"Mr Opinion", I guess is your latest pseudonym you have adopted after being banned so many times.

Your inability to extend yourself beyond childish prattle and school yard taunts is like a finger print. I don't believe you have an under graduate degree let alone a post graduate one.

Well I suppose OLO is a village, and every village has one.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Actually I have more than one undergrad degree.

So now you have one more reason to be even more jealous.

Dear Mr Opinion and Shadow Minister,

A big hug to you both and I wish you and your
families a very Happy and enjoyable Easter Sunday.

Mr Opinion - you're right. Having a qualification
is a good thing. Especially if you use it and it
makes you happy.

Shadow Minister, it will be interesting to see what
happens after the next election. If the Coalition
wins the election and if you're proven
wrong regarding Mr Abbott's repealing the carbon
pricing scheme - then you'll have to make a public
apology on this Forum. And I'll do likewise, if he
does repeal it - OK?

Both of you - Enjoy your day.

SM,

You trot out an article quoting a spokesman for the Global Warming Policy Foundation...which is a denialist group.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation

David Whitehouse....here is a list of his peer-reviewed skeptic papers on climate change:

http://www.skepticalscience.com/peerreviewedskeptics.php?s=80

What's a "not-rising" temperature?

It's a set of "record" temperatures for this century.

Does a "not rising" temperature explain trends like this?

http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral-1979-201301.png

Or this?

http://climatecrocks.com/2013/03/10/you-can-fool-climate-deniers-but-you-cant-fool-mother-nature-plants-pack-up-and-move-north/

The funny side of this thread continues in some posts.
Some very clearly from remarks they made, think it, carbon pricing, is an Australia/Labor only issue.
Other are clearly not aware the tax is to change, to what Labor/Turnbull/and most of the world action against emissions, to a trading scheme not a tax.
The fact some, try to blame my partys idiot leader for the whole thing is amusing.
And too, the very thought we can have both party,s looking for the same targeted reductions, and still claim Labor is the problem.
Enjoy! the humor unintended but still fun.
IF this thread was about, well lets say driving as others do on the opposite side of the road.
And I said it was silly and dangerous, some here would without thought jump on me for suggesting such a thing.
Scream it was a hidden Labor policy.
And some are, from the ivory towers they live in, doing that here.
Ignoring the threads thought, that just maybe this heated subject may impact on the federal election.

There are some on OLO who object to being labeled as socialists, Labor voters or Left Wing, yet those objectors firmly nail their colours to the mast of the ‘Good Ship Labor Party’. I think they are being a little bit precious and I am not at all worried being described as a right-winged capitalist because I an not ashamed of my political philosophy. Neither do I hide behind a nom-de-plume!

These people also confuse ‘science’ with ‘politics’ and only quote or read comments, articles or papers that are from one side of the Climate Change argument. They denigrate comments from the ‘denier’ side of the argument as being biased. They are politicizing the arguments rather that assessing the science on its merits.

I am not interested in the politics, only the science, so I am open minded to all comments, unlike the IPCC.
Furthermore, I detest plagiarism of any kind. I offer this comment from Wikipedia, “Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.[1][2] The idea remains problematic with unclear definitions and unclear rules.[3][4][5][6] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, particularly with the Romantic movement.
Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. It is subject to sanctions like expulsion.
Plagiarism is not a crime per se but in academia and industry it is a serious moral offence,[7][8] and cases of plagiarism can constitute copyright infringement.
It appalls me to read comments on OLO by those who claim to be well educated, even claim to have university degrees majoring in English, who practise the moral offence of academic dishonesty.

Geoffrey Kelley