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Abbott spoiling for a fight on GBR : Comments

By James Wight, published 10/2/2014

All these approvals have been granted in defiance of repeated warnings from the UN World Heritage Committee that the Reef would have to be declared 'in danger'

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Increased CO2 emissions leads to...... Increased greening of the planet... No increase in average global temperature in 17.5 years... And counting.

Stop panicking James, you will injure yourself.
Posted by Prompete, Monday, 10 February 2014 12:46:18 PM
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What`s getting greener?
The Sahara or the Amazon basin?
Central Asia?
The Simpson Desert perhaps..........
Or is just your swimming pool.
Posted by ateday, Monday, 10 February 2014 1:06:49 PM
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Abbott and Harper are in lock-step to create two modern day Petro-States.
It is quite OK to trash the environment so long as profit can be generated
The heroes are the Rineharts, Obeids and Murdochs of the world. These people should be showered with taxpayers money, their privacy protected.
We are observing a rerun of Thatcher’s thoughtless waste of North Sea oil and gas resources in order to shower the rich with tax cuts and other privileges.
The parallels are stark, decimation of local manufacturing & agriculture, flogging off of national assets, flooding the country with cheap labour, winding back environmental legislation, attacks on unions and public broadcasters. All the hymns are from the IPA songbook.
We will no doubt reap the bitter harvest that poor old UK is about to.
Posted by Imperial, Monday, 10 February 2014 1:09:34 PM
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Dear James,

Imagine you are far enough into your studies to interviewed by potential employers visiting your campus?

Good morning James, please take a seat.

So, by way of background, the Industrial Renewables Index, RENIXX has collapsed, the Emissions Trading markets have closed or collapsed, there is no Kyoto to impose global emissions caps, the EU, as the last bastion of de-carbonization on the globe, has in the last six months either reversed or cancelled every “green” policy it enacted in the last 8 years, including mandatory emissions targets. These CAGW initiatives have sucked out 800 billion Euros out of the EU economy for nothing. Coal, lignite, gas and nuclear power are in the ascendency, particularly in Germany.

In Australia the CO2 Tax is about to go, along with the RET. The entire wind farm production in SA during the last heat wave contributed 0.03% of electricity and surveys show that out of 16 issues of importance to Australians, CAGW rated No. 14 and going down?

The Climate Commission has been disbanded along with a whole raft of associated ministries and departments, funding for environmental research thought the ARC is being slashed as with the CSIRO. Environmental NGO’s are losing their public funding and renewable industries that used to feed off the public purse cannot get private investment.

James, tell me again about your planned major in climate science?

You have a responsibility to yourself, your future dependents and the nation to find something productive to do with your studies. Time to cut the cr@p and stop showering in bulltish.

As for the GBR, the notion that Newman or Abbott will do anything but ignore all the UN pontifications that are Australia’s business is pure dreamtime. First the UN can pay for the costs of CAGW that they unleashed on the taxpayers of the world.

Sadly people like you will also pay the price of not finding employment and utterly wasting your education opportunities.
Posted by spindoc, Monday, 10 February 2014 2:50:12 PM
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As is so often the case, the GBR is used as an example of THE BAD THINGS that happen due to the burning of coal.

Straight question young James, and no dodging please: are you in favour of the use of nuclear power to remove the need for coal/gas? If Yes, well done. If No give your reasons WITH NUMBERS, UNITS AND COSTS; together with an explanation as to why you still believe in wind, solar and magic. Again numbers/units etc.

You are a person who is a student (at some level or another), in that respect your total certainty about things is very worrying.

Remember: no adjectives, just numbers in your explanations.
Regards,
Eyejaw
Posted by eyejaw, Monday, 10 February 2014 3:07:12 PM
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James is a student, still in the hands of academics who could POSSIBLY be influencing him with their scientific/political views rather than with facts. There’s nothing to say that James himself wrote the inflammatory heading “Abbott Spoiling for a fight on GBR”, but he must wear his first sentence about “dumping”, “three million cubic metres” and “150,000 dump trucks”, just to make sure we know 3 million cubic metres is a lot.

It’s an “outrage” and that sneaky Greg Hunt “quietly approved (it)….”

If James had been a student of writing (although what writers are taught these days is anyone’s guess), he would have saved his rage for later, when many of us who disagree with him would still be reading his piece.

Sorry, James. No point in it now.
Posted by NeverTrustPoliticians, Monday, 10 February 2014 3:15:22 PM
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Oh dear, here we have a poor silly kid, who has made a big mistake in his choice of studies. He is looking from the sidelines as the wheels of his intended gravy train fall off all over the place.

It must be a bit soul destroying to watch your train crash, even before it has reached your station, let alone allowed you to get on the thing.

James there is still time, if you have any ability.

I hope you are not one of those doing an "environmental science" course. They are used to sweep up those who want to go to university, but can't qualify for anything requiring any ability. The market for those graduates is drying up rapidly, councils can only find space for so many tree huggers, & sewage plant operators need better qualifications.

If you have any savvy, move onto something with some future. I guess you are too early for a course in glacier management, but it would be a better option, if you can find one. Those in the field early should get a gravy train ride for life.
Posted by Hasbeen, Monday, 10 February 2014 4:42:49 PM
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http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/opinion/dredging-up-falsehoods-environmental-lobbyists-are-strident-in-their-views-and-woe-betide-those-who-disagree/story-fnjpuwl3-1226821332839
Posted by individual, Monday, 10 February 2014 7:05:14 PM
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ateday. Just for you.

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/10/co2-emissions-in-last-50-years-made-us-3-5-trillion-wealthier/
Posted by Prompete, Monday, 10 February 2014 8:00:02 PM
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So James is trying to become a climate scientist? A bit late mate. It's a dying field. The scare has been overblown. Climate scientists who created it are on the nose, and the grants are drying up. But James can always try his hand at protesting ... oh sorry ... he's started that here.
Posted by Captain Col, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 1:15:24 AM
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Dear James,

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The environmental sciences, including climatology, are noble pursuits, still very much in their infancy, vital to the future well being of our planet and mankind.

Any suggestion that such studies are of no interest and should be abandoned is pure obscurantism that plunges us back into the Dark Ages.

No doubt the State and Commonwealth governments consider that their economic decisions are based on sound scientific assessments of possible impact on the ecosystem, in particular, on the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest single structure made by living organisms of which the most recent portions are about 6,000 years old and visible from outer space.

Given the state of the art of our current scientific knowledge, it appears that the impact assessments on which the State and Commonwealth governments have based their decisions are debatable.

Since the site was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1981, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act has been amended to provide for increased powers for inspectors, increased penalties, extended search and seizure powers outside the Marine Park, powers to remedy actual damage or prevent possible damage and allow costs of clean-up operations to be recovered from convicted offenders.

Growing public concern for the preservation of this important State, national and World Heritage treasure should not be underestimated. Political and economic leaders can expect to be made accountable for their decisions and actions in any future ecological disasters affecting the Great Barrier Reef.

Though environmental justice is also in its infancy, it will inevitably extend, sooner or later, to include condemnation not just in terms of economic sanctions, compensations and reparations but also in terms of penal sanctions of those found guilty of “Crimes against Nature” as practiced in England under the “Clean air laws” of the 14th century when it was a capital offense to burn coal in London, and violators were executed for the crime (though future penal sanctions may not go quite so far):

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-01.htm

This should, nevertheless, be a fairly good incentive for governments officials and business leaders to get their priorities straight.

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Posted by Banjo Paterson, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 3:25:13 AM
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Great news, James. We have a government that realizes that AGW is a fraud backed by the UN.

What a relief, to be rid of the depredations of the Labor/ Green clowns, and to see support for industry, despite baseless nonsense concocted by people like yourself.

there is no substance in your weasel-worded piece, just back-handed abuse.
Posted by Leo Lane, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:03:27 AM
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"Growing public concern for the preservation of this important State, national and World Heritage treasure should not be underestimated." That would be the growing public concern data as supplied at the last federal election?
Posted by Prompete, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:59:30 AM
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