From Jennifer Marohasy

By jennifer

When the grass is tall and unruly, it can be difficult to see where you are going and to know what lies beneath.

Then come the steady, gradual, crawling and crackling fires.

New growth follows.  Suddenly the kangaroo and emu are back, for the tender shoots.  What appeared to be destruction, was just the beginning of a new cycle.

That is how it is sometimes, where I grew-up at Coomalie of the stoney country in the Northern Territory of Australia.  My country.

Fire can create a balance between trees and grasses in the savanna, not just at Coomalie, but around the world.   We need to know this if we are to understand nature, and how natural environments can change.   Not just on land, but also under the sea.

If we are to understand what can follow coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef; how there can suddenly be an abundance of juvenile barracuda, and juvenile bream shoaling, and schooling.  They were at Barron Rock Reef the Sunday before last in the tens of thousands above all the dead coral from the bleaching.

Visit these environments and listen, sometimes in discomfort, to know how this change happens.  And you might also hear the whales.

There are the annual cycles of whale migration corresponding with the duration of Earth’s orbit around the Sun and then there are the longer cycles including Saturn-return. Of course, there are other cycles, daily-cycles, monthly-cycles and even cycles that caused the 120-metre sea level rise.  That was 16,000 years ago, and every few hundred thousand years before that.

To know the long and deep history of our Earth – that is the story of climate change.

And yet they deny it.  The elite are demanding that we deny it.  To cancel those with a sceptical disposition who remember the cycles, not just from the left of politics, but now also from the right.

Did you know that Saturn can affect the Earth’s climate because it contributes to the ever-changing barycentre of our solar system.  The thirty-year Saturn-return cycle is sometimes used as a metaphor for the three stages in the human lifecycle.  But it is rare to hear about such things nowadays – about natural lifecycles.   There are those who repeat ‘the arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice’ while denying the existence of the natural cycles within this same universe.

The gravitational impact of Saturn and even the Moon are real, but more usually ignored.  They are denied as though the sea tides do not even exist and that everything must be improved.

More usually the chosen faux scientists want to just add a number to something claiming the trend is either decreasing or increasing – apparently forever.  It is rare to hear mention of natural cycles, even natural climate cycles.

Reference to a single number apparently makes it truer.  That is his propaganda, the anointed one.  Bjorn Lomborg mentions these types of single numbers in his latest YouTube being promoted by the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) and with 50,000 views after just four days.

On their behalf, he concludes that everything is getting better – this is the ‘better story’.  It is a line this side of politics is going to push very hard over the next few years.   And I ask that you reject it.   As I ask that you reject the idea that coral cover at the Great Barrier Reef can be reduced to a single number based on a perimeter survey while ignoring the schooling barracuda.

Oh so many fish shoaling and schooling one Sunday, as the coral collapsed beneath them.

While he claims that there is record coral cover.  And they send me emails, endlessly promoting him.  The most recent begins:

Bjorn Lomborg seeks to bring a balanced and thoughtful view to the climate conversation, where alarmist narratives have created policies that do more harm than good.  We’ve been told emphatically by the New York Times that we live in a world on fire. The reality? The percentage of the global surface that wildfires burn each year has been steadily decreasing over the past century.

Why?

Human ingenuity.

I clicked across to the presentation and Lomborg’s first slide, on behalf of ARC, it declares:

Global Warming – Real and Manmade.

In fact, climate change is real, and part of a natural cycle within a cycle, within a cycle and the arc of the moral universe demand that he begin with this truth.

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The feature image (very top) is of Yellowback Puller (Chromis nitida) fishes schooling above dead coral at Bald Rock Reef the Sunday before last.   And just above is me, in the Northern Territory of Australia beside a fire.