The immortal words of BBC series Yes Minister ring true with Kevin Rudds unwaivering commitment to lead the world in the fight against global warming.
“That would be Courageous Minister, Very Courageous.”
According to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd the most important challenge that Australia and indeed the world faces is global warming caused by man made carbon emissions.
But what if its not?
The issue is of such critical importance to the PM that during the last week’s ‘one in a centuary” global financial meltdown, the Australian PM seemed hopelessly out of touch with reality.
As the global financial system and indeed Capitalism teetered on the verge of destruction, the PM’s contribution was to announce the government was investing $100 million a year to make Australia the Hub of global climate change fighting technology. His other contribution was to announce a symposium of local government councilors.
As Senator Barnaby Joyce put it so well on yesterday -
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“This guy [the PM] is getting completely disconnected from what’s going on and sooner or later he’s going to realise that the main game is actually in this nation, not some other nation.”
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Indeed it is fair to say that the Kevin Rudd on the advice of his scientific adviser has staked his whole governments future on leading the world in the fight against global warming. But what if its not?
What if James Hansen and his global spokesperson Al Gore are really the two swindlers from the fairy tale The Emperors New Cloths?
Certainly research from the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC) which quotes itself on its web site as “the leading science and engineering research company internationally, that specializes in the analysis of and planning for climate changes based upon the “Theory of Relational Cycles of Solar Activity,” believes its not.
In July of this year John L. Casey, Director of the Space and Science Research Center, Orlando Florida, issued what he described as a landmark declaration on climate change.
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“After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has begun its next climate change.
In an opinion echoed by many scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world’s climate warming of the past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future.
In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects world wide. Global warming is over - a new cold climate has begun.”
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In the statement Professor Casey specifically mentions the difficulty in over coming the dogma of political and media consensus on global warming.
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“I have consulted with colleagues world wide who have reached a similar conclusion. They have likewise been attempting to advise their own governments and media of the impending cold era and the difficult times that the extreme cold weather may bring.
They are to be commended for their bold public stances and publication of their research which of course has been in direct opposition to past conventional thought on the nature and causes of the last twenty years of global warming. “
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Professor Phillip Stott in his article “Cogitative dissonance” details why the media and politician are having such difficulty with the world is not warming paradigm.
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How can you talk of the climate ‘warming’ when, on the key measures, it isn’t? …. Such media behaviour exhibits a classic condition known as ‘cognitive dissonance’.
This is experienced when belief in a grand narrative persists blindly even when the facts in the real world begin to contradict what the narrative is saying.
Sadly, our media have come to have a vested interest in ‘global warming’, as have so many politicians and activists.
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Casey Goes on:
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Casey detailed the solar activity cycles that have been driving the Earth’s climate for the past 1,200 years. He condemned the climate change confusion and alarmism which has accompanied seven separate periods over the past 100 years, where scientists and the media flip-flopped on reporting that the Earth was either entering a new ‘ice age’ or headed for a global meltdown where melting glacial ice would swamp the planet’s coastal cities.
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Casey also touches on the impacts of the onset of global cooling on Agriculture.
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On the subject of cold climate effects on agriculture, Casey was not optimistic. “I can see,” he added, “just like the last time this 206 year cycle brought cold, that there will be substantial damage to the world’s agricultural systems.
This time however we will have eight billion mouths to feed during the worst years around 2031 compared to previously when we had only one billion. Yet even then, many died from the combined effects of bitter cold and lack of food.”
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Casey called on all leaders to immediately move from the past global warming planning to prepare for the already started change to a cold climate.
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“Now that the new cold climate has begun to arrive, we must immediately start the preparation, the adaptation process.
At least because of the RC Theory we now have some advance warning.
No longer do we need to wonder what the Earth’s next climate changes will be two or three generations out. But we must nonetheless be ready to adjust with our now more predictable solar cycles that are the primary determinants of climate on Earth.”
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Now I’m not saying that John L Casey has got it right either. Readers should click on the links to his site and read the research. He certainly makes a compelling case and we will actually know if his research is ground breaking within the next 2 decades (as he predicts the planet will be 1-1.5 degrees C cooler between 2030 - 2040).
Certainly it is difficult to give the PM’s science adviser James Hansen any where near the credibility that Kevin Rudd does after his warming predictions to date have been wildly inaccurate / over stated and his promotion of the universally discredited Mann Hockey Stick theory.
Is Prime Minister Rudd racing to far ahead of the science on global warming? If he is, he is doing the Nation of Australia and its people an enormous disservice and will be remembered by history as a “fool”.
On the other hand if he has backed the right horse in James Hansen / Al Gores take on the science he will be viewed by history as a “great visionary” and will probably end up as head of the UN.
One thing is for certain - ‘ he is willing to put it all on the line, no each way bets for our PM and he won’t die wondering’.
As a great fan of the BBC series Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby words of wisdom ring true:
“That would be courageous, Minister, very courageous.”
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(thanks to Agmates reader Jeff)
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