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BY\u00a0TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the slugfest of the century<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the slugfest of the century \u2014 Australia\u2019s top climate alarmist Dr Joelle Gergis (above<\/strong><\/em>) duking it out with Anna-Maria Arabia, CEO of the Australian Academy of Science. The green-Left Academy wants any challenge to its global warming panics to be censored by the federal apparatus \u2013 see Shut Them Up, Argues the Academy of Science<\/a>. Hence I predict Ms Arabia will triumph by getting the impertinent Gergis cancelled as a climate denier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At issue is \u201cCCS\u201d or carbon capture and storage. This means plucking CO2 out of industry and the atmosphere to achieve otherwise-unattainable net zero. The captured CO2, a plant food which the CSIRO admits has been lavishly greening the planet<\/a>, has to be safely stored in repositories by the billion and even tens of billion tonnes a year. These CO2 jails must be locked up for thousands or even millions of years, say the Academy\u2019s experts.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But CCS is so much trillion-dollar bunk, as Joelle sets out to demonstrate. She\u2019s playing Samson\u2019s dangerous game \u2014 destabilising the Temple of Climate. This temple is already tottering in Europe as Germany et al<\/em> recognise the havoc the Greens have caused their economies<\/a>. Renewables are bunk too<\/a>, not that Joelle would admit that. The climate models causing people to imagine \u201cglobal boiling\u201d and \u201chighways to hell\u201d are also bunk<\/a>. As 2022 Nobel Prize winner in physics John Clauser puts it, \u201cThere is no correlation between temperature change and carbon dioxide \u2013 it is all a crock of crap<\/a>.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what the ABC would describe as \u201chandbags at six paces\u201d[3]<\/a>, the Arabia-Gergis stoush involves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 For the Academy, its Roundtable Report of  March 2023 on \u201d Greenhouse gas removal in Australia<\/a>\u201d and its submission to the feds last July<\/a> espousing mind-blowing CCS targets. That submission is so silly I\u2019ve banished it to this footnote [4]<\/a>, and will focus instead on the Roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 For Joelle, there\u2019s her vast piece in June\u2019s Quarterly Essay<\/em><\/a>, which makes my wordy Quadrant<\/em> effusions look like haikus. (Gergis occupies 88 pages of the 122-page issue). She took a break from climate catastrophism to study creative writing, and another break from her ANU senior lectureship to sit in the dark-green Australia Institute for months as writer-in-residence to pen her essay.[5]<\/a> The Institute is a Siamese twin of the Greens Party[6]<\/a> . Joelle has now emerged to title her handiwork \u201cHighway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia\u2019s Future.\u201d[7]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her essay Joelle for once takes a view I agree with, that CCS is a stupid scam with not even the chance of an ice-cream in hell of getting us to the broad sunlit uplands of net zero. More on her CCS demolition down the track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Academy, however, trusts CCS as the magic bullet to save the planet from computer-modelled fiery damnation in 2100. In general, the Academy wants Labor\u2019s anti-emissions targets to be made something like twice as fierce<\/a>. Instead of one giant 7MW windmill being built per day to 2030 (Albo\u2019s scheme), the Academy logically wants two a day. And instead of 22,000 made-in-China solar panels installed per day, it wants circa 40,000 a day. Climate Minister Chris Bowen\u2019s wind farms and power lines are flattening forests<\/a> and blighting landscapes. The Academy\u2019s brought-forward emissions targets would at least double the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In trying to square the circle on net zero, the Academy\u2019s experts have come up with what I\u2019d call the \u201cKittylitter Leapthrough\u201d. It involves methane, CO2\u2019s greenhouse pal, (formula CH4, according to Mr Walter House, my despairing chemistry teacher in 1956). At the roundtable, experts suggested that zeolite, kittylitter\u2019s cheap ingredient ($US140 per tonne), might be engineered on a planetary scale to mop excess methane (p15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roundtable was run by Academy President Chennupati Jagadish AC , who thought the Academy\u2019s \u201cindependence and convening power made us an ideal host for a roundtable on novel negative emissions approaches for Australia.\u201d He foresaw Australia as a CCS research \u2013 or maybe kittylitter \u2014 superpower.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A list on page 28 shows that every one of the 18 round-tablers, by invitation, were drawn from the university\/CSIRO\/govt sectors (12 professors among them). There was not one person from industry. They dreamed of breakthroughs unimpeded by costs or commercial technology. Their suggestions include, with my comments below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\/<\/strong> Trains that capture CO2 while travelling between mine sites, to be stored subsequently at mine sites.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does anyone remember that 268-waggon BHP train in the Pilbara that lost its driver five years ago and travelled 100km at up to 160kph before its $300-million pile-up<\/a>? Imagine such a runaway train dragging captured CO2. Would Gina Hancock, who thinks climate doomism is propaganda<\/a>, convert her Roy Hill trains to CO2 courier duties?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2\/<\/strong> Ocean alkalinity enhancement \u2013 Addition of alkalinity-enhancing substance generated from mine tailings and other waste.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure that whales, sardines, octopi and clown fish cavorting in the Great Barrier Reef would welcome a gazillion tonnes of mine tailings. The roundtablers\u2019 stream of consciousness continued,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4\/<\/strong> Ocean farming (e.g., kelp, seagrass) for CO2 capture\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ocean storage: \u2013 <\/strong>Biomass in the ocean , e.g., seaweed that sinks to the deep ocean, Blue carbon[9]<\/strong><\/a>, Deep ocean storage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5\/<\/strong>  Injecting in the atmosphere \u201ciron-salt aerosols \u2013 iron-containing particles that enhance natural methane sinks by mimicking natural reactions caused by mineral dust particles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not content with re-jigging the oceans, the tax-funded boffins also contemplate rehashing our atmosphere. I guess the ivory-tower crowd likes to think big!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6\/<\/strong> Integrating carbon capture into current structural materials and systems, e.g., building materials can perform a dual role as carbon capture surfaces or retrofitting HVAC [heating, ventilation and air cooling] systems to provide capture function.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My villa unit has its Hitachi split-system HVAC motor in the front garden. Its concrete pad is tilting in the mud and the box has quite a lean. Could someone from the Roundtable please drop by, convert my HVAC to airborne CO2 capture, and straighten the lean while they\u2019re at it?.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7\/<\/strong> DAC [direct air capture] used to accelerate biomass production (e.g., bamboo) with a view to use in cross laminated timber as a large-scale replacement\/augmentation for steel structures in buildings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I foresee the CFMEU\u2019s John Setka enforcing a \u201cbamboo site allowance\u201d of $20 an hour on Melbourne\u2019s high-rise jobs. As I write, I hum a tune from my teens which, as I recall, goes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the windier days, Seems an orchestra plays<\/em>
On a musical breeze for you;<\/em>
Like a merry salute From a heavenly flute<\/em>
To the tower of singing bamboo.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TIME<\/strong> now,as promised, for Joelle\u2019s hatchet job on the delusions of the Academy and its September 2022 Roundtable.[10]<\/a> Her Quarterly Essay<\/em> dubs CCS \u201ca fool\u2019s errand that will only lead to delay and failure (p81)\u2026a disastrous gamble (p12)\u2026the fantasy get-out-of-jail-free card that threatens to ruin us (p50). If we buy into these delusions, we will be in very deep trouble.\u201d (p51)<\/em> Here\u2019s why, she explains (p56-61):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 In the past 30 years 80 per cent of all CCS pilot projects have flopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 \u201cTo achieve global targets, approximately 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide need to be stored each year by 2030, growing to 10 billion tonnes per annum by 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 The 41 operational CCS projects in 2023 store less than 10m tonnes of CO2 a year (according to UNEP) or 49m tonnes (according to CCS industry-group figures \u2013 Joelle suggests the latter mob are lying, which is normal for green lobbies). Joelle herself is on the Climate Council. She\u2019s mentored there by council chief Tim Flannery, who\u2019s still waiting for his 2004 prediction to bear fruit about my birthplace Perth becoming a waterless ghost town<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Given total human-caused emissions last year alone were 41 billion tonnes, CCS would need to be boosted by 1000 times to do any climate-solving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 \u201c<\/em>Offshore CCS has added dangers of acidifying marine environments, contaminating groundwater, inducing earthquakes and the displacement of toxic brine deposits. The true risks of the hazards of the offshore CCS industry are yet to be fully scientifically and technically assessed, let alone comprehensively regulated\u2026 embarking on such a risky path for such little gain is spectacularly illogical.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 To achieve net zero by 2050, the CCS industry would need to suck up investment worth $US655b to $US1.3 trillion ($A2 trillion or $2,000,000,000,000). Even with that, a commercial CCS plant takes ten years to build so don\u2019t expect wonders by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cynic might say that with CCS advocacy, the Academy is pushing a no-lose position for its 700 Fellows. If it works, they save (we hope) the planet. If it doesn\u2019t, well the basic research costing eight or even nine-figure amounts won\u2019t have been wasted in enhancing the Fellows\u2019 lifestyles. There would be lavishly-staffed Centres of CCS Excellence, university promotions and job security, multi-million lab gear approvals, King\u2019s Birthday honours and all that, plus jetting to prestigious conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, CCS is not just a job-ticket for boffins who can do maths and engineering \u2014 there would likely be near-unlimited CCS funding for artsy hangers-on like Jungians researching the psyches of Joelle and other CCS-deniers<\/a>; CCS angles re LGBTQI+s, feminists and Aboriginal main-chancers[11]<\/a>; and CCS strategies expressed in gouache<\/a> and dance<\/a> (enjoy!). All this stuff is already affixed like sucker-fish to the mainstream \u201cclimate science\u201d shark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d better add that Joelle\u2019s anti-CCS crusade is to stop Albanese from pussy-footing around on emissions, and harden up the progressives\u2019 ruinous anti-fossil-fuel fatwas. Nothing but an immediate crackdown on fossil-fuel use and any new petroleum\/coal projects will satisfy Joelle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do worry that exposing these schisms among the climate-crazy set could set back my good relations with Academy President Jagadish. He\u2019s already cross with, I believe, other journos for disrespecting the Academy\u2019s wisdom. He wrote to his Fellows last August that \u201cundermining science undermines us all\u201d.<\/a> Those rogue journos \u201cseek to twist the truth to suit their agenda\u201d, he complained, continuing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have witnessed the seeding and dissemination of uncertainty throughout the years\u2014to postpone the regulation of tobacco consumption, to continue the use of lead in petrol, to obstruct vaccination during the ongoing pandemic, or to prevent action on climate change to list a few.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

His next paragraph had me scratching my head. He seemed to suggest that blaming a Wuhan lab-leak for the global Covid disaster was a \u201cdeliberate undermining of public trust in science [and] conspiracy and fearmongering.\u201d [12]<\/a> I thought Xi Jin-Ping\u2019s incendiary reaction and billion-dollar trade bans over PM Morrison\u2019s mild call for a Covid-origins inquiry were a clue. And indeed, evidence for the lab-leak origin is compounding every day.<\/a> US intelligence agencies with their vast resources<\/a> are split or uncertain about the Wuhan lab-leak theory: at least one of these agencies, judging by Jagadish\u2019s comment, must be conspiring and fear-mongering. What on earth\u2019s going on at the Academy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jagadish conflated, without evidence, the public\u2019s trust in science with public trust in his Academy, which has been thoroughly captured by the green-black-Left blob[13]<\/a>. He went on,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science relies on high-quality journalism to communicate discoveries that impacts our lives. And that is why we must be concerned when journalism and other sources seek to mislead, distort and obfuscate scientific evidence and in doing so undermine public trust in science.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a dangerous trend and must be called out. As a national academy whose remit is to uphold standards of excellence in science, we will call out behaviour that serves no good purpose and that harms the essential underpinnings of a stable, safe and civil society that relies on evidence-informed decision making. It is up to all those who value the importance of knowledge as a public good to take a stand in the face of those who would assault it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet those other journos would want to ask Jagadish why, if his outfit is so sciencey and evidentiary, the Academy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 organised smoking ceremonies to cleanse Academy premises of evil spirits<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Supported its Future Earth subsidiary\u2019s childish if not vicious call for a no-growth economy<\/a>?[14]<\/a> See also the Academy\u2019s conference here<\/a> where it touts someone claiming \u201cGrowth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Run fake Aborigine Bruce Pascoe as a plenary lead speaker<\/a> on how his supposed ancestors communed with whales when Bass Strait was dry land?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Used a previous school science course<\/a> to badger 15-year-oldf\u2019s to become ignorant little climate activists?[15]<\/a> (in the kids\u2019 science quiz: Could we do without it [mining]?\u2026 Would you work for a mining company?)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Capitulated to a pile-on by Twitter ferals<\/a> and apologised for the Academy\u2019s pro-forma welcoming of the Liberal\u2019s Christian Porter as incoming Science Minister? and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Backed the losing Yes referendum, based on its fallacious view<\/a> on the usage and meaning of \u201cterra nullius\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science once had a good name, despite some wayward groupthink. These days orthodox climate science especially is so politicised and corrupted from primary-schooling upward that people would be wise to hold their nose when dealing with it. Case in point: the Academy\u2019s manias about carbon capture and storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s latest book from Connor Court is <\/strong><\/em>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers<\/strong>. $34.95 from Connor Court <\/strong><\/em>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a> GREENHOUSE GAS REMOVAL IN AUSTRALIA \u2013<\/strong> A report on the novel negative emissions approaches for Australia roundtable. p31<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> More than 130 scientific papers say<\/a> that even a doubling of CO2 \u2013 not expected for 150 years according to the IPCC \u2013 will cause less than 2degC warming, most saying around 1degC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> When I lodged a complaint last year against the sexism of Media Watch<\/em>\u2019s Paul Barry referring to Peta Credlin with the phrase \u201chandbags at six paces\u201d, I got this response (email August 25) from Investigations Officer \u201cJames\u201d at the ABC Ombudsman depot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI cannot agree with you that the phrase you complained about is sexist and demeaning. It is on old-fashioned, rarely used reference to a \u2018minor disagreement\u2019 \u2013 see for example <\/em>Handbags at 6 paces \u2013 Idioms by The Free Dictionary<\/em><\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> Academy: \u201c<\/em>Australia should commit to building capacity to draw down greenhouse gases at scale, particularly carbon dioxide\u2026 In its April 2022 Report, the IPCC identifies that meeting the modelled 1.5\u00b0C pathways requires a net negative carbon dioxide emissions volume of 20-660 gigatons [20-660 billion tonnes, TT] by 2100. Building capacity to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere \u2013 at scale along with the capacity to store it safely for centuries \u2013 is critical. Australia should announce a GHG removal target encompassing nature-based and technological solutions. This should be in addition to ambitious emission reduction targets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> Joelle, to put it another way, says she did her writing on lands of the Bundjalung, Ngunnawal ,Ngambri, Dharug and Gundungurra peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> Wiki: \u201cA number of current and previous senior employees of the Australia Institute have also worked with the Australian Greens<\/a> or other environmental organisations. This includes the founder and former director of the institute Clive Hamilton<\/a> (who ran as a Greens candidate), former Director Ben Oquist<\/a> and current Executive Director Richard Denniss<\/a> (both of whom worked for Australian Greens leader Bob Brown<\/a>), Deputy Director Ebony Bennett (who worked as a Greens media advisor[4]<\/sup><\/a>), Chief-of-Staff Anna Chang (who was a media and campaigns advisor to the Australian Greens) and ex-regulatory lead Dan Cass (who was a Greens campaign manager and office bearer[5]<\/sup><\/a>). Ex-Director and Deputy Chair of the Australia Institute (2004\u20132022), Professor Barbara Pocock<\/a>, was also elected as an Australian Green Senator for South Australia in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> The ANU website says Joelle\u2019s still with them<\/a>. Her job is to coach 200 teen students a year about our climate doom (Essay p7)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> Jagadish: \u201cThis roundtable and its accompanying report will help propel Australia into leadership of what will likely be a defining endeavour of the coming century.\u201d Roundtable Summary: \u201cAustralia has strengths and comparative advantages that could make it an international leader in negative emissions.\u201d p32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> \u201cBlue carbon\u201d, says NOAA, is \u201ccarbon captured by the world\u2019s ocean and coastal ecosystems.\u201d This makes the Academy\u2019s musings somewhat circular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> I notice Joelle has contributed a chapter to teen Greta Thunberg\u2019s \u201cThe Climate Book\u201d. Joelle wasn\u2019t to know that Greta today jigs around in her her Hamas-friendly keffiyeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> Roundtable p27: \u201cEngaging early with policymakers and communities, especially First Nations peoples, to co-design appropriate approaches to negative emissions portfolios.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> For reference, Jagadish\u2019s wording is: \u201cThe current level of discourse around science, in Australia and the world, in relation to the origin of SARS-CoV-2 <\/em>[covid] is another contemporary example<\/em> [of mis\/disinformation]. It reflects a worrying pattern of deliberate undermining of public trust in science at a time when policymakers need to inform their decisions with rigorously gathered evidence, rather than in response to conspiracy and fearmongering.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> Arabia was originally the anti-free-speech head of Science & Technology Australia, leading a 200-strong demo<\/a> (see 2.20mins) to federal Parliament to urge laws against purported climate \u201cmisinformation\u201d. She was appointed Academy CEO in 2016 after three years part-time as policy director\/principal adviser<\/a> for then Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Science policy director Chris Anderson, appointed in 2019, had been adviser and then chief of staff<\/a> for six years to Labor Senator, Rudd-Gillard minister and factional warlord<\/a> Kim Carr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> Future Earth p45: \u201cIn fact, the neoliberal economic model<\/u> has produced enormous inequality<\/u> in Australia and beyond, has undermined democracy<\/u> and participation, and has fuelled social and environmental injustice. As such, neoliberalism has become a barrier that undercuts just adaptation to climate change. Therefore, these economic and financial systems must change<\/u>, not only to sustain the provision of basic goods and services and economic opportunities but also to address the inequities they have created across the world and between generations. Such a change will encounter resistance and hence requires courageous leadership. Yet, it is also an opportunity to learn from Indigenous ontologies<\/u> that are based on Country and interrelated webs of being. It will mean shifting from growth thinking to degrowth models<\/u><\/strong>\u2026\u201d <\/em>(My emphasis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> Academy advice to teachers: \u201cAsk<\/em> <\/em>students if they have ever taken action or advocated for a cause.<\/em>\u201d \u2014 Lesson outcomes: At the end of this activity students will<\/em> \u2026 appreciate the need to lobby at all levels of government to ignite and lead change \u2013 even if it is unpopular with the voters.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the slugfest of the century \u2014 Australia\u2019s top climate alarmist Dr Joelle Gergis (above) duking it out with Anna-Maria Arabia, CEO of the Australian Academy of Science. The green-Left Academy wants any challenge to its global warming panics to be censored by the federal apparatus \u2013 see Shut Them Up, Argues the Academy of Science. 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