{"id":342553,"date":"2024-09-10T10:41:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342553"},"modified":"2024-09-10T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T08:41:18","slug":"almost-68-of-australias-tourism-sites-in-peril-if-climate-crisis-continues-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=342553","title":{"rendered":"Almost 68% of Australia\u2019s tourism sites in \u201cperil\u201d if climate crisis continues, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The modern media is like a form of hypnosis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lord help us all. Climate change might wreck Ayers Rock, I mean Uluru. It\u2019s been baking in the desert for 550 million years, but another half a degree C and it\u2019s in \u201cperil<\/a>\u201c. (You had to use the hair-dryer\u2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s such bad luck. \u201cClimate change\u201d could hit anywhere but it\u2019s going to hit airports, vineyards, national parks, and Bondi Beach? It\u2019s ruining holidays and your favourite symbols. It\u2019s so unfair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought this was surely an AI joke, or a grade school project, but Graham Readfearn put his name on it and the Guardian<\/em> editors didn\u2019t run away. The whole story is a keyword salad of hot button words and random numbers. 620,000 tourism jobs will be at risk they say mindlessly, as if 26 million Australians will stop having holidays  and 10 million international guests will stay home, scared off by a one degree Fahrenheit rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost 68% of Australia\u2019s tourism sites<\/a> at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among iconic Australian locations that could be impacted if planet hits even 2C of warming by 2050<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who comes up with these headlines: \u201calmost<\/em> 68%\u201d? What is that? They could have said,  well \u2026.\u201d67\u2033. They could have said 2 out of 3, but they had to drop some meaningless specificity in there to give these chicken entrails the appearance of \u201cscienctifiiness\u201d. As if the error bars on this analysis don\u2019t reach plus or minus 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The basis is that some people who want to sell us insurance have helpfully done a report telling us which industries, towns, airports and businesses will be mercilessly crushed by the Climate Gorgon. Given the dismal state of the climate models, these are the modern equivalent of Shamanic Spells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure the Zurich-Mandala team did good work on the economic costs and losses, but they start with IPCC climate models, so they might as well be analyzing the Land at the top of the Magic Faraway Tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the media know this is a nothing-burger<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

For some reason even Bloomberg<\/em> thought there was something newsworthy about this new \u201cindex\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian Airports Face Costly Fight Against Worst Climate Risk<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The index calculated for the first time the risk from climate change to Australia\u2019s A$170 billion ($114 billion) tourism sector. It studied 178 sites, ranging from Sydney Airport and Bondi Beach to the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Uluru, using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change modeling and proprietary impact assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though hold off with the SWAT Team:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming 2C of warming, by 2050 the proportion of Australia\u2019s tourism sites in the three highest climate-risk categories will rise from 50% to 55%, the report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the writers at Bloomberg know there\u2019s nothing there.  To put it bluntly:  if half a degree more warming happens by 2050, (and if the models are right, which they rarely are<\/a>) a big 5% of Australian tourist sites will shift from one arbitrary category to a slightly worse one?  That\u2019s as bad as it gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of what we call news is so absurd, yet repetitive, at best, it\u2019s a kind of trance with a drip drip drip feed\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So much of what we call news is so absurd, yet repetitive, at best, it\u2019s a kind of trance with a drip drip drip feed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":342557,"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":[691818216,691820833,691818056,691818102,691819743],"class_list":{"0":"post-342553","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-bloomberg","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-climate-crisis","12":"tag-climate-propaganda","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/0photoholgic-1gfuoji-yck-unsplash-1536x1062-1.jpg?fit=1536%2C1062&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1r73","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":343219,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=343219","url_meta":{"origin":342553,"position":0},"title":"Climate change causes mega-tsunami\u2019s that shake the Earth for nine days","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/09\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Experts admit their tsunami models were completely wrong, but, ooh, spooky, spooky: climate change causes \u201cglobal vibrations beneath our feet\u201d. 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