The links Pelican gives quote Brown as saying “"It's the single biggest cause - burning coal - for climate change and it must take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing unfolding now." Seems to me he hasn’t been taken out of context at all – he IS blaming burning coal for the floods. While the author overstates his case, and I’m not fond of his polemic style, the author's fundamental argument is correct – there is no causal link between Australia’s coal industry and Queensland’s floods, and to claim otherwise in order to score political points in the current environment is reprehensible

Green "happyclappers"?

Such creatures may exist but

Bob Brown isn't one

Garum Masala, let's not speculate on Pelican's gender.

I can't remember how the CFC hole in Ozone Layer was proven beyond doubt; but the size of industry associated with it was small enough to modify fundamentally across the board. A rather bigger push will be required to drastically cut fossil fuel use.

I don't think I could mount a sound argument that Qld coal should pay above the odds to help out with the flood relief effort.

Why can't the nation get taxes equitable and right, and keep enough surplus to simply cover the cost of this kinda thing from the national kitty?

What this article by a former Liberal adviser does, is add weight to my feeling that the Liberals think they may have found a new magic formula.

Beating up on the asylum seekers in elections is getting a bit thin. While a hard core of voters will still respond to the mantra of 'we will decide to comes here etc' a lot of voters who may previously have been swayed are no longer so impressed by this Liberal line. They are probably better educated and more sympathetic to an asylum seeker's plight. This leaves the Liberals struggling a lot to differentiate themselves from Labor.

The win in Victoria where they preferenced the Greens last, may now be the rope that their strategists are going to pull on hard. Suddenly Greens will become the new intruders to be kept out, demonised and misrepresented for political purposes.

Good for society? Hell no! Divisive and unhealthy. In the tragic Victorian fires last year even while Greens were out fighting fires, supporting their communities and mourning friends and loved ones, a thoroughly nasty article came out pointing the finger at them. Something we can expect more or as the next federal election gets closer.

To add to the last post is the real interesting question is of course is whether Labor will also do the same. Bet they will.

Gaia.......or me:)

Hesiod's Theogony (116ff) tells how, after the birth of Chaos, arose broad-breasted Gaia, the everlasting foundation of the gods of Olympus. She brought forth Uranus, the starry sky, her equal, to cover her, the hills (Ourea), and the fruitless deep of the Sea, Pontus, "without sweet union of love," out of her own self through parthenogenesis. But afterwards, as Hesiod tells it, she is a great god of nature:

she lay with her son, Uranus, and bore the world-ocean god Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and the Titans Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, and Phoebe of the golden crown, and lovely Tethys. After they were born Cronus the wily, youngest and most (terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire..... then Christianity was born. Probably with the last two youngest:)

You lot cant be serous...lol...However since the message from her was and is all true, and considering the worlds currant situation, its fitting that all of this blue-green planet is being put at risk, even after all the evidents that pores out from every honest scientist/environmentalist.
I mean.....lets face it, the old god followers have literally brought HELL to the earth.......

Green Religion.....lol......Its commonsense, but HEY! Iam looking forward to 10 billion on this planet too you know.

I can't see any problems with that now.....can we:)

Everything will be just fine, yeah right.

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I was going to show you some religious damage, but I think you know all ready.
Rollie eyes

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