Jennifer Marohasy
It is increasingly difficult to take a skeptical view of catastrophic human-caused climate change and other similar problems. Not only with colleagues, but also in the extended family. This is especially so at Christmas time when there is an expectation that we will all agree and get along. The spirit of the bonhomie and all that.
In 2022, skepticism about climate catastrophe means becoming a social outcast, and this extends to wanting to celebrate the health of the Great Barrier Reef. We mean to cry over everything. However, Christmas should be a joyful time.
According to clinical psychologist Mattias Desmet, this type of totalitarianism insists that we talk only about catastrophes that don’t form in a vacuum. It arises from collective psychosis when members of a community share an underlying anxiety and lack a common purpose. It is a form of group hypnosis that destroys an individual’s moral self-awareness and robs them of their ability to think critically.
in him recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Professor Desmet suggests that it is the responsibility of each of us who can see through soul-destructive propaganda to continue speaking out. silence is Not an option.
In my first movie, Beige coral reefI end with the comment that:
Filming the coral at Beige Reef is a form of protest – our aim is simple, to acknowledge Beige Reef. To be admitted is to be acknowledged and accepted as true.
Like I explain in the movie, experts claim this coral reef has been destroyed due to climate change. But it didn’t.
If they can deny the existence of a moderately sized reef at the entrance to Bowen Harbor with a false claim published in a prestigious scientific journal NatureWhat other mischief could they come up with?
Poet Dorothea McKellar fell in love with Australia as a dry and rainy land in the early twentieth century – more than 100 years ago. In 1908, she wrote:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of vast plains,
Of jagged mountain ranges,
Droughts and floods.
I love her beyond the horizon,
I love her sea of pearls,
Her beauty and her horror –
Brown wide land for me!A forest of white round bark
All tragic for the moon,
Sapphire misty mountains,
The hot golden silence of noon.
The bluish mess of the brush,
Where lithe lianas coiled,
And orchids cover the treetops
And warm dark earth ferns.The core of my heart, my country!
Her merciless blue sky,
When we have a heart attack, all around us,
We see dead cattle –
But then the gray clouds gathered,
And we can bless again
The drums of an army,
Persistent, drenched rain.The core of my heart, my country!
The land of the golden rainbow,
For flood and fire and famine,
She gave us back three times –
These same natural climate phenomena are now considered evidence of recent man-made disasters.
American Naomi Oreskes is for the whole hour on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Science Program (December 21, 2022) to foolishly claim that the drought and floods in Australia are evidence of catastrophic human-caused climate change cause and worldwide there is no peer-reviewed study – that is true, there isn’t even one – that contradicts the consensus stance that climate change is entirely man-made.
These claims, and much of what Professor Oreskes has said, is misinformation. propagate. And they need to be resisted.
As I document in my submission (co-authored with Chris Gillham) for the NSW Flood Survey, there was no overall increase in the intensity or frequency of extremely wet days.
Once upon a time, host Robyn Williams, who has helmed the science show for decades, might have invited me to offer an alternative perspective. After all, I even have published in peer-reviewed journal (GeoResJ Vol 14, Pgs 36-46) estimate the contribution of anthropogenic versus natural climate change to recent warming. My research (co-authored with John Abbot) suggests that without the industrial revolution, there would have been a period of warming throughout the twentieth century. We estimate that the human contribution to warming is now at most 0.2 °C. That is very small. And the mere presence of our published paper disproves Professor Oreskes’ claim that such studies do not exist.
It took a tremendous effort, supported by the B. Macfie Family Foundation through the Institute of Public Relations, for such research to emerge despite the gatekeepers. It’s disappointing that Naomi Oreskes and Robyn Williams deny it. But not a reason to give up.
You may be canceled this Christmas for having the type of opinion currently rejected on Science programOr maybe you simply laugh inappropriately, or choose to point out the logical inconsistencies in the arguments of your favorite progressives, or worse, you show bias.
I made a very short film earlier this year with my best friend Jared, titled Washed. That’s how I feel sometimes. But, like the rocks that form the foundation beneath the Boiling Point Observatory in Noosa National Park, we can’t resist.
We can even get upset at Christmas and explain that sea level used to be 120 meters lower compared to today.
You read that correctly: sea level used to be 120 meters lower. There is a chart, with a quote, in the movie. I challenge you to invite your most ‘progressive’ relative to watch with you this Christmas.
Best wishes, and more strength to you.
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