Finally an explanation for why the reptiles have assiduously avoided mentioning any climate news at either the top of the digital edition or on the front page of the tree killer version.
They were waiting for some Killer science to disperse idle talk and false alarums ...
Killer, it will be remembered, is not just an expert in Covid and masks, he's also an expert in climate science and there's absolutely no reason to put quote marks about that expert use of 'expert':
At this point the pond should note that the usual trigger words produced the usual trigger response in the emaciated, once proud reptile graphics department, and the pond would like to get them out of the way quickly ...
Should a reptile reader have landed by accident on this page, they would have immediately had a panic attack by being assaulted by the sight of those Medusas, designed to terrify the reptiles' aging demographic ...
As a bonus, the Killer Klimate Kult can also be done in shorter gobbets ...
Actually climate scientists have spent many years constructing pretty reliable records of the earth's climate over thousands of years. If only Killer had bothered to
look at NASA, or taken in a
Nat Geo story - didn't chairman Rupert eat Nat Geo? - but never mind, on with more Killer science ...
That's quite a parade of scientists and as usual the pond has to turn to
DeSmog to do a check. In the case of Koonin,
his publications are listed as ...
A general keyword search of Google Scholar returns a report by the Steering Committee on Computational Physics where Koonin is listed as a member. He also wrote an article related to BP (formerly British Petroleum) in Physics World entitled “A physicist’s view of energy supply.”
Google Scholar returns a report for The Novim Group on “Climate Engineering Responses to Climate Emergencies.” In that report, Koonin is introduced with his affiliation as Chief Scientist at BP.58
The report includes this note under a section on conflicts of interest:
”[…] [I]n this instance, Dr. Koonin has an extensive history of devoting a part of each year to small-group studies of societally-relevant science. These activities long predate Dr Koonin’s joining BP, and BP allowed him to continue this practice in his individual capacity. BP contributed no funds into this study and had no influence over its content. Moreover, as discussed in the report Prelude, all participants share the belief that the relationship between climate engineering and CO2 policy is so complex and multi-faceted that directionality cannot straightforwardly be assigned between encouragement of climate engineering research and discouragement of CO2 reduction policies.”
And there was this background ...
According to his listed publications,15 and his profile on Google Scholar, John F. Clauser has written primarily in the areas of quantum mechanics and atom and X-ray interferometry.
He does not appear to have written any peer-reviewed publications directly relating to climate science. A targeted search of Google Scholar for articles containing “climate change” written by John F. Clauser returned zero results.
And this was his background ...
Killer sources and the pond felt positively fatigued at all the googling, and so turned back to Killer with relief, what with Killer being mightily impressed by talk of quantums and entangled photons and such like exotica ...
Passing strange. The pond headed off to the IMF, and
in its elibrary stumbled across a paper peddling the usual blather, already decisively defeated and cleverly denounced by Killer's expert reading ...
Extreme heat waves. Extreme heat waves, such as the deadly one that occurred in many parts of North America in summer 2021, are already about five times more likely to occur with existing warming of 1.2°C. With global warming of 2°C, this frequency increases to 14 times as likely to occur. Heat waves are getting hotter, and with 2°C of global warming, the hottest temperatures would reach nearly 3°C higher than previous heat waves.
If only Killer had provided a link or perhaps even a footnote, just something to show his expert research and incredible findings ... the pond might then have been able to understand if he'd been referring to the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s in the United States, or a world wide phenomenon, or perhaps even an
EPA paper ... which manages to chew gum and rub tummy at the same time ...
Well it wouldn't be a Killer piece without talk of a Kovid Konspiracy, and the dire consequences of mask wearing, with Killer likely at this moment tearing into operating theatres to tear masks off foolish doctors and nurses, for indulging in idle superstition ...
Luckily vaccines and masks helped the pond make it through the Covid years, and each time the pond turns to the reading of Killer, it dons a mask, just to make sure that loonacy isn't a catchable condition...
And so to the Katerist this day, himself having turned something of a Killer Karer for the environment.
It's an astonishing transformation and it has transfixed the pond ...
You see? The Caterist has turned caring
New Matilda reader, and at this point the pond would like to do the ritual disembowelling of the trigger images that turn up later ...
No good would come of featuring the monstrous Albo up against the pristine environment the Caterist, expert flood waters in quarries whisperer, cares so much about ...
Does he speak on behalf of the Caterist, noble custodian of the environment and of ancient tribal wisdoms and learnings, passing on what he knows about the movements of flood waters in quarries to younger generations? Or do they merely speak on behalf of that more recent creation, the cash in the paw merchants grabbing cash from governments to run think tanks based in Canberra ...
Of course not, the Caterist has turned from sociology to anthropology and is brimming with traditional insights ... such as the one that cash in the paw is better than tea and sugar rations ...
Some might think that think tanks of the Menzies Research Centre are only lightly accountable. There they go, scoring cash in the paw, and for what? A grab bag of gobbledegook ...
The purpose of the Grant is to allow the Menzies Research Centre Ltd to provide research and encourage discussions related to social, political and public policy issues, fund ongoing website development and engagement, produce publications and reports pertaining to matters of public policy, liberal heritage and legacy of Sir Robert Menzies. Funding from the Grant would also cover the general expenses of the organisation to the extent that these expenses further the projects of the centre and meet the objectives of the centre.
That's why the Caterist is an expert in accountability ...
Yep, and as for that federal government cash in the paw to the lightly accountable MRC, just think of it as a sound investment in vested interests keen to maintain the Voice and the climate science denialist status quo ...
And so to the Major for a bonus. Sure, the pond remembers that ancient superstition about lighting three reptiles with one match, but it's got to be done, it's a Monday tradition at the pond ...
The Major is keen to sound like a member of
Yothu Yindi, and he's singing his heart out ... because what better way to confuse the punters and conflate the issues than to sing of treaty now instead of Voice referendum yes ...
The Major of course is fully in touch, what with Warren now a fully fledged member of the Polonial patriarchy ...
Indeed, indeed, though the pond personally thinks that the best way forward is localised property development designed to kick out Aboriginal people. Why it worked perfectly well in Redfern, just ask Mick ...
And so to a snap of that proud member of the Polonial patriarchy ... (or should that be pawtriarchy, given Polonius's desire to dress up as a furry each Friday and pretend that he's an ABC wabbit hunting hound?)
By this time the pond was deeply fatigued and settled for one last long gobbet of Major insights ...
If the reptiles have their way, at some point a new Major might be referencing the Voice as yet another failure.
And as for Sky News not relentlessly campaigning against the Voice? Sorry, one pathetic dog botherer up against a pack of raging Bolters and hysterical Corys doesn't count ... The Voice is one of the ‘worst things’ ever proposed for Australia pretty much sums up Sky coverage ...
Sorry, that's a link to an actual Cory sighting, approach it with caution, because Sky News remains bigot and climate denialist central, always has been, and so long as chairman Rupert is alive and counting the shekels he makes from angertainment, always will be ...
And now what a relief to return to an immortal Rowe for a closer, with a cartoon that has absolutely nothing to do with anything above ...
Creighton’s behind the times, because, strangely enough, The Washington Post covered the 1936 heat wave back in a July 2022 article - yes, a year ago - entitled “The U.S is sweltering. The heat wave of 1936 was far deadlier.” But the article concludes:
ReplyDelete‘ Since 2020, the Southwest has officially been experiencing a megadrought: a two-decade-plus shortage of water, and the area’s driest period since 800 A.D. A study this year determined that 42 percent of the soil moisture deficit is the result of human-caused climate change.
If the conditions of the 1936 heat wave were to take place now, the result would likely be far more severe. “Should this ocean warming reoccur in exactly the same constellation,” Donat said in 2015, “because of climate change it is likely the temperature impacts would be even more devastating and those old records may be surpassed.” ’
Trust Creighton to take one past event and use it to justify an argument against numerous present-day events, which aren’t just happening in America (which Killer apparently thinks is the centre of the universe), but globally.
The trouble with the lunatic fringe is that they think all science is the same. They seem incapable of distinguishing between disciplines. Creighton perhaps thinks that a hepatologist would be an expert who could treat him for a neurological disorder.
Ah now, Anony, one of KillerC's 'experts', John Clauser, says that "CO2 emissions and associated global warming would be of 'great benefit to life on Earth'". And he's absolutely correct: he just doesn't say to what 'life on Earth' over what timeframe.
DeleteBut we can be very sure that it won't be to our particular form of 'life on Earth' and it won't be over the coming millennium or so.
Anyway, as to KillerCs bit about how the "1936 heatwave in the US ... killed thousands of people" can we all remember just how the denialist brigade back then was given to claiming that more people died from cold than from heat ? Well I can - but then you can largely overcome cold by wearing warm clothes, but you can't overcome heat by wearing cold clothes.
If the Caterist wishes to reinvent himself as a champion of Indigenous rights, he might wish to think twice about citing the authority of “19th century anthropologists “.
ReplyDeleteIn his final gobbet, Adam Creighton implies that scientists who agree that climate change is happening have somehow sold their souls in return for funding (apparently scientists who are deniers have no funding), but we are asked to assume that Creighton did not sell his soul when he joined News Corp.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta gave one to sell one, Anony.
DeleteErr "have one".
DeleteOh here we go again, the abysmal ignorance of KillerC: "...one finds a 'Heat Wave Index' going back to 1895, which clearly shows the heatwaves were more common before the 1960s, especially in the 1930s, before human induced climate change was even considered." Utter balderdash, as usual. But just for those who may have missed in, some key contributors to 'climate change' knowledge:
ReplyDeleteWhen did we first know about climate change ? How about:
Eunice Foote in 1856
John Tyndall in 1861
Svante Arrhenius in 1896 (a Nobel Laureate no less).
Reading KillerC and NickC is a fine reminder that with 8+billion homo saps saps on the planet, you can easily find a million people to say anything. 'Authority' isn't what it used to be.
ReplyDeleteFor instance, already back in 2019, there were 4.5 million doctoral degree holders in the USA alone. And increasing by several tens of thousands each year.
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/02/number-of-people-with-masters-and-phd-degrees-double-since-2000.html#:~
Wanna bet that some number of 'doctoral degree holders' could be found to spout any nonsense you care to name ?
Not to mention he nature of many American “institutes of higher learning”. I don’t know if the likes of Liberty University (founded by the supposedly Reverend Jerry Falwell) and its ilk actually award PhDs, but I’d certainly be suspicious of any doctorate - and indeed of any qualifications - issued by such institutions.
DeleteDunno about merely being 'suspicious', Anony; reckon I'd just reject them outright.
DeleteMitchell: “State-based approaches are historically appropriate given most violence between Aboriginals and early settlers happened before Federation in 1901.”
ReplyDeleteMisleading. Van Dieman’s Land, as the British called it, was a colony prior to Federation and plenty of violence occurred even before the states were set up. NSW was the first colony formed in 1787 and included Tasmania, Queensland and Victoria as well as parts of South Australia and the Northern Territory and most of New Zealand. Western Australian became the colony of Western Australia in the 1830s. There were various changes to boundaries of these to colonies (NSW &WA) with Victoria and Tasmania only being separate in the 1850s and the Torres Strait Islands became specifically annexed to Queensland in 1879. It was not until 1901, when the six colonies of the United Kingdom formed the Commonwealth of Australia. The territories were not even formed at that stage. Given that many of the states had not been formed when violence occurred, it therefore remains the responsibility of the Federal Government of the Commonwealth, which took over the reigns of British colonialism, to take steps towards reconciliation, recognition and allowing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples voices to be heard.
Perhaps education has not worked for Mitchell or perhaps his News Corp view obliterates the facts.
Perhaps education has not worked for Mitchell or perhaps his News Corp view obliterates the facts.
I think the 'superfluous' is entirely superfluous there, Anony.
DeleteSo, Maj. Mitch.: "State-based approaches are historically appropriate given most violence between Aboriginals and early settlers happened before Federation in 1901." Yeah, well it would have to be, wouldn't it given that pretty much all of the "early settlers" came before 1901. After that they were 'immigrants' and later £10 poms. Of which one was my father who accompanied his parents in a 'later settler' ship (steam plus sail) in 1908 (he was 3yo at the time).
DeleteAny'ow, Mitch. would have us know that many Australians are "...recent migrants who have little connection to frontier conflicts." Oh sure, yeah, Mitch. there was never any 'frontier conflict' between the Anglos and the Irish for instance, was there. And the large wave of post WWII immigrants (especially Greek and Italian) had never had any 'frontier conflict' experience in their lives, had they.
I thought I had put this up earlier - but do not see it now. Anyhooo
ReplyDeleteAre we entertained, Dorothy? Not by the Killer.
I have no expectation of influencing what keys his fingers tap, but - let us not allow his own ‘absurd’ comments (such an easy word to fling about) go unchallenged.
‘That reliable measures only go back a little over a century doesn’t seem to matter.’ Allow me to take readers to the seafloor off California, where, for much of the 20th century, earnest people were studying the fisheries for small Clupeoid fishes - pilchards and anchovies, for convenient identification. Stocks fluctuated wildly, for no obvious reason. Research steadily showed that the relative abundance of the species was a function of the water temperature off California. Indices of abundance were remarkably precise surrogates for water temperature - to fractions of a degree.
Memo to GB, this has become THE most researched fishery in human history, using up hundreds of PhD candidates, who are essentially a kind of cheap indentured labour.
Some earnest candidates got to wondering if it were possible to somehow reconstruct those indices of abundance, back in time. The scales of the two species were easily recognised, and, depending on conditions around them, could persist in sediments for hundreds of years. Talk to geologists - yes, in canyons running off the California coastal shelf, one could find varved clays - strata laid down each year, and including copious numbers of the tiny scales dropped by the tiny Clupeoids.
So - c a r e f u l l y extract cores of the varved clays, slice them lengthwise, and give each PhD candidate a metre or so from which to count the two kinds of scales, and calculate an index of relative abundance.
Oh - it was too long, so - Part the two, as they used to say in the Goon Show.
ReplyDeleteTime to go to another Killer assertion ‘No one denies the climate changes, it always has, for reasons obviously unrelated to human activity.’
The temperature indices from the scale counts ultimately went back into thousands of years. For much of their time, they followed long known local climate cycles that can be attributed to steady oscillations in our planet’s inclination w.r.t our nearest star. At the time the scale indices were being collated, those planetary cycles should have shown a few more years of slight warming, then started into a cooling phase - remembering that the time scale is over hundreds of years. But - what was the then current cycle - of the 1930s - 40s - showed a relatively strong warming trend.
Which set persons at Scripps Institute, where so many earnest PhD candidates were being exploited, to thinking - why is the current period warming, and, what was their main focus, what might that do to this substantial fishery?
Where is the entertainment? John Steinbeck wrote ‘Cannery Row’ about the industrial processing of those small Clupeoids. Many of our cousins across the big pond are still much attached to Steinbeck and ‘Doc’ Ricketts, so much so that the boat they chartered for their collecting cruise around the ‘Sea of Cortez’ - the ‘Western Flyer’, right now, is being restored in their memory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Flyer_(boat)
As GB has reminded us - there was a plausible hypothesis for the planet warming at a greater rate than planetary cycles would suggest - changes in the atmosphere, because humans were raising the proportion of carbon dioxide in it.
As cautious scientists, they produced a plan to monitor that effect, and, with a boost from the International Geophysical Year (or Walt Kelly’s happier ‘G.O. Fizzickle Pogo’) they set up an observatory in Hawaii, which has recorded the steadily climbing proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, to produce what is now known for convenience as the ‘Keeling Curve’.
Note, not the “Killer Curve’, because our Killer has contributed nothing of value, nor interest, to this dialogue of the deaf. It is not a ‘computer model’, to be easily set aside - it is the steady accumulation of data, which kicks the slats from Killer’s assertion about matters ‘obviously unrelated to human activity.’
Sigh - but I will file this for the next time this sort of tosh is recycled from the rigging of the Flagship, simply because it should not go unchallenged.
Thank you all for your patience.
Thank you for your persistence. I only searched for “Adam Crieghton idiot”. The current stupidity wasn’t there yet but a rich vein of examples popped up.
Deletehttps://mathematicalcrap.com/2020/08/02/is-creighton-the-dumbest-man-on-the-planet/
“Is Creighton the Dumbest Man on the Planet?”
“No, of course not. He’d barely make the top ten. But he is one hell of a fu(kwit.”
https://blotreport.com/2020/03/31/the-ignorance-of-adam-creighton/
“Like so many other right-wing nut jobs (RWNJs), he seems to think that the only qualification needed to pontificate on the pandemic is his ignorance of it.”
And so on.
Like I keep saying, Anony, they get paid to lie. And the very best way to lie - as explained by Little Ho-nest Johnny - is to not know that you are lying. And whatever else KillerC may or may not be, he is a consummate expert at that.
DeleteAnd of course once again thanks to Chad for clear and meaningful research.
We’ve all long suspected this, but here’s confirmation -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/01/news-corp-ai-chat-gpt-stories
Surely it won’t be long before News Corp admits they’ve taken the same approach to the that appears under the bylines of Killer, Cater, the Major and the rest? It would certainly help to explain how such repetitive, inaccurate sludge keeps appearing under the main mastheads. Not to mention the performance of the Graphics Department.