{"id":339415,"date":"2024-08-13T07:50:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T05:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339415"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T05:53:14","slug":"pro-nuclear-genuflexion-to-nonsense-climate-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339415","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Nuclear Genuflexion to Nonsense Climate Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"294\" data-attachment-id=\"339416\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=339416\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=1940%2C788&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1940,788\" 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=\"0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01\u202fAM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=723%2C294&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=723%2C294&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-339416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1024%2C416&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=300%2C122&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=768%2C312&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1536%2C624&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?resize=1200%2C487&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=1940&amp;ssl=1 1940w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/2024\/08\/pro-nuclear-genuflexion-to-nonsense-climate-catastrophe\/\">Jennifer Marohasy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jennifermarohasy.com\/author\/jennifer\/\">jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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. &nbsp;And at the same time the superannuation of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) employees is dependent on the success of renewables, also and especially wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not surprisingly there is tremendous pressure to cancel those of us who rightly show that there is nothing unusual about the current climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently I see that those championing nuclear, as an alternative source of base load energy for Australia, are being maligned and\/or cancelled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, the Institute of Public Affairs recently hosted Robert Park, an engineer with forty years\u2019 experience and a masters\u2019 degree in Nuclear Science, after he was cancelled by the Newcastle Branch of Engineers Australia at the beckoning of Simon Holmes a Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H6EyJcMet_c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have no doubt that Robert Park is very knowledgeable when it comes to nuclear energy, it is just a pity that he can\u2019t limit himself to this topic.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; In fact, not only is there nothing usual about the current climate, but also the Southern Oscillation Index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp; The method of measuring, and then calculation of this index, remains unchanged. &nbsp;There has been no homogenisation, involving the remodelling of historical values, which is a persistent problem with ever changing historical temperature records. &nbsp;The more reliable SOI shows cycles accounting for perhaps 25 percent of year-on-year rainfall variability across Queensland. &nbsp; There is nothing unusual about recent SOI values, contrary to the claims of Robert Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If only the Robert Park\u2019s of the world stuck to what they knew something about rather than having to genuflexion to the meme that is catastrophic climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">****<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feature image shows the SOI index back to the beginning which is 1876. &nbsp;More information at Department of Primary Industries\u2019 website,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au\/rainfall-poster\/enso-year-classification\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":339416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691818200,691818618,691818206,691818181,691830118],"class_list":{"0":"post-339415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-el-nino","10":"tag-energy-transition","11":"tag-nuclear-power","12":"tag-renewable-energy","13":"tag-southern-oscillation-index-soi","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/0Screenshot-2024-08-12-at-7.55.01%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=1940%2C788&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1qir","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292326,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292326","url_meta":{"origin":339415,"position":0},"title":"China &amp; 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