Making fun of the Greenies' fraudulent Climate Change SCAM

The more you examine the facts the sillier and more fraudulent the Greenies "claims" become.






ACM Summary
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Welcome to the Australian Climate Madness Summary. We hope the points set out below may give you some food for thought concerning climate change.
ACM Climate Change Summary

1. Introduction
For hundreds of years, scientific advancement has proceeded on the following basis: first, a hypothesis is proposed to explain a particular natural phenomenon; secondly, that hypothesis is used to make predictions about what may happen in the future; thirdly, the empirical observations are compared with those predictions; finally, if the observations match the predictions, it can be concluded that the hypothesis accurately models the natural phenomenon, and can be awarded the status of a theory. However, if they do not, or if a result is obtained at some point in the future that does not fit the hypothesis, then the hypothesis must be modified, new predictions made and new comparisons made with observations. This process will often go through many iterations.
However, when we come to the debate on climate change, the media and the government (and indeed many scientists) will say “the debate is over” or “the science is settled” and “we need to move on from the science and tackle with the problem.”
But is this really the case? Is the science really settled? If that were in fact the case and the evidence was so compelling, why is it that climate scientists need to “massage” data? Why is it that scientists who promote the alarmist agenda refuse to debate the issues? Why won’t Al Gore, responsible for the most popular climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, debate the claims raised in the film? [We know why, of course: many of them were just plain wrong.] Why are those who question the “consensus” often ostracised by their peers in the scientific community, silenced or even threatened? These are important questions to which answers should be sought.
Presently in Australia, the mainstream media and the Gillard government have closed their minds to any dissent from the “consensus” on climate change, namely that man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are causing dangerous global warming. The Gillard government will not entertain any debate on the science, preferring to simply rely on the pronouncements of the politically driven Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC – part of the UN), and insisting on enacting a price on carbon, be it a carbon tax or the “carbon pollution reduction scheme”, a name intentionally chosen to mislead the public (it is the colourless, harmless gas carbon dioxide that is to be reduced, not elemental carbon in the form of soot, and it is not pollution). Similarly, the majority of the mainstream media has already made up its mind and only publishes articles which advance the agenda of dangerous global warming (see here for a textbook example of media bias).
All we seek to do is give readers the opportunity and the tools to find out more for themselves. If, after doing such research, readers are still convinced that AGW is real and dangerous, then at least they have been exposed to both sides of the story.

2. Key points on the science

• The earth’s climate is always changing – it has for 4.5 billion years and will continue to do so – to speak of climate change as if it is something “new” is misleading.
  
• There is nothing particularly special about the climate we live in at the moment – it is very benign compared to some of the alternatives – but to attempt to stop the clock and “freeze” the present state is misguided.
  
• That the earth is currently in a long-term warming phase is not in dispute. It has been since the end of the last Ice Age, and in particular since the end of the Little Ice Age a couple of hundred years ago. It is therefore not surprising, nor alarming, that temperatures today are higher than they were a century ago.
  
• However, the cause of that warming is where the dispute arises.
  
• There is no historical link (on geological time scales) between the harmless gas carbon dioxide (CO2) and temperature. Levels of CO2 have been far higher (thousands of parts per million compared to a few hundred at present) in the past without the planet entering “runaway global warming” or passing “tipping points” from which it could not recover – the fact that we are here today is evidence enough of that.
  
• Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth showed a large graph of temperature and CO2 fitting together very closely, except that it was at such a small scale that it was not possible to determine that rises in CO2 actually lag behind rises in temperature (and vice versa) by about 800-1000 years. The long term warming and cooling of oceans releases and absorbs huge quantities of CO2.
  
• On shorter time-scales, temperatures rose in the early part of the 20th century with little or no man-made emissions of CO2.
  
• They also fell in the period 1950-1970 when CO2 emissions were rising rapidly in the post-war economic boom.
  
• The link between future global warming and CO2 is based predominantly on computer climate models.
  
• None of the computer models predicted the pause in warming (and even slight cooling) we have seen since 2001, despite rising emissions, so we must assume those models are flawed.
  
• There must be other factors at work, such as solar variations, cosmic ray variations, cloud cover, ocean currents etc, which have a far more significant effect on the climate than anthropogenic CO2 (which in any event is only a tiny part of the global CO2 budget)
  
• Every day, new peer-reviewed scientific studies change our understanding of the climate – to say the “science is settled” is pure hubris.
  
• The livelihood of many (most?) climate scientists depends on perpetuating the existence of the climate crisis, and there is presently a worrying lack of impartiality in this discipline.
  
• Studies are written with a pre-conceived agenda in mind, and the peer-review has, to an extent, been corrupted – in other words, alarmist papers are being reviewed by similarly alarmist reviewers.
  
• The story of the Michael Mann hockey stick is a prime example of how scientists with an agenda can manipulate data in order to produce the desired (alarmist) result – see here to read more about this particular example.
  
• The media and the government have already closed their minds to the subject – you will rarely read anything that contradicts the so-called consensus in the mainstream media.
  
• Hence the importance of the blogosphere and independent sources of information on climate.
  

3. Key points on the economics

• The IPCC attributes the current warming almost entirely to man-made CO2.
  
• This is obviously in the UN’s interest, since CO2 emissions can easily be regulated, unlike any other causes of climate change.
  
• This allows the UN to “blame” developed economies for the current warming, and force them to accept reductions in emissions in order to tackle climate change.
  
• Western government policy is based on the results of computer models which we have already seen are flawed.
  
• Schemes such as the Australian CPRS, otherwise known as the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will achieve nothing in terms of altering the climate – Australia produces less than 1.5% of global emissions. Even if we reduced those to zero overnight (a 100% reduction), it would make no difference to the climate (even if we assume that CO2 is the primary driver of temperature). So Kevin Rudd’s 5 – 15% will achieve less than nothing.
  
• The ETS will do enormous damage to our economy and the standards of living of everyone in society, but especially poorer families who will be burdened with higher electricity, gas and food prices – whilst doingnothing for the climate.
  

4. Key points on the politics

• There seems to be, amongst Western societies generally, a desire to “do something” in order to assuage our collective guilt for 200 years of economic progress (although why we should feel guilty about this is a mystery, since that economic progress has lifted billions of people out of a miserable life of poverty).
  
• For some reason we are embarrassed about our standards of living, and believe that we must engage in a quasi-religious penitence for the sins we have committed against the planet (see here for an excellent comparison between climate change hysteria and religion).
  
• History shows us that environmental causes have often been used to advance political agenda.
  
• The present climate “crisis” unfortunately provides such an opportunity for:
  
  
  
  • more global governance and regulation by the UN;
    
  • a redistribution of wealth on a global scale from richer to poorer nations;
    
  • widespread increases in taxation at the expense of economic growth and prosperity;
    
  • a scaling back of Western economic progress; and ultimately,
    
  • a dismantling of capitalist systems (anti-globalisation)
    
  
  
  

• This is evidenced by the allegiances of environmental (“green”) and/or climate change activists, many of whom align themselves with socialist ideals (witness the composition of demonstrators at climate change protests – primarily from the political left).
  
• In Australia, the Gillard government is determined to push through with a price on carbon despite the fact that the rest of the world has baulked at taking any concrete action, both at Copenhagen and now at Cancun. The Gillard government is also hamstrung by its deal with the Greens, who are pushing for crippling cuts to emissions in very short timescales (the Greens inhabit a utopian fantasy world, of course, utterly disconnected from reality, so this is hardly surprising). This may leave Australia in the position of having binding emissions reduction targets when much of the rest of the world has none. The inevitable result of this will be the export of local jobs and industry overseas.
  
• ACM believes that any price on carbon in Australia is a pointless political gesture for a country that produces less than 1.5% of global emissions, since it will have no effect on the climate whatsoever, but if we have to have it, we should at least make that decision with the knowledge of what other countries will commit to.
  

5. Conclusion
ACM is fully supportive of reducing pollution – and by that we mean proper pollution, particulates and toxins, and not CO2, which is a harmless gas and essential for all plant life on earth – from our environment. ACM is also fully supportive of conserving limited natural resources. However, the cost/benefit analysis based on these goals simply does not add up.
If you consider all the above points and dismiss them, then that is your prerogative. However, ACM’s view is that unless or until it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that the present warming is solely or primarily caused by man-made CO2 emissions, policies to reduce those emissions are pointless, and should be strongly resisted. Such policies will send millions of people back into poverty.

https://australianclimatemadness.com/acm-summary/

The sick diseased Lunatic Extremist Greenies have been badly burnt by the bush fires that they CAUSED by BANNING the clearance of undergrowth.

Sydney Morning Herald claims bushfire victims are “climate refugees”

4 January, 2020 by Simon 5 Comments



The desperation is palpable. As the public continues to reject the hysterical climate alarmism of the Green-Left, especially in connection with the current bushfires, the Silly Moaning Herald jumps the shark with this utter nonsense:

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‘Australia’s first climate change refugees’

Standing on the waterfront at Mallacoota on Friday morning, waiting with his wife and 10-year-old son to board a tender that would take them out to HMAS Choules offshore, Nick Ritar had time to ponder the utter strangeness of what was unfolding in the normally idyllic beach town just south of the NSW border.
“We are Australia’s first climate refugees,” he told the Herald by phone from the wharf, where groups of holidaymakers were being bused down from the local cinema. (source, backup [PDF] for when it gets posted down the memory hole)

Keep going! All this will do is further alienate the silent majority from climate alarmism…

The Greens are so DUMB they think Australian climate policies control the Australian climate

12 November, 2019 by Simon
 


Dear Greens,
We know that you’re a bit intellectually challenged, but before you make another disgusting, opportunistic remark about the bushfires being linked to “lack of action on climate change”, there are two important lessons you need to learn:
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[*]The climate is global not local. I know this is so basic it’s almost embarrassing to have to explain it, but you are obviously too stupid to have understood. Nothing we do in Australia will affect the Australian climate. Go and protest in China or India instead.
[*]Bushfires aren’t linked to climate change. Even the experts say this, but you are so desperate to push your cynical agenda you don’t care about that. They are more linked to a failure of bush management and controlled burns, things that have been consistently opposed by, er, the Greens.
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You are a bunch of morons. Go away.
Yours sincerely,
Australian Climate Madness

Greta Thunberg is a hysterical child who should be ignored by sensible adults
24 September, 2019 by Simon
Climate “saviour” Greta Thunberg speaking at the UN overnight made for some extremely painful watching.
It was painful not because of the apocalyptic message that she was trying to convey, but because of her childish, petulant and hysterical overreaction to the non-issue of modern-day climate change, something the planet has endured (and survived) for four and a half billion years.
It was painful because she is the product of a family, a society and a progressive media that is happy to elevate a kid with serious mental health issues to a level of exposure and publicity that will surely damage her even more.
I wonder how long it will take for any remaining sensible adults in the room to realise it is time to stop listening to a hysterical child when determining policies that will affect billions of people.

The climate strikes aren’t about climate, they are about anti-capitalism

23 September, 2019 by Simon
 


Most of the deluded kids on the climate “strikes” last week didn’t have a clue why they were there.
Enthusiastically cheered on by the mainstream media, it was a cheeky bludge off school and all they were doing was trying to “save the planet” right?
No of course not. These gullible kids are being exploited by all kinds of extreme-Left and anti-capitalist groups in order to bring about a wholesale societal change, using our children as their innocent pawns.
The website for the strikes refers to the need for “climate justice” which we all know is code for wealth redistribution from rich countries to poor, and an excuse for the usurping of normal democratic processes.
And as we no longer educate children to think for themselves, you can bet this brainwashing will last decades – possibly their entire lives.
Shameful.

The Conversation becomes a lecture

21 September, 2019 by Simon


The Conversation has always been heavily behind the alarmist side of the climate debate, and has featured in this blog many times in the past.
Now however it has taken the extraordinary step of banning any dissenting views on climate:

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Climate change deniers, and those shamelessly peddling pseudoscience and misinformation, are perpetuating ideas that will ultimately destroy the planet. As a publisher, giving them a voice on our site contributes to a stalled public discourse.

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That’s why the editorial team in Australia is implementing a zero-tolerance approach to moderating climate change deniers, and sceptics. Not only will we be removing their comments, we’ll be locking their accounts.

There is a huge range of dissenting opinion, from outright “denial” to educated and careful scientific critique, but we can be sure that The Conversation will interpret the ban as widely as possible so that nothing disrupts the desired consensus viewpoint. No doubt will be allowed.
The Catholic Church had the same idea when they sentenced Galileo to house arrest for “falsely” claiming the Earth orbited the Sun. Look how that worked out…
We really haven’t come that far since the 1600s.

Victoria: Yarra City Council advertises for “Climate Emergency Officer”

13 August, 2019 by Simon


Applications closed on 9 August – oh noes! I would have been perfect for the job!

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The City of Yarra has a proud history of environmental action and leadership. Yarra was one of the first local governments in the world to declare a climate emergency, recognising urgent action is required by all. We are now employing our first Climate Emergency Officer, to help respond to the climate emergency across the municipality and within the organisation.

Moonbattery on steroids…

:clown::earth_asia: IPCC says: Go vegetarian to save planet :clown::earth_asia:

8 August, 2019 by Simon


Australian Climate Madness says to IPCC: get fucked.

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Vegetarian diets and a “sin” tax on unsustainable meat could help to limit climate change, a major new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says.
Reducing food waste and paying for the environmental services of nature could help the transition.
The major report looks at human impact on natural systems and how better land management could help offset the impact of rising­ greenhouse gas emissions.(source – $)

We can all look forward to a diet of weeds and insects under our future totalitarian environmentalist overlords.
Archived link HERE for when it gets posted down the memory hole

London museum goes FULL WOKE with Extinction Rebellion exhibits

31 July, 2019 by Simon


UPDATE: Read Julie Burchill on the internal cracks forming in XR here (PDF). [2 Aug – link corrected!]
Ah well, with luck they will GO BROKE too.
The V&A has decided in its infinite wisdom to celebrate the unwashed, dog-on-a-string, ecoterrorist organisation Extinction Rebellion, by showcasing a collection of its artefacts. Hopefully they will all have been washed and sterilised first so as not to constitute a health hazard…

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The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) will host two Extinction Rebellion exhibitions praising the protest movement which brought London to a standstill for creating “welcoming spaces for all”.
Banners, stamps, flags, posters and photographs will be displayed at the V&A’s Rapid Response Collecting Gallery in South Kensington this weekend to showcase the group’s “coherent and impactful visual identity” and “do-it together” attitude.
A high-vis jacket worn by a child protester is among the items on show at the second exhibition, which runs for six months from August at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green.
The world famous museum said it wants to show how Extinction Rebellion “engages with young families” and “creates spaces that are welcoming for all”. (source)

Welcoming for all except ordinary people trying to go about their business without being impeded by a bunch of totalitarian environmental extremists.
Utterly mad.

The Greens are complete hypocrites

26 July, 2019 by Simon


Greens: We must build wind farms to save the planet!
Also Greens: We must not build wind farms to save endangered birds!
Unprincipled to the highest degree, the Greens will relentlessly push for damaging environmental action like wind farms and massive solar arrays… as long as it’s for other people.
Total hypocrites.

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Environmentalists are supposed to like wind farms. They provide renewable energy and are seen as a key part of the energy transition as Australia attempts to lower its carbon emissions to meet its Paris Agreement obligations.
But former leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, has come out swinging against a giant new wind farm planned for Robbins Island, in the north-west corner of Tasmania.
He says it is in the wrong place, will ruin the view and kill endangered birds like the Tasmanian wedge-tail eagle and the white-breasted sea eagle that live on the island, and potentially migratory birds like the swift parrot and the orange-bellied parrot that travel between Tasmania and the mainland. (source)

Today’s challenge – find any principle or consistency in the Greens’ shrill environmental posturing. Yeah, good luck with that…

Latest idiotic buzz-phrase from the UN: “Climate apartheid”

26 June, 2019 by Simon


As the climate scare continues to lose traction with the vast majority of ordinary people who are simply getting on with life, the hysteria becomes ever more extreme. Embarrassingly enough, this guy is an Aussie, and seemingly has no qualms about attaching one of the most politically charged words in our vocabulary to the issue of climate change:

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The world is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said.
Philip Alston, UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the impacts of global heating are likely to undermine not only basic rights to life, water, food, and housing for hundreds of millions of people, but also democracy and the rule of law. (source)

But according to Alston, there are “some positive developments”, including, apparently, the actions of eco-terrorist group Extinction Rebellion, and the contribution of bizarre parental plaything Greta Thunberg.
I think that really tells you all you need to know…

:clown::earth_asia: Sydney mayor Clover Moore tries to “virtue signal” the climate into submission :joy:

24 June, 2019 by Simon


Honk honk! Clown World!  
The lunatics are truly in charge of the asylum.
What the actual? Clover Moore has always been a complete f-ing moonbat, but this takes the cake.

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City of Sydney councillors will vote next week on a plan to declare climate change as posing a “serious risk” to residents, and that it should be treated as a national emergency.
Lord mayor Clover Moore will ask the council to demand the Morrison government responds by re-introducing a price on carbon and to establish a “Just Transition Authority” to assist employees to exit fossil fuel industries.
“Successive federal governments have shamefully presided over a climate disaster, and now we are at a critical juncture – we face a climate emergency,” Cr Moore said in a statement.

What exactly can the City of Sydney contribute to mitigating this “climate emergency” I wonder? Build some more bike lanes, perhaps? Virtue signal the climate into submission? If anyone can do it, Clover can!!
Planet’s been here 4-and-a-half-billion-fuckin-years, but what do I know…?
Geez. Climate Madness reigns in Sydney.

ABC’s climate bias is beyond belief

19 June, 2019 by Simon


“Snowcone and the Snowflakes.”
Oh but the ABC is completely balanced, the Left will wail. And to them it probably is – every view is of the alarmist Left.
Monday’s Q&A was a disgrace. Five alarmists plus Leftist Tony Jones discuss the “science” and – surprise surprise – everybody agrees with everybody else!
How about getting Richard Lindzen to take part? Or Peter Ridd? Or Stewart Franks? Or any one of the thousands of respected, qualified scientists from around the world who question the rabid scaremongering of the Green machine?
Here are just a few examples (including old Snowcone chiming in to agree):

• Kirsten Banks: It’s very sad to me. We’re losing all of our flora and fauna. [All, Kirsten? Really? – Ed]
  
• Brian Cox: … it’s the pace of change, I think, is what worries the professionals. And I get the sense, in the last few years, that the pace has taken people by surprise. So, it’s actually rather worse, I think, and faster than many of the climate models have suggested a few years ago. [It’s the models that are overheated mate, not the climate – Ed]
  
• Emma Johnston: we need to get into negative carbon emissions, so we have to start geoengineering, planting trees, potentially finding ways of sequestering carbon in other ways, in order to keep…in order to keep the Reef, you know? 
  
• Emma Johnston: Every government report says that the number one threat to the Great Barrier Reef is climate change. Tony Jones: Yeah. Emma Johnston: We’re going to lose it.
  
• Martin Van Kranendonk: And so because Australia is such, you know, a very sort of tipping-point kind of continent, it’s almost like the canary in the coalmine. And we’re seeing the effects of climate change right in our backyard.
  
• David Karoly: ...there’s at least one – probably more – climate scientists in Europe that have said that the long-term sustainable population of people on the Earth is about 1 billion people in 2100 – not the foreshadowed United Nations population estimates of about 10 to 12 billion people. That’s not good news. Tony Jones: No, it’s a shocking equation, actually. [Yeah, that’s right Snowcone – just agree with Karoly – Ed]
  

No wonder we are raising an entire generation of children suffering from pathological climate anxiety, bombarded as they are by a constant stream of apocalyptic alarmism without any element of moderation.
Transcript is here.

https://australianclimatemadness.com/page/2/