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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0JIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other day, I decided to try out the PressReader app, to see what my local library had subscribed to (and that therefore I could read without my own subscription, and stripped of digital ads to boot). Well, scrolling through the front covers of the available magazines, I came across what looked like a bomb going off on the front cover of The Monthly, with below it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The summer ahead by Jo\u00eblle Gergis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The summer ahead Down Under is looking rather apocalyptic. Gergis is of course well known to those sceptics who have read Climate Audit over the years, and I refer readers to articles there for discussion of the detrending \u201ccontroversy.\u201d Here, for instance is what mild-mannered Stephen McIntyre said about the 2016 reboot of the PAGES2K paleotemperature reconstruction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2012, the then much ballyhoo-ed Australian temperature reconstruction of Gergis et al 2012 mysteriously disappeared from Journal of Climate after being criticized at Climate Audit. Now, more than four years later, a successor article has finally been published. Gergis says that the only problem with the original article was a \u201ctypo\u201d in a single word. Rather than \u201ctaking the easy way out\u201d and simply correcting the \u201ctypo\u201d, Gergis instead embarked on a program that ultimately involved nine rounds of revision, 21 individual reviews, two editors and took longer than the American involvement in World War II.  However, rather than Gergis et al 2016 being an improvement on or confirmation of Gergis et al 2012, it is one of the most extraordinary examples of data torture (Wagenmakers, 2011, 2012) that any of us will ever witness.Climate Audit<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, seven years on, what does the summer ahead have in store? Well, our Australian readers will be lucky if they survive it. The subhead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The climate disasters unfolding in the northern hemisphere are a sign of what\u2019s in store here, as governments fail to act on the unfolding emergency<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But the article doesn\u2019t begin with the disasters of the northern hemisphere. Instead \u2013 annoyingly describing something that happened in the past in the present tense \u2013 we have a seemingly idyllic scene where Fam. Gergis go camping in the rainforest of New South Wales\u2019s Nightcap National Park. But all is not right in this subtropical paradise. There are blackened trees and a layer of charcoal on the ground \u2013 the ghost of the wildfires of the summer of 2019-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the aftermath of the fires, I visited this very patch of rainforest with a documentary film crew and wept as I tried to explain the significance of what we were witnessing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a pity the documentary film crew didn\u2019t take an ecologist, who might have said something along the lines of, \u201cfire is rare but not unknown in this habitat. The rainforest is surrounded by more fire-prone plant communities, and survives repeated wildfires in refugia created by local topography. Rainforest species can re-establish into the surrounding areas in the absence of fire, but there are areas they cannot spread into because they are too dry. The result is a dynamic equilibrium where the make up of the plant communities varies on decadal timescales, depending on fire frequency and intensity.\u201d Something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIG FAT WALLOPING ASTERISK<\/strong>: I know nothing about Nightcap National Park. I do know that the former extent of rainforest in Australia was much larger than it is today, and that natural<\/em> climate change resulted in only a few relict areas surviving in New South Wales. If I have that wrong, please educate me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I must not dwell too much on answering the specific claims made by Gergis in her essay, because if I do, my reply will be longer than her original. Instead, I want to highlight the more hysterical bits of the hyperbole that runs throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After four years spent immersing myself in the minutiae of the global climate emergency [as an author on IPCC\u2019s AR6], it\u2019s painfully clear that the extremes we are witnessing right now are simply a prelude of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There follows a shopping list of disasters and omens, which either presage climate apocalypse or not, depending on whether you are an alarmist or a sceptic. We have the hot temperatures in Sardinia, Sanbao, the Canadian wildfires, floods in Beijing and the hottest ever month on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, responded by declaring that, \u201cThe era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.\u201d While cynics might dismiss his comment as hyperbole, the scientific community know he\u2019s not wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dismissing it as hyperbole was the least it deserved. Plenty other descriptors could have been selected. How about \u201casinine.\u201d That seems to fit the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s atmosphere has the highest CO2<\/sub> levels in the past two million years, which was the last time we had an era of \u201cglobal boiling,\u201d \u201cclimate breakdown,\u201d \u201ccontagious stupidity,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evidence that the increase in temperatures is owing to human emissions of CO2<\/sub> is unequivocal \u2013 something you will not find me arguing with. But I take issue with the conclusion Gergis draws:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or put another way, scientists can now definitively say that humanity\u2019s use of coal, oil and gas is cooking the planet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That statement bears no resemblance to something that can be said definitively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next on the agenda is a series of paragraphs describing the emotional cost of being a climate scientist. It would be heartless to say exactly what I think about this section, and that ain\u2019t me. All I will say is that it should be obvious that objectivity in science is important. The more important the question at hand, the more important it is to be objective. Objectivity will not guarantee that you get the right answer, any more than subjectivity guarantees that you get the wrong answer. But it helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving swiftly on to the next block, emotions still run hot. Here, we learn that<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026the real stress comes from knowing that all the solutions we need to stabilise the Earth\u2019s climate exist right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

OK, I\u2019m going to let you stare out of the window for a few moments and predict just what those solutions might be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you said \u201cNet Zero,\u201d give yourself a strawberry bonbon and a pat on the back, in that order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yet despite the enormous potential of these low-hanging fruit [wind and solar], our leaders are instead choosing to support the expansion of the fossil fuel industry to the bitter end.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I wonder what she would be saying if great lumps of the West were not<\/em> nominally on a course to Net Zero by 2050? Next Gergis decries Australian subsidies for oil and gas \u2013 something I cannot comment on authoritatively, but if it\u2019s anything like most of the \u201csubsidies\u201d that the UK government offers the fossil fuel sector, it will be pure prestidigitation. Apparently the 1.5 degree target aims to avoid \u201cmillions of climate refugees,\u201d and to achieve it, most fossil fuels cannot be extracted. Therefore the decision of the UK government to issue new oil and gas licenses is perverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COP28 is a floating corpse \u2013 look who\u2019s involved, and look what they are interested in. Carbon capture is useless (an opinion I tend to hew to as well).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is clear that the urgency of the clean energy transition is being downplayed by vested interests with a criminal disregard for science and morality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I would timorously suggest that those gung-ho for Net Zero based on a \u201cclean energy transition\u201d are also operating without regard for science and morality. They pretend that \u201crenewables\u201d can power our present civilisation, and don\u2019t mention that the less well-off will pay for the displays of virtue of our leaders and opinion formers trying to flog us down this thistly track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, as things stand, we are not doing enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The world\u2019s collective policies represent a catastrophic overshooting of the Paris Agreement targets, which promises to reconfigure life on our planet as we know it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Quoth Gergis,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026the latest climate models show that under a very high emissions pathway, global average temperatures could warm as much as 3.3 to 5.7\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Except it won\u2019t, will it, because the very high emissions pathway is not credible, and if it was, the models promising 5.7\u00b0C aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Such catastrophic levels of warming will render large parts of our country uninhabitable, profoundly altering life in Australia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If\u2026 could\u2026 maybe\u2026 will!<\/em> In any case, most of Australia is already uninhabitable. Everywhere that doesn\u2019t have a supermarket in easy reach. With due apologies to our Australian readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We know from the geologic record that 1.5 to 2\u00b0C of warming is enough to seriously reconfigure the Earth\u2019s climate. In the past, this level of warming triggered substantial long-term melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, unleashing six to 13 metres of global sea-level rise that lasted thousands of years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sounds scary. (#pedantry: you need an \u2018al\u2019 there. A historic record is not the same as a historical record, and similar comments apply to geology.) Care to put a timescale on the \u201cunleashing\u201d of the melting? No, thought not. Apparently the current level of ice loss has committed us to \u2013 what does she call it? (thumbs through digital magazine\u2026) A \u201ccascade of changes\u201d that are \u201cirreversible\u201d and will \u201clast for centuries\u201d [in which case, it hardly seems worth the sacrifice of Net Zero?].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IPCC report doesn\u2019t mince its words here, stating that beyond 2\u00b0C, adaptation is simply not possible<\/em> in some low-lying coastal cities, small islands, deserts, mountains and polar regions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I presume Gergis did not write that phrase as part of her work for the IPCC. But the sentence as quoted is untrue. None of those places face an impossible situation with a further 0.8\u00b0C over the 1.2\u00b0C that we have already \u201csuffered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coral reef scientists are already panicking, as global reefs are being besieged by record ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Florida Keys has bleaching because of high temperatures, and the scientists are \u201cpanicking\u201d about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As awful as this is, these impacts are entirely consistent with what scientists expect.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So why are they panicking? Oh, I knew you were going to do that. ARRRGGGHHH! This next excerpt can only be described as\u2026 well, I\u2019ll leave you to be the judge (multiple choice quiz follows):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IPCC warns that even with 1.5\u00b0C of warming, which we are set to breach in the early 2030s, 70 to 90 per cent of the world\u2019s coral reefs will be destroyed. That number rises to 99 per cent with 2\u00b0C of warming, which could happen as early as the 2040s. An entire component of the Earth\u2019s biosphere \u2013 humanity\u2019s planetary life-support system \u2013 could be lost in under 20 years. Given that 25 per cent of all marine life depends on these areas, it\u2019s hard to comprehend the domino effect that will be unleashed as these key ecosystems start collapsing globally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

MULTIPLE CHOICE OPTIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A) The paragraph is an accurate portrayal of the near future;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B) The paragraph uses acceptable rhetoric to enhance its emotional impact but is substantially true;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C) The bull**** was coming thick and fast, and the author hoped we were lapping it up, and the bovine among us probably were;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

D) King Charles III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, lemme get this straight. Coral reefs which only occur in the hottest<\/em> parts of the ocean are going to be wiped out in 20 years, because there will be no part of the ocean left that is cool enough for them. After this in my view entirely specious claim (I picked (C)), Gergis goes on and on about the Great Barrier Reef, how it should have been placed on UNESCO\u2019s in danger list, but wasn\u2019t because of politics. Look at the bleaching! Everything is terrible, but the politicians \u2013 even the notionally green ones that are now ruling the roost, the ones that all right-thinking peeps voted for \u2013 don\u2019t want any bad news to be widely known about the GBR lest it dents the tourist trade. And there were we sceptics thinking that coral was at record levels. How excited would the alarmists get if it was on the decline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But stop worrying about the coral. There\u2019s something worse lurking behind the arras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As overwhelming as all of this is to take in, the imminent demise of the world\u2019s coral reefs isn\u2019t the only thing keeping scientists up at night right now. There is something far more sinister plaguing our minds \u2013 the possibility that the Earth might have already breached some kind of global \u201ctipping point\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well, no it hasn\u2019t. I don\u2019t think Gergis helps her argument here by extensively discussing The Day After Tomorrow. (I preferred the sequel, \u201cA Week Next Tuesday.\u201d) What are these putative tipping points? Low sea ice leading to low albedo leading to more solar energy absorbed leading to A TIPPING POINT! Except that for this sceptic, there is a little issue in the form of the period of total darkness each year. The poles are going to be brass monkeys every winter, sea ice is gonna form, etc, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are we nearly there yet? Yes! We end where we begin: at the rainforest campfire, whose embers are not glowing, but (speedily thumbs through thesaurus) \u201cradiating.\u201d As the finale, Gergis laments the false dawn of the Australian election:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While I do my best to try and switch off, it isn\u2019t always easy. It is heartbreaking to accept the reality that our planet is warming, faster and more ferociously than we thought \u2013 and that our politicians are still not doing enough. In the aftermath of the euphoria of Australia\u2019s \u201cclimate election\u201d in 2022, I was filled with hope that our nation had finally come to its senses, and that we now had leaders with the vision to make Australia the renewable energy superpower we know it can be. And yet, over a year into the new government\u2019s term, our leaders continue with business as usual, ignoring the deafening alarm bells. If we remain silent and let things go on the way that they are, our political disengagement will provide the social licence needed for the exploitation of fossil fuel reserves to go on for decades to come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Wait, I think I\u2019m spotting a logical inconsistency here. If we have reached a TIPPING POINT or something then even the most diehard sceptic is going to drop his trousers, or pull them up, one or the other, run to the station and jump on board the alarm train, and at that point, there will be no slacking at all, no opposition to Net Zero to be found anywhere, and the world will be saved. Hooray. It\u2019s just like that annoying bespectacled accy type in the tweed who, accompanying the credulous into a haunted manse, pooh-poohs the possibility of ghosts until one leaps out at him and bites his nose off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for the alarmists, so far all they have is clanks and creaks and spooky lighting. Once you shine your torch its way, that ghost behind the arras turns out to be a trick of the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And vanishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PS. I bet Academy Travel, who are running 16-day trips to Pompeii, Capri and the Bay of Naples from Oz, wish their half-page ad in the print edition was not placed right in the middle of Gergis\u2019s essay, which might have swayed a few fence-sitters against the trip. I think \u2013 on the whole \u2013 if I were them, I\u2019d be asking for a refund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PPS. You can read the whole thing\u00a0online<\/a>\u00a0whether or not you are considering a tour of Naples and its environs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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