Al Gore interfered in Australia’s democracy by seeking an interview in Australian media two days before a federal election and endorsing the candidate selling his version of non-existent catastrophic excess global CO2. Sadly, Gore also denied peer reviewed climate science from Australia’s own University of Queensland finding climate changes aren’t global, no correlation between N. and S. Hemisphere changes

“Climate change not so global,“ University of Queensland, 8/4/2014. Al Gore’s 11th hour meddling in Australia’s democracy consisted of the CO2 profiteer requesting an interview from Australian media two days before a general election which he used to sell the multi-trillion dollar imaginary global CO2 scare. Even if CO2 scare existed, Australia is only 1.3% of global emissions--virtually nothing.  Removing all humans from Australia would make no difference to “global emissions.” Mr. Gore effectively admits he’s using Australian voters as a political weapon to supposedly make a statement with “important global implications.” In an even greater insult to Australians, Al Gore denies peer reviewed climate science from Australia’s University of Queensland published in 2014, that climate “changes” aren’t “global,” thus “reversing previous findings” promoted by Gore and others. The study found Southern and Northern Hemispheres act independently, not in unison as “global” climate suggests. Nor does either one lead or lag the other, there’s just no connection: “Glacial records from New Zealand are neither synchronous with nor simply lag or lead Northern Hemisphere ice sheet records.” (PNAS, “Significance”)

Therefore, “a generalised global approach isn’t the solution to climate issues….“We showed that when the Northern Hemisphere started to warm at the end of the last ice age, New Zealand glaciers were unaffected.”… 

“New Zealand glaciers responded largely to local changes in the Southern Ocean, rather than changes in the Northern Hemisphere as was previously believed,” Professor Shulmeister said. “This study highlights the need to understand regional climate rather than a global one-size-fits-all.”…These findings preclude the previously inferred rapid climate-driven ice retreat in the Southern Alps after the onset of Termination 1.”…Since a “global” climate change doesn’t exist, obviously a non-existent “global CO2” crisis doesn't merit a penny of the billions of taxpayer dollars given to it yearly for decades…Yet Al Gore intervenes in a federal election in a foreign country urging Australian voters to effectively ignore climate science from their own University of Queensland and vote for his global CO2 fraud. Two days later, the side endorsed by Gore lost an “unlosable election:”…"Morrison thanks the “quiet Australians” for shock win."…”Labor may have lost “unlosable” election.”
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Image, 5/18/19,  Heartbreak: An “unlosable” election is lost following Al Gore endorsement: “Shattered Labor supporters watch a broadcast of the vote count. Ryan Pierse/Getty Images”
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May 16, 2019, “Al Gore weighs in on Australian election, urges Australia to ‘choose the right path’,” Australia Broadcasting, Nick Wigham

 “Former US presidential candidate turned activist Al Gore has weighed in on Australia’s federal election campaign, saying the Coalition would take the country “in the wrong direction” on climate change. 

Speaking to ABC [Australian Broadcasting] radio this morning after approaching the national broadcaster, the 71-year-old said Australia had a chance to boost hope about the political will to tackle climate change before the world gathers to review the Paris Agreement on climate action. 

The Australian election “is an opportunity for Australians to play an incredibly important role in saying to the entire world: we can solve this,” he said. 

“What you do in Australia this Saturday has incredibly important global implications.” 

Climate change has become a top issue this election campaign. Across all political parties more than 80 per cent of Australians want the Government to take more action on climate change, according to the ABC’s Vote Compass. That’s up 20 percentage points from 2013. 

The Coalition is proposing to keep our current emission reduction target of 26 per cent by 2030, while Labor is proposing a much more ambitious target of 45 per cent and to ensure half of Australia’s energy comes from renewable sources. It also wants to reduce net emissions to zero by 2050. 

Mr Gore labelled the Coalition’s plan “not credible” but said Labor’s plan, if enacted, “would be seen as an extremely significant act of leadership on the part of Australia.”

[Image:] Al Gore giving an updated version of his famous presentation — An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power. Source: Supplied 

“This election is about two clear paths on the [so-called] climate crisis — one is about setting ambitious achievable targets, and another is about taking Australia in the wrong direction, and I trust that Australian voters will choose the right path,” he said. 

Despite Australia being responsible for about 1.3 per cent of global emissions, Mr. Gore believes the nation “punches above its weight” on political leadership. 

The UK, led by a conservative government [and the UK monarchy whose financial survival, per its recent restructuring of its expected annual income, depends on the world believing in CO2 terror], declared a climate emergency earlier this month, while New Zealand last week introduced a long-awaited bill to take a net zero carbon approach.”…

[Ed. note: “The [UK] Royal Family have secured a lucrative deal that will earn them tens of millions of pounds from the massive expansion of offshore windfarms....The seabed within Britain’s territorial waters is owned by the Crown Estate. Under new measures announced by Chancellor George Osborne last week, the Royals will soon get 15% of the profits from the Estate’s £6bn property portfolio, rather than the existing Civil List arrangement. Experts predict the growth in offshore windfarms could be worth up to £250m a year to the Crown Estate." 10/24/2010, “Queen’s £38m a year windfarm windfall,” thisismoney.co.uk, Martin Delgado...In 2007 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the carbon market was key “to the economic fortunes of the City of London.”"] 

(continuing): “But the Coalition has torn itself apart on the issue, dumping former leader Malcolm Turnbull over its unwillingness to reduce emissions in a meaningful way.

This morning a group of more than 60 Australian scientists, including Nobel prize winners and former Australians of the year, called on the Government to prioritise [even more] action on climate change. 

“The consequences of [alleged excess global CO2 which is controlled by Communist China, p.14] climate change are already upon us — including harsher and more frequent extreme weather, destruction of natural ecosystems, severe property damage and a worldwide threat to human health,” they wrote.

“The [alleged] solutions [to alleged problem of excess CO2 involves only Communist China] are all available to address [alleged excess global CO2] climate change, all that is missing is the political will.” 

The leaders are due to give their final speech ahead of the election this weekend. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is expected to highlight climate change in his speech and accuse members of the Government of not believing in [a particular version of] climate science.”

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Added: 2014 article, “Climate Change Not So Global,” describes peer reviewed climate science study from Australia’s University of Queensland which “reverses previous findings;”…Per University of Queensland study participant James Shulmeister, “This study highlights the need to understand regional climate rather than a global one-size-fits-all,” … Excerpt from July 2014 PNAS study posted below:

8/4/2014, “Climate change not so global,“ University of Queensland, Australia, uq.edu.au 

“Scientists are calling for a better understanding of regional climates, after research into New Zealand’s glaciers has revealed climate change in the Northern Hemisphere does not directly affect the climate in the Southern Hemisphere. 

The University of Queensland study showed that future climate changes may impact differently in the two hemispheres, meaning a generalised global approach isn’t the solution to climate issues. 

UQ School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management Head Professor Jamie Shulmeister said the study provided evidence for the late survival of significant glaciers in the mountains of New Zealand at the end of the last ice age – a time when other ice areas were retreating. 

“This study reverses previous findings which suggested that New Zealand’s glaciers disappeared at the same time as ice in the Northern Hemisphere,” he said. 

“We showed that when the Northern Hemisphere started to warm at the end of the last ice age, New Zealand glaciers were unaffected. 

“These glaciers began to retreat several thousand years later, when changes in the Southern Ocean led to increased carbon dioxide emissions and warming. 

"This indicates that future climate change may impact differently in the two hemispheres and that changes in the Southern Ocean are likely to be critical for Australia and New Zealand.”

The study used exposure dating of moraines – mounds of rocks formed by glaciers – to reconstruct the rate of ice retreat in New Zealand’s Ashburton Valley after the last glacial maximum – the time when the ice sheets were at their largest. 

The researchers found that the period from the last glacial maximum to the end of the ice age was longer in New Zealand than in the Northern Hemisphere. 

They also found that the maximum glacier extent in New Zealand occurred several thousand years before the maximum in the Northern Hemisphere, demonstrating that growth of the northern ice sheets did not cause expansion of New Zealand glaciers. 

“New Zealand glaciers responded largely to local changes in the Southern Ocean, rather than changes in the Northern Hemisphere as was previously believed,” Professor Shulmeister said.

“This study highlights the need to understand regional climate rather than a global one-size-fits-all.” 

The research was conducted in collaboration with the University of Griefswald, Germany, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in July."

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Added: Excerpt from July 14, 2014 PNAS peer reviewed study from University of Queensland finds “global” climate doesn’t exist, no correlation between S. and N. hemisphere climate changes, nor does one lead or lag the other: 

Abstract, parag. two: “According to the Milankovitch orbital theory of glaciation, variations in northern high-latitude summer insolation are responsible for glacial–interglacial cycles (1, 2). On this basis, it is commonly assumed that climatic changes in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) constitute the principle forcing mechanism for glaciation in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) (3). However, in recent times, this view has been challenged by studies showing that at least some glacial signals in the SH have no NH correlative or precede events in the NH.”… 

7/28/2014, “The early rise and late demise of New Zealand’s last glacial maximum,” PNAS.org, Henrik Rother^a,¹ David Fink^b, James Shulmeister^c, Charles Mifsud^b, Michael Evans^d, and Jeremy Pugh^e,² 

“Significance”… 

“This record from a key site in the midlatitude Southern Hemisphere shows that the largest glacial advance did not coincide with the coldest temperatures during this phase. We also show that the regional post-LGM ice retreat was very gradual, contrary to the rapid ice collapse widely inferred. This demonstrates that glacial records from New Zealand are neither synchronous with no simply lag or lead Northern Hemisphere ice sheet records, which has important implications for the reconstruction of past interhemispheric climate linkages and mechanisms.”. 

“Abstract” 

“Recent debate on records of southern midlatitude glaciation has focused on reconstructing glacier dynamics during the last glacial termination, with different results supporting both in-phase and out-of-phase correlations with Northern Hemisphere glacial signals. A continuing major weakness in this debate is the lack of robust data, particularly from the early and maximum phase of southern midlatitude glaciation (∼30–20 ka), to verify the competing models….These findings preclude the previously inferred rapid climate-driven ice retreat in the Southern Alps after the onset of Termination 1. Our record documents an early last glacial maximum, an overall trend of diminishing ice volume in New Zealand between 28–20 ka, and gradual deglaciation until at least 15 ka.” 

“This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1401547111/-/DCSupplemental.”
 





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