The Clean Industrial Revolution

I’m still absolutely stunned at the attention climate denialism is getting in the senate and the media.  ABC’s lateline recently ran a whole story on Jay Lehr, an old conservative non-climate scientist idealogue trying to drum up support for the flat-earthers in Australia.  On Wednesday, when in parliament house, I walked past a presentation where Senator Fielding and other coalition senators and MP’s brought in Professor Bob Carter to demonstrate how every national science academy in the world, the hundreds of climate scientists contributing to the IPCC are all wrong and conspiring to lie to the world! Talk about picking what you want to hear. Then last night on Q&A Tony Jones continually brings up the ‘debate’ in the climate science.  Here is a declaration organised by our centre from REAL climate scientists, not the random two or three geologists.

Senators Fielding, Joyce, Minchin et al seem to by buying into the misinformation being told from the likes of Andrew Bolt et al.  Just as I have asked whether Andrew Bolt wears sunscreen, I want to explicitly ask Senators Joyce, Fielding and Minchin if they too wear sunscreen?

Senator Fielding, if you really want to understand the climate record since 1998 and how it is exactly what is expected under long-term greenhouse forcing, I have a more detailed discussion at Graham Readfearn’s blog here.

If the Senators want to understand the long term importance of greenhouse gases as opposed to cherry-picking from geologists and non-climate-scientists, please do the calculation I make my 2nd year undergraduate students do here.