Guest essay by Eric Worrall
In the wake of Deputy Leader of the Nationals Senator Matt Canavan’s two word tweet poking fun at climate tropes, academics and other climate activists have scrambled to reassure people global warming is still on track to wreck the world – just as soon as the current cold wave dissipates.
Matt Canavan suggested the cold snap means global warming isn’t real. We bust this and 2 other climate myths
June 11, 2021 2.22pm AEST
Nerilie Abram Professor; ARC Future Fellow; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University
Martin De Kauwe Senior lecturer, UNSW
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick ARC Future Fellow, UNSWSenator Matt Canavan sent many eyeballs rolling yesterday when he tweeted photos of snowy scenes in regional New South Wales with a sardonic two-word caption: “climate change”.
Canavan, a renowned opponent of climate action and proponent of the coal industry, appeared to be suggesting that the existence of an isolated cold snap means global warming isn’t real.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has previously insisted there is “no dispute in this country about the issue of climate change, globally, and its effect on global weather patterns”. But Canavan’s tweet would suggest otherwise.
The reality is, as the climate warms, record-breaking cold weather is becoming less common. And one winter storm does not negate more than a century of human-caused global warming. Here, we take a closer look at the cold weather misconception and two other common climate change myths.
Myth #1: A cold snap means global warming isn’t happening
Canavan’s tweet is an example of a common tactic used by climate change deniers that deliberately conflates weather and climate.
Parts of Australia are currently in the grip of a cold snap as icy air from Antarctica is funnelled up over the eastern states. This is part of a normal weather system, and is temporary.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/matt-canavan-suggested-the-cold-snap-means-global-warming-isnt-real-we-bust-this-and-2-other-climate-myths-130878
The tweet which triggered this unseemly scramble to reassure the faithful;
Even up in the tropical North we’ve been forced to blow the dust off our winter woolies.
The “cold snap” is mostly temperatures in the 20s and 30s, pretty mild compared to what a lot of people in the USA experience every year. But it is cold enough that many people in Australia right now likely wish we had a little more of that global warming climate scientists keep promising.
Fascists are so funny…
When heatwaves, hurricanes, droughts, tornadoes, etc.m occur, it’s irrefutable evidence of Warmageddon, and we,”only have 10 years to save the world”, but if record cold events occur, well…., it’s just weather…
Unfortunately not only Australias SE has a stong cool winter pattern at the moment, but the complete NH winter weather pattern didn’t suggest a global warming but a trend to a cooler time coming.
In so far SE Australia isn’t “isolated”.
We predicted global cooling to start circa 2020 in a paper published in 2002.
Nailed it. See electroverse.net for new record cold events all over the planet.
CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19, AND THE GREAT RESET
A CLIMATE, ENERGY AND COVID PRIMER FOR POLITICIANS AND MEDIA
By Allan M.R. MacRae, Published March 21, 2021, Update 1e published May 8, 2021
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/climate-change-covid-19-and-the-great-reset-update-1e-readonly.docx
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
THE REAL CLIMATE CRISIS IS NOT GLOBAL WARMING, IT IS COOLING, AND IT MAY HAVE ALREADY STARTED
By Allan M.R. MacRae and Joseph D’Aleo, October 27, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/27/the-real-climate-crisis-is-not-global-warming-it-is-cooling-and-it-may-have-already-started/
Krisshna-san: “NH winter weather pattern didn’t suggest a global warming but a trend to a cooler time coming.”
You’re correct. The PDO and AMO are very close to reentering their respective 30-year cool cycles which will bring 30+ years of global cooling as occurred from 1880~1913 and 1945~1979.
it’s going to be hilarious watching Fascists concocting excuses for decades of global cooling while yearly CO2 emissions hit new records…
Not at all. Record cold events are caused by climate change.
Just wait till these boneheads join their brethren in the USA and Britain and ban ng gas heating.
My gas heating has been going full blast all day for at least two weeks now, and on and off since March. Blue Mountains, NSW.
Yes, I bet it is cold up there, you have a slight altitude issue there. I am near Redfen, NSW, and I have two jumpers on and two electric heaters switched on, albeit they are only small 1KW oil filled heaters.
theyre already starting the Gas is Bad campaigns in Aus
nasty stuff PM.25 and asthma inducing etc etc
And they will all tell you EVOLUTION!!.
So how is it that humans evolved cooking and staying warm around open wood, dung and bone fires for millions of years are not capable of efficiently dealing with combustion particulates?
Just askin.
I too have noticed the attack on gas as “causing PM’ pollution. What a crock.
Meanwhile the proponents of propane are running a global campaign against kerosene and wood for cooking on the same basis.
Kerosene?? That is just jet fuel without antifreeze. Honestly there are too many silly agendas in the world.
It is hard to believe Australians are as gullible as the ABC is wont to assume. Perhaps 4 months of good skiing and three dog/jersey nights will send a penetrating message that it is getting cold.
In NZ we too are going to start phasing out gas for home heating & cooking. No new connections to the reticulation system from now!
Last year we imported 1.1 million tonnes of coal for electricity production. Crazy when we have coal here. Government hypocrisy/virtue signalling at its best!
It would be funny if they weren’t so serious about destroying modern society and killing a lot of people.
Here’s one for you to check out where you live. Where I live in the mid-Atlantic of the good old USofA, when the local television meteorologists report the weather they use a Hidden Persuader brainwashing technique.
If the temperature is above the average for the recorded highs of the past they report the temperature to be “above NORMAL” for the day, subliminally implanting the notion that something is wrong with the temperature. Its not normal.
Now If the temperature comes in below the average for the past recorded temps they report the temperature of the day to be “below AVERATE” for this day. in other words, “ho hum. nothing to see here folks. Stay tuned to this station for further updates of our ongoing man made global warming emergency, catastrophe. apocalypses…[enter your favored description for impending end of days here]”.
We see that in the UK the BBC are especially fond of that technique, and they think nobody has noticed.
They also give forecast temperatures based on urban locations, and then sign off with the comment that temperatures in the countryside will be 2 or 3 degree or so colder. ( Degrees forecast in degrees Celsius. )
wunderground will typically pick the hottest station around for its current temperature. It’s amusing because whenever i check the forecast the temp, even mid february, is always 97F. That station has been broken for over a year.
That signals their total arrogance & self-belief that they are beyond questioning, after all, being over-funded by the taxpayer, they believe in their god-like status!!! They were pro-EU because they were paid £20M by them to promote the EU, as was every other state broadcaster within the EU!!!
I didn’t know they received money from the EU. Now I hate paying my TV license fee even more.
“Above normal” and “below average” are specified in the “style sheet” for weather reporting. It’s like capitalizing the first letter of a word that refers to one group but not doing that with another.
Style guide – Wikipedia
Being significantly above or below “normal” might be unusual in the tropics along the coast. Look at a town inland in temperate regions and you will find about 10% of days with maximum temperatures within 1°C of the mean. My town gets the same number of days 9°C warmer.
In Critical Climate Change theory, only climate scientists are privileged to decide what is evidence and what’s not. Reality need not apply.
A further extension
“Only Democrats have permission to “clarify”: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she welcomed a clarification from Rep. Ilhan Omar over a tweet about Israel that critics on both sides of the aisle said had unfairly compared the U.S. and Israel to terrorist groups.”
Via http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/06/11/scratch-a-leftist-19/
You are unsophisticated. The cold weather is caused by global warming. Trust Big Brother.
doubleplusgoodthink. Double ration of Koolaid for you my boy, and a shot of Soma lovely Soma
That’s why it’s no longer generally referred to as Global Warming, because with Climate Change, it doesn’t matter which way the damned temperature goes, it’s all Climate Change!!! I hear the BBC et al refer to “a warming world” but that’s about as far as it goes!!! The Final Solution is always the creation & establishment of a one-world “globul guvment” to solve everything!!! Now who was it who said, “all power corrupts, & absolute power corrupts absolutely!”.
Well, the energy to heat the atmosphere has to come from somewhere.
Where do they plan to keep dumping the resultant cold air?
Trust big non-binary sibling.
I’ve been assured it is also warmening that’s causing cold weather during the wrong part of the year, or in places that normally don’t get it.
I think this really going to be a problem for the warmists, especially if the Earth is actually heading into a period of naturally occurring cooling. Erasing the pause was challenge enough but how are they going to cope with a real cooling trend? It will be entertaining to observe.
Up next:
Latent Global Warming: The reason we are experiencing colder temperatures is because the heating of the Earth is like winding a watch spring. Every year, as the cold temperatures continue, the spring gets tighter and tighter and tighter… until BAM !!! And periodically, before the BIG BAM occurs, the spring randomly releases smaller bams of latent energy into the eyes of hurricanes and tornadoes increasing there destructive power, as well as “bamming off” Antarctic ice bergs and such.
Bill Nye could then demonstrate this to Congress: by roasting some POP CORN in a pan of vegetable oil, where after 10 minutes of gentle heating from a Bunsen burner, all hell breaks loose in the House of Representatives as the kernels go flying!
Talking about popcorn Why don t we burn it in stoves It will be warmer than bioethanol , and just as stupid and criminal a waste of food resources.
Corn as fuel is just biomass. People could just as easily grow one season biomass of some other kid.
Having the production capacity increases food security.
However I agree is is a silly waste of fuel to make ethanol. Gasohol reduces fuel mileage 4%. Silly idea. It doesn’t reduce consumption of anything.
The rather worrying thing about your last paragraph is that the members of the HoR might just be “smart enough” to believe in the demonstration!!! We in the UK have a similar calibre of political representative, unfortunately!!! 🙁
“how are they going to cope with a real cooling trend?”
Simple:
“We have increased your chocolate ration to one bar per week”
“We have always been at war with EastAsia”
That’s because there is a noticeable “climate” of stupidity and wilful ignorance emanating from the warmunists. It must be terribly frustrating to have absolutely no evidence to support their claims.
Sophistry doesn’t help them? So sad.
It doesn’t help them true, but then again, a Sophist was a paid public speaker in Ancient Greece, paid to stand on street corners spouting whatever he was paid to spout, regardless of whether he believed in it or not!!! After all, the true meaning of the word “sophisticated” is “corrupt & adulterated”!
I just started up my fireplace in Woodstock, Vermont, USA, at 5:30 pm, on June 11, 2021
The temperature was less than 40F in the morning, but now it just above 50F
Here in northern WI (45.3N) we are in the 8th day of a heatwave. Most days have been between 88 and 94F, with the hottest 97. Our average high temp is 72.
Isn’t this the time of year when winter weather strikes there? Why would they feel the need to protest people pointing out the winter weather, seems a bit insecure.
Were I live we are experiencing Global Warming. For the first 38 years of my life they called it summer.
I was just out enjoying the GHE so generously supplied by our planets lovely climate, need a shower now. Tomatoes on the front steps filling in with little ‘maters and local corn is looking good. Damned Globall Warmining.
According to President Biden, the climate change is the greatest danger facing the USA . He is declaring a wartime economy to fight it.
Reminds me of four worst enemies of the Soviet Union: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter.
Last week it was UFOs. The week before that it was White Supremacists. What does the Magic 8-Ball think it will be next week?
Sydney is at 33° South latitude, about the same as Wilmington, North Carolina or Riverside California at North latitude. The former has an average minimum temperature in January of 47°F, with a range of 36°F to 57°F. The latter has an average minimum temperature in December of 54°F, with a range of 42°F to 69°F. Both are coastal and should be a good comparison to Sydney, which in June sees an average temperature of 57°F with a low and high of 49°F and 64°F respectively. So, temperatures in the 20’s and 30’s for Sydney is definitely unusual for this time of year.
I have been in Wilmington area during winter, it gets plenty cold, I get your point. Still, it is winter and to be expected, especially with all this Globall Warmining making the planet so cold. 😉
Now say three Hail Gores and kneel in prayer to the scroll of the Paris Climate Agreement. Blessed are the closed minded alarmists for they shall inherit the money and grant-making agenda, with abundant perks and climate conference trips.
They have extracted key sections of the sacred scroll and created a hymn book for the choir to sing the praises of Mann, Gore, et. al. in high mass on all hollows eve. The largest congregation comes together at the University of East Anglia and is attended by such dignitaries as HarriSin Fokker, Leo Lardo Da Crapio, Muck Ruffitup, Hanoi [Jane still hasn’t] Fondit, that, of course, would be her butt with both hands after 83 years, et al.
“How dare you!!!”
– Saint Greta
got it?
There are rumors that she may be maturing out of her childish fear of “Climate Crisis.”
Poor guy.
Is he as stupid and uneducated as you? Do you have your handlers’ approval to associate with him?
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…makes the disallowance of cheap fuel for heating, cooking and water purification quite criminal, does it not?
If the weather doesn’t fit the alarmist agenda it’s weather, if the weather does fit the alarmist agenda it is proof of climate change.
Other alarmist explanation: cold extremes are also proof climate change.
So climate change becomes non-falsifiable.
You’ll be hard pressed to find any aspect of their “science” that IS falsifiable. It’s all based on unsupported conjecture reinforced with incompetent models.
Surely the “models” are only incompetent because the scientificky peeps that programmed were incompetent?
This of a case where both parties can be right or wrong. Since climate change describes long term changes, weather related changes have little bearing on climate change. However, recent changes in the definition of terms like climate change equate it falsely to “a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels”. Google’s new definition of climate change. Having lived through the extremely cold temps in the late 70’s and early 80’s, the recent warming trend is welcome. Having studied the Dust Bowl era in the 30’s shows that warming was far more extreme then than any recent year. Just look at all the all time heat records in the US State records set during that period as opposed to only 2 State records since year 2000. Not exactly catastrophic.
So an event that occurs over a long period such as a grand solar minimum can have a dramatic effect on earth’s climate as does solar maximums. Volcanism can also have dramatic short term effects.
This year our dahlia garden is three weeks late due to uncharacteristic cold weather in the Northwest. I don’t call it climate change. When it was 87 degrees for one day last week I don’t call it climate change. The UAH linear warming trend since 1979 of .14 C per decade is also not an indication of climate change. This particular record uses a very cold period as a start. The longer one lives the more we realize there is little to worry about regarding climate change.
You mean it’s not a climate emergency, not an existential threat?
Well we topped that 87 a week ago, it was 105 (40.6C) not just a record for that day here in our small prairie town but second highest ever after a 44.4 in 1936. I don’t call that climate change either. Now only ten days before that we had two nights of temps below freezing and had to cover our vegetable plants, now that usual cold in June must mean global warming right? I’m confused.
The Rise of the Authoritarian Left via Sky News
“Slowly but surely, the people will wake up and that’s what these plutocratic elites fear the most.”
https://youtu.be/AxT7mOnROzU
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
This is just turn-about is fair play.
The weather as climate fallacy can be used by both sides.
Cold weather always comes in ‘snaps’ nowadays, doesn’t it? Always the suggestion that the cold weather that always comes our way is only some brief interlude between the ongoing onslaught of warmer than average conditions (perish the thought).
The propaganda is relentless.
Electric boat teeters on edge of Texas dam… Saved by gas-powered boat…
Draw your own conclusions about electric power.
I’m guessing not one of them wanted to save their underwear.
Interesting. Had acquaintance accept a software job with a boat manufacturer (it’s a thing) He was proud they were developing an electric (battery only) boat. Probably was not happy that I responded that may be the worst idea I’d ever heard (as evidence in this article) Willis could do it, but you end up fighting current, waves, wind, cold… Apparently even in EV cars vehicle range can vary dramatically on conditions; uphill downhill wind, cold.
Then there’s those pesky charging transformers and batteries hanging over salt water…. I believe EV’s are going to run into the edge of their use case sooner than EV cheerleaders expect.
I Would love to have a Tesla. With a bumper sticker that Says “Coal Powered”.
Better yet, I’d like a box full of “coal powered” stickers, and to slap them on every Tesla or other EV I see!
None have a life jacket on.
complete idiots.
I live near Philadelphia, PA in the US.
It is June 11th.
At 3:54pm it is 61 degrees F (16C)
“Normal” high for this date is 81F (27C)
The lowest high recorded for this date is 72F (22C)
We are on track to have the lowest high for this date by 11F (6C)
It ain’t just Australia, folks.
It’s been hot in Michigan for about a week. It was unusually cold one week and unusually hot the next. Sounds about average.
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Huge swings are normal and you can stick your head put the window and see the effects of climate change? As little as 0.3 C hotter due to human emissions and even an idiot can see the scientists are right?
The hilarious thing is that the Warmunists never seem to understand that they are being mocked.
As I was walking down the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today
Oh how I wish he’d go away.
sure ’tis a philosopher you are to be sure sorr
Its difficult to find the moveable tipping point and the point of origin of the Big Bang.
The TVNZ weatherman, Dan, did suggest that weather system in NSW is an example of what we’re seeing more and more of, due to climate change.
It’s a dirty tactic. They’ll accept that no single weather event can be blamed on ‘climate change’, and then suggest that every unusual weather event is one.
Dan is part of the MSM, bribed by Cindy with taxpayers’ money!
The alarmist position for SE Australia is lower annual rainfall, especially in winter. Thus the cold weather is clearly not evidence of climate change.
Although a knowledgeable climate scientist knows this cold front is not evidence of climate change, he/she will not scold the politicians or media for saying it is. IMO this is lying by silence.
It’s funny how the ARC excellencies jump at the mere suggestion that’s all weather, because it threatens the very reason for their employment and attachment to a cushy lifestyle supported by public taxes.
The only way to eliminate the climate scam is to cut their funding.
The following is my claim based on my own anecdotal evidence.
The recent storm in the outer east of Melbourne was not really that bad.
Many trees have fallen blocking roads and knocking out power lines.
However, due to the reluctance to clear old trees from the roadside, there were more weak trees to be blown down. This grossly inflates the severity of this event.
There was a 12+ hour period from Wednesday night to Thursday morning with winds 30-40km/hr with gusts upto 60km/hr.
60 km/hr is not really that bad.
Hey, Aussie Climate Activists, I have a message for you from someone who is “in the know.”
In 1800 the one billion humans had a life expectancy of under 40 years. See Dr Rosling’s 200 countries BBC video.
But today the 7.78 bn humans have a life exp of 73 and of course are much healthier and wealthier than at any time in history.Check the data for yourselves.
And the data shows that life exp is steadily increasing every decade and even African life exp has increased by a further 17 years since 1970.
IOW the 363 million Africans in 1970 comparison to the 1370 million today is verifiable evidence that their so called EXISTENTIAL threat or APOCALYPSE OR CRISIS etc is delusional nonsense.
So when will they WAKE UP?Of course today over 80% of global energy is generated by fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. WAKEY, WAKEY.
”Canavan’s tweet is an example of a common tactic used by climate change deniers that deliberately conflates weather and climate.”
Of course, when its hot its ‘climate change, but when its cold its just the weather.
I often point out ‘poker tells’ (essentially players unwittingly revealing what’s in their poker hand
by gestures, language etc.) in offerings from stressed climateers when they have to explain such things as “coldest snap in 25 yrs”.
This is an especially strong tell. The explainers know they have a climate change wrecker in this one and so they throw in “two other climate change myths” to blunt the wrecker and make it smaller. This is to show that, hey, we see this all the time during the planet’s inexorable race to thermageddon. This was a tough one for the cleanup team. Is “Future Fellow” perhaps a prize for those who aquit themselves well in this sort of game, perhaps? The ARC Centre for Excellence in Climate Science is itself a good poker tell….
The ARC Centre certainly doesn’t live up to it’s name. Every time I’ve seen it associated with an article they are spouting complete bull crap.
The Australian obsession with centres of excellence is embarrassing; all they are is centres for sucking funding from taxpayers, with very little, if any, excellence provided in return.
“Sydney shivered through its coldest day for almost four decades today while some its suburbs were even chillier.
Sydney had a projected high of just 11C but it couldn’t even reach that instead topping out at a mere 10.3C.
The last time it was that cold was way back in 1984, 37 years ago.
Bankstown’s high of 9.6C made it the coldest day since 1983. Penrith in Sydney’s west scraped to 8.3C which is its coldest day since records began, about 25 years for that suburb.
Scone in the Hunter Valley reached 8.2C, its coldest day in more than three decades. Nearby Cessnock saw its chilliest day since records began there almost 50 years ago.
Narrabri, in the state’s north, got to 7.4C. The last day it was that cold was in 1962.”
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Penrith – coldest since records began.
Cessnock – coldest since record began
Narrabri. – ? coldest since records began
Bankstown – coldest since records began
Scone. – ?
Sydney. – .?
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Seems a lot worse when it is the coldest ever time frame unspecified
This bit of news for all the alarmists. https://electroverse.net/sydney-coldest-day-in-37-years-nsw-coldest-june-day-in-122-years/ And for the Alarmist czar running NZ. https://electroverse.net/16-4-feet-5-meters-of-early-season-snow-buries-mt-hutt-new-zealand/ . It’s all just weather, right. When the country freezes solid, it will be climate change as the wind stops, and the solar doesn’t work from the snow. And no one has any heat of electricity.
Did it work that way for Texas back in February?
During this nasty Northern winter Forbes magazine published an article theorising that global warming caused the cold spells by destabilising the Arctic, and so driving the cold south.
Thinking that maybe this weather pattern should show up in the Medieval and Roman warming periods, I took a very brief look at Wikipedia. It mentioned that the MW was characterised by warm summers and mild winters, and in Roman times they recorded the Tiber freezing over 3 times in the 300s BC, and once in 179 BC; the RWP having begun in about 250 BC.
Serious question: do any leftists not believe in climate change?
It would be funny if it were not so sad: when a climate realist makes a joke intentionally conflating weather and climate change, the climate zealots are quick to “educate” us all on the difference in climate and weather. But they let news report after news report attributing every wild fire, hurricane, or hot spell to “climate change” go unchallenged.
11am in Adelaide South Australia and it’s 13C outside with an overcast grey blanket of cloud everywhere. My 2200W solar roof panels are pumping out a glorious 200W. It’s the original FIT scheme as a first adopter and my neighbours are paying me 59c/kWhr until 2028 while it averages 8kWhrs a day annually but you can see the marginal problem writ large.
With FIT rates for slowpokes and new installs dropping as low as 7c and even that being throttled with smart meters for the duck curve I’d need over 8 times the solar collection size for equivalent return. Naturally with such largesse at present I’m not permitted to add to the system without losing the 59c. So I wait for 2028 to junk them and go BIG with a solar diverter for electric storage HWS- Solar Energy | Catch Power | Glen Innes
The chances of Elon’s Powerwalls etc being an economic proposition by then are zilch with all the mandated EVs by whenever the next lot of pollies can manage it but we’ll see. In the meantime I have a modest RV generator (and its LPG) on standby for fridge lighting and electronics but that can be upped if necessary. It’s comforting to reside in a leafy seaside burb in a Mediterranean climate with all this madness going on.
weather isn’t climate unless it suits the narrative
Still very cold here in Newcastle today, 12c on the coast here at midday, 5c overnight minimum. This is early June winter, July is always coldest in Australia.
Orange NSW had the best snow cover in about 40 years. In fact we never had a summer this year and every month this year has, so far, finished with a negative anomaly.
My truck load of firewood I expected to last through winter is now depleted by over half at 22 June, 2021.
Friends in Gippsland, Victoria, suffered electricity supply off from 8.00 pm a couple of days ago to midday the following day. They told me that this is happening too often now.
Hazlewood brown coal fired Power Station is not a long drive away from their property, now shut down at a loss of 25 per cent of the State’s electricity generating capacity.
There were some big storms and flooding recently in Victoria, so may have been a contributor. But yes, politicians are shutting down reliable energy production here in Australia. It will only get worse.
Don’t you folk have elections anymore? Or have you gone over to the lefty sure-fire voter machines used in the US and developed in Venezuela?
We do, unfortunately all parties are punch drunk on the climate alarmist koolaid. I can’t vote due to my residency status here in Australia and if I could there are no parties that warrant my vote.
These people would call an ice age a “cold snap”.
Interesting chat with my Dad. His country of birth, Croatia, has trees to yet shoot in June.
How does that happen if the world is warmer? Remember that the imperceptible change can cause heatwaves.
Whilst the alarmists are quick to claim that these are exceptions, the point they are missing is it has been them that over recent decades has taken every opportunity to use every exceptional high, often recorded in some previously unknown hamlet, to push their preaching down our throats, and as such, comments such as these about exceptional colder temperatures are driven more as an opportunity to counter their constant bleating.
As we are in for a solar minimum, hopefully not more severe than ~1965-1975 (-ish) coldsnap, more likely as severe as the ~100 year cycle, cross all fingers not remotely as bad as the ~850 (-ish) year cycle…
It’s a coldsnap. Happens every year whereafter temperatures revert to “normalish” to continue to fall towards the yearly lowpoint (February for northern hemisphere, August for southern).
Also happens every year is the opposit. As temperatures rise, there is a warmsnap whereafter temperatures revert to “normalish” to continue to rise towards the yearly highpoint.
It’s just weather (depending on polar vortex which depends on solar activity which depends on planetary positions and orbits).
Oddgeir
Is it Winter there yet? June 21?
“The “cold snap” is mostly temperatures in the 20s and 30s,” Presumably, this being Australia these temperatures are Celsius and would not be considered cold anywhere except maybe Saudi Arabia.
It’s just the “La Nina” – and a rather good one.
Sure OK, it might not “disprove” global warming. But it does rather strongly suggest that the government’s predictions are excessive and exaggerated.
“… more than a century of human-caused global warming.”
Astounding how ignorant these alarmist foot-soldiers are. They don’t even know what the warmista “consensus” position is: that even with the outsized CO2 warming effects the IPCC consensoids assume, human increments to atmospheric CO2 have only been large enough to have any significant effect on temperature since1950, and the planet cooled from the 50s through most of the 70s.
Sorry doofuses but of the 300 years of post-Little-Ice-Age warming the only part that is even conceivably due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases is the little uptick between 1980 and 2000, and that is most likely due to the grand maximum of solar activity that lasted from 1920 to 2000.
It’s cold. And this year’s springtime (in Europe) was absolutely colder than last year. And last year’s spring was (at least here in Liverpool) a bit colder than the year before that.
Now there are three hypotheses:
1) You are kidding yourself, the Earth’s climate is warming up.
2) There was cooling but it was actually caused somehow by a warming climate.
3) Actually the Earth’s climate is cooling.
Which of these is the more likely?