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Essay by Eric Worrall
They actually said “Extreme Heat”, but what else do you do on a hot day?
From drill to grill: Continued fossil fuel use puts us all in the hot seat
The Climate Council is warning that Australia’s biggest cities could face dangerously hot temperatures, unless action is taken to slow down climate change. The Council has released a ‘heat map’ which also shows that continuing to cut climate pollution can safeguard Australians from the worst impacts of soaring heat.
“The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices. And that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.” (Applause)
US President Donald Trump, speaking in January, promised to withdraw from the Paris accord and exploit its large oil and gas reserves.
The Climate Council says if the world follows that lead and fails to cut back on burning fossil fuels, Australia will suffer from extreme heat for more than half of every year.
There are already signs of increasing heat, with last month recorded as the world’s hottest January on record.
Samantha Burgess is the deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service. She says the trend is set to continue.
“We know that the extreme events, which is where humans are most impacted, humans, society and ecosystems are most impacted by extreme events. They happen more frequently and with more intensity the warmer our climate is. So at the moment we’re at 1.3 degrees (Celsius) of warming and in 2024 we’ve seen record losses from extreme events, from hurricanes, from wildfires, from storms. These are projected to become more frequent and more intense with a warmer world.”
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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/from-drill-to-grill-continued-fossil-fuel-use-puts-us-all-in-the-hot-seat/rauyv5ssi
Do try to keep up Climate Council, the CSIRO tells us we have already passed the 1.5C threshold you warned us would bring disaster.
So far the only disaster I’ve experienced is I’ve lost control of the algae in my pool, though I’m slowly winning the battle, with the aid of lots of chemicals.
The beer fridge still works – so not all is lost.
Obviously if Australia was to experience more hot weather, it would only be a disaster if nobody could afford air conditioning. Sadly a number of Australians are already in this situation thanks to soaring energy prices.
If only there was a way to rapidly bring down those energy prices, so all Australians could shield themselves from the heat with affordable air conditioning.
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What was that quote from one of the early alarmists along the lines of –
“we have to put out scary scenarios, etc etc”
Stephen Schneider, died of a heart attack in a plane (first class cabin so I’ve heard) on travel for attending a climate conference.
On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both. (Quoted in Discover, pp. 45–48, October 1989.)
Heart attack is what results when the double ethical bind is resolved in favor of being effective rather than honest. Being both would mean excommunication from the climate alarm religion, meaning no first class airline seat to a climate conference.
Thanks Scissor.
You’re welcome, Mr.
And like most people, we would like to be guaranteed to get as much money as possible for as long as possible, which in this context translates into replacing true science by pseudoscience of reducing the risk of potentially disastrous climate change.
Guess what?, CO2 doesn’t make the earth hotter !
— “We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” – Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports.
On queue Sydney has a extreme heat warning for 36deg C day. We used to call that a nice warm day but now it is “extreme heat”. The BOM making your days warmer one definition at a time.
Ah, yes, the normal human body temperature.
Humans evolved in tropics after all. They are like cockroaches, can live in colder climates only in artificially heated environments.
Net Zero is a regressive tax on the poor.
And yet the woke bureaucrats in the social security departments in Australia are all for “renewable” energy.
My 66c/kWh FIT ended in December ending 13 years of free energy plus change. Last year the government contributed to a heat pump water heater and reverse cycle air-conditioning – about half the cost for both. So I now run the heat pumps mostly off solar because I get next to nothing for export. Heat the water when the sun is high in the sky and cool the house with the afternoon sun. Most days I am paying very little for energy but still have to pay the connection fee.
I am not wealthy but I am still in a position to garner the subsidies from government that the poor cannot access.
That the poor cannot access.
You will have nothing and you will be happy. WEF
I’m not so sure, we’ve had one of the coolest summers in Brisbane that I can remember . Only a handful of days over 33C whereas in past years we’d have +35C proper 5-day heatwaves 4 or 5 times.
Humidity-waves are the energy sapper in Brissie as I recall.
In 2022, Sydney did not have one day above 32C even at the grossly urban Observatory Hill.
This year has had a few rather warm days, just like most summers, but nothing “extreme” or out of the ordinary.
Where is all this “extreme” weather we are meant to have had ?
I don’t “believe” in myths and prophecies from the far left anti-science Climate Council, any more than I believe the Easter Bunny actually exists.
They have ZERO credibility.
Some of the names associated with the “Climate Council”
Flannery, Gergis, Karoly, Steffen….
.. the worst of the worst non-scientist climate activists from Australia.
They have not yet got the memo that USA EPA has dropped the endangerment finding. CO2 is no longer a pollutant in the USA and it never has been in Australia.
“that USA EPA has dropped the endangerment finding.”
Have they.? I knew they were trying to, but didn’t know it had happened yet.
If so.. that’s great news
It hasn’t been dropped yet but it is on the chopping block.
There are calls to have it reevaluated and edited by more sane people.
“USA EPA has dropped the endangerment finding”
Is true now, done deal?
EPA have recommended string down the endangerment finding.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/02/26/epa-tells-white-house-to-strike-down-endangerment-finding-on-climate-regulates-co2-as-pollutant-under-the-clean-air-act-reversal-to-be-one-of-its-most-consequential-steps-yet-t/
But it should be entirely the EPA;s business. It is a matter of courtesy the administration has been warned so they can help prepare for the legal onslaught.
I expect the Inflation reduction act will ned to be repealed as well or simply not funded.
The EPA is planing on a dramatic reduction in staff because they do not need to regulate CO2.
The IRA is written as is typical that no funding means nothing moves forward.
Has EPA officially removed CO2, menthane and other trace “greenhouse” gases from their list of pollutants?
When I first saw the headline, I thought it was a Babylon Bee article. When I got to this:
“The Climate Council says if the world follows that lead and fails to cut back on burning fossil fuels, Australia will suffer from extreme heat for more than half of every year.”
…I thought, so Australia will be like Arizona or Texas. But wait, isn’t it Australia??
‘Could face dangerously hot temperatures if….’
”dangerously hot” means what? Max AUS Jan temperature averages 31.6C, about 89F. The very hottest regions reach upper 30sC, or mid 90’s F. It is mid to upper 90’sF every day all summer here in Fort Lauderdale on the beach (hotter inland)—and it isn’t a dry heat.
”could face” just means you don’t know.
Pathetic. It is what’s left when sea level rise didn’t accelerate and summer Arctic sea ice didn’t disappear.
China is digging baby digging for coal.
US is gonna drill baby drill for oil and gas.
Australia has NO say to either, only a muted whine.
Well at least the polar bears are still dying out rapidly! Oh! Wait! Never mind!
(I hope this works.)
http://www.scubamom.com/sherman/tropbear.gif
India has an entire ministry devoted to coal. They recognise how important it is to their economic development.
Current reserves sit at 378bn tonnes. Their consumption just exceeded 1bn tonnes in 2023/24.
And I thought India and China were importing coal and burying deeply in the ground to save the climate …
Meanwhile, the UK is tilting at windmills.
If the UK climate Change Committee gets it’s way the UK may indeed be tilting because of all the windmills in Scotland 🙂
Well Australia might be saying no to the use of coal at home but according to the IEA 46 out of 95 current coal mining for export projects in the world are in Australia.
They include 16 new projects, 28 expansion projects and 2 reopening projects.
!2 other countries have 49 projects between them with Canada and South Africa leading the way with 9 each.
IEA ‘Coal 2024 Analysis and Forecast to 2027’ (Dec. 2024)
There are already signs of increasing heat…..
Good. Last year here in SE Australia, my tomatoes didn’t ripen. This year, they are going great and the snow peas are highly productive.
This year is the first time in about 4 years that the evaporative cooler (aka. swamp cooler) has been on for more than a week.
I feel an El Nino coming on.
Thank you warmth and CO2
There are already signs of increasing heat…..
Umm, not from CO2 there isn’t.
Without the El Ninos, Australia UAH basically dead flat.
The tomatoes have been a challenge for a few years where I am in West Gippsland, 2019 being the previous last good year for me. However, last year I got a decent harvest, though that was predominantly due to putting in over 24 plants so I could replenish my stores of preserved tomatoes. This year I only have 10 or so (and some volunteers that came up in the greenhouse), but I’m still getting a pretty good harvest. Pumpkins have gone quite well this year as well. Looking at the raw data for my local weather station it’s been cooling here since a peak in 2018 with a cooling trend (when I last downloaded the data and had a close look at it) since 2014 of around -1.4C/decade for maxima and -0.7C/decade for minima. I’m expecting this trend to continue into the mid 2030s, with the occasional warm year for some respite. Which is why I built a greenhouse.
Reality will never be over the horizon for these people. Or maybe Reality wont bite so called climate scientists, politicians and journalists in the ass because Reality knows they taste like crap….none so blind as wont see reality to paraphrase.
C’mon, Eric! They’re Greentards; they aren’t allowed to laugh or have fun! This just means more beer and margaritas for the rest of us, while we throw a few more steaks on the barbecue!
It reminds me of how much I always enjoyed performing Jimmy Buffet’s ‘Margaritaville;’ seeing everyone up, dancing a Cowboy Cha-Cha is always fun; especially the cowgirls in tight Wranglers!
“Australia’s biggest cities could face dangerously hot temperatures”
Seems like that should not be written without either a number or a ‘for instance’ to qualify ‘dangerously’.
or a ‘for instance’ to qualify ‘dangerously’.
I have one – poor quality bitumen on our roads softening in the UHI environment
I wonder what they would use as a road surface if bitumen was banned – not concrete because it’s “bad for the environment”
They better hurry up and get those solar panel road surfaces rolling out – silicon has a high enough melting point /s.
I’m old enough to remember when streets were grader-scraped earth soaked with sump oil.
And no, we didn’t say –
“I love the smell of sump oil in the morning . . . “
Heck, we didn’t get sump oil or any kind of oil on our alternatively muddy or dusty Ozark back roads. As a toddler (I’m 70) I did enjoy watching the road grader go by every week.
I’m waiting for some wag to pipe up with –
“sump oil? LOOOXURY!!”
Get the government out of the energy business, they don’t know a damn thing except how to spend other people’s money. Fools.
The think they do. They think they know better. A US Congressman said so a few years back. Google is hiding that now, of course.
It always amuses me that whenever the ABC or whoever have a scary report about extreme heat etc, they always show beach scenes of people enjoying themselves’
Salty crocs will move south and keep the beaches cleared.
Having an Australian mother and spending most of my pre-college schooling in Australia, it is sad to see the economically suicidal green movement so entrenched, with support from both political parties. Seems like it will not be long before Australia will be forced into Belt and Road Initiative servitude to China.
Already in Belt and Road. Look up how many projects are built, operated and/or funded by John Holland – then look up who owns John Holland.
Back to school for you…
No they don’t.
What I wanna know is whether the radicals down North are doing their bit with the hydroxyls-
The atmosphere is getting better at cleaning itself – but that’s not all good news
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PS: We’ll let you off this time but you’d better get your act together in the Deep North before the next stimulation-
Europe deep freeze from Atlantic current collapse unlikely this century, computer simulations show
What are these blithering idiots talking about, Australian cities have faced “dangerously hot temperatures” from the very first summer they were built. So glad all the USAID money these scumbags have been stealing is shut off. Now the people of Australia have to shut off the money being stolen from them by these lie spewing scumbags.
According to BoM, it was the second warmest behind 2019. Not that I tend to believe them either. 😉
Meanwhile, January 20 for Geraldton was originally reported as 48.0C it is now adjusted to 49.3C.
“climate pollution”
The author has a certificate from the Kamala Devi Harris school of journalism.
The Real Danger is the current “Little Ice Age” we are/may be entering, We may be close to entering a full blown Ice Age. The current heat and CO2 increases have proven very beneficial. Cold will kill
https://solargsm.com/
The global warming debate is beyond absurd, we’re still locked in the Late Cenzoic Ice Age.
Every year the alarmists post their ‘hottest year evah’ story. Here in central UK the local conditions do not reflect such a story.
This winter has been drab cool and at times cold though not snowy.
A colleague keeps a running record of temperature taken from his garden in the West Midlands heat island zone twice a day, he records the max and min.
This January in his location temperatures are 3 deg C lower than last year averaged over the month.
That data is perfectly in line with the feelings of drab winter we have just experienced here in the UK.
Last night was another frost following a lovely sunny day but cold breeze. Today looks to be a repeat.
Another indicator of actual temperature versus reported is wood burner fuel consumption. I have used about 30% more wood this season than last year.
It was not a record hot January in this part of the world…
British weather seldom makes up its mind, and even when it does it is often the unexpected.
When I was a kid I remember the saying ‘Rain before seven, dry by eleven’ which still holds true more often than not (because of the usual size of low pressure weather systems).
Pity many current weather people choose a scary agenda about the future rather than tell the truth which is they just don’t know and cannot know. But we do know the Holocene was warmer than it is now and humanity survived.. .
So now we introduce a new term: “climate pollution.”
Climate is a statistical construct. Obviously the math is being polluted?
Environmental pollution is a big deal, so long as there are very real immediate and long term health impacts to individuals. Breathing CO2? Nope. Eating CO2, drinking CO2 (oh, that beer!)? Nope? Skin exposure to CO2? Nope. CO2 is not an environmental pollutant.
I think Greens should complement their vegetarian burgers get by beer without CO2.