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Now They Want To ‘Fix’ A Climate They Say Is ‘Unpredictable’

by Michael Kile
June 20, 2019, 10:36 AM
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climate geoengineeringThey have always been around, the weeping prophets and merchants of doom, as have their credulous followers. The descendants of Jeremiah and Nostradamus also claim to have had special insight and esoteric knowledge.

They urge us to make sacrifices, change behavior, go solar and wind, buy carbon-offsets to annul our sins of emission and restructure global energy in less than ten solar revolutions.

Cometh the hour, cometh a savior: the climate fixer.

Welcome to Warmerland, where tweets warn of the coming inferno of Hothouse Earth and twits churn out yet another “tipping point”.

Our Deep Fry moment could occur as soon as April 1 next year or perhaps by 2030. The Doomsday Clock is showing two minutes to midnight, so don’t miss an update.

If, as some claim, “perilous tipping points are destabilizing our global climate system and making it more unpredictable”, it has not deterred them from making dodgy causal claims, as did Canadian prime minister Trudeau in early June:

We need to be taking real action to prevent climate change [and extreme weather]. That’s why we’re moving forward on a price on [carbon dioxide] pollution right across the country.”

Yet if the global climate is “destabilized” – and “more unpredictable” – how can one make predictions about it? What is “stability” in such a chaotic system? Where is the science on tipping points? How and when will Canadians know whether it has been effective? What are Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s key performance indicators?

The inconvenient truth is taking “real action to prevent climate change”– in Canada, Australia or anywhere — is gesture politics, a waste of other people’s money and time in pursuit of a chimera.

“Every age has its peculiar folly,” wrote Charles Mackay (1814-1889) in the preface of his book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841, 1852), going on to say

In reading the history of nations, we find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first … Some delusions have subsisted for ages, such as the belief in omens and divination of the future, which seem to defy the progress of knowledge to eradicate them entirely from the popular mind.

The object on which too many nations are fixed today is “climate change” and the quest for a zero-carbon (dioxide) nirvana. An odd ambition, given we exhale it. Yet this trace gas vital to all life is now demonized as a “pollutant” by young and old.

There is some good news. A new breed of professional pontificator has emerged from the bog of pseudoscience: the climate fixer. Skilled in apocalyptic rhetoric and desperate to get our attention, they:

(i) passionately predict the end of the world,

(ii) claim to know how to avoid it,

(iii)  are driven to preach publicly about the atmospheric evils allegedly assailing us,

(iv) are inspired by  eco-prophets such as Attenborough, Bloomberg, Brown, Flannery, Gore, Grantham, Hansen, Kerry, Mann, Rudd, Schmidt, Shorten, Soros, Steffen, Stott, the UNFCCC, IPCC and Green Climate Fund, the Vatican, Climate Emergency Institute, Extinction Rebellion, Our Little Lady of Sweden; etc.;

(v) promise to lead lost souls out of the wilderness of climate denial into the promised land of a Goldilocks climate; and

(vi) demand Climate Action NOW to prevent – or at least delay – the bogeyman of runaway climate change and Gaia’s Day of Judgment.

One member of the Climate Fixer Club is Breakthrough (BT), a Melbourne-based “independent think-tank” formed in 2014. Displaying a restraint unusual in the strident planet-saving class, it also calls itself: the National Centre for Climate Restoration.

Saving humankind from itself is no easy task. God has been trying for at least two millennia without much success.

So it was thoughtful of BT to prepare some handy how-to guides to assist folk seeking careers in anti-fossil fuel activism or extreme weather street-fighting: How to explain emergency mode climate action (2 pages, David Spratt); How to mobilize for the climate emergency (2 pages); How to communicate a climate emergency  (2 pages); and How to reverse global warming (12 pages, Alia Armistead).

BT’s motto is “making the seemingly impossible, possible”. Time will tell, but making the impossible seem possible could end up being more accurate.

Coincidently, the University of Western Australia also went post-modern several years ago with a similar self-branding, “pursue impossible.”

However, it will need more than mottos and “critical thought leadership” to persuade the architects of our national climate policy – already up to their gills in dubious billion-dollar programs – to embrace BT’s grandiose objective of “safe climate restoration”.

Safe climate restoration is defined as actions to reinstate natural climate processes that generate global average temperatures and ocean acidity that are safe for all species and for civilization.  (i.e. preindustrial temperatures & acidity) — BT homepage, June 2019

A safe climate for everyone, everywhere and forever? How could such a state exist when the climate is in a perpetual state of change? “Curiouser and curiouser!” as Alice in Warmerland exclaimed.

Alia Armistead, a BT research assistant, inadvertently flushed out the intractable dilemma facing the climate fixers.

You want to displace the weather gods, play “existential” games with the climate and change the global energy mix? Fine, go ahead — but only if you know how to separate fact from fiction, a possibility from a probability, and a projection from a prediction.

A goal of reversing hotter climate conditions is a complex and unfamiliar objective, involving many potential risks and a large number of difficult scientific, technical, social and ethical questions. Yet every moment we delay dealing with these vital questions is a step closer to new catastrophes, and a further step away from achieving a safe climate.  —How to reverse global warming

As for returning to pre-industrial temperatures, Ms. Armistead suggests the “safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is the pre-industrial mark of 280 parts per million (ppm) of atmospheric CO2”.

If so, it’s already game over. The current level is 410ppm, almost 50 percent higher.

One BT contributor, “business and industry strategist” Paul Gilding, is a past executive director of Greenpeace Australia and Greenpeace International, and author of The Great Disruption.

Mr. Gilding wants to go further down the byway of deluded ambition, urging a “wholesale restructuring of the global economy inside a decade”. We have less than ten years, dear reader, to save ourselves — about the period of time it took to approve the Adani export coal project.

He also wants to “reverse climate change, not just manage increasing temperatures,” expressing that ambition in the video below.

Good luck with that exercise, for the experts have yet to find the global thermostat. (Rumoured to be hidden in a cave on the south island of Novaya Zemlya, its location is known only to a cabal of Russian oligarchs.)

Read on for a “glimpse into a world of ‘outright chaos’ on a path to the end of human civilization and modern society as we have known it, in which the challenges of global security are simply overwhelming and political panic becomes the norm”.

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  1. Sonnyhill says:
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    I’m waiting for the usual suspects to declare 2019 the 6th warmest year on record. Truth is that there’s so much water laying around that it CAN’T warm up. This will be one of the coldest years on record, at least for North America. Big big climate change from 2012. Yet, atmospheric carbon dioxide continues onward and upward.
    Carbon dioxide must be like a thermos. When it isn’t keeping things hot, it’s a refrigerant. When it isn’t creating new deserts, it’s drowning paradise.
    Carbon dioxide is innocent until proven other wise. The case against it is incoherent and must be thrown out.

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