Besides death and taxes there are two other truisms so far.

1. If you try to sell oil for anything other than US$'s your life expectancy is limited.  Ask Saddam and Mulma.

2. If you try to introduce a tax on carbon your political life expectancy is limited.  Ask Kevin and Malcolm.

But placing a price on it is the answer.  That's why it has not been allowed to be introduced.

"Almost 60% of the higher than normal carbon uptake that year, or 840 million tons, happened in Australia."

That year was 2011.

"From October 2010 to March 2011, an extraordinary rainfall event occurred over most of Australia, which resulted in three-quarters of Queensland being declared a flood disaster zone – an area as big as France, Germany and Italy combined."

https://blog.csiro.au/record-rains-made-australia-a-giant-green-global-carbon-si
...

yep definitely after Spring. Unless you think sequestration was a 3 month event. Grin Grin Grin Grin

But even if we take 60% of CO2 out of the whole of 2010 (rather than 2011)  we would have - 40% of 220Mt or 88Mt sequestered.

Now refute that.

An Open Letter to Greta Thunberg
You are not a moral leader. But I will tell you what you are.

Mon Nov 11, 2019 Jason D. Hill 879


Greta Thunberg:

You have declared yourself a leader and said that your generation will start a revolution. You have comported yourself as a credentialed adult and climate change activist who has fearlessly addressed politicians and world leaders. You have dropped out of school and declared that there isn’t any reason to attend, or any reason for you to study since there will be no future for you to inherit. You have, rather than attend your classes, been leading Friday Climate Strikes for all students in your generation across the globe. Your attendance at oil pipelines has been striking. There, you unequivocally declare that all oil needs to remain in the ground where it belongs.

I shall, therefore, against the backdrop of your activism, address you as an adult rather than as a child.

In September of 2019 you crossed the Atlantic in a “zero carbon” racing yacht that had no toilet and electric light on board. You made an impassioned plea at the United Nations in which you claimed that, “we have stolen your dreams and our childhood with our empty words.”  You claimed that adults and world leaders come to young people for answers and explained in anger: “How dare you!” You claimed that we are failing you and that young people are beginning to understand our betrayal. You further declared that if we continue to fail your generation: “We will never forgive you.”

You have stated that you want us to panic, and to act as if our homes are on fire. You insist that rich countries must reduce to zero emissions immediately. In your speeches you attack economic growth and have stated that our current climate crisis is caused by “buying and building things.” You call for climate justice and equity, without addressing the worst polluter on the planet China; the country that is economically annexing much of Africa and Latin America. You dare not lecture Iran about its uranium projects -- because that’s not part of the UN’s agenda, is it?

You proclaim that we need to live within the planetary boundaries, to focus on equity and “take a few steps back” for the sake of all living species. You resent the hierarchical distinctions between human and animals and entertain no qualitative distinction between a monkey, a malaria-infested mosquito and a snarling hyena. You mouth slogans such as: “We have set in motion an irreversible chain reaction beyond control,” and you advocate for universal veganism on the Ellen DeGeneres show. You do not buy new clothes, and you don’t want the rest of us to either. You want us all to stop flying in jet planes without giving us an alternative as to how we would re-transform our financial and trading systems—to say nothing of our personal enjoyment of the world—without regression to a primeval era. Few can afford to cross the Atlantic in a $6M zero carbon yacht financed by rich people who made their wealth by the very means you condemn as loathsome.

There are a few things that we, the rational adults of the world who are not bowing to you like guilt-ridden obsequious Babbitts need to say to you, Greta.

First, we did not rob you of your childhood or of your dreams. You are the legatee of a magnificent technological civilization which my generation and the one before it and several others preceding it all the way to the Industrial Revolution and the Renaissance, bequeathed to you. That growth-driven, capitalist technological civilization has created the conditions for you to harangue us over our betrayal. It is a civilization that eradicated diseases such as small pox from the word, and that lifted millions out of abject poverty in a universe you think is dying and decaying. It assured you a life expectancy that exceeded that of your ancestors. Most likely by focusing on economic growth which you demonize, and scientific advancement, that civilization will further enhance a robust quality of life and health for your descendants.

Here is a hard truth to ponder, Greta: if the great producers of this world whom you excoriate were to withdraw their productivity, wealth and talents—in short—their minds from the world today, your generation would simply perish. Why? Because as children you have done nothing as yet, with your lives besides being born. This is what we expect of children until such time as they can be producers by learning from their elders. You are understandably social and ecological ballast. You are not yet cognitively advanced to replicate the structures of survival of which you are the beneficiaries.

Children are important installments on the future. We have invested in you. It is you and your smug generation which think they have nothing to learn from the older ones who are failing themselves. Whom do you expect to employ the majority of you if you have neither the job credentials or life competency skills to navigate the world? The future unemployable-skipping- school-on-Friday obstreperous children?

The truth, as one anonymous blogger aptly put it, is that your generation is unable to work up to forty hours per week without being chronically depressed and anxious. Its members cannot even decide if they want to be a boy or a girl, or both, or neither, or a “they.” They cannot eat meat without crying. I might add that your generation needs “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces”

Anything from the Lefty guardian is just pure propaganda rubbish.

Since ScoMo put ITA there now Labor and GetUp! cannot use the ABC Socialist Propaganda Station any more and so they use the Lefty Guardian instead.

ScoMo did NOT link the natural fires to the fraudulent Climate Change SCAM as he is far too smart for that and he does NOT suck up to the sick diseased Greenies like Anal does.

Poor petal. truly does not understand that climate changes, all of its own accord.

Nothing there to link it to AGW, although you do try mightily.

But perhaps you can tell us when climate was stable?

freediver wrote on Jan 19^th, 2020 at 9:19am:



and have you read the 'What is This' thread?

it's interesting

And in some thread today, I posted a link to a News.com.au article … lots of stuff about laser and plasma beams used to start the fires

and trees 'burning from the inside'

Odd coincidence this mirrors the Californian fires

wonder why?


Then let's look at French Island

60 km from Melbourne

No lightning say those from the area.  And the weather's been mild

So not many give a damn about what Morrison has to say

just as few real people buy climate change unless you're talking geoengineering aka deliberate ruination of climate by man, men on a mission to reap innumerable trillions from the scam


and climate change 'terrorists' who travel under the title of 'activists' are believed to have deliberately torched this country .. deliberately … in order to further the climate change scam

and to hell with millions of animals dying excruciating deaths along with their young just born


I SPIT on climate change activists, those on the streets and those online

climate change activists are either morons

or lying paid to posts