Transcript of Keith Burrows Australian Institute of Physics Education Committee (Vic) Climate Change: the BAD...
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- Keith Burrows Australian Institute of Physics Education
Committee (Vic) Climate Change: the BAD news
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- Since IPCC 2007: Sea level rise worse than we thought (IPCC
ignored Greenland and Antarctica melt)
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- Since IPCC 2007: Sea level rise worse than we thought (IPCC
ignored Greenland and Antarctica melt)
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- NASA Earth Observatory 18 Feb 2011 Record Melting in Greenland
during 2010 2010 was an exceptional year for Greenlands ice cap.
Melting started early and stretched later in the year than usual.
Little snow fell to replenish the losses. By the end of the season,
much of southern Greenland had set a new record, with melting that
lasted 50 days longer than average.
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- The Arctic weather has been pushed south by climate change
Problem is the deniers are in the cold bit and the melting ice in
the warm bit!
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- Arctic sea ice melting at record rates
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- Figure 14: Observed Antarctic Warming Trend (C/decade) from
1957-2006 Steig, E. J. et al., Warming of the Antarctic ice-sheet
surface since the 1957 International Geophysical Year. Nature 457,
(2009) East Antarctica is also melting faster than we thought.
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- Marysville Vic Feb 2009
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- Rochester Vic Jan 2011
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- Queensland floods Jan 2011
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- Queensland Cyclone Yasi Jan 2011
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- Russian extreme heat and fires 2010 Pakistan extreme rain and
floods 2010
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- 2010 Hottest year on record
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- 2000s Hottest decade on record
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- But do we believe it? Polls are going the WRONG WAY! CC as 1, 2
or 3: Jan 2010 16% Oct 2010 11% Jan 2011 10%
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- Ian Plimer... that noted climate expert...
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- It has sold very well! 80,000+ copies
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- Plimer says the climate has always changed we just have to get
used to it. If we humans, in a fit of ego, think we can change
these normal planetary processes, then we need stronger
medication.
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- How can he, a scientist, say that? Surely he knows that we have
increased the CO 2 (greenhouse gas) in the atmosphere by almost 40%
and that CO 2 absorbs IR radiation and that there is a strong
correlation between the CO 2 and the temperature...
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- How can he, a scientist, say that? 2010
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- And that other noted climate expert... UN is using the global
warming scare in order to impose world government
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- Moncktons temperature graph
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- 25 Feb 2011 The Murdoch media gives a VERY different picture
compared to The Age and the ABC
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- Bolt, McCrann analysis?! Bolt: a useless new tax that will
drive up your power bills Gillard is setting an example no one
plans to follow and the climate will not notice McCrann: Julia
Gillard has now turned her big lie into a big new tax. Dont like
your power bills? Get used to it, they are headed much higher. And
then higher again and again. It sets out to hurt every Australian
to absolutely no point. not the slightest difference to the climate
Talk about hypocrisy, stupidity and deceit rolled into one.
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- Compare Ballieus backdown on teachers Baillieus broken promise
to teachers is apparently tough talk or a back away
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- So is it any wonder: H-S 25 Feb
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- Herald Sun online 18 March (Garnaut)
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- AB: One, how much will this cost? Two, how well will it work?
JD: No, I can't tell you but I do know that the modelling shows
that it's cheaper to start earlier rather than later. JD: Well,
what we do know is that to have an even chance of keeping
temperature increases globally to 2 degrees... you've got to reduce
emissions globally by 50 per cent by 2050. [AB Totally ignores this
comment] 12 th March 2011
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- More Bolt madness (same article) AB: In fact, if Gillard shut
down our economy completely and shot every burping cow, the
temperature by 2100 would fall just 0.01 degrees. All pain, zero
gain. AB: Hear it from John R. Christy: Professor of atmospheric
science University of Alabama: JC: Over the past 32 years, he said,
the warming trend seemed to be a third of what global warming
models predicted JC: Recent natural disasters in Australia were
just part of the natural cycles, and plans to "stop" warming with,
say, an emissions trading scheme were futile. JC: "We calculate
that the impact of legislative actions being considered on the
global temperature is essentially imperceptible." AB: Huge cost. No
effect. So I urge you: ask the politicians flogging this "carbon
tax" the most basic questions you'd ask any salesman: How much? And
what will it do? And if their answers are as clueless as Duggan's,
tell these shysters you're not buying.
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- More Bolt madness AB: Hear it from John R. Christy: Professor
of atmospheric science University of Alabama: JC: Over the past 32
years the warming trend seemed to be a third of what global warming
models predicted Not quite what the data says! 2010 temp
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- More Bolt madness AB: Hear it from John R. Christy: Professor
of atmospheric science University of Alabama: KB: John Christy
supports the Cornwall Alliance who say: We believe Earth and its
ecosystemscreated by Gods intelligent design and infinite power and
sustained by His faithful providence are robust, resilient,
self-regulating, and self-correcting, admirably suited for human
flourishing, and displaying His glory. Earths climate system is no
exception. Recent global warming is one of many natural cycles of
warming and cooling in geologic history.
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- Global temperatures last month [Jan 2011] were at the long term
average, or just below (thanks to the La Nina) Herald-Sun 5 Feb
2011
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- But what he didnt mention: NOT long term average only 1981-2010
(~ +0.4 o C long term) Exceptional La Nia should give exceptional
low temp! This was a dramatic dip from record highs. This dip well
above previous dips. Clear upward long term trend.
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- AND: Exceptional La Nia due to exceptionally warm Australian
waters December 2010
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- AND:
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- Never mind, here comes Flannery with his latest scares and
you-beaut fix. His job as Climate Commission chief is to "provide
an authoritative, independent source of information on climate
change That, translated, means selling us whatever scheme the
Government cooks up to tax carbon dioxide, doing to the economy
what the floods have done to Flannery's hot-rocks investment. See
why I say Flannery is the right man for this job? Who better to
teach us how little we really know about global warming and how
much it may cost to panic?
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- Unfortunately the OZ is not much better:
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- Question: How can we counter this propaganda?
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- Enough of the bad news!