Joanne Nova
A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate lecturer in Science Communication at the ANU. She’s author of The Skeptics Handbook which has been translated into 15 languages. Each day 5,000 people read joannenova.com.au.
Now that half the US knows that climate science has become a religion, let’s all thank the IPCC for working hard to convince the other half.
Here come Fire, Brimstone and Ticking Bombs again:
Like all successful bureaucracies, The IPCC is here to pretend to save you from problems it invented.
The taxpayer funded doomsday cult wants you to think of them as a brave bomb disposal team, putting their lives on the line to do anything humanly possibly to make storms go away, except for using a tried and tested technology with a 50 year record of zero emissions. Nobody say n.u.c.
IPCC climate scientists issue ‘a survival guide for humanity’, warning window closing to reduce emissions
“The climate time-bomb is ticking,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres, at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which this week released its final “synthesis report”, marking six years of work by about 700 scientists.
“Today’s IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time-bomb,” he said. “It is a survival guide for humanity.”
Senior marketer of renewable energy, Sarah Prophet Kirkpatrick says we are all doomed unless we buy more Chinese solar panels, even though China is making most of them with coal:
University of New South Wales Associate Professor Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick said it had to be done before 2030.
“Bottom line, we need to stop burning fossil fuels – 80 per cent of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions actually comes from burning fossil fuels [such as] coal, oil and gas,” she said.
Quick, buy my panels, she says, they come with nice weather 80 years from now after you’re dead, but only if you sign here by Friday.
The Perfect Doom Sale:
The panic is now perfectly tuned like a Boxing Day sale – stocks are limited but there is hope if you act fast. Every warning is the last chance, every catastrophe is 10 years away, and every final clearance sale has a discount for early responders…
“This is the final warning to limit the climate warming,” Dr Perkins-Kirkpatrick said.
“In the next 10 years, we’ll overshoot that 1.5-degree threshold, but then we can bring it back down again – with heavy climate mitigation, heavy investment in renewable energy and also carbon capture and storage,” she said.
Macquarie University’s Professor Lesley Hughes … “One of the things this IPCC report emphasises is that the window of opportunity for a safer climate in the second half of this century is closing rapidly, but it’s not yet closed,” she said.
Sixteen years ago we had only 10 years to save the world:
Pagan witchery and voodoo meets catholic guilt
The ABC include no evidence at all in this round of perfect panic – just the words “drought” and “flood” and gospel of the 700 scientists of the high realm of the IPCC is enough. The new IPCC report, is just like all past reports: it depends on climate models that ignore solar magnetic effects, solar wind, cosmic rays and changes in the solar spectrum to pretend that CO2 causes all the changes they can’t otherwise explain. It’s argument from authority that depends on argument from ignorance with circular reasoning and it’s based on a simulated planet that has a tropospheric hot spot which 28 million weather balloons can’t find here on Earth, but nevermind. It’s only data!
But a foreign unaudited committee says “it’s unequivocal” and it will cost us trillions, and the ABC can’t see any problem with that.
Just lay on the guilt trip – what kind of evil person wants to send their own children to hell, I tell you…
Macquarie University’s Professor Lesley Hughes said what happens in the next seven years would be vital if we’re to leave a world that’s habitable for our children and grandchildren.
Gone are the days when the media would even try to communicate science. Now it’s like reality TV. Tug my heartstrings – one poor man in Torres Strait is being terrorized by witchdoctors in lab coats.
The ABC is exploiting his macabre fear of the bones of his parents being washed out to sea. This is climate science reporting in 2023:
On Australia’s Torres Strait islands, Warraber man Daniel Billy has been taking photos of what has already been lost as the sea creeps up on his homeland.
“Just to see a lot of the land mass taken out from the islands, it’s really sad,” he said. “It’s destroying places. “It’s very sad and it’s scary at the same time, as it’s slowly coming up to the community.”
Mr Billy is worried about the cemetery, metres from the shoreline, where his parents have been laid to rest. “I don’t want to pick up my parents’ remains from the reef,” he said. “I don’t want my children, or their children, my nieces and nephews to pick up my remains.”
Someone needs to show Mr Billy the study of 700 Pacific islands which are almost all growing (thanks to climate change). As long as he buried his parents on an inhabited island, they’ll be fine. The only islands disappearing are sand drifts with a population of zero that are just a hundredth of a square kilometer in size.
It’s war, I tell you, War! sayth NonScientist magazine:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a global group of climate scientists, has released its latest report today. It yet again warns that without immediate and massive emissions reductions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach.
“If we don’t act with the necessary speed, we will shoot past 1.5 degrees and possibly even two degrees,” says Peter Thorne at Maynooth University in Ireland, one of the authors of the report. “Really it’s a call to arms.”
Hyperbole knows no bounds.
This article originally appeared at JoNova.
