Essay by Eric Worrall
If the government believed their own report, why would they be simultaneously predicting climate apocalypse and boosting the fossil fuel export market?
Catastrophic food and water shortage warning in damning national climate report
By April Glover 6:05am Sep 16, 2025
Australia’s damning National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) report has warned continued global warming could result in devastating shortages of foods such as fresh fish, beef, mangoes and avocados.
The landmark report detailed how climate change may choke food supply in regional Australian communities and found there will be a “high to very high risk” to primary industries by 2050.
The scenarios of 1.5, two and three degrees of warming were modelled in the NCRA report, which noted the particularly catastrophic effect of severe heatwaves on fresh fruit, vegetables and cattle.
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Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/national/food-and-water-shortages-predicted-for-australia-in-national-climate-risk-assessment-report/c0c4dfdf-36f8-406e-98ea-2935e5173980
The report is available here.
Meanwhile the Australian Government is expanding gas exports;
Murray Watt stamps final approval of Woodside’s North West Shelf extension to 2070
- By Kimberley Putland
- By Mietta Adams
- By Alistair Bates
- By Rhiannon Shine
- ABC Pilbara
- Topic:Oil and Gas
Fri 12 Sep
In short:
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project has received final approval from the federal government, extending its potential operating life to 2070.
The approval is subject to almost 50 strict conditions, including reducing certain gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2050.
Environment Minister Murray Watt also made a partial declaration to protect a significant heritage site involving the ancient Murujuga rock art, bringing additional legal protections to parts of the area.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-12/woodside-north-west-shelf-decision-murray-watt-pilbara/105758850
Let’s not forget the 11 new coal mines or extensions approved since 2022.
My point is if the Australian government doesn’t take their own CO2 emissions doomsday report seriously, why should anyone else?
As always, in my opinion this fake climate hobgoblin report is just an excuse for the government to raise taxes and mess with people’s lives.
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Those big LNG plants use a lot of the gas to run the turbines which power the compressors.
I’d love to hear how they will get those big units to be nett zero. It certainly will not be done on site using solar panels and batteries.
Have a look at this beast, one of many required.
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C5612AQFrK7lp6aC1qQ/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280/0/1549632595498?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=DzPKil2vQtZ1nNAllzGF0zlwekDtI7FueUy_fOpZsKM
Mangoes and avocados, now that’s a devastation we cannot endure. But fresh fish? I guess we’ll always have frozen.
“… this fake climate hobgoblin report is just an excuse for the government to raise taxes and mess with people’s lives…” Yes. When they were sold the scam it included everything government could want, and more.
Complete with models, which show no predictive capability. The use of RCP 8.5, described by the IPCC as highly unlikely, GDP scenarios that show increasing costs but not increasing GDP, reliance on the Insurance Council of Australia, those people who determine how much the market can bear.
But, there was good new in the gloom. Perth and the Lower South-West will get more rainfall, after years of being told AGW was causing the Lower South West to get less rainfall.
Tide Gauge Data for Hillarys shows the highest tide was back on 16 April 2003, as it was for Fremantle.
So many assumptions, so few facts.
Fremantle tide gauge –
Disclaimer hidden in the report….
Translation… Every word of the verbal vomit included in this report may not happen so if you take it seriously, it’s on you.
Reading the whole report is like a Monty Python script … who would take such ridiculous claims seriously. Best comedy was the impossible sea level rise by 2050 and the Northern Australia extra heat deaths 🙂
Just to put a number on it the average deaths to heat in Australia is about 29 a year from 2001 to 2023 and compare that to current national road toll of 1200-1300 per year.
“mangoes and avocados.” I think most people can do without them.
Meanwhile bumper crop yields are expected in WA, with above average rains this Winter and early Spring. So much for ex Climate Commissioner, Tim Flannery’s call, decades ago, of the WA Wheat Belt becoming a desert. Locally it is now called Flannery’s desert (sarc.)
Improved WA crop now seen at 21.9Mt: GIWA
One belief that seems to infect almost all climate activsts, is the belief that farmers are too stupid to adjust their crops as the climate changes (assuming it actually does change).
Its an interesting example of a common thing in climatism: when people claim to believe in a coming climate catastrophe but then act contrarily. Another aspect of the same thing is the demand for belief. The rhetoric about ‘climate deniers’ is stuck on demanding people testify to their belief to get left in peace to do whatever they were doing before the interruption.
Its a sign that we are dealing with a moral panic rather than any sober well evidenced belief in a real danger. Compare it, for instance, with polio. The reaction was to develop vaccines. The reaction to smallpox has been preventive measures. Fear of nuclear war led to negotiations and measures to make it less likely. People did their best to form international bodies to better manage conflict – League of Nations, UN. Whatever you think of them, they were people really trying to do something, not simply pontificating and denouncing dissidents.
Not climate. It seems to have led only to endless denunciations of ‘deniers’ and lots of virtue signalling policies which have no or minimal effect on emissions, don’t work, and anyway are being only half-heartedly implemented.
When the main reaction among the alarmed to an alleged danger is to denounce unbelievers you know you are in the middle of one of these waves of superstitious craziness which plague human cultures. At least this one, prodigiously expensive though it has been, seems to have reached peak mania, and is now on its way down. Lets hope.
Speaking of “hope”, a parallel might be drawn between the USA’s support for Obama’s “Hope and Change” sermonising and their eventual rejection of this approach when confronted with realities, and their turn-around to more rational governance policies in recent times.
With the climate bullshit, we can only “trust” that Charles Mackay’s observations about the madness of crowds will eventually resolve into sanity.
“continued global warming could”
I see the word “could” and know it’s time to stop reading.
can, could, should, might, may, would, perhaps, seems, ought . . .
What other weasely words always appear in climate “science” publications?
The list is too long to post here.
This unbelievable Australian government report claims that increased hot heatwaves will render areas of tropical Australia uninhabitable and cause more heat deaths. At page 35, ” Extreme temperatures are likely to increase nationwide (very high confidence), with the greatest increases over northern Australia, the Great Dividing Range in the southeast, and in desert regions. Severe and extreme heatwave events are projected to double if global warming reaches +2.0ºC and more than quadruple under +3.0ºC of warming.”
This is absolutely wrong if you use official BOM temperatures to study northern heatwaves, such as at Darwin, 12 deg South latitude.
Darwin has no heatwaves. The graph here shows the hottest 3 consecutive day maximum averaged temperature each year since 1886. This is a fair representation of a heatwave, which has many definitions.
There is clearly no evidence that Darwin 3-dayheatwaves are getting hotter. Ditto for 1-, 5- and 10-day graphs not shown for space reasons. There is also very little change from year to year, so no occasional “extreme” events can be seen.
Our BOM needs to do some proper science, rather than supporting activism.
Geoff S
I was actually involved in a project using the **NarClim so-called “database” (models don’t actually produce real data).
The 4 models we looked at showed zero significant change in rainfall or rainfall extremes over the period to 2080.
They were also all over the place.. totally inconsistent within and between models.
But all climate models are JUNK models, and their output is meaningless anyway.
There is no way they can reliably predict future temperatures or anything else…. it is pure anti-science.
** NarClim is a collection of numbers from a heap of climate models for Australian regions.