the perversion of the discussion in Australia about man made global heating shouldn’t be taken as a meaningful guide to the existential seriousness of the issue.
each month, premier US science agencies NASA and NOAA provide a global climate report that details the heating trend clearly evident on Earth. I thank them for it. Their state of the art reports are science but aren’t set in any sort of social context.
day in, day out on HC clueless brainwashed twerps, reveling in irrationality and anonymity, attack climate science in their desperation to cast doubt on it and so try to prevent govt policy changes that might hurt the interests of the myopic fossil fuels industry. By and large successfully too.
but the ceaseless noise these drongos drum up distorts debate, denies and diminishes the science, denigrates scientists, decides the extreme weather we see is just natural variation, and delivers an idiotic delusion that she’ll be right mate.
for example, one poor soul on HC, convinced Earth’s climate trend is cooling, suggested meteorologists reading thermometers now are cherry picking. We’re talking serious delusion here.
there’s other ways to view the extreme weather events now happening more frequently.
macro economist and big picture analyst Umair Haque outlined a deeply disturbing and entirely plausible analysis Friday on medium.com.
excerpts of his article follow after the headlines to his article.
”Is This the Beginning of Runaway Global Warming?” It’s Beginning to Feel Like We’ve Finally Pushed the Planet Past its Final Tipping Point
”Something is very wrong. Not just wrong in a usual way, but wrong in a weird, off-the-charts way. These are “extreme events” which scientists have long feared. But they’ve even shocked scientists with how suddenly extreme and frequent they are. … ”Then Daniel Swain, a climate scientists, says something that sounds particularly ominous. “This is not a localised freak event, it is definitely part of a coherent global pattern.” Think about that for a moment. He’s right. None of these weird, devastating “extreme events” are unconnected. London and Germany flooded and California baked and Canada burned and Washington, DC got hotter than Lahore at exactly the same time. … It’s not just what even scientists expected from “climate change,” better called global overheating. You can find tons of evidence of scientists being literally shocked. “This is such an exceptional event that we can’t rule out the possibility that we’re experiencing heat extremes today that we only expected to come at higher levels of global warming.” “The obvious acceleration of the breakdown of our stable climate simply confirms that — when it comes to the climate emergency — we are in deep, deep shxx.” … ”Again, don’t take it from me. “Some experts fear the recent jolts indicate the climate system may have crossed a dangerous threshold. Instead of smoothly rising temperatures and steadily increasing extremes, they are examining whether the trend may be increasingly ‘nonlinear.’” … “Let me say it again, because I think this point really matters. The planet appears to be overheating so fast, so rapidly, so suddenly, that you and I can feel it in our own lifetimes. That’s incredibly fast. It’s why climate scientists are shocked. Usually, the climate changes in relatively slow ways — maybe fast for it, but compared to a human lifetimes, eons. Thousands of years, even millions.
“The climate does not change within decades unless something fundamental is broken. It doesn’t change so swiftly and severely that you and I can talk about how different the seasons were just a decade or two ago — or even a few years ago — unless something has gone deeply wrong, in the most basic planetary systems. We should not be able to feel climate change as rapidly and severely as we are — within the span of a single human lifetime — unless something truly mega-catastrophic is happening.”
