"Green" policies are destroying this country

Here is what precipitation has been like in Pakistan for the last 80 years. Which one of these years was caused by CO2?

What else is happening in Pakistan, well it turns out they could really benefit from burning natural gas rather than timber.

Pakistan floods aggravated by deforestation and other ecological mistakes

2021 -  Deforestation hampering Pakistan’s climate policy

Actually, they won't. There are people in Pakistan who point out the human factors (and failings) which exacerbated the flooding. I don't endorse everything in this video, but it includes some relevant references:

400 ppm is incredibly low. It's been as high as 7,000 ppm, though the median is probably more like 2,500. The last really big peak was about 2,800 ppm when the global average temperature was about 24° - just before the temperature plummeted by about 8°.

Climate model predictions for Australia:

"The multi-model results project significant increases in all the drought hazard metrics, except frequency, with larger changes in the SSMI compared to SPI. The more severe drought hazard under climate change is apparent over a larger area than previously indicated, particularly in southern and eastern Australia."https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212094720300645

What's really happeneing?

"2021 breaks records for the coolest and wettest year in Australia in years"

"Australians are most likely in for a wetter end to the year than usual, as a third consecutive La Niña event is predicted to hit.

Australia has already experienced back-to-back La Niña years in 2020 and 2021, bringing heavy downpours and flooding to much of the country.

But the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned people in the Southern Hemisphere to brace for yet another La Niña summer.

“The stubborn La Niña event is expected to last until at least the end of the year, impacting weather and climate,” it said on Wednesday.

“It’s this century’s first ‘triple-dip La Niña.”

WMO predicts the weather event will continue over the next six months, with a 70 per cent chance in September-November 2022 but gradually decreasing to 55 per cent in December-February 2022/2023." https://7news.com.au/weather/australian-weather/australians-warned-a-triple-dip-la-nia-event-will-last-until-the-end-of-the-year-c-8083181

So much for that model and Australia turning into a fire ravaged dust bowl which we were hearing about as the usual climate catastrphism response to the bush fires in 2018

So much for 'experts' predicting the future:

"28 Aug 2018: We need to think about being prepared all year round for fires — rather than wait for the fire season to be declared, people need to be prepared for a fire at any time of the year," Dr Thornton said."

Or maybe not.

Average precipitation per year is not the right metric when the climate is changing to extended droughts followed by severe flash flooding.

Pakistan had an extremely hot and dry spring and then the monsoons arrived and dumped 3 times the normal amount of rain.

Wow. This CO2 is mighty stuff, not only can it make plants grow, limestone, cement and dry ice, but now you are telling me it causes extended droughts and flash flooding? How in the world do scientists account for past instances of extended droughts and flash flooding?

Tide goes in, tide goes out....

Yes it does good to see an actual fact from a green.....Did you hear Conor skehan this morning on newstalk he basically said the greens are all full of shite and a bunch of spoofers who live in la la land. First time I heard it on main stream media, I think it is just the start of it and ye will all be back in your box within 12 months

Like the rest of the greens, green hydrogen ! Ye may as well be looking for a unicorn ffs

You guys used to be noticeably careful to add a disclaimer to grandiose claims: that specific weather events in themselves could not be linked to long-term predictions of climate change. It diluted the message, but it was scientific honesty.

When did you stop doing that?

How soon after that did you then begin to explicitly make those links?

Sure. Like the boom in Silvermines where people to this day feel that boom literally in their bones. There is a reason why mining of nearly everything was "offshored" to third world countries. It would be quite impossible to open any mine here which will have to adhere to all regulations.

Rebutted does not mean refuted. I did genuinely watch that video but it is ridiculously politicised. Whatever about corruption in Pakistan, the government didn't cause the worst monsoon season ever recorded in Pakistan (2022 is very likely to exceed the previous record 2010 season by the time it's over) but even it it's not the worst flooding since records began, the fact that it's happening in the same year as such extreme drought and heatwaves in the first half of the year shows that this is not normal weather. Lurching from extreme to extreme, and not just in Pakistan, but in multiple continents all experiencing extreme weather events at the same time.

It takes willful ignorance to not see what is going on here. Steele does what he always does. Throws out a load of 'facts' and then just pretends that those facts and political statements are a coherent analyses.

Its the same thing that happens in the weather forum every time an new extreme record is broken. 'It's the synoptics' they say, but they never consider the fact that the synoptics are driven by climate change. These events are rare because it takes a lot of ducks to line up in a row to produce these kinds of rare events, but when you make one or more of the parameters more likely, you increase the risk of that rare event occuring.

Its like saying 'The chances of someone banging their head on the door frame are really low so there's no need for me to make the door taller', and then renting the house to a team of basketball players. You still need the other stuff to go wrong, like they need to not be paying attention, the light needs to be poor or the sun in their eyes, but the fact that everyone's now taller than the door frame makes the chance of someone knocking themselves out going through the door much higher than before.

Steele talks about 'extreme floods' being common in Pakistan. these are weasel words, because an extreme flood can mean lots of different things, and the flooding in Pakistan this year were on a different scale to what used to be considered an extreme flood.

What is the deepest hole bored with this so far?

Just to follow up on my previous question about who funds ABP and what department do they get their funding from, I found this on the citizens information site:

The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government appoints up to 9 other Board members. Normally, Board members are proposed by 4 groups of organisations representing professional, environmental, development, local government, rural and local development and general interests. Board members are appointed by the Minister. Sometimes, one member of the Board can be a civil servant appointed by the Minister. Board members normally hold office for 5 years and can be re-appointed for a second or subsequent term.

So it would seem Darragh o Brien is the line minister in charge of the appointing of ABP and I would presume the funding of this independent body of which so many decisions go through.

This is the bottleneck that needs to be addressed if we are to get any volume of infrastructure built in this country anytime soon.