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Do the young have the will to make climate change sacrifices? : Comments

By Thom Woodroofe, published 15/7/2009

The prevailing attitude among young people today continues to be 'do as we say, not as we do' when it comes to saving their planet.

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It is always hot here in summer, cool the rest of the year. It is in the 80s and 90s in the summer. It is usually in the 60s and 70s in the winter. We moved here in 1973 and the climate has not changed at all. We do have fluctuations in climate, cycles. Like it snows here about once every 15 years. And right now we are in a La Nina weather pattern, so it is very dry. But our high temperatures are the same as usual. We set a lot of record high temperatures in 1980. We do have hot dry summers, and cooler wet summers, mostly due to La Nina and El Nino. But our high temperatures as high as they are this year, we are not breaking all time high records. And there is also the peskly little matter of thermometers. Now we have digital thermometers that measure within a fraction of a degree. A hundred years ago what did they have? And what year was the thermomter invented? Because we CAN'T go back before that year to accurately measure temperature at all.... If you don't use the same exact thermometer in the same exact location you will get different readings, even now. I have three thermometers on the back porch and one on the front porch, and they are all off about one degree from each other. You can check the temperature at www wunderground com You can check what the temperature was on any given day, in your area, going back many years and they give record highs and record lows too.
Posted by BarbieTie, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 10:59:39 PM
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Thom Woodroofe is a political supporter of the global warming alarmists, probably a casualty of being misinformed by green ideologues. If he had done his homework, he should be aware that the IPCC was set up to find scientific evidence to substantiate man-made global warming. After searching for over 20 years, the IPCC failed to find any irrefutable scientific evidence that global warming is man-caused. Nevertheless, as virtually all the IPCC contributors believe in man-made global warming, the IPCC continues to assert that CO2 emissions are the main driver of global warming, and has developed climate models to make alarming projections. He should be aware that none of these models has been validated by actual data. Consequently, its models cannot be relied on for prediction purposes. For example, the IPCC was unable to explain the world cooling trend evident from 1940 to 1975. Furthermore, it failed to predict the cooling trend post 1998, the El Nino and La Nina effects, and the 2008-09 northern winter being the coldest in 50 years. Further material that seriously questions the credibility and integrity of the IPCC's activities and claims may be found at http://mclean.ch/climate/IPCC.htm , which lists some 50 articles.

Consequently, when young people become aware that there is no scientific or economic justification for climate policy, it is not surprising that they lack the will to make sacrifices. They are being rational
Posted by Raycom, Thursday, 16 July 2009 12:05:48 AM
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The vice chancellors must be getting really worried about future funding. What are they going to do, when all that global warming money dries up? It must be hard getting by, after wasting all that money, when they were one of the suckers of the last big con. You know that one, the nonexistent Y2K bug.

Full marks for thinking on their feet. They coppied the con, & even expanded on it.

So now that the thing is unravelling, its a real problem, particularly when they have got used to all that extra money.

This, I believe, is the reason that all these airy fairy twits, from all the arty farty disciplines have been told to rush into print, with bull dust, like this little boy.

Have you noticed, it's now all those who's lack of real education, means they have no idea, who are making the running with all these articles? The others know the jigs up, & don't want any more AGW articals above their name. That will not be good for future job prospects, in just a few years.

Thom, scuttle back into your own area of expertise, [academic politics seems your plan] before you do yourself any more damage.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:12:12 AM
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Protecting our Globe, from Bushbred?

Reply to GW non-believers

Thought you buggers had your nasty replies scrubbed out by a sensible OLO chief.

Indeed, going by your nasty critiques was wondering whether you have faith in the capacity of our globe to repair itself despite warnings from the world's top scientists, or you just love being different, similar to those who followed Hitler.

In fact we have been wondering how much you coves really think about a future for your great, great, great grandkids, or have none of you got loving caring wives?

Talk about caring for the future rather than ruining the future, as new cockies way back way in the land clearing days, we were inclined to snigger about a new farmer who in clearing the 1000 acre allotted blocks in those days, rather than making the blocks into just single paddocks, he cut each block into four 250 acre paddocks, dividing each with one quarter chain wide of uncleared trees and scrub.

But over the years as tractors became bigger and more powerful, naturally the cockie's sons took notice of other smart-arse cackling young cockies, and cleared each 1000 acres as bare as a baby's bumb as was
said - even joining paddocks into 3000 acres and more as seeding and ploughing rigs became wider.

And so our world goes on with massive machinery easily able to clear out all our forests within the next ten years or less.

And so the world goes on with younger ones not taking an atom of notice of what the older ones have experienced?

It is so interesting that it was not myself who saw the need to care about nature, but my wife, who told me if I cleared any more of the beautiful salmon gums out of the front paddock, she'd be catching a train back home to Perth with our kids and all.

Cheers, BB, WA.
Posted by bushbred, Saturday, 18 July 2009 2:03:29 PM
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