Heatwave Hype and Wind Wisdom

Government-funded climatologists

, --January 2, 2014

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The current heatwave in Australia will inflame the carbonistas who will claim it is caused by wicked humans exhaling and exhausting carbon dioxide.
But carbon dioxide is almost irrelevant to local heat conditions. That is all about wind. If the wind blows from the summer tropics for days, we will have a heat wave and possible bushfires; but if we get a winter gale from polar regions there may be brass-monkey mornings, sleet and sheep farmer alerts. If it blows from the sea we may get enervating humidity and thunder storms; but if it comes from the desert we may get lip-cracking dryness, whirl-winds or dust storms. If there is no wind at all, the heat will peak after lunch and it will be coolest just as the sun rises. And if you are yachting in Antarctic waters, the wind can trap your ship in floating sea ice if you are a careless ninny. Simple stuff really, except for government-funded climatologists with giant computers needing a software upgrade. And carbon dioxide has almost nothing to do with any of it. Viv Forbes, a climate-savvy, weather-watching sheep farmer from: Rosewood, Qld, Australia

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Viv Forbes——

Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.

Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.