Essay by Eric Worrall
Fantasies of heat stroke victims rotting in the streets, and military and security leaders stepping in to protect the world from the weakness of civilian leaders.
Terrifying ‘hyperthreat’ coming for Australia as El Nino chance rises
Australia is no stranger to this danger – in fact, it’s almost become normal – but the brutal reality of what it signals is terrifying.
April 22, 2023 4:17 pm
Jamie Seidel | news.com.auThis isn’t normal.
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This is rapidly becoming the new normal.
Which raises the question, what’s the next-level unusual?
Dr Greg Raymond of the Australian National University’s College of Asia & the Pacific put just such a scenario to a group of South East Asian and Australian defence officials.
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After four hours of high-intensity action and reaction, things didn’t turn out so well.
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Climate security researcher Dr Elizabeth Boulton, a former Australian Army logistics officer, says we know worse is on its way.
When it arrives, people will want solutions.
And in a crisis, governments turn to their military, emergency services and intelligence agencies for answers.
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“People within the security sector are very motivated to protect their communities,” she says. “They have a sort of protective instinct. They’re citizens themselves, drawn from the wider community. And they know the taxpayer pays for the security forces. So they face quite a moral problem if they’re directed to defend a dangerous economic structure against a harmed populace.”
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Bodies lay rotting in the streets. People are getting sick.
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Amid the social uproar and suffering, the UN Security Council declares a planetary emergency.
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“The criminal groups moved in and became the security providers of choice,” Dr Boulton says of the war game’s outcome.
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Read more: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/terrifying-hyperthreat-coming-for-australia-as-el-nino-chance-rises/news-story/aeca98abd0aa28f2aec16c4fa36cf991
Military connected people from multiple nations, some likely from nations with an unsettled track record of democratic rule or which are currently ruled by autocrats, being encouraged to rehearse a climate emergency in which security personnel like themselves are tempted to usurp power from the civilian government, because of the civilian government’s alleged unwillingness to take the steps needed to address the crisis.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong.
But we would expect no less from the ANU, the very same university whose deputy director of public awareness of science in 2014 explained the ends justify the means when it comes to climate propaganda:- “… What we need now is to become comfortable with the idea that the ends will justify the means. We actually need more opinions, appearing more often and expressed more noisily than ever before. …”
the new normal
next-level unusual
Next level duff sci fi
CliSciFi
Fantasy.
Yes, it is.
Definitely Cli Fi
Clience Fiction
Quote:“Dr Elizabeth Boulton
I guess we’re safe to assume a female/she/her in the presence of a lot of male/he/hims
What did anyone expect to happen apart from a lot male bravado and showing off.
Enquiring minds don’t really want to know if any of them got laid but that was each/every one of thems hope/intention
https://theconversation.com/profiles/dr-elizabeth-boulton-15653
PhD “Climate and Environmental Change: Time to Reframe Threat?” (ANU 2020)
Masters of Environment (Climate policy and sustainable freight transport) (UniMelb 2007)
Masters of Business Management (Logistics / HR) (UNSW 2001)
BaArts (Hons, Class 1) English/History (UNSW, 1994)
Until 2020 was a researcher with the Army, not a military officer.
Green politicians are more likely, as in Sri Lanka, to have civil unrest or a military coup topple them when their policies lead to food or energy shortages.
This looks more like confession through projection.
If anyone is reading this comment now, please realize that my words must be coming to you from the other side of my existence.
You see, I just read in this linked story from Eric’s post that at 40C temperature, I could only survive for 6 hours.
And recalling that back in the 60s when wearing jungle green army outfits and all the associated “accessories” that went with that calling (call-up more like) for 2 years, and while stooging around the tropical and desert training grounds of northern Australia in > 40C for many days at a time, I must have expired from heat exhaustion at some stage during this phase of my (then) short life.
So to all I now say – it’s been good conversing with you all.
Conversations on a Ouija board are supposed to terminate with “Goodbye”, aren’t they?
Not sure Kevin – all my Ouija sessions ever spelled out at the end was –
“fv[k off!”
I was never able to decipher what that meant.
Any clues?
Pretty sure it translates to “Let’s Go Brandon”.
Mr
I was in a discussion years ago with a WW2 6th Div bloke who was in the first big push west in North Africa. He described marching 40 miles a day with a water ration of a quart, which had to cover shaving.
No doubt he wouldn’t have survived that modelling exercise.
They made ’em tougher back then Ian, that’s for sure.
But the advantage they had over modern warriors is that they weren’t required under penalty of firing squad to get all their pronouns right every time when calling upon other warriors to join battle.
Good on you, answering your “Call of Duty”
“What we need now is to become comfortable with the idea that the ends will justify the means.”
And when they attempt illegal ends to justify THEIR fantasies, I hope they are punished to the full extent of the law.
I can only wonder who in ANY military is qualified to determine that there is a climate emergency.
None of those people is fit to determine anything. They live in some creepy fantasy world made up of fake disasters in the offing.
Who in the world is qualified to determine that there is a climate emergency?
The ones who are really qualified don’t claim there is a climate emergency.
People who don’t know what they are talking about, or who have ulterior motives, are the ones declaring climate emergencies.
I used to spend a lot of time in Phoenix, Arizona. I’ve experienced temperatures over 45C there and the record is 50C. In fact, the temperature has exceeded 45C at least once every year going back at least a dozen years. I have never encountered a body rotting in the street. I know, hard to believe, but I swear it’s true!
Sydney’s all-time record is 45C, a routine event in Phoenix.
What are these daft academics thinking?
“What are these daft academics thinking?”
Thinking is beyond their abilities. Circular reasoning is the only thing they know how to do.
Never in doubt. Never any self-awareness.
Paraphrasing my fellow Connecticutensian Nathan Hale:
I regret that I have but one up-vote to give for this comment!
Unfortunately China thinks about” real war games” and they could make short work of Australia.
we offer you good deal with belt and road! You should have taken it.
Dunno about that John.
Oz is a mighty big place to occupy as “short work”.
Especially if invading forces have to establish & command extended supply lines through hostile territories to succeed in their objectives.
And if that wasn’t enough to contend with, China is bound to receive a letter from the UN telling them how angry they are about this whole invasion thing.
So there’s that . . .
I wouldn’t go so far as to say angry, but they might call on the Australian resistance to meet with Beijing in a neutral venue such as Pyongyang to negotiate a peaceful surrender.
Australia would be relatively easy for China to control. Most of the population hugs the coastlines; the bulk of the landmass is sparsely settled with few roads. The population is docile, unarmed, and follows orders. Moreover, China could blockade the entire continent, controlling all international movements of people and trade.
Give the people their beer and entertainments and there would be no noticeable “resistance”. Do you honestly believe that young people of today would put down their drinks and surfboards to take up fighting where their man-buns might get mussed and their tattoos ruined? These are people who are incapacitated by mean tweets and the use of the wrong pronouns.
The entire Western world is ripe for the picking and China knows it.
I’m beginning to hate it when someone tells it like it is 🙁
China has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and has co-opted a majority of the UN bureaucracy so I would not count on any angry letters.
The lack of UN / WHO interest in the origins of COVID are a pretty good data point on UN fecklessness.
Australia. Home of Overreaction. The Aussie govts closed the entire country’s borders down for years, not even allowing people out of the country. They had internment camps. They locked people into apartment buildings with police at all exits, and rifled through the mail “for their own good”. They had armed military patrols in residential neighbourhoods. They used drones to spy on people to ensure compliance. Police smashed up people’s cars when they were found driving outside their designated neighbourhoods.
It does not surprise me one little bit that the Australian self-styled “elites” are salivating at the prospect of doing this all over again. For any excuse.
Every day with these clowns, it’s like Kennedy’s duck-and-cover drills in the classroom, over and over.
The UN declaring a “planetary emergency” over a potential 0.5% increase in the global temperature (seems fair to use 0 Kelvin as a reference point, as it’s the only non-arbitrary numerical measure of temperature) that would likely do more good than harm.
(going Harry Potter world here)
We can cast our wands of experience at the UN boggart and say “ridiculous”. The children, though, are being taught fear by the leaders who should be trying to reassure them instead. They don’t have the experience to understand that they’re being used to fuel this religion.
They have no conscience, these dementors in charge of just about every country in the western world. They should have understood, seeing the results of their religion in an autistic, but somewhat charismatic and yet completely fanatical Swedish teen-age drop-out, that what they were doing was wrong. But it served their religion, so they encouraged it.
And now, most children are scared, ducking and covering, taught that the very thing that gives life, the sun, will kill them, silently, most assuredly, before they even reach adulthood.
It seems to me, that per capita, Australia is the most deeply mired in the totalitarian climate nightmare. I complain about Canada, but I can name ten times more foaming at the mouth Ozzie climateers. They are also much more on the world stage than their more diffident Canadian colleagues.
The fantasy of Global overthrow of world governments by the UN to establish a climateering dictatorship could only come from an Australian professor. This construct is going to fall very hard at the end. The West will have a huge mess to clean up before too long. Oz may need considerable international help to fix their’s.
yes what a strange world, never would have thunk it about Australia, I had it all wrong ;maybe the the CCP and Australia are in a way kindred spirits.
People imagine Aussies to be like Crocodile Dundee, and some are like that. But there were two kinds of settlers who colonised Australia, convicts and rugged individualists, and the disgraced children of upper class families who had done something so despicable back home they had to lay low in a remote corner of the empire for the rest of their lives.
Unfortunately it’s the descendants of the vile disgusting people who now run our governments.
I can’t think of any one I would be less inclined to take survival instruction from than a government official, expert or professional. What a bunch of dummkopfs.
“People within the security sector are very motivated to protect their communities,”
Someone is very motivated to play the role of the walk-on Great White Savior. Typically devolves into ‘lead role in a cage.’
Does that mean the State governments request that the Federal government provide assistance from the ADF to provide equipment, personnel and logistics during major floods?
You missed the part about the alleged moral dilemma between upholding their oath to serve the constitution and protecting the people from their civilian leaders.
I didn’t miss it, but there is absolutely no evidence that anybody in the ADF has ever seriously considered overthrowing an elected government, despite having a number of Governors General with distinguished military backgrounds.
Well a GG did overthrow an elected government in an unconstitutional sacking.
The constitution doesnt give the GG such powers but it was claimed as royal reserve powers which was legal nonsense as it doesnt apply in Australia
You outdo yourself.
There is some little difference between the ADF and a Governor General from a judicial background.
ps changed the wording above to improve clarity.
Sometimes people do crazy bad things because they are misled into believing it is the right course of action. Drastic measures to solve an existential crisis is a well trodden path to dictatorship.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
“Some people do (batshit) crazy things…” Like throwing soup on artwork and gluing yourself to roads and buildings for example
Come to think of it, I think the allegiance of members of the Australian military is to The Crown.
that’s what I had to pledge.
But that was ti QEII.
If I had to do it today to King Chilla, I’d take the wrap for treason instead.
oh, and bushfires. I don’t think they’ve been requested for droughts or hot days.
From the article: “Australia is no stranger to this [El Nino] danger – in fact, it’s almost become normal”
Lol! It *is* normal, dummy!
You would think it would have been updated to reflect the flooding associated with the recent Las Nina.
I don’t think their plan would unfold as they envision.
So, is this why the EU wants to outlaw R404A ?