By Jo Nova
It’s too *bad* to be true
We know it’s a cult or long-form advertising when every possible consequence is 100% bad, bad, bad, and for everyone, all the time.
Climate change will cause more droughts, except when it rains, and that means more pollen (obviously?!). Even though summers will be longer, and spring will be earlier, and flowers will go extinct, the pollen will be more potent (whatever that is). More people will get asthma, and even though we don’t know what causes allergies, we know that it will get worse with climate change, whatever it is, because everything does.
You too will be locked in your house, afraid to leave, unable to breathe, unless you get solar panels and an EV.
This was Australian’s national news prime time story tonight on our public “news” service. Australians spent some part of 3 million dollars today on their ABC, where regional health reporter Steven Schubert asked no hard questions, did almost no research, and sought no alternative views. He just found an asthmatic trophy victim to use as a poster-girl for F.E.A.R.
As the climate changes, researchers say our allergies will only get worse
ABC Propaganda Channel
Whether Caitlin Ross will go outside on any given day depends on weather and pollen forecasts. If they’re too bad, her severe allergies and asthma mean it can be too uncomfortable or dangerous.
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- Researchers say pollen is becoming more potent, and seasons longer, as the climate changes
- They expect the number of Australian hay fever sufferers to grow by 70 per cent over the next three decades
Poor Caitlin. Her symptoms have got worse these last five years. The ABC news works like hypnosis planting the suggestion that if your asthma got worse lately “it’s climate change”, as if asthma never gets better or worse for any other reason.
Climate change is affecting asthma already — we know because we did an opinion poll:
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- A recent survey showed climate change was already affecting the health of asthmatic Australia
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A survey conducted by advocacy group Asthma Australia in 2023 showed that 91 per cent of people with asthma were very concerned about the impacts of climate change, according to CEO Michele Goldman.
She said 39 per cent of asthmatics surveyed said climate change was already affecting their health, compared to 21 per cent of people without asthma.
It’s like ignorant climate models went on dates with a Women’s Weekly story on asthma from 1985, and gave birth to yet another scary narrative.
In the real world of health and biology the rise of asthma in the last fifty years could be due to diet, pollution, hygiene, loss of gut flora, or a lack of parasites. It could be due to leaky guts, new highly allergenic wheat strains, heavy metals, pesticides, or all of the above. It could be because kids don’t get to eat dirt or play with farm animals, and it could be because kids don’t play in the sun and get their vitamin D.
Asthma is a first world problem, not a climate change one
Since asthma rates are lower in poor countries and lower in country towns rather than in cities — the one variable that doesn’t matter much is the climate.
So these researchers — whoever they are, are starting with models that can’t predict rainfall, humidity, soil moisture, cloud cover and wind speed, and use those errors to not-predict plant growth and pollen movement. Then they take all those failures and run headlong into a medical swamp.
This is lousy science, bad reporting, and incompetent “investigation”.
More like reading tea leaves every day.
Just a check of some countries asthma percentages since 1990 to 2019 and the world shows a 1% lower trend, but the USA and Canada show very different trends.
Aussie trends have dropped by about 3% since 1990, but certainly Asthma doesn’t seem to be so much of a problem in poorer countries.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/asthma-prevalence?tab=chart&country=BOL~URY~CUB~UGA~OWID_WRL~AUS~GBR~USA~CAN
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Good post Neville!
Isn’t it interesting though, that this fairytale by regional health (scaremonger) reporter Steven Schubert as mentioned by Jo, was OBVIOUSLY not researched at all.
Steven Schubert (yes – we need to continue to name and shame these sycophants) COULD have done exactly what you did and look at REAL data and not some cock and bull story from an asthma sufferer from Canberra or a “professor” whose job obviously depends on continuing to support the fairytale.
Cheers,
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Actually Aussie Asthma trend peaked in 1999 and dropped by 3.7% in 2019.
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Does this show that the ecofascists are succeeding in their plan to make Australia poorer?
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You have to understand that this is the silly season. There’s no genuine news, so reporters will take whatever press release comes off the fax and run with it. This one had the advantage of supporting their innate bias.
The idea that they would do any sort of fact check is ridiculous; they might not have a story at all if they did that.
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Then there is the geographical zone.
Years ago I knew a chap who had gone to Fiji and found his hay fever (he had had seasonal attacks in Australia) became so bad that he was evacuated to Adelaide – then known as the hay fever capital of Australia. Not the most reasoned idea by the personnel branch, but incredibly he was rapidly better and healthier than originally in the Eastern States. In fact he avoided even taking trips back east, which reduced his chances of promotion, but he was quite happy preferring health.
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The world map looks like a chart of Climate Cultist Density (and I use the word “density” literally & figuratively).
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Yes one could easily replace the word density with stupidity . .
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Is someone still there in Oz?
According to the BBC world service there has been devastateing flooding especially in Queensland, wiping out buildings, streets and farmlands. You need to evacuate to somewhere safer. Perhaps new Zealand will let you all in to shelter from the damage
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Tonyb the Qld floods were the result of a CAT 2 cyclone that stayed over the coastal area for a while and in Vic we’ve had very heavy rains and floods over the last 3 days.
Certainly there has been a lot of damage to crops in certain areas but we’ll know more in January.
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Yes, we have had a cyclone in North Queensland which hung around and dropped a lot of rain and storms in much of Queensland and down the coast of NSW, some severe and causing damage, eg blowing roofs off houses, knocking over a few trees, flooding and some boating disasters. All fairly typical for this part of the world but as it doesn’t happen every year, some people have to learn each time. If the weather observers were honest about informing the public about real weather instead of imaginary “global boiling” people could accept these things as part of life and so be prepared, thereby reducing damage and saving lives.
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Their ABC: 3 boaties drown off Brisbane [during a storm] while 2 women drown “exploring storm drains” [during a storm] up the Coast…
Condolences to the families involved but [during a storm] really?
New Zealand el nono forecast:
Gales, rain, thunder, hail, ‘heavy snow to 1,500m’ down south New Year’s Eve thanks to the Great Aussie Storm Of 2023 drifting down onto us as a cold front heads north: frigid fireworks a la naturale!
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Natural selection is still alive and well.
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Yeah I wasn’t going to mention Wallace’s, nor Darwinian, theory of survival, yet sometimes ya gots ta wonder…
During our Anniversary Day (27 January) downpour, some dude went kayaking down through storm-drain tunnels and that was that, all over Rover, another life cut short. Personally I blame gravity: it’s everywhere you look AND contagious.
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From my post earlier today:
Don’t forget lethal humidity.
Scary stuff indeed.
Back in the day, much of the world who lived in tropical regions survived humidity perfectly OK.
But now “The Science”(TM) has been altered.
Goolag “human tolerance of humidity” without quote marks to learn just how “lethal” (sic) humidity has become. Better tell that to the 40% of the world’s population who live in the tropics. Somebody forgot to tell them to die
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Usually it’s called heat stroke.
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“…Twiggy Forrest whose latest crusade is against “Lethal Humidity”. (Quoting CO2 Lover.)
Now I get it, massive scale de-humidifying plants plugged into ‘green hydrogen’ energy. That’ll require suitable tax payer subsidy harvesting 🤔
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It’s difficult to believe that intelligent people could sit in an audience and listen to this kind of rubbish peddled by Andrew twiggy Forrest. You would think that the media in this country would call him out for his outright fearmongering of a narrative that is a pack of lies without any evidential proof.
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Twiggy Forrest, the shill for the CCP is now a medical expert on humidity death, I call it heat stroke induced by insufficient hydration.Simple fix for that, drink water. I was going to say did the editor not check these ridiculous statements and then I realised it was the SMH.
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“A heatwave warning is in place until at least Saturday for the majority of the state although for most of the area it is a low intensity heatwave which is the least risky kind.”
This quote from News.com for the upcoming week end. So not only are summers getting longer, heat waves are getting shorter and “extreme” temperatures are getting lower.
Can someone please provide a definition of a “low intensity heat wave” that occurs in summer where temperatures are traditionally higher than winter.
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Thankyou Sambar for one good laugh today. How much sillier can this get?
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Merry Christmas Annie, I hope you and yours had a great and traditional Christmas. Temperature and weather was a little like an average English summer where we were with rain most of the day and cool to cold enough for jumpers! The 120 mm of rain back home was enough to have flood alerts and and more drive way repairs.Ha Ha.
This longest, hottest, drier than average summer is proving a bit of a fizzier so far. Still with another 8 weeks to go before Autumn is declared anything may happen, we may even have a short duration heat wave!
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So good it needed highlighting.
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The A.B.C. is nothing but fear Porn. They troll the world to bring it to you.
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Yes it is quite extraordinary. Hard to believe they can be so partisan and so brazenly.
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I have noticed a new social contagion developing that will no doubt soon be associated with supposed global warming.
Mould (US = mold).
People are claiming severe illness from mould.
I am not talking about obvious, visible mould which can indeed be toxic.
I am talking about invisible mould, not present on biological assays and which is the subject of a delusion.
It’s only a matter of time before the association is made with “climate change”, especially as Twiggy Forrest, see my post above, is promoting “lethal humidity”. Mould loves humidity and warmth.
I already know two females suffering from imaginary mould. In one case it has caused the afflicted person to move houses and dispose of all their possessions multiple times at huge expense
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Perhaps we can call it Morgellon mould…
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I have worked in pest management all my working life (both Rentokil and Flick) in London until 1966 and here in Oz since. A well know problem that we had to sometimes deal with was “para psychological parasiteosis”, the belief that they or one of their possessions was “infested” with insects.
I remember one music teacher who was convinced that insects were coming out of his piano – they were not. One lady was convinced that she had insects in her bed and showed them to me. They were just the residue from the cream she put on her legs at night.
Dealing with such issues needed tact and was the most difficult task that I had to face.
The fear of “climate change” and issues such as Twiggy’s totally ridiculous “lethal humidity” is in the same category of induced fear with no evidence to support it. It is clear that “climatecitosis” sufferers will outnumber those with an unsupported fear of insects.
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The junk science of anthropogenic global warming is now self-sustaining and due to the Leftist corruption of the Scientific Method itself with the false claim that scientific fact is established by “consensus”, it is not clear how this can all be undone.
I think the only hope to undo it is the election of Donald Trump, but we can see how that ended for him last time and now there is absolutely nothing the Left will not do to stop him.
There is too much political power, subsidy harvesting and junk science careers now tied up in AGW for its beneficiaries to give up any time soon without a fight.
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Only the market can defeat it. Politics can’t and science is a political movement now, so?
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Climate Change turned me into a newt.
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That could be headline in National Enquirer, or any of our Left wing Media outlets in Australia (which is most of them).
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Honk, a newt sounds better than a neuter: at least newts know how to have fun.
Neuter Zero!
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Given the rise in asthma and other inflammatory diseases (food allergy, eczema etc) has temporally followed the rise in the number of childhood vaxxes given, I think there is a strong case that the 2 are linked.
This makes sense because vaccines contain additives (adjuvants) which sensitise the immune system to sit up and take notice of the vaccine protein. The problem is, said adjuvants also make the immune system ‘sit up and take notice’ of other things the child encounters at the same time, eg peanuts, grass pollens etc etc etc.
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David Maddison referred to Twiggy’s BS and nonsense about lethal humidity, but it hasn’t stopped very high humid conditions in Singapore limiting their life expectancy.
In 1950 Singapore’s life expectancy was 58 years and today is about 84 years.
Of course Singapore is also very wealthy and close to the equator and very humid, but they have one of the highest life expectancies in the world.
And the UN data projects their life expectancy to increase to about 92 years by 2100.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/life-expectancy
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The argument that the Asthma foundation has been pushing here in Aus that open fires are causing Asthma to increase or making it worse.
Dropping rates of Asthma in Aus and third world countries would have far more open fires than here in Aus.
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fires make no difference. Can vouch for that.
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We’ve bred a generation of ‘softards’ who were brought up in airconditioning and regard anything outside the range of an aircon to be
‘unliveable’ and ‘catastrophic’.
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I think that is a huge factor in selling the climate nonsense
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Hong Kong is also known for their high humidity and very high life expectancy.
Life expectancy in 1950 was about 61 years and now about 85 years and Hong Kong UN projection to 2100 is about 93 years.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/HKG/hong-kong/life-expectancy
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The ABC story quotes a Professor with medical expertise and the CEO of an advocacy group. But significantly they didn’t talk to any plant scientists about the claims of ‘more and worse’ pollen.
Here in Adelaide the big issue for pollen-triggered asthma cases is the winter-growing annual grasses, notably ryegrass and brome which are among the major weeds of broadacre cropping. In a dry year (and it’s getting hard to remember when we last had a dry year), these flower and dry off earlier in the spring so the peak in grass pollen blowing south to Adelaide occurs a bit earlier. In wet years the peak just happens later. If anything, the supposed trend to hotter and drier weather would mean lower pollen production by these grasses as their growing season gets shorter.
The claim that pollen production doubles when carbon dioxide concentrations are doubled simply means that carbon dioxide promotes plant growth, as we all know. This experiment must have been done in a controlled growth cabinet – we’re never going to find a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations in the open atmosphere.
It’s hard to see what the ABC journos thought they meant by “more potent, leading to stronger allergic reactions”, I’m guessing they just made it up to please their boss. And the opening closeup shot of Asclepias curassavica flowers was weird, too. This plant isn’t wind-pollinated and doesn’t have a reputation for triggering asthma. Ah well, it’s the silly season.
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Seems to me that there’s some similarity in both the causes and effects given for both asthma and hay fever, in which case a fix for hay fever may work against asthma??
My problem was hay fever, late diagnosed, but probably what gave me angst for too many years. But recently, thanks to Jo and Covid and our apprehension about the “safe and effective” jabs, we discovered the rhinovirus and zinc. Add in an increasing interest in the immune system and vitamin D’s role in that, quercetin and Dr Sehault’s explanation of how zinc gets into a cell and stops the virus from replicating and I headed for an approach which has meant I’ve not experienced any hay fever symptoms for the last couple of years. I’ve fine tuned my intake over that time, as I’ve mentioned here before with cofactors, vitamin K2 and also vitamin A which I discovered more recently is used when vitamin D is actively addressing some problem.
Perhaps asthma could be controlled by building up the immune system with D and zinc?
My visits to GPs and a specialist did not initiate any suggestion to test or improve my immune system.
I’ve only skimmed the paper Jo has provided, but see a couple of things I want to explore more closely.. May be able to post something later.
Cheers
Dave B
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David C
Re ” But significantly they didn’t talk to any plant scientists about the claims of ‘more and worse’ pollen.”
Do you reckon that those ABC Experts” would have any idea that a plant scientist might know anything about pollen?
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From the map it looks to be genetic, British and follows the British diaspora!
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…OR……
Some link the growth of allergies in general to the number of vaccinations kids get. [Which explains why the US is top]
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Climate change has also caused my hair to thin. There’s simply no other explanation.
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A blogger on another blog started his reply at his 80th birthday party with this summation –
“Can’t see, Can’t pee,
Can’t chew, Can’t screw”
I’ll have to tell him that it must have have been Climate Change wot did it
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POOR ‘Climate Change’ – it gets blamed for everything!
Brings to mind this old sage saying – If its responsible for everything, its responsible for nothing.
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I know about asthma, had it all my life.
Asthma is very real of course, an out-of-your-control type horrific experience. But it is also psychological. You can definitely bring it on when the mind panics. (Remember, I could legitimately put Prof. Asthma-sufferer as my twitter handle, I know it so well).
This is what these people surveyed would be able to do. Panic about the climate and on comes the asthma, in genuine form. Would probably even be borne out in the stats. “See, its real!” they could claim.
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Went to school from mid 60’s to late 70’s. I can remember only very few who had really bad asthma or ADHD ( or any other acronym type affliction) in all that time. Then some wheezers during Spring hay fever season, but that’s about it. In the 20th century we have cultivated somehow a bunch of modern diseases.
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…and, while I hate to sound like an anti-vaxxer, I think vaccines have done wonders for us…. but, perhaps there comes a point we are over-doing it?
It makes sense that a hyperstimulated immune system may end up with a lot of allergies.
The following papers show the concern is very much in the headlights, and detail the possible mechanisms well.
They do conclude there is as yet no evidence of this hypersensitivity occcuring, although they do utilize a lof of socio-economic adjustments, which the above publication sidesteps by the choice of vaccinated and unvaccinated homeschooled cohorts.
Vaccine-associated hypersensitivity
Michael M. McNeil, MD, MPH and Frank DeStefano, MD, MPH
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602527/
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RESEARCH PAPER| VOLUME 4, P92-98, OCTOBER 2018
Vaccination and Allergic Sensitization in Early Childhood – The ALADDIN Birth Cohort
Jackie Swartz et al.
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If one is not anti-vax by now, there is no hope for one.
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Blaming any ill on ClimateChange™ absolves those responsible of the need to try to understand and do something. The official response is to reduce “Carbon” in the atmosphere. [Carbon sounds so much more sinister than Carbon Dioxide.]
Accepting CO2/AGW as an axiom is disastrous.
I do not sense that society has reached peak stupid.
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Actually, it’s blaming everything on climate change, and if anything isn’t an ill (warmer nights in Canada or Scandinavia, for example) it’s portrayed as an ill anyway.
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The climate botherers have held the high ground in this fairy tale of CO2 causing climate change.
The tune has changed through. Rather than UK kids not knowing what snow is, they are now being advised there is a climate changed induced “snow bomb” on its way.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1849434/uk-cold-weather-snow-bomb-new-year
Nothing like this occurred before there was CO2 induced climate change. And this is just another one of the things the climate models did not predict.
So when is some unaligned reporter going to ask a smart question like- If warming causes MORE snow, when will the snowfall overtake the snow melt like it did when the last interglacial ended?
Or in Australia – If we had to build wind and solar farms to fill the dams, why are we building more wind and solar farms when the dams are bl**dy full.
Or for China – If CO2 causes warming, why is China experiencing record cold?
When is the BoM and their ABC going to start working in the interests of Australians rather than the criminals in the UN.
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They now don’t even bother to pretend to use technical or scientific terms when propagandising to the ignorant and uneducated.
They use absurd terms like “snow bomb”.
It sounds like it’s a type of confectionery.
Goolag the term “snow bomb” to see how common it’s usage has become.
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This fits about here IMO
“Extreme Weather Assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC)”
“As can be seen from the chart, there is no evidence of any increase or decrease, globally or by region, in the frequency, severity or extent of frost, mean precipitation, river floods, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, landslides, aridity, hydrological drought, agricultural or ecological drought, fire weather or wildfires, mean wind speed, severe wind storms or tornados, tropical cyclones or hurricanes, sand and dust storms, snow glacial or ice sheets, heavy snowfall and ice storms, hail, snow avalanche, relative sea levels, coastal floods, coastal erosion, marine heatwaves, ocean acidity, air pollution weather or radiation at earth’s surface.
Academics, scientist, the media or politicians who say otherwise are contradicted by the institution most identified with promoting catastrophic global warming, that is the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/ipcc-attributions-climate-and-extreme-weather/
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Vaccinated country’s?
None vaccinated like Africa are doing fine.
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“We’ll all be rooned, said Hanrahan…….”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/when-the-climate-was-perfect
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While it may be the case that pollution makes the symptoms of asthma worse it can’t be the cause of more people suffering with asthma given how much cleaner the air is. Real scientists have not been able to explain this inverse relationship.
I don’t suffer from asthma or even hayfever but I can attest to the improvement in the quality of the air in London – yes, much better than in the early 90s despite there being no emission zone in place. I had a spell as a delivery driver working in London in 1990 and on a warm still day in London when you could see a brown haze over central London from afar, I used to feel a slight tightening of my chest. I lived outside in a more rural area and once out of the centre I was fine. I took a job in London in 2010 and worked there for 12 years without any problems. I wondered why and found a graph of pollution in London and was quire surprised at how much cleaner it was compared to 1990.
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When in the early 1990s East and West Germany were reunited the city of Leipzig, after forty years of compassionate socialism, was the most polluted place in the world. Someone thought that would show up in the incidence of respiratory disease, i.p. asthma. A comparison with other German cities showed Leipzig near the bottom of the list, with relatively few cases, while the list leader was the clean city of Munich.
Now, isn’t that interesting?
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More pollen in Munich than in Leipzig 😀
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micro soft sent a pollen warning to my PC the other day. It was four degrees below zero F.
Just Organized Gaslighting.
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The greening of Sahel is bad, Bad, BAD, and it must be stopped immediately by any means available.
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No need, just blame it on a Milankovich cycle. Originally said to be about 26 thousand years, but now under ClimateChange© you have a choice of 26,000, 25,000, 23,000, 21,000, 19,000 (and in one “explanation” I saw a cycle of 17,000, which “fitted the fiddle”.
The last time the Sahara was green was around 12,000 to about 6,000 years ago and the CO2 level was about 265 p.p.m. See Tassili frescos.
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