From Jennifer Marohasy

By jennifer

My understanding is that the fortunes of a lot of already very rich white men across the West are tied-up with the transition to so-called renewable energy.  And at the same time the superannuation of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) employees is dependent on the success of renewables, also and especially wind.

Not surprisingly there is tremendous pressure to cancel those of us who rightly show that there is nothing unusual about the current climate.

More recently I see that those championing nuclear, as an alternative source of base load energy for Australia, are being maligned and/or cancelled.

And so, the Institute of Public Affairs recently hosted Robert Park, an engineer with forty years’ experience and a masters’ degree in Nuclear Science, after he was cancelled by the Newcastle Branch of Engineers Australia at the beckoning of Simon Holmes a Court.

I have no doubt that Robert Park is very knowledgeable when it comes to nuclear energy, it is just a pity that he can’t limit himself to this topic.  And so, he makes a complete mess of the beginning of the presentation by showing temperature reconstructions that represent entirely remodelled data and follows on with comment about the recent exceptional El Nino.  In fact, not only is there nothing usual about the current climate, but also the Southern Oscillation Index.

The Southern Oscillation Index or SOI is a standardised index of the barometric pressures over Darwin, Australia and Tahiti with reliable data back to 1876.  The method of measuring, and then calculation of this index, remains unchanged.  There has been no homogenisation, involving the remodelling of historical values, which is a persistent problem with ever changing historical temperature records.  The more reliable SOI shows cycles accounting for perhaps 25 percent of year-on-year rainfall variability across Queensland.   There is nothing unusual about recent SOI values, contrary to the claims of Robert Park.

If only the Robert Park’s of the world stuck to what they knew something about rather than having to genuflexion to the meme that is catastrophic climate change.

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The feature image shows the SOI index back to the beginning which is 1876.  More information at Department of Primary Industries’ website, click here.