Dr Andy Pitman, our arguably top climate scientist, says the science isn’t actually clear

I knew the climate models must be flawed but “experts” told me to shut up and trust the science. Now we learn what was certain about global warming isn’t at all.

You may feel conned.

Only now, when our governments have spent billions of dollars to “save” us from global warming, does our arguably top climate scientist say the science isn’t actually clear.

Dr Andy Pitman did blow the whistle on alarmists once before, telling Sydney University students in 2019 he had information that “may not be what you read in the newspapers”.

He was right: “As far as the climate scientists know, there is no link between climate change and drought … There is no reason a priori why climate change should make the landscape more arid.”

Climate scientist Dr Andy Pitman has blown the whistle on alarmists before. Picture: AAP

Yet around the country, Labor state governments have built desalination plants, trusting global warming guru Tim Flannery, who’d claimed “even the rains that fall will not fill our dams and our rivers systems”.

So Pitman got a caning and rushed out a “clarification”: he’d meant to say there was no “direct” link. Some areas might still get more rain, others less.

But now Pitman, head of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, has again voiced doubts, once more between friends – in a report and a talk to fellow warmists.

Pitman wants a national institute to oversee how we react to global warming because, he said, there are gaps in what scientists actually know about how it’s affecting Australia.

Tim Flannery, who’d claimed ‘even the rains that fall will not fill our dams and our rivers systems’. Picture: AAP

Those gaps turn out to be massive.

For instance, Pitman says our climate models are so bad that they cannot actually tell us whether “extreme weather events and catastrophic flooding … will become more common in the future”.

What!!?? Haven’t warmists always claimed all hell will break loose if we don’t cut emissions?

Pitman says we also don’t know when and where the “tipping points” for abrupt climate changes will trigger.

And “we actually don’t know whether climate change will increase or decrease the flows of water through systems like the Murray Darling”.

Data gaps also “compromise efforts to understand, monitor and predict our weather and climate”, including our future rainfall.

Let me be clear: Pitman is a global warming true believer. But I’m puzzled. I’ve written for decades of my amazement that so many global warming scares proved false – running out of water, of food, of polar bears. I knew the climate models must be flawed but “experts” told me to shut up and trust the science.

Now we learn what was certain about global warming isn’t at all.

So are our mad-spending politicians just flying blind?

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