I hope that you are reading this, AJ Phillips.

Once again, the "intelligent" tertiary educated elites backed the wrong horse.

All you have to do now, is figure out that you were conned on multiculturalism, socialism, genetic predisposition to anti social behaviour, and the so called "stolen generation(s). Oh, and human races are not equal either.

Yee who champion the "good authoritarianism" of the Chinese leadership watch out.

Behind the green-reds' and idealists' foul "when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages’." is:

On November 4, 2015 the Chinese government released statistics revealing Beijing has severely underreported its coal consumption for the past decade. That, in turn, raised doubts that it can reach ambitious targets to cut coal use and reach peak emissions.

China had underreported coal consumption by up to 17 percent per year over the past decade. That means China may have released nearly a billion tons more carbon dioxide than previously thought from 2011 to 2013 alone. http://thediplomat.com/2015/11/chinas-climate-change-efforts-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

And that is just coal. When you add the 100s millions of new CARS, trucks and motorbikes, China's 1.5 Billion people will buy in the next 20 years pollution is going to be even more choking for China, surrounding countries and do no good for Aussies.

Repent or meet thy Doom!

Q, what about social science? A, "biological sex is a social construct" seriously these SJWs are learning this drivel in universities today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtsHv7iUZSE

Hi Aidan,

Thank you, but I was intrigued by your explanation:

" A much more credible explanation is that the oceans absorbed more heat. And the more that occurs, the more sea levels will rise."

So, after decades of inaction, just lying around, the oceans decide to absorb more heat from the atmosphere ? Is that it ? Hopefully, they won't get into a temper, a la Poseidon, and release all that heat suddenly back into the atmosphere, just as capriciously as it sucked it up before ? Perhaps the sacrifice of a few virgins may avert that catastrophe ?

As for rising sea levels, if there has been a hiatus in rising temperatures since 1997 due to the sudden action of the oceans, shouldn't we expect to see a complementary rise in sea-levels since 1997 ? Has that happened ?

As for a relative rise in sea-levels in Pacific atolls: I'm just reading Crocombe's wonderful book on land tenure in the Pacific, and he makes the point that island populations may rise four-fold in the forty or fifty years after 1971(when he wrote the book), at the same time as expectations of improving living standards have been rapidly rising there, AND at the same time as local fishing has been falling and the growing of crops on those atolls has been rising. [I apologise if all those rises and fall are confusing].

And, of course, we know from school geography, that atolls are constantly building up because - why ? Because they are constantly sinking.

The upshot of all that is a massive and simultaneous increase in the removal of ground-water (therefore subsidence) and over-crowding (therefore building much closer to the water) at many atolls. It would be great to be able to measure sea-level rise on both inhabited and nearby uninhabited atolls. Or Fiji's coast-line.

But I do like those snap-shots of ocean waters lapping over (presumably remote) beaches. A bit like that polar bear on a (obviously shrinking) lump of ice - so scary !

Joe

Loudmouth, come on, there has been NO warming or sea level rise at all. this is a left wing scare campaign to steal from the 99% proletariat & give to the 1% banksters.

Hi Imanoldpervlikeloudmouth,

Gender may be slightly influenced by social factors, and maybe if one closes one's eyes, and gets around with a guide dog, one may occasionally think that biological sex is a social construct in some way or other. That would be yet one other way to waste your time, as well as attending cultural studies lectures. I prefer to study the 'real' constructs in society, and boy, are some of those realities constructed.

But biology, the little I know of it, suggests that men and women have different chromosomal make-up. A tiny number of poor buggers may have neither, but maybe that's only a rumour.

As for constructs, I think it was Thomas back in the twenties who pointed out that if 'If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences', perceptions about reality [cf. Berger's construction of reality, 1966] 'in which subjective impressions can be projected on to life and thereby become real to projectors.'

Nothing new under the sun. Except some of those beautiful constructs. Thank you, God.

Joe