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'Climate change' gets the heave-ho in the Budget : Comments
By Don Aitkin, published 17/5/2013No longer are we hearing glowing accounts of how investing in new technologies will lead to a 'green-jobs' revolution.
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Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 18 May 2013 1:33:56 PM
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cohenite,
"Readfearn is a petty little weasel." Is he? It's pretty difficult to argue against such an insightful and comprehensive critique...but taking into account your penchant to call people names whenever someone pulls the cord in your back, I'd say, on the whole, I prefer the Woody doll from Toy Story....he's got a snake in his boot! Hasbeen, "China's pollution problem, which is probably no worse than that experienced, on a smaller scale, where people are still cooking on dung..." http://www.care2.com/causes/chinas-smog-so-bad-a-huge-fire-burns-unnoticed-for-3-hours.html I'm sure the dung cookers would notice a fire in their vicinity. Posted by Poirot, Saturday, 18 May 2013 2:20:39 PM
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Very witty Poirot; I have some personal experience with Readfearn so I'm probably in a better psoition than you to judge; his articles are empty snide and condescending rubbish; he got his comeuppance when he confronted Monckton some time ago:
http://media01.couriermail.com.au/multimedia/mediaplayer/main/index.html?id=1418 He subsequently skulks around the backlots making insulting little comments; anything other then saying he was wrong. I see you raise the issue of dung; apart from being relevant to Readfearn you may be interested to know that the main renewable in the world is: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21575771-environmental-lunacy-europe-fuel-future Posted by cohenite, Saturday, 18 May 2013 3:22:10 PM
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cohenite,
When you say his articles are snide and condescending.....are you intimating that Watts and Nova - or Monckton - et al are all sweetness and light when referring to climate scientists or their findings? It seems to me that scientists and their messengers have resorted to such tactics because of the vicious and unprecedented attacks on them by laymen. I don't see this happening to scientists with expertise in other areas. Posted by Poirot, Saturday, 18 May 2013 6:26:05 PM
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hey listen, you guys .....
do you hear that? It's the fat lady singing. lol and her name is ... Julia. Posted by imajulianutter, Saturday, 18 May 2013 6:49:25 PM
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Hi Chris, thanks for your effort.
I guess my question was specifically about the global infrastructure and not Australia’s. Just to clear any confusion may I again raise the issues and my question. << Kyoto is gone, the financial emissions trading markets have either closed or collapsed and the renewable energy industry has shrunk by 90%. Even if we could get enough support to breathe life into this particular dead cat, there is no longer any global infrastructure to do anything about it. So what do you suggest?>> It matters not what Australia does for a number of reasons so I’d like to take them out of global play for the following reasons. Australia is about to cancel our contribution to any response to CAGW because there is no longer any global mechanism. All things CO2 will be gone very soon Australia cannot make a contribution through increased renewables because we cannot afford it. If the might of the entire EU and UN mechanisms have failed in spite of 27 nations trying to make it happen, what is the point in crippling our economy through an already failed model? Abbott will do whatever it takes to capture any soft green votes, those that are not rusted to Greens ideology but concerned about conservation. He has already stated that he will “invite submissions” for his direct action investments. Anyone who really believes that Abbott will produce any meaningful contribution to global action is invited to vote for him. Back to the question. Given that there is no global mechanism left because the science could no longer sustain it it, what do you suggest as a “global” solution not an Australian solution? Chris, the community of interest that supports global action on CAGW tells us it is more intelligent, better informed, has superior science and asks us to support it. Yet when the question is asked “what do you suggest to fix it?” There has not been one single suggestion from this entire community as to how to fix the failed response to your global problem. Any takers? Posted by spindoc, Sunday, 19 May 2013 8:52:50 AM
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Do you ever think about a subject?
Your posts are becoming more & more like what one would expect from a computer programed to spit out green/lefty propaganda, regardless of it's pertinence to the subject.