Droughts May Lead to Droughts!

In “We’re likely to be a land of increasingly severe droughts and floods”, the mendacious lackey of the Australian Government’s Office of the Propagation of Awarmist Faith, Prof. Will Steffen, asserts (with the supporting evidence, as always, of axioms and appeals to authority):

Extended dry periods are expected to increase in southwest and southeast Australia by the end of this century, increasing the risk of drought.

So, to be clear, extended dry periods, or droughts, will increase the risk of extended dry periods, or droughts.  No!  Clearly, we need a new, ruinous tax on the air we breathe, instanter.

The magnitude of these risks [of Climate Change!] ultimately depends on the effectiveness of global emission reduction efforts, including by Australia.  The transition to a clean energy economy, which is gathering speed in many parts of the world, gives us great hope that we can minimise these potential risks.

So, to be clear, the world must reduce the emissions of gases, which have not been proven to warm the world dangerously or to cause more floods and droughts, lest the world warm dangerously bringing more floods and droughts; and the enforced use of more expensive forms of energy production by corrupt, incompetent governments should make us more optimistic that we can avert the risks which are not real risks.

UPDATE:  see also “A Land of Severer Severities”.

A Consensus on Consensus

The Australian Government continues to lie about the dangers of climate change and continues to argue that the pseudo-scientific conjecture of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming has scientific support and continues to promote the foolish notion that a consensus among scientists constitutes proof.  According to “What the science tells us”, from the Government’s Office for the Propagation of the Faith:

The vast majority of scientists worldwide agree that the many different lines of evidence all point to the same conclusion: human activity has unintentionally turned up the global thermostat.  The release of large quantities of carbon pollution is making our planet warmer.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a natural component of the air we breathe and circulates in large quantities through natural processes.  Over the past century, the levels of this gas in the atmosphere have jumped sharply as a result of our activities, such as burning fossil fuels (like coal) and clearing forests.  Pollution from these activities has resulted in there being more CO₂ in the atmosphere now than at any time in the past 800,000 years.

Climate change has been confirmed consistently by leading scientific organisations from around the world, including  [...]  Climate Commission – The Critical Decade[.]

 Tee hee.