To hell with the competition, to heck with the hunger games, to heaven with the judges ...
Sure Lord Downer and the Caterist were joint winners this day, but when the elusive, reclusive (some might say slacker slug deadbeat lounge lizard) Lloydie of the Amazon sits down at the keyboard, the pond automatically springs to attention...
He's the veritable bromancer of climate science - no greater praise or honor - a legend in his own wilted by the heat lunchtime ...
And this day he emerged from the jungle to take up a slot in the far right section of the lizard Oz digital edition ...
The pond began to salivate with excitement. The gnomic climate science savant has been notable for his many absences, but here he was, as bright as an Antarctic glacier in the melting sun, ready to alleviate the pond's holyday sense of ennui ... Albanese’s climate sideshow is short on hard facts, For Anthony Albanese to claim that natural disasters have become more frequent and more intense under his prime ministership suggests our leaders are losing all sense of perspective.
What a strong start, and the illustration was just as exciting:
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tours the Grampians fire area and part of the Grampians blaze as seen by CFA crews in the Pomonal area.
The reptiles have been notable in their conspicuous desire to brood too much about detritus like bushfires and other natural disasters. Best leave that sort of climate science FUD to others ... and yet here was an actual snap of an actual bushfire, which had left a trail of destruction behind.
After this great build up, to say that the pond was underwhelmed was something of an understatement ...
For Anthony Albanese to claim that natural disasters have become more frequent and more intense under his prime ministership suggests our leaders are losing all sense of perspective.
While it may be true that Mr Albanese has visited more natural disasters in the past two years than he did previously, this does not prove anything more substantial than this is what PM’s are required to do. Just ask Scott Morrison, who failed to attend the 2019 bushfires and never recovered.
Mr Albanese is correct to say we live in a country that has harsh conditions. But his observation that they are becoming more frequent and more intense, while an article of faith for many, is not necessarily supported by the facts. It will be many years before a proper analysis can be made on whether this is true or not.
That said, Australia must always be prepared for the worst. Several years of flooding rains since the last major bushfire season will inevitably worsen the bushfire risk when conditions permit. It should not be forgotten that the 2019 fires occurred after an almost decade-long period of drought.
Years of rain has recharged the environment and resulted in an abundance of regrowth.
The enduring cycle of drought and flooding rains will not be broken by climate change. Proper planning on where we allow new housing and infrastructure to be built and how we lessen the risk in natural events through pre-disaster management is what leaders must concern themselves with.
New disaster payments and claims of a new normal are merely a sideshow in the natural cycle.
That's it, that's absolutely all he scribbled? To say Albo was short of hard facts when Lloydie of the Amazon was clearly short on word count was a marvellous form of cheek ...
Has Lloydie of the Amazon completely abandoned the field? What's this talk of needing many years for a proper analysis? Aren't actual climate scientists busy doing a proper analysis and coming to proper conclusions?
Why, this very month there appeared a yarn in The Conversation, More than 1,300 Hajj pilgrims died this year when humidity and heat pushed past survivable limits. It's just the start ...
What's this talk of the natural cycle? What about events in the human-made cycle?
Should the reptiles think about losing this dead beat tosser? This idle, loafing, layabout, lounging, lazy bones is a slugabed, a laggard couch potato slob, a shirker rather than a dinkum reptile scribbler ...
The Speccie mob do a much better job of climate science denialism. Ditto the ranters in The Quad.
The Caterist or his better half could manage it in a doddle, save the Hunter Valley whales from windmills, and knock renewables and EVs for six, and only needing a government grant to help.
It was way back on 23rd November that Lloydie of the Amazon last broke his silence in the lizard Oz to help nuke the country, and then this was the best follow-up he could come up with?
This latest outing was such a parsimonious, miserly, close-fisted, word-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, skinflint serve that the pond felt the need to pump it up with a few closing 'toons ... but at least it explains why the judges didn't consider the wretch a meaningful contender ...
Ah, our Lloydie of the Amazin’ - “It will be many years before a proper analysis can be made on whether this is true or not.”
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, pretty much that same idea had already occurred to other people - at a time before you appeared on this planet. Notably Charles Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, back in the 1950s.
Keeling was one of a group of people at Scripps who had looked at certain longer-term indicators of ocean temperature off California. Those indicators suggested that one expectation of that time, that the cycle of our planet’s alignment in space should be ushering us into a period of general cooling, was open to question. Those indicators, from the record of fish scales in varved clays at the bottom of the Pacific, suggested that the waters were,(when looked at year by year) - getting - warmer.
One possible cause - of many looked at carefully - was rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But, yes, it could be some years before a proper analysis might be made. What would a responsible research institute do? - start monitoring that concentration of carbon dioxide. With the coming of the International Geophysical Year in 1957-8, Scripps obtained the necessary funding to do that, delivering us now over 60 years of data for ‘proper analysis’.
Oh, and, Lloydie - the main reason there was a Scripps Institution for those people to be discovering oceanic temperature trends, then to set about researching possible causes, was because one E W Scripps, a media magnate from the 1880s to the 1920s - put up much of the money to found it, early in the 20th century. That was at a time when there was still the odd media proprietor who truly believed in science, and its methods, and that the cause of humanity might benefit from putting more resources the way of such researchers. But that WAS well before your arrival on this planet.
No matter how much the climate may change, the irrationality of a Lloydie will last 'forever' (actually only until the global warming really starts to kill us off),
DeleteWhich might actually be 'real soon now':
Delete2024 to become the hottest year on record
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/12/1158621
Pitiful value these days, The unAustralian, I reckon. I've seen better critiques of Albos' climate policies on posts on my Facebook feed from Climate 200. Those angry deniers who rush to comment on these posts really know their stuff. Ooh such clever putdowns. Interesting that they don't think that some billionaires should be allowed to advocate for policies they want. Okay for Gina though.
ReplyDeleteBut..about the Australian being our national paper. Where is any commentary on what is going on in the soon to be government of the great USA. Surely you'd expect some insights from our Australian premier news service. Isn't Downer good mates with the MAGA crowd? He must know something.
I don't know how it happened, bad algorithm or something but there was ad for a subscription to The Australian on my fb feed. I reported it as false and misleading.
Just as it retains its broadsheet format to disguise itself as a “quality” newspaper, the Lizard Oz uses the fact that it’s supposedly published nationally to claim that it represents a national perspective on both local and international matters. In reality of course it represents nothing more than the views and priorities of the Chairman Emeritus. In that respect it’s the same as every other Mews Corp outlet - it just has a few more tickets on itself than do the tabloid rags.
DeleteI wonder if that broadsheet disguise qualifies as 'false pretenses' in any legal sense.
DeleteWow - Lloydie’s really has slacked off, hasn’t he? Such pathetic comments - and such small portions! Lazy stuff Lloydie, simply using a casual comment by Albo to recycle the old “we must measure these events over the long term” argument. But that’s symptomatic of the Reptiles - other than “Go nuclear and all our problems will be solved”, how long has it been since they came up with a new counter-argument on climate change change? At least the like of the Caterist and the Dog Botherer try to disguise the threadbare and repetitive nature of their claims by blathering on at inordinate length; Lloydie can’t even be bothered asking ChatGP to do a 5,000 cut and paste from his old scribblings.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - the continuing significance of the discussions at Scripps in the 50s, is that it is not sufficient for the Lloyds, or the Plimers, or the Bovverers, to run the 'this is all precedented, bits of the planet are just a bit warmer than usual, all part of great cycles over millennia' - but to explain why we are NOT now in a discernible cooling phase, as part of recognised long-term cycles.
DeleteYep, "long term cycles". Now the last glacial ended about 10,000 years ago, not long after the time we started going serious about agriculture and domestication of other animals. So, how is 10,000 years a 'long cycle', I hear you ask.
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