In the spirit of there being no climate change deniers around here, loon pond, chairman Rupert, the lizards of Oz, and the Murdochian 'leets of Surry Hills proudly present a sooper dooper edition covering all the very best in climate science ...
Drum roll maestro please, and enter the dog botherer from stage right ...
Now the pond doesn't intend to argue with the dog botherer. There's no point when an old dog is set in his way and just loves to chew the slipper. If you argue, it only gets the dog botherer excited, nay wildly agitated and waving arms and such like, and next thing you know he has to quit Twitter because he keeps on making a goose of himself ...
If others want to argue, feel free, but all the pond can do is marvel that the dog botherer can keep on churning this stuff out ...
Yes, that use of "climate evangelists" is a provocation, yet for some reason the dog botherer gets upset when some unkind souls retort that he's a fuckwitted climate science denialist ...
But as the pond has already noted, there's no point in unseemly argumentation. The pond is merely here to marvel and admire ... so let us now talk of the climate wars and make a classic doggie bothering joke which the pond finds frankly unprecedented in the history of humour ...
None of this is to downplay the latest bushfires? Of course not, they were unprecedented. The whole point is to downplay climate science ... hey nonny no, on we go ...
Yes, nothing to see here, it's all happened before, there have been hot decades, where's the fuss, and remember, there's no climate science denialists to be seen around here ...
Ah yes the lack of transparency, which really should remind us of the hideous world wide conspiracy to distort figures and hide the truth ...
Well you won't find any politically correct climate science coming from the dog botherer's keyboards, and never no mind that you won't find any scientifically correct science either, partly because the dog botherer's more fuckwit than trained and qualified science, but also because there's no climate science denialists around here ...
Ah yes, climate activist delusion, but there's no climate science denialism around here ...
And now as part of the pond's climate science sooper dooper day with the lizards of Oz, the pond must offer an apology. The pond realises that there are some keen followers of Lloydie that visit the pond, and the pond made the mistake of not keeping up its supply of Lloydie news.
And yet there are some who have failed to update their Firefox and so are bereft when they can't get behind the paywall and so keep up to date ...
So, with profound apologies and in the spirit of the sooper dooper climate science day, please allow the pond to insert the two most recent Lloydie outings ...
The pond realises that this Lloydie offering has already been sorted in the comments section, so it will just press on with the next gobbet of joy ...
Done and dusted, and so to the next Lloydie, and a splendid satanic mills illustration ...
Here the pond entered the satanic mills with a certain nervousness. Why talk of irrelevant carbon levels at all? There's no climate problem, just a few floods and perhaps too much time in the sun.
The dog botherer had clearly reduced climate evangelism and climate alarmism to a doggie pile of rubble, so what's with the CO2 blather?
Dear sweet long absent lord, this began to look suspiciously like heresy. Here comes the sun replaced by here comes the carbon? Was the doggie botherer reading?
Luckily that detour into Lloydie land - please remember, he saved the Amazon - was relatively brief, because the pond did so want to include nattering "Ned", and any outing with "Ned" is a Herculean exercise ...
Some might think mindless blather about Team Australia indicated that "Ned" had reached a new level of pompous, portentous fatuousness, but the pond understands where that talk of national will and resilience had come from ...
Some might also wonder what "Ned" has to do with climate science, and they will have to be patient, and wait to the very last gobbet, and if they fail to make it there, well, they lack the necessaries for a triumph of the national will ...
Others will join with the pond by admiring the way that, these days, "Ned" cobbles together his columns by pillaging the thoughts of others... and so in that spirit it's on to climb the Everest of second hand thoughts, something borrowed and something blue ...
Ah monsieur Dupont, the man of the bridge, and so the borrowing has begun, and must continue ...
How kind of our Tehan to reach out, what with him having so much in common with his counterpart. No doubt they hit it off like a dog botherer wildfire, n'est-ce pas?
Most importantly, we will defeat the Chinese by the rapid-fire deployment of clichés. Blather abut Team Australia and people-to-people links and vitality and perhaps even essence of precious bodily fluids will bedazzle and beguile a dictator for life, and result in victory ... how else to arrive at a meaningful position?
And so to the punchline and the consummation of the pond's sooper dooper climate science day, and once again, we owe it all to clean, sweet, pure, innocent, virginal Oz coal, oi oi oi ...
Never mind the planet, coal is going to lead us to safety and win the war with China ...
After suffering through all that, some might think they'd already seen the movie ...
But as always, the pond prefers to end with a Rowe, wherein it is noted that this government couldn't organise a vaccine chook raffle in a barnyard, let alone win a trade war with China ... even if it would be nice to bloody the nose of the dictator for life (and as usual there's more Row here) ...
“Prosaic and obvious” (at the end of DB’s piece).
ReplyDeleteWell, DB might mean that he is the one smart enough to see through all the “professors” and the “BOM” with their “data” and “models”. Or he might have re-read his article and in a rare moment of honesty and self-awareness tried to pre-empt the critics by admitting it. I would have added “stale” and “boring”, then you would also have described his whole life’s work.
Ego deprecarentur humillime. They do call those low energy, mostly proton, particles that populate solar flares "cosmic rays". But of course to be accurate they are called 'solar cosmic rays' (SCR) while the very high energy particles that come from 'way out there' are called 'galactic cosmic rays' (GCR). Nobody told me. And to call all of them 'cosmic rays' is just a tad confusing, if not actually obfuscating.
ReplyDeleteBut so, of course, Lloydy is on about how "Evidence is mounting that changes in the Sun's magnetic energy has a much bigger effect on Earth's weather and climate conditions than previously thought."
Leamon, however makes it clear that: "[He] acknowledges a concern that some people will try to use his study as evidence that climate change is caused by the Sun, not humans. That argument has long been made by deniers of human-caused climate change. But Leamon is clear that it misinterprets his findings."
So, no change, still on about weather and not climate - and Lloydy's "climate conditions" really just equate to what normal folk would call weather.
Ned - "Australia is noteworthy because it is being punished more severely by China than any other country".
ReplyDeleteCould it have anything to do with the diplomatic style of Smirko? The Pond said at the time of his call for an investigation into China's response to Covid-19 that there are ways to go about such things (or words to that effect). This leftist publication details the approach if you don't remember:
https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/pm-s-virus-inquiry-was-a-lose-lose-call-20200501-p54ow6
The question seems to be why is Promo so relentlessly incompetent and why are a certain percentage of people apparently attracted to that incompetence? John Birmingham offers this take:
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-empty-smirk
"As a species we “commonly misinterpret displays of confidence as a sign of competence” and thus fool ourselves into believing that a gormless, glad handing sack of shit in a Cronulla jersey leaning out of an army helicopter to give himself a big thumbs-up for not falling out has real leadership potential."
Oh, just as an example of incompetance
Deletehttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-people-vaccinated-covid?country=AUS~CAN~Europe~USA~BRA
China and the "diplomatic style" of Smirko ? No, I don't reckon that Bef, I think it has a lot more to do with "wolf warrior diplomacy" and the fact that Australia is in a suzerainty to the USA and the Chinese would prefer it was to them.
DeleteDon't think for a moment that if Australia hadn't gratuitously presented China with a "provocation" the Chinese wouldn't have found one anyway. Australia is one of those places where you can use them to get at somebody - eg the USA - that
you don't want to take on directly.
Nobody should run away with the idea that China is an honourable, civilised nation (remember Mao's famines, Tiananmen) any more than Britain or America were back in their days of open imperial conquest and colonisation.
Just consider this:
"Historically, the Emperor of China saw himself as the centre of the entire civilised world, and diplomatic relations in East Asia were based on the theory that all rulers of the world derived their authority from the Chinese emperor. The degree to which this authority existed evolved from dynasty to dynasty. However, even during periods when political power was distributed evenly across several Chinese political entities, Chinese political theory recognised only one legitimate emperor, and asserted that his authority was paramount throughout the world."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerainty
Now I don't know enough Chinese history to know how true that is (where's Holely Henry when you need him), but it has a 'ring of truth' about it.
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey?
DeleteReading your comment I seem to agree with you on most points including our relationship with the US but I cannot shake the idea that we would might get better outcomes if we engaged the brain before opening the mouth.
My point was really that aiming a calculated insult at one of the big players turned a probability into an absolute certainty. I included the first link to show that even conservative commentators saw a clear downside but, more importantly, no upside in doing it this way.
The inquiry has proceeded just as it would have without the blather and the findings will probably be what we all expect. There will be no reward from the US, there never is, in fact they have picked up some market share that Oz has lost. The Chinese have a suitable target for exemplary punishment. All is copacetic.
And don't think I see China or the US as honourable nations, I'm just asking some questions about the way we do things. Plenty of small nations have to tread this path but few seem to stumble about as much as Oz.
As usual, things may not be quite as simple as some would have us believe:
DeleteDid Australia start the anti-dumping trade contest with China?
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/did-australia-start-the-anti-dumping-trade-contest-with-china/
In a gathering of mighty intellects, Akerman, in the Yellograph, has purloined Lloydy’s take on the Leamon et. al. work, but rendered it down for the benefit of those who lack the capacity to understand what is in the Flagship each day. To his credit, Piers did not reduce it all to footy analogy, but it is sufficiently confusing anyway. My Source assures me these are his actual words, although she also tells me that she was a bit selective, having taken out Piers’ sprays at Flannery, and Victoria and a few of his other regular targets (for words, not ballistic typewriters).
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“In an amazing display of intellectual reasoning, data derived from research funded by US space agency NASA was found to indicate the sun actually had a much larger influence on Earth’s weather and climate conditions than had been previously thought.
Who would have that the sun had some influence on our little planet’s climate at all? Certainly not the Greens, who blame the harmless and naturally occurring essential-for-life gas CO2 for heating Earth to the point where we are all going to be extinct within the foreseeable future.
Of course, had NASA asked Australian scientist and author Ian Plimer about the possibility of solar activity affecting the climate, it would have saved a lot of time and money.
In his 2009 book Heaven and Earth, Professor Plimer explained how increases in solar activity affects low-level cloud cover and leads to higher surface temperatures on Earth.”
Dorothy - thank you also for the poster of 'The Mouse that Roared'. I had forgotten that the cast included William Hartnell, later to be the first 'Dr Who', who (?) did so much to define the character.
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