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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:33 pm
The Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Dr. Ray Berkelmans warns of global warming’s terrifying awesomeness:
There’s some signs of unusually warm water building there. The winds are not going the right way � they’re pushing sort of westerly instead of the normal easterly trade winds that we would normally get. So those signs are a little bit worrying.
‘Sort of westerly’ instead of easterly? People, we are as good as dead.
(Via contributor J.F. Beck)
”…rising sea temperatures are threatening Australia’s Great Barrier Reef…
warmer ocean temperatures will actually promote coral growth.”
And I thought economists were bad.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2004 12 15 at 03:44 AM • permalink
Looks like another example of what Michael Crichton terms “State of Fear” or rather “The Religion of Hysterical Environmentalism”
Freak everyone out with lies, distortions, and fabrications of mass environmental catastrophies in order to enrich the lives of a few uber-rich Progressive Socialist Pigs.
Dr. Ray Berkelman apparently does not know that man-made Global Warming is a proven myth.
Looks like another example of what Michael Crichton terms “State of Fear” or rather “The Religion of Hysterical Environmentalism”
Freak everyone out with lies, distortions, and fabrications of mass environmental catastrophies in order to enrich the lives of a few uber-rich Progressive Socialist Pigs.
Dr. Ray Berkelman apparently does not know that man-made Global Warming is a proven myth.
Just wait until you see the ecological horrors that a southwesterly wind will unleash.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2004 12 15 at 04:34 AM • permalink
Air temperatures at Willis Island don’t seem to be warming up – http://www.john-daly.com/stations/willis-i.gif
Is that nearby?
Funny thing is that whenever you look at surface temperature trends in the US, UK, Australia and Antarctica – indeed anywhere that careful records have been kept for many years – you find little evidence of warming. Just like the satellite records of the troposphere in fact…
“There’s some signs of unusually warm water building there. The winds are not going the right way � they’re pushing sort of westerly instead of the normal easterly trade winds that we would normally get. So those signs are a little bit worrying.”
Four horses of the Apocalypse kind of worrying or what?
Posted by CJosephson on 2004 12 15 at 06:31 AM • permalink
Look at the source and immediately the bulls..t detector starts blaring……
“Eleanor Hall hosts The World Today’s lunch hour of current affairs, with background and debate from Australia and the world. Monday to Friday, 12:10pm, ABC Local Radio and Radio National.”
To wit, extract from ABC email apology:
“thank you for your email of 15 November 2004, regarding The World Today report: Is Fallujah the battle that will win the war?
The ABC acknowledges its error in this report, when stating that “thousands” of
US fighters died during the battle of Hue. The poorly written introduction read
as though Hue was the only battle in Tet, and made a blanket reference only to
“American troops”. Please accept the ABC’s apology for this oversight.
Please be assured that the journalist responsible for the error has been
counselled and reminded of the need for greater vigilance when transforming
their research into print. The online transcript of the report has been amended.
Yours sincerely”Looks like the counselling didn’t take!
Thank God these people have the raw guts to reject the right wing’s politics of fear.
If you don’t reject the politics of fear, you WILL die horribly, and your children too, and everybody will starve and it will be the end of civilization. REAL SOON, too! Starving dogs maddened by radiation will feast on your bloated corpse if you vote for conservatives. The Great Barrier Reef will tear loose from its moorings and slither hideously up onto the land in search of living flesh, all because the neocons didn’t ratify Kyoto. We of the left aren’t like them. We’re different. We’re not plotting to sell your children to the Chinese as dog-food. Instead, we offer Hope. If you don’t vote for us, that means you must be against Hope. I, for one, find that rather sad, because Hope is a beautiful thing.
Don’t you mean “Sort Of Dead”, like kind of.
Posted by aguycalledbrad on 2004 12 15 at 09:12 AM • permalink
Expect Tim Lambert to lambast you all for being ignorant hicks.
Posted by Paul Smith on 2004 12 15 at 10:02 AM • permalink
Sure, it starts off with a ‘Sort of westerly’ instead of easterly, then the next thing you know its The Day After Tomorrow!!
Up until the end of the seventies, global cooling was assured, releasing man-eating glaciers up and down Manhattan Island.
Global warming became the Chicken Little dish of choice about 10 years ago, so we are probably only 5 or 10 years from a newly minted hand-wringer, custom made to empty the wallets of Americans.
The rest of you might die but I’m constructing a wind shelter that will protect me from westerly winds up to 25 knots. Now all I need is a hot young babe to share my wind shelter and help me repopulate the earth.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2004 12 15 at 01:23 PM • permalink
- Actually, westerly wind bursts are a feature of el nino events. It is one of the factors casuing a buildup in warm water near the junction fo the equator and the international date line. El Nino cuases very dry winters and dry spring/summers in Australia. You can see it happening in this NOAA animation (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/map/clim/sst_olr/sst_anim.shtml) over the last twelve months (although a full blown EN event doesn’t seem to have got off the ground).
As Dr Berkelman observed, thewater off QLd was (slightly( warmer than average early this year (we had a very hot Feb), but interestingly, in winter/spring it was colder (slightly) than average, making a very dry winter for east coast Australia
OK, now here’s the plan: The US and Australia IMMEDIATELY adopt and fulfill ALL the Kyoto protocols, and use massive trade credits and outright bribes to persuade the exempted governments to participate as well.
Then when the glaciers have overrun Stockholm, Paris, Berlin and Ottawa, we all jump back in our SUV’s and start racing the engines for all they’re worth…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2004 12 15 at 03:34 PM • permalink
Thomas � Next the earth begins to inexplicably spin faster, causing us all to have to work mandatory overtime at night and causing environmentalists squatting in the tops of the taller threated old-growth forests to be flung off into space…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2004 12 15 at 03:38 PM • permalink
syn: “Dr. Ray Berkelman apparently does not know that man-made Global Warming is a proven myth.”
Really! Over the past few years I’ve found articles well-hidden by the MSM (which nevertheless appear on some of their web pages so they can say, “But we DID report on that!”, but you have to know what you’re looking for and HUNT for them!) about global warming on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn’s moon Titan. I suppose all those Martians are driving around in SUVs and using fossil fuels? LOL!
More and more scientific consensus is going toward a normal solar event due to the gathering evidence of a system-wide event.
And it’s not a bad situation… probably similar to the Medieval Warm Period.
Posted by mamapajamas on 2004 12 15 at 05:36 PM • permalink
Expect Tim Lambert to lambast you all for being ignorant hicks.
mate have you ever seen tim lambert’s hairdo. he’s the last person on earth who could possibly criticise anyone for being a yokel.
(in the picture I saw at his site, he was mostly bald’ish but had a semi-mulletish looking thing – ugh)
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2004 12 15 at 06:58 PM • permalink
PW � Hey, if you’re working at nite, it’s overtime.
I’m courting the union vote here…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2004 12 16 at 03:54 PM • permalink
“Sort of westerly’’ is one of the seven warning signs of Mary Poppins.