Bullshit
from 350.org
"Time
is really running out if we're going to stop the warming at 2C. We've
only got about 20 years
(sic)
to reduce the rates of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Every
country in the world has to meet their target."
Half-truths
from the New Zealand Herald and Dr.Renwick. See below to see how far below the 8 ball he is.
Warning sounds on global warming
The
record warm start to the year will be the new normal within the next
few generations, scientists say.
1
July, 2016
The
first six months of 2016 have been the warmest since records began,
but these temperatures may soon seem on the cold side, climate
scientist James Renwick says.
"We're
going to see more and more of these record warm months and years and
in 50 years' time this year's record warm might be normal or even
cool. What we think of as warm now is going to be average in a
generation or so."
Northerly
wind flows had contributed to warmer temperatures and a milder autumn
this year, but Dr Renwick said it was the backdrop of climate change
combined with weather patterns that created the record temperatures.
His
predictions were echoed in climate change projections released by the
Ministry for the Environment yesterday, which found average
temperatures in New Zealand were expected to rise by up to 1C by 2040
and by up to a further 2C in the 50 years after that.
The
report also predicted the number of hot days would increase by 40 to
100 per cent by 2040, while the number of cold nights would decrease
by 30 to 50 per cent.
Rainfall
would decrease in the north and east of the North Island, but
increase elsewhere. The number of dry days each year would increase,
as would the intensity of droughts.
The
country would have more anticyclones in summer, the report said, and
stronger southwesterlies in the winter. Daily extreme winds would
rise, especially in the east.
Urgent
action was needed by the Government to cut carbon emissions by the
levels agreed to in Paris last December, Dr Renwick said. Its
post-2020 climate change target is to cut greenhouse gas emissions to
30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
"Time
is really running out if we're going to stop the warming at 2C. We've
only got about 20 years to reduce the rates of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. Every country in the world has to meet their target."
Trading
in carbon credits wasn't good enough, Dr Renwick said, because it was
not a problem any country could buy its way out of.
Yesterday,
climate action group Generation Zero presented their own draft of a
Zero Carbon Bill during a protest outside Parliament.
Calling
the Government's targets "meaningless", spokeswoman Lisa
McLaren said its bill was based on Britain's 2008 Climate Change Act.
Winter's
warmer than usual start has already affected retail and recreation.
Mt Ruapehu yesterday had to push back its slope openings, scheduled
for this weekend. South Island skifields Mt Hutt and Treble Cone also
delayed opening day.
For
some farmers, the warmth has exacerbated a lingering drought.
Yesterday,
the Government pledged an extra $88,000 to drought recovery
co-ordination as the medium-scale drought classification was extended
to the end of the year.
Primary
Industries Minister Nathan Guy said it would mean the North
Canterbury area had been in drought for nearly two years.
Retail
NZ said sales of winter woollies were down, but that had been offset
by more DIY spending.
The
warmth has led to reports of a rise in the number of rats invading
houses. Pest Management Services owner David McPhee, of Dunedin, said
his company's rat control jobs were up by 50 per cent on the same
time last year.
Climate
Change Minister Paula Bennett said the Government was committed to
carbon trading, but it could use other tools too.
"That's
why we're investing a record amount in research to find effective
ways to reduce agricultural emissions. We're also investing in public
transport and promoting the uptake of electric vehicles ... There is
still more to be done."
I am reposting this article - this is what we are up against!
I
would like to be diplomatic and respectful but listening to our
climate change spokespeople interviewed yesterday I am unable to
restrain myself
Have
New Zealand’s climate academics been asleep?
"For the globe as a whole that’s less of an issue."
Seemorerocks
My
first response to seeing a full half-hour on Waatea TV devoted to 400
ppm of CO2 and climate change was that this was something we have
been waiting for.
But on listening expectation gave way to disappointment and a distinct feeling that there is no one in this country left to speak out about the climate emergency except for a a small handful of intrepid bloggers and activists.
Yesterday's effort was designed to lure us back to sleep.
Don't worry, little hobbits!
But on listening expectation gave way to disappointment and a distinct feeling that there is no one in this country left to speak out about the climate emergency except for a a small handful of intrepid bloggers and activists.
Yesterday's effort was designed to lure us back to sleep.
Don't worry, little hobbits!
Despite the valiant attempts of Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury to bring things back to reality it would be the grossest understatement to say that every single one of his guests failed miserably to use the opportunity given them to speak out about the climate emergency.
I
would give each of them (with the honourable exception of Mr.
Bradbury) grades of between 'C-minus'
and E.
Firstly Jim Salinger.
For all his great achievements, Jim Salinger sounds as though he is stuck in 2007 and delivering basically the same, slightly—modifed message.
He seemed singly unable to come out and say clearly that scientists in this country are being muzzled and that it is this government that is reponsible.
For all his great achievements, Jim Salinger sounds as though he is stuck in 2007 and delivering basically the same, slightly—modifed message.
He seemed singly unable to come out and say clearly that scientists in this country are being muzzled and that it is this government that is reponsible.
But what
really made me wake up from my torpor was when I heard him say there
has been a "1 degree Celsius temperature increase in about the last one
hundred years".
One degree?
There's lots of fudging of the figures but even
the most conservative media reports are saying that temperatures have gone up at least 1.3 degrees since the pre-industrial age.
Kevin Trenberth on the 2015 Temperature Record
We have experienced 20% of all anthropogenic global warming in the last year.
That by definition is runaway Global Warming.
If Industrial Civilisation survives until November 2016 Professor Guy McPherson and I will tour NZ discussing the environmental and geo-political implications of this unfolding disaster nation wide, stand by for details on the blog and look out for a Facebook ” Event”.
What is it that is stopping Jim Salinger from acknowledging this and singing from the rooftop about this alarming fact.
Why downplay it?
****
After listening to Mike Smith, an esteemed activist, saying that people are “worried”, we have to “get our head around major problems”, “anticipate and prepare”
After listening to Mike Smith, an esteemed activist, saying that people are “worried”, we have to “get our head around major problems”, “anticipate and prepare”
And
then there was Megan Woods MP - Labour Party spokesperson on Climate
Change whom I could not bear to listen to (she’s the one with
the ‘E’ grade)
And
now we come to the other expert, Professor
James Renwick.
This
was the segment that caught my attention.
After
agreeing, in response to a strongly-worded question, Prof, Renwick
agreed, yes we do have a problem in the Arctic but - wait for it “in
the Arctic it is getting into a runaway situation” but for the
globe as a whole that’s less of an issue”
Did
I hear that right?!
"For
the globe as a whole that’s less of an issue."
And
then he goes on to say that we might see a lot of warming 10-12
degrees
(“something
crazy like that”) - it might be catastrophic for humanity – but
it wouldn’t just keep getting hotter, like on Venus.
Great
news folks!
But the climate could change enough so that food and water availability “would go out the window”...that would be a bad thing for humanity”
Well,Professor, I suppose it would.
Here's the discussion:
Here's the discussion:
From yesterday as well - the
professor is among those in this country who are "puzzled"
by the record autumn tnmperatures.
Apparently
we need more research to reinvent the wheel.
"Exactly
why that's happened is subject to ongoing research. We have yet to
work out what is going on there."
To whit:
It does make me wonder how they award professorships in this country these days.
Here is the discussion which brings to mind,not Monty Python,but NZ's own John Clarke ("Fred Dagg")
In fact there IS an example where someone, the chief forecaster at NIWA demonstrated some urgency (and passion) in getting the message out.
But that was before he was turned into a whimpering public servant by his superiors.
In fact there IS an example where someone, the chief forecaster at NIWA demonstrated some urgency (and passion) in getting the message out.
But that was before he was turned into a whimpering public servant by his superiors.
*****
We still have Thom Hartmann on RT America, I suppose.
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