Murdoch media sets new world record for climate science trash reporting panic

There is no real point in picking on the trashiest of climate science report panic which is current in the Murdoch Media Empire.  I picked up a Daily Telegraph in the coffee shop over lunch, and dispassionately read Andrew Bolt diatribe declaring "the panic has ended".  Not true, the Murdoch Media is in an absolutely frenzied state of panic that the glory days of fossil fuels are coming to an end, and Andrew Bolt is a daily hysterical positive proof.

Murdoch media takes premeditated "great care" in how climate science gets ignored or trashed, and "no care" for the consequences. Climate science has "no scare" in its technical peer-reviewed language. The climate science paper referred to here, states how our choices of today for limiting CO2 emissions can result in limiting warming of our future climate.


Murdoch reporting on this reflects their general reporting on every other matter important to ongoing world despoliation by business as usual. Elite business and money take most interest in the corporate financial news. These sophisticate who are well-educated and well-funded enough to appreciate that Andrew Bolt style columns for the masses help douse public anxiety about the global effects of business as usual. The Murdoch media empire is a service to businesses to help continue flows of wealth unto the destruction of renewable resources. Sophistication and education has its most neglectful and superior form of denial, which is that those with the most wealthy lifestyles do not need to care. Security of creature comforts is a guarantee for low care. At fundamental ecological levels, most extraordinary wealth derives currently from the energy productivity of fossil fuels. This allows us to wrest maximal and unsustainable flows of resources from nature. 

The Andrew Bolt blog of September 21, 2017 is "How Tim Flannery helped panic us into wasting billions on a scare".  Ignore the "billions" and "us" and get to the slandering of a recent publication in Nature Geoscience, which is said to concede that the world "has not warmed as predicted", thanks to a slowdown in the first 15 years of this century, and that lots of the climate models were wrong.

Nature is reputable science journal, and charges for access to full articles, but the Abstract are online, and have an all important, carefully worded summary, for public reading of the most significant findings. Here it is - "Emission budgets and pathways consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C".  The abstract says that the Paris treaty target of 1.5 °C can be met if post-2015 CO2 emissions are limited to about 200 GtC. It uses the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report ranges for key climate system properties. It assumes an optimistic peak and decline of CO2 emissions, to below current emissions levels by 2030. followed by a much steeper decline, and then we would have a range of peak warming from 1.2 - 2 °C above mid-nineteenth century.

Here is the last sentences of the Abstract, which are always sweated over by the best abstract writers.

Hence, limiting warming to 1.5°C is not yet a geophysical impossibility, but is likely to require delivery on strengthened pledges for 2030 followed by challengingly deep and rapid mitigation. Strengthening near-term emissions reductions would hedge against a high climate response or subsequent reduction rates proving economically, technically or politically unfeasible.

So the abstract of this science paper says if we take the optimistic / conservative assumptions as found in the latest IPCC report, and we try really, really hard, we might be able to make those committments in the Paris treaty actually work.  This is such a long way from trash blogger Andrew Bolt's trash words of "the panic is over".  No, the Murdoch panic is a fear of the global top tiny percent of "no care" wealth controllers, Andrew Bolt's owners, that the rest of us might ignore them, and collectively try harder to achieve "challengingly deep and rapid mitigation"

What measures of success give us hope that the challenge could be met? The guardian published an article on the same science paper 2 days earlier, and actually interviewed some of the authors, and emphasized the points, that that better climate results will require hard effort.

Prof Michael Grubb said that carbon emissions have stopped growing sooner than expected, and renewable energy costs are plummeting unexpectedly quickly. We are in the midst of an energy revolution.

Such a good quote, must not let the Australia public see that!  What was all this Andrew Bolt trash about some hotter climate models being wrong? The guardian article says that "Previous computer models had also projected more rapid warming in the expectation that, for example, sun-blocking pollution particles would be cleaned up more quickly than it has in reality."  Okay, that means this more rapid warming could still take place, if sun-blocking pollution particles do eventually get cleaned up. Not much joy in that.

The guardian article also stated that 97% of the warming energy is absorbed by the oceans, and ocean circulation speed up has dragged some of the heat down into the deep ocean and away from the atmosphere.  Warming was still happening, even if only a smaller amount was registering in the atmosphere. Well that system behavior cycle came to end in 2014-2016, with 3 new record years of atmosphere temperature, with 2017 looking to be similar.

So the Murdoch media reporting is pure trash in all things, and Andrew Bolt is the trashiest and meanest of all, and won't let any good climate news go unpunished.


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Michael Rynn
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Murdoch media reporting on a recent science paper (1.5 °C is doable) is so trashy, the fossil fuel world must be really in a panic about it.
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