{"id":176008,"date":"2021-12-03T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176008"},"modified":"2021-12-03T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T11:50:30","slug":"christian-kerr-hilarious-insightful-and-now-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176008","title":{"rendered":"Christian Kerr \u2013 Hilarious, Insightful and Now Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"543\" data-attachment-id=\"176009\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=176009\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?fit=1010%2C758&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1010,758\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00ChristianKerr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?fit=723%2C543&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=723%2C543&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?w=1010&amp;ssl=1 1010w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=816%2C612&amp;ssl=1 816w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00ChristianKerr.png?resize=107%2C80&amp;ssl=1 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He liked people, but he took no one too seriously.&nbsp;&nbsp; He thought most of the reporting on catastrophic climate change absurd. &nbsp;For a time, he would text me asking if he could republish my latest blog post.&nbsp; That was when he was the online editor for&nbsp;<em>Flat White<\/em>&nbsp;where short articles, and gossip from Australia politics is published under&nbsp;<em>The Spectator Australia<\/em>&nbsp;banner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most successful of the pieces he republished from me was \u2018Big Data Finds the Medieval Warm Period \u2013 No Denial Here.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to author Leo Tolstoy, born at the very end of the Little Ice Age, in quite a cold country:&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;\u2018The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.\u2019<\/em><\/p><p>So, our new technical paper in&nbsp;<em>GeoResJ<\/em>&nbsp;(vol. 14, pages 36-46) will likely be ignored.&nbsp; Because after applying the latest big data technique to six 2,000 year-long proxy-temperature series we cannot confirm that recent warming is anything but natural \u2013 what might have occurred anyway, even if there was no industrial revolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lesser editor might have tried to remove all the qualifiers in that last long sentence: because, after, cannot, anything, anyway, but, even if there was not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not Christian. \u00a0He was laughing with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-spectator-australia wp-block-embed-the-spectator-australia wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GGnt9a6rlk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2017\/08\/big-data-finds-the-medieval-warm-period-no-denial-here\/\">Big data finds the Medieval Warm Period \u2013 no denial here<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Big data finds the Medieval Warm Period \u2013 no denial here&#8221; &#8212; The Spectator Australia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.com.au\/2017\/08\/big-data-finds-the-medieval-warm-period-no-denial-here\/embed\/#?secret=GGnt9a6rlk\" data-secret=\"GGnt9a6rlk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told me it was the most viewed article at&nbsp;<em>Flat White<\/em>&nbsp;that year \u2013 in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last time we spoke, and laughed, was August. &nbsp;I was in Adelaide trying to work out how to get back to Queensland as the border had just closed to me. &nbsp;He was in Melbourne trying to work out how to get to his father\u2019s funeral in Adelaide.&nbsp; If it wasn\u2019t for covid we would have meetup in Adelaide and had a meal together. Instead, he arrived and went straight into quarantine.&nbsp;&nbsp; I know it was an awful, awful experience for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now he\u2019s dead, at just 56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was unwell, and immune compromised, these last few years.&nbsp; But he never elaborated.&nbsp; When he wanted to change the subject, it was always to his children. &nbsp;He adored them both: Rupert and India.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can\u2019t image their grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian Kerr was most famous back more than a decade when he was writing under the pseudonym of Hillary Bray for&nbsp;<em>Crikey.com<\/em>. &nbsp; They have several articles about him today, including comment from Susan Brown that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Christian was complex; he was not always right or easy, but was always in public a fearless contrarian. He set a fire in Australian politics and created a form of accountability which lit up many dark corners. He had more self-doubt than many realised. He loved his kids with a heart and pride the size of the universe. He had brilliant taste in music. He had a deep humanity and he suffered a lot for his intelligence, hunger for knowledge and strong values.<\/p><p>When he was suffering a lot physically, I wrote to him in 2019 to say I was going to Lourdes.&nbsp;I said I was an imperfect vessel being an atheist, but knowing he was a very devout Catholic asked if he would like me to say a prayer for him. He came back with: \u201cWould appreciate that very much Susan. Just three key words, please.&nbsp;If I could be granted health, strength and wisdom.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vale Christian Kerr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"176011\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=176011\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00Christian-281x300-1.png?fit=281%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"281,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00Christian-281&amp;#215;300-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00Christian-281x300-1.png?fit=281%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00Christian-281x300-1.png?resize=377%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-176011\" width=\"377\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00Christian-281x300-1.png?w=281&amp;ssl=1 281w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/00Christian-281x300-1.png?resize=75%2C80&amp;ssl=1 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">via <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Jennifer Marohasy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December 3, 2021\u00a0By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/author\/jennifer\/\">jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-jennifer-marohasy wp-block-embed-jennifer-marohasy wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"n88FQ6l9uh\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2021\/12\/christian-kerr-hilarious-insightful-and-now-gone\/\">Christian Kerr \u2013 Hilarious, Insightful and Now Gone<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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