those faces that I can’t afford to ignore it.
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Coronavirus has shown us that we can all work together to radically and quickly change our lifestyles for the greater good. We need to consider how we can prepare for a world that will be faced with regular extreme weather, unpredictable water and power supplies, food shortages and the resulting unrest that will come with these.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-must-change-to-battle-climate-change-20210125-p56wpr.html
I’ve got to say I find it difficult to imagine finding common cause and working together with someone who seems to think other people are parasites.
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In just fifty years, the biggest worry facing the human race will be declining population.
Despite that clear and obvious fact, well documented by Prof Hans Rosling https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling , still there are people too ridiculously narrow minded and lacking in even basic mathematic skills, that present rubbish such as this piece by Nicola Philip.
Unbelievable.
Wow. Imaginary looks on imaginary children’s faces when they’re told there’s an imaginary monster under their beds.
These people walk among us.
The article linked to in Nicola Philp’s piece begins with a simple question:
“Was 2020 the record hottest year on earth or did it tie with 2016?”
Not much need to go beyond that really.
What was the score in the tennis though ?
Much of the problem with these people is they have no concept of either the science or the HISTORY of Earth, and take “hottest year on Earth” literally, being ignorant of the fact that we’re actually in one of the coldest periods on Earth.
Things like Medieval Warm Period and Roman Warm Period (or Optimum) don’t ring any bells, except to us, so we should take a cue from the “tricks of the trade” and personalize it, and refer to the “hottest year on Earth since King Arthur” or “since Julius Caesar”, or whatever commonly understood reference will resonate.
1934 was warmer than both 2016, and 2020, and 1998 is statistically tied with 2016 and 2020, so no, neither 2016, nor 2020, are the hottest years on record.
And then you can go back further in history where you find it was even warmer than 1934.
We are not experiencing unprecedented warming today as the Alarmists claim, including the alarmist that wrote this article.
Today, we are currently about 0.5C cooler than the highpoint of 2020, and that makes us about 0.9C cooler than 1934. So when you say the world is warming, what are you talking about? Answer: A shortterm temperature profile. If you look at the Big Picture, the warmth of today pales in comparison to the past, even the recent past is just as warm as today.
There is no unprecedented warming today, which means there is no need to worry about CO2.
What a perfectly vacant woman
<Wonders, is this where all the babies went>
Quote#1:””Mistletoe (Viscum album) is an evergreen plant that is smothered in white berries from winter to spring“”
Thus Fail #1
The Mistletoe, if smothering anything, is smothering itself
Quote#2:””Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that lives off the nutrients and water from a host tree. Although it is parasitic, it will not ki11 the host tree but can weaken it.””
Thus Fail #2
The use of evocative words/language to describe A. Complete. Non. Event.
Quotes from here
You want evocative language?
you know you do 😀
Try this. Meet the now paranoid, self-important and power-crazed British Plod
Might one take that as a reflection of our ‘Elders & Betters’ – otherwise – where did they get that sort of attitude from?
Or this
Note how the fine there was £200 – yet in Leeds, the hapless citizens were hit by a £10K fine, for getting outdoors, fresh air, exercise, social interaction and Vitamin D
All the very things needed to fend off Covid
:-((
Her children…plural? If she hates humanity so much then why is she having so many kids? Greens get a free pass? SURE!
I appreciate NONE of the change we have had to endure because of covid-biden. Every one of the edicts pisses me off to no end. I detest the left.
Climate Alarmism is like a particularly nasty virus which threatens to destroy humanity. It thrives on lies; the bigger the better, and the only cure is Truth.
We aren’t parasites, we’re epiphytes. That means we use the host as a place to live, to gain foothold, and use as a springboard to get what we need to survive, but do not actually kill the host by living off of its own energy.
Ivy is an epiphyte, but like humans if left unchecked it will take over and become the dominant life form. It can even take out redwood trees, merely by outcompeting the host for the available resources of water and sunlight. They’ll cover an entire 150-foot tree, robbing it from sun, snapping off branches with heavy ivy boughs. The National Park Service has been fighting English ivy in Redwood National Park for decades.
We are the epiphytes, the ones who aren’t actually killing the host by draining it dry, but rather outcompeting it for resources. We’re basically crowding out nature with our development and pollutants.
Those of us who spend time in the wilds know that nature perseveres and basically the earth doesn’t care that we exist. Just as the massive redwood can survive even with masses of ivy wrapping its trunk and limbs, so can the earth survive our pressures.
Only if we go too far like the ivy and simply become too large for the host to coexist, will the human survival-enabling aspects of earth be “under threat”.
We are far, far from that point today, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t going Mach 4 in that direction.
Several populationists-understand how population dynamics work, have demonstrated as soundly as possible, that the human population growth RATE has peaked and is starting to decline, and it is likely to level off and start to drop within the century. After that, who knows because they acknowledge there are limits to the forecast.
“htthttps://bigthink.com/robby-berman/hans-rosling-had-a-way-of-showing-the-meaning-of-data-well-miss-him”
Hans Rosling seems to have the least biased, factual outlook. Many, many websites and commentators have largely pessimistic times due excessive dependence on the UN( which is constitutionally biased on these types of issues for its own increase in budget).
That is an apt description of nonprofit advocacy groups and their ever widening expansion.
Mistletoe?
Makes a change from being called planetary herpes.
I can also ask why these climate spooks never seem to know about future power technologies which everyone can agree on : small modular molten salt nuclear reactors. We know electric cars will prevail,and much faster than formerly believed, thanks to the lowering prices for batteries, fast recharge times, and driving ranges that can exceed 400 and even 500 miles. Automakers have announced the virtual end of gas powered vehicles in just a few years, no govt subsidies required. If the global warming fanatics would look at the solutions that make sense, they would garner far greater support, as molten salt reactors can produce power at 4 cents per kilowatt hour and can be manufactured and deployed very quickly.
I know you won’t answer, you’re basically a troll. But where is there a functioning MSR producing usable power right now?
50 years ago, someone got one working for a few minutes on a lab bench somewhere.
Once again with the fantasy that all automakers have committed to making only electrics over the next couple of years.
You really do believe everything you want to believe.
As to these magic batteries, they will no doubt be available shortly after this mythical MSR finally starts being built.
I think it would be in the best interests of all involved if this self-hating guy changes, i.e. subsists purely on what he can produce himself. Unfortunately, all it appears he is able to produce is pure virtue signaling. I doubt he has ever produced anything else that is tangible.
Every where I look, I see nature doing just fine. In fact it’s doing better than it was doing 3 to 5 decades ago, when the number of humans on the planet was a lot lower.
The places where it doesn’t do well is mostly in Third World countries, who don’t seem to give a crap if they dump all their waste in their rivers.
Such short-sightedness! Every year the usual suspects find another 0.01degC of temperature rise!!!! Panic!!! Panic!!! Panic!!!
It isn’t even enough that it can be compared to anything- the range of measurement error is something like 1deg C.
Attempts at panic over nothing…….
“I’ve got to say I find it difficult to imagine finding common cause and working together with someone who seems to think other people are parasites.”
Not to say someone who’s so mindless as to think that, “Coronavirus has shown us that we can all work together…”
What is blindingly ironic when I read articles by indoctrinated morons like Ms. Philip is that they have absolutely no idea that without human intervention most of life on Earth will die from, wait for it, lack of CO2!
Anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex (thus excluding most leftists) who looks at atmospheric CO2 levels since the Carboniferous can see that they have been dropping for the last 160 Mya or so! During the last period of glaciation levels were so low that most plants were nearly suffocating from lack of their essential nutrient; CO2! I don’t think that the physical deposition of carbonates as well as the formation of carbonate armor by foraminifera and coccolithophores is going to stop any time soon, so the next time our planet goes into a cool phase with increasing glaciation and dissolving of CO2 in seawater we could easily reach the threshold of death for many plants!
It is so sad to see idiots with little knowledge and less wisdom worry about imaginary problems instead of helping to deal with real issues like human health, freedom and prosperity! But like all Marxists subjects they blunder about bringing us disasters like Chernobyl and the Aral Sea!
“…. I then saw the latest report that our planet is continuing to experience temperatures at record levels,…”
So she did nearly zero fact finding about AMO, PDO, Little Ice Age or Roman Warm Period, doesn’t understand that if 30 year averages called “climate” are averaged every year for a whole century that had a one degree increase..it is very probable that last year is going calculate out to be 1/100 of a degree hotter….even though RSS, UAH, and HadCrut show ups and downs. Why an editor would allow such junk to be published can be summed up as “click bait”.
People who view humans, either a specific group or the entirety, as some sort of parasite or vermin are particularly dangerous. These are the people who would happily exterminate tens or hundreds of millions of people.
That these kind of people are allowed any where near any sort of power is deeply troubling.
Yes, these people exist everywhere in all societies.
In the 60s she would have been a red guard
In the 70s she would be a kmer rouge
She would follow Jim Jones
These people will always be there, we need the education system to identify and teach how to recognize, control and marginalize them
Parasites don’t collectively and intentionally work to reduce their impact on the environment, reduce their resource use intensity, or expend energy working for the success of other species. They don’t make art, music, science, or literature. Parasites don’t have empathy, logic, imagination or affection. I think the author was confusing humans in general with journalists and radical environmental academics.
You don’t seem to understand that the left’s idea of “common cause” or “unity” is that everyone adopts their ideology !
Now if you would just get on board and stop denying that climate changes we finally get in control and ensure that climate never changes again.
The analogy to parasitic organisms like mistletoe are appropriate for socialist or otherwise tyrannical government.
Wouldn’t let me finish my edit. Here it is.
Developed countries are reproducing at or below replacement levels of about 2.1 children per couple. To maintain failing social programs akin to Ponzi schemes, is it any wonder many in government are in favor of heavy immigration of people from undeveloped countries with high birth rates? Of course, they won’t admit that.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/total-fertility-rate
Note the SARS-CoV-2 by a huge margin impacts the older population. China has a large demographic imbalance of older people with relatively few younger workers to support them (after a very long period of one-child policy).